School: St Theresa's, Coachford (roll number 14022)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Timothy Forde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 179
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“No1 What three letters would frighten a thief? Answer. I C U...”
(continued from previous page)would it be?
Answer. The height of nonsense.
No 6. Why is a drawn tooth like a thing forgot?
Answer. Because it is out of your head.
No 7. What is that smells most when it goes into a chemist shop?
Answer. The nose
No 8. When is a ten-shilling note of no value?
Answer. Because compared with a pound-note is worth-less.(continues on next page)
- Jim Martin told me this story- There was once a shoemaker who was very lazy, he wanted money but would not work to get it. He thought if he caught a fairy he would get a crock of gold. One night he went to a rath and found a fairy under a mushroom, and asked him for gold. The fairy showed him a tree, and told him he would find gold beneath it. When Sean went digging for it he found a box of tools on which was written "Use these and they will make you rich". Sean worked hard ever after and became a rich man.
- Collector
- Donal Moynihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leemount, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Jim Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 55
- Address
- Leemount, Co. Cork
