School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)
- Location:
- Béal Átha Beithe, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: C. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 308
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- (continued from previous page)Q. What is the oldest tree in the forest?
A. The elder tree.
Q. When is pastry like the sun?
A. When it is rising.
Q. What has three feet and can't walk?
A. A yard.
Q. Who was the smallest man in the world?
A. The Roman soldier who slept on his watch.
Q. Where was Moses when his candle was blown out?
A. In the dark
Q. Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man there is my father's son?
A. A man looking at his own photograph?
Q. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan on one side a woman on the other a man?
Q. When is a lady's dress like a chair?
A. When it is satin (sat in).
- Q Chip, chip, cherry, all the men in Derry, couldn't chip, chip, cherry?
A Smoke
Q Patch upon patch without any stitches?
A A cabbage.
Q Middy middy, round body, three feet and an iron hat.
A A pot.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nora Jebb
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal Átha Beithe, Co. Mhuineacháin
