School: Dernakesh (B)
- Location:
- Doire na Ceise, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)seven men and there wives every wife had seven cats and every cat had seven kittens between cats kittens husbands and wives how many was going to the fair of St Ives?
A One
Q What occur's once in a minute twice in a moment and not once in a thousand years?
A The letter m.
Q A range cost £2-50 what did the coal come to?
A Ashes.
Q What is full in the day time and empty at night
A A pair of boots.
- Q The man that made it never wore it the man that wore it never saw it?
A A coffin.
Q What is that which goes through the water and though the water and never thouchs it?
A An egg in a duck.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Terry Woods
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coill an Rú, Co. an Chabháin
