School: Blacklion
- Location:
- Blacklion, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: F. Johnston
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- 1. How would you divide four potatoes among three boys?
Mash them.
2. When is a cow not a cow?
When it is turned into a field.
3. No arms, no legs, a hundred eyes and cannot see?
A thimble.
4. Why do you go up bed?
Because the bed does not come down to you.
5. What has an eye and cannot see?
A needle.
6. What has a mouth but never speaks, a bed, but never lies in it?
A river.
7. What goes round the house and always lies in the corner?
A brush.
8. How many sides has a plum pudding?
Two sides, Inside and outside.- Collector
- Charles Lyness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belcoo, Co. Fermanagh
- Informant
- Sergt Lyness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belcoo, Co. Fermanagh