School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 206
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- (continued from previous page)deep as a cup, and all the men in Ireland would not pull it up - a well.
36 What has one eye and cannot see? A needle.
37. There was a blind fiddler in Clare who had a brother fiddler in Cork, and the fiddler in Cork had no blind brother. Why?
Because the Clare fiddler was a girl.
38. What is it that cannot walk, cannot talk, and tells the truth to the whole world? A Scales.
39. Why does a cow look over a hill? Because she cannot look under it.
40. What has teeth and cannot bite?
A Comb.(continues on next page)
