School: Rathdrum (B)
- Location:
- Ráth Droma, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: S. Ó Muirgheasa
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I have a sow behind my house the more she gets the more she roars?A river.
When do you carry water in a sieve?
When it is in ice.
What goes under the water and over the water and yet never touches the water ? A girl crossing a bridge with a pail of water on her head.
What is always behind time ?
The back of a clock.
Why does a horse look over the hedge?
Becasue he can't look under it.
What tree satisfies hunger ? The Bartry.
When is a pint not a pint?
When it is not condensed.
There is a little house that a mouse couldnot live in it all the people in town could not count all(continues on next page)- Collector
- Billy Field
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Sheaid Íochtarach, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Informant
- Terence Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Sheaid Íochtarach, Co. Chill Mhantáin