School: Lemanaghan, Ballycumber
- Location:
- Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Máire Galvin
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- Q- What is the difference between a blacksmith and a reliable horse?
A - One is a horse shoer the other is a sure horse.Q - When is a candle angry?
A - When it flares upQ- A messenger from house to house and he is out at night?
A - A road.Q - Why is a black hen better than a white hen?
A - Because a black hen is able to lay a white egg, but a white hen is not able to lay a black egg.Q- As I went out in younder gap I met my uncle David. I cut off his head and drank his blood and left him lying easy?
A- A bottle of whiskey.Q - Black and white and red all over?
A - A paperQ - Patch upon patch without stitches, riddle me that and i'll give you a britches.
A - A cabbage.Q - How many feet have forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog?
A - Two feet (the shepherds).Q - Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you could guess for ever, but you wouldn't(continues on next page)- Collector
- Róisín Ní Liatháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly