School: Meelick (C.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 352
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- Why is a black hen cleverer than a white hen? Because a black hen lays white eggs and a white hen can't lay black eggs.
What penny travels the farthest. A penny stamp.
What goes round the house and sleeps on its head by night. A nail in your boot.
Why is the bark of a dog like a tree. Because they both lose their barks when dead.
A little red man stands in a field shake its hand and its nose will bleed. A pump.
Black and white and red all over. A newspaper.
Why does a hen cross a road. To get to the other side.
What comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. April.
Ink ank under the bank ten drawing four. A woman milking a cow.
What is swifter cold or heat - Heat(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr John Connery
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Glennagross, Co. Clare
