School: An Clochar, Carraig Thuathail
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Celestine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0385, Page 266
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- (continued from previous page)Q. What comes in as black as night and goes out as soft as silk?
A. Coal.
Q. As my Auntie Kate was in the hall, if you gave her butter she would eat it, if you gave her meat she'd cry and if you gave her water she'd die. What is it?
A. A fire.
Q. Which is it easier to say, geese or goose?
A. Geese, because it can be said with more ees (ease).
Q. Forty sheep upon a gap, forty more on top of that, twice eleven, two and three, how much is that?
A. Five.
Q. A hard-working father, a lazy old mother, twelve little children all the one colour.
A. A clock.
Q. Ink, ank under the bank, ten drawing four.
A. A woman milking a cow.
Q. What is always behind time?
A. The back of a clock.
Q. What turns without moving?
A. Milk.
Q. Why are tears like potatoes?
A. Because they both spring from the eyes.
Q. What stick never grows in the wood?
A. A candle-stick.
Q. How many thorns in an acre of furze?
A. One and all the rest.
Q. What is a three-feet dog?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Canty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodstock, Co. Cork
