School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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- R. What goes up when the rain comes down?
An Umbrella.
R. There was a great cock in America who wakened the people in France who rose a rebellion in Ireland and made the tee-totallers dance.
A. Thunder.
R. Where was the first candle lit
A. On the wick.
R. Two dead men fighting, two bling men looking on, two cripples running for the police and two dummies shouting "hurry on."
A. A lie.
R. As green as grass and it is not gras, as red as lood and it is not blood, as black as coal and it is not coal
A. A blackberry.
R. If a motor went North and a motor went South and a motor went East and a motor West how many would come back?
A. Three would come back because one went West.- Informant
- Mrs Nugent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary