School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Mághnuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 297
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- (continued from previous page)candle? Ans - none of them they are both shorter
9. Can February March? Ans - no but April May
10. How can you make a jacket last?
Ans - make the waist coat first
11. What are these that walk with their heads down? Ans - the nails of your shoes
12. What part of the cow goes in the gap first? Ans - her breath
13. Why is the letter K like a pigs tail? Ans - because it is at the end of pork
14. I shook with fear when cats were near, yet like the cats in every house I am to be found?
Ans - a mouse
15. Twenty sick sheep went in a gap five of them died how many were left?
Ans - Fifteen
16. Four feet up and four feet down soft in the middle and hard all round? Ans - a bed
17. What has three feet but no legs? Ans - a yard
Nora Nestor 14th December '38
- Collector
- Nora Nestor
- Gender
- Female
