School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 397
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- (continued from previous page)12. Its inside and outside and under the roof.
Answer = A window.
13. What is the best way to make a coat last.?
Answer. = Make the waistcoat first.
14. Why does a miller wear a white hat.?
Answer = To keep his head warm.
15. Which of the twelve apostles wore the biggest hat.?
Answer. = The one that had the biggest head.
16. Why does a dog go round his bed before he lies down.?
Answer. = because he cannot find the head.
17. Why is a finder like West-minster Abbey.?
Answer = because it contains the ashes of the grate.
18. As I was passing by Derry wall I heard a man giving a call, his body was flesh and his mouth was horn and such a man was never born.
Answer = A cock.
19. What is one half of the moon like.?
Answer = The other half.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
