School: Carrigabruise
- Location:
- Carrigabruse, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mc Enrae
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- (continued from previous page)A:- Death.
Q:- What goes round the house and round the house dragging its puddings after it?
A:- A hen and a clutch of chickens.
Q:- What is the difference between a donkey and a postage stamp?
A:- One you lick with a stick and the other you stick with a lick. - Q:- As I went to the fair of St Ives I met a man with seven wives, and every wife had seven sacks and every sack had seven cats and every cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, wives and sacks - how many went to the fair?
A:- One (myself.)
Q:- What is the difference between a person who is late for the train and a school-mistress?
A:- One misses the train and the other trains the misses.
Q:- When is a school-boy like a postage stamp?
A:- When he is licked and put in a corner to make him stick to his letters.- Collector
- Elaine Whyte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edenburt, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Whyte
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Edenburt, Co. Cavan