School: Faughart, Dundalk (roll number 14327)
- Location:
- Faughart Upper, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoilchraoibhe
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- 1. What has no wings but can fly? Dust.
2. Sixteen legs, and cannot walk? Eight pair of trousers.
3. Four legs up, four legs down, is soft in the middle and hard all round? A bed.
4. What is greater than God and worse than the devil, and what do the dead eat and if we eat we would die? Nothing.
5. Why does a goat wear a beard? Because she cannot shave it.
6. A half a loaf on the table what time would it represent? Half eight.
7. Cut an apple in four quarters give a quarter each to three persons what time would that represent? A quarter to one.
8. What is the difference between a man walking upstairs and a boy watching him? One steps up stairs, and the other stares up steps.
9. What word is never spelt right? Wrong.
10. Why is a baker a poor man? Because he is always kneading bread.
11. Why do people buy shoes? Because they cannot get them for nothing.
Farmer's widow - aged 40 - Mrs M. Doherty, Feede, Co. Louth, 07th March 1938
- Informant
- Mrs M. Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Feede, Co. Louth
