School: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass) (roll number 13436)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 020
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- 1. How far can you go into a wood? Answer. Half-ways.
2. What is the strongest day in the week? Answer. Sunday.
3. What do we often catch but never see? Answer. A passing remark.
4. He that made it did not want it he that bought it never used it he that used it never saw it? Answer. A coffin.
5. Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes? Answer. A tongs.
6. What man is always on strike? Answer. A blacksmith.
7. Whose eye never sheds a tear? Answer. A needle's.
8. Where was Moses when the candle was quenched? Answer. In the darkness.
9. Which is the best way to make a coat last? Answer. Make the vest and trousers first.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Colette Heenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossanagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Pat Heenan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossanagh, Co. Tipperary
