School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 513
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- (continued from previous page)R. When it is open and when its shat its open. What is it? A. A railway gate.
R. What goes up when the rain comes down? A. Umbrella.
R. What has no boots but yet wears them? A. A football.
R. What relation is a door - mat to a doorstep? A. A step - father.
R. When is a man not a man? When he is shaving.
R. Whose eye never sheds a tear? A needle's.
R. When are oranges like bells? A. When they are pealed.
R. Who may marry many a wife and yet lives single. A. A Clergyman.
R. What relation is that child to its father who is not its mother's own son?
R. His daughter.
R. Two little children dressed in white took fever and died last night.
What is it? two candles.
R. What goes to Dublin and never moves? A. A road.
R. What can you fill a barrel with to make it lighter? A. Holes.
R. What belongs to yourself and is used by your friends more than yourself? A. your name.
R. Came the first lady of the land. A. Eve.
R. Why is the butcher the greatest thief in the world? A. Because he is always steeling (stealing) knives.
- Collector
- Mary Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardnagragh, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- James Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardnagragh, Co. Westmeath
