School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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Because it strengthens the calves.
What key is the hardest to turn,
The donkey.What kind of fish does a cobbler want.
Soles.What kind of fish is everyone except yourself
Selfish.Lying by the wall eats all it gets and drinks none at all.
A fire. - [-](continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- When is a shoemaker dying.
When he is preparing the sole for the last.What has a head and can't get a hat to to fit it.
Bray head.If a man got sixpence for walking thirty miles what would he get for walking a hundred miles.
Sore feet.Why is a drawn tooth like something you have forgotten.(continues on next page)