School: Drom Mór (C.), Beantraí (roll number 13096)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Sibéal Bean Uí Dhrioscoil
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- (continued from previous page)25. It was made of wood, the carpenter made it, the man that made it never wore it, and the man that wore it never saw it?
A Coffin.
26. A fiddler in Cork, had a brother a fiddler in Dublin but the fiddler in Dublin had no brother in Cork?
He had a sister in Cork.
27. Jack's wife was Paddy's mother. What relation was Jack to Paddy's brother?
His father.
28. As I was going to St. Eve's, I met a man, and seven wives; Every wife had seven sacks every sack had seven cats, ever cats had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to St Eves?
One (Yourself)
29. A teacher asked a child in school how many coins had he. He said if he had as many more he would have 25. How many had he?
10.
30. If you fell off a house what would you fall against?
Against your will.
31. A field of white cows and a red cow in the middle?
Your teeth and your tongue.
32. Long legs, crooked thighs, small head, and no eyes?
A Tongs.
33. As I went up a slippery gap
I met three men standing.
I took off their heads
And drank their blood
And I left the three men standing? Three bottles of Stout
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- Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin
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- Female
