School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 375
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- (continued from previous page)Why is a police man like a fisher-man?
Ans Because one has his beat and the other has his smack.
What had no soul, got a soul and died without a soul?
Ans A whale had no soul. When one swallowed Jonas had a soul. When he threw him out on the bank in three days he had no soul any more.
As I went out in a gap I met my Uncle Davy. I cut off his head and drank his blood and left him lying easy.
Ans A bottle of Whiskey.
As I was going to the fair of the mines, I met ten tinkers and their wives. Each tinker had a cat and each cat a kitten and each kitten a coin. How many were going to the fair of the mines?
Ans One
Forty sheep, their shepherd and his dog. How many feet is that?
Ans. Two.
Why does a cow look over a wall?
Ans Because she cant look under it.
Ears but cannot hear. Legs but cannot walk Mouth that cannot eat. What is that?
Ans A pot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
