School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)
- Location:
- Drom Dhá Liag, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Ciardha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 037
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- (continued from previous page)longer than a thousand trees.
Ans. A ball of thread.
9. I ran and I got it, I looked for it and could not find it. If I found it I'd leave it behind me. I could not find it and took it home with me.
Ans. A thorn in your foot.
10. The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
Ans. A coffin.
11. What is half of the moon like?
Ans. The other half.
12. Where did the cock crow that all the world heard him.
Ans. In the Ark.
13. Why is an engine driver like a school teacher?
Ans. One trains the mind and the other minds the train.
14. What man marries many a wife and is yet left single all his life?
Ans. A priest.
15. Why does a hen cross the road?
Ans. To get to the other side.
16. Seven is an odd number when is it even?
Ans. When 's' is taken away from it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sean O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom Dhá Liag, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs N. O' Brien
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drom Dhá Liag, Co. Chorcaí
