School: Ballyroebuck (roll number 12841)
- Location:
- Ballyroebuck, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Seán Diolúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 157
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- Q. Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess all your life time and would you not guess that?
A. a pipe.
Q. Which is the right side of a wedding cake?
A. The side which is eaten because the other is left.
Q. Why does a bull dribble?
A. Because he cannot spit out.
Q. Why does a cow look over the ditch?
A. Because she cannot look under it.
Q. What part of a horse goes into the house first?
A. His breath.
Q. A humpty-backed father a three leged mother all the children and they roaring together?
A. A pot of boiling potatoes.
Q. What has one eye and cannot see?
A. A needle.
Q. What is brought to a table, cut and never eaten?
A. A deck of cards.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Martin Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyroebuck, Co. Wexford
