School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0579, Page 133
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- What is the strongest thing in the world? A snail because he carries his house on his back.
When should you lose your temper? When it is a bad temper.
Why should a hen never be untidy? Because she always carries a little comb with her.
What is one half of the moon like? The other half.
Up the road and down the road and I can carry the road? A ladder.
What is a horses shoe like? A mare's.
What ship do we all try to avoid? Hardship.
What has a neck, a body and nothing else? A bottle.
As round as a marble as deep as a jug and the men in Kerry couldn't lift it up? A well.
What is it the older it grows the shorter it gets? A candle lighting.
As I went up a London street I met a London man; he took off his hat and drew off his gloves what was the name of the London man? Andrew.
What is it that never was nor never will be? A mouse's nest in a cat's ear.
If a man got six pence for walking a mile what would he get for walking a hundred miles? Sore feet.
How many feet have forty sheep a shepherd and his dog? Two.
- Collector
- Jimmy O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corrogemore, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
