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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- (continued from previous page)A. A (me) (mackpie) magpie.
R. What always walks with its head down?
A. A nail in a shoe.
R. What has four legs and no head?
A. A chair
R. Why is not a horse hungry on his way?
A. Because he always has the bit in his mouth.
R. A I looked out my bedroom window I heard something fall I sent my maid to to pick it up but could not pick it all
A. Snuff. - R. I know a little house that a mouse would not fit in and all the Kings army could not count all the windows in it.
A. A thimble.
R. What is the difference between a bent six pence and a torn banner?
A. One is a battered tanner and the other is a tattered banner.- Informant
- Mrs Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary