School: An Corrbhaile
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máirtín Mac Coitir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 369
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- (continued from previous page)Q.What is half a herring worth?
A. The other half.
Q.When is a girl not a girl?
A. When she is a little dear.
Q. What is it that has hands and can't feel?
A. A clock.
Q. The Lord of Manchester send to his sister a bottomless vessel to keep the flesh in?
A. A ring.
Q. As round as an apple no plump as a ball, it can climb off the Church the Steeple and all.
A. The sun.
- Collector
- Mary Haugh
- Gender
- Female
