School: Mercy Convent
- Location:
- Béal Tairbirt, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: The Sisters
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- (continued from previous page)8. What belongs to you and another uses it more than you? (Your name.)9. What must be taken from you before it is given to you? (Your photograph.)10. What has "panes" all day and never grumbles? (The window.)11. The more it gets, the more it grinds. (A Mill.)12. Why is Ireland like a bottle? (Because there is a Cork in it.)13. Why is a marriage-ring like Eternity? (Because it has neither beginning nor end.)14. What is the hardest money to change or get rid of? (Matrimony)15. Why does the chimney smoke? (Because it cannot chew.)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal Tairbirt, Co. an Chabháin