School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)into Belfast harbour what would it weigh coming out? Anchor.
10.) As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Tady. He had timber toes and iron nose and upon my word he would frighten the crows? A gun.
11.) Why does a hen cross the road? Because she wants to get to the other side.
12.) Little white Nancy with a red nose, the longer she lives, the shorter she grows? a candle.
13.) As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, all the men in Ireland could not pull it up? A well.
14.) Why does a cow look over a ditch? Because she can not look under it.
15.) Why is the shyest thing in the world? A clock, because it has its face covered with its two hands.
16.) There is a little house and a mouse could not live in it, and all the men and woman could not count the windows in it? thimble(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Power
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Farranfore, Co. Kerry
