School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Doirín an Lomáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 026
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- (continued from previous page)When is a farmer like a dentist?
Ans., When he is pulling up stumps.
What is that which is too much for one, enough for two, and nothing for three?
Ans., A secret.
Why is a dirty boy like flannel?
Ans., Because he shrinks from washing.
When is a butcher a thorough thief?
Ans., When he steals (steels) a knife and cuts away with it.
If a man was born in Ireland and lived in England and died in America what would he be?
Ans., A corpse.
If a poker and tongs cost thirty shillings what would a ton of coal come to?
Ans., Ashes.
- I went to the wood and I got it. The more I looked at it the less I liked it and when I came home I could not find it?
Ans., a thorn in your finger.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick Hellen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Dhreóin Bheag, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Cornelius Hellen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Ráth Dhreóin Bheag, Co. Chorcaí
