School: Clifferna
- Location:
- Clifferna, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sister Mc Ardle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1021, Page 033
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- Q. Tink, Tank under the bank ten drawing four?
A. A person milking a cow.
Q. Riddle me , riddle me ree has an eye and can't see?
A. A needle.
Q. One morning in the middle of the night two dead men got up to fight, two riples ran for the police, two dummies shouted hurry on, two blind men were looking on, what is that?
A. A lie.
Q. Once there was a blind fiddler in Cork who had a brother a blind fiddler in Limerick, but the blind fiddler in Limerick had no brother a blind fiddler in Cork?
A. A man and a woman.
Q. How is it a horse always has a bit in his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lucy Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghagibney, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs L. Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
