School: Ballyheerin (roll number 16279)
- Location:
- Ballyheerin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Frighil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 178
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Answer: The letter 'v'.
Question: Spell stock lock and barrel with three letters?
Answer: Gun.
Question: What flesh is never cheap?
Answer: Deer flesh of course.
Question: How many minutes is it until six o'clock, if fifty minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock?
Answer: Twenty-six minutes.
Question: What is it that occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter 'm'.
Question: Why is the letter 's' like a sewing machine?
Answer: Because it makes needles needless.
Question: Why is the sun like a man about town?
Answer: Because they both turn night into day.
Question: Why is it wrong to speak of the number 288?
Answer: Because it is too gross.
Question: What business never progresses?
Answer: The stationery business.
Question: As I went into St. Ives I met seven old wives and each wife had a sack on her back and in every sack there was a cat and every cat had a kitten. Kits, cats and sacks, how many went into St. Ives?
Answer: One.
- Collector
- Aodh Ó Frighil
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
