School: Carnaross, Kells (roll number 3852)
- Location:
- Carnaross, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)What is the best way to make a coat last.
Make the trousers and waistcoat first.What is it that you break if you whisper its name ever so softly.
Silence.Who is the most liberal man?
The grocer because he gives almost everything away.Why are duels very short affairs.
How long would a piece of string have to be to reach to the North pole.
Long enough.When are two apples a like although they may be of different varieties. When they are pared.It took twenty two yards to make the jacket and waistcoat what would it take to make the suit trousers.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rose Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derver, Co. Meath