School: Leatbeg (roll number 16146)
- Location:
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Peoples
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- (continued from previous page)What has eyes and cannot see?
Answer. A potato.
What is the first thing you do when you go into bed?
Answer. Bruise it.
What part of the cow goes into the byre first?
Answer. Her breath.
When is a rock not a rock?
Answer. When it is a shamrock.
What can make more noise than a pig at a gate?
Answer. Two pigs.
Patch upon patch without any stitches?
Answer. A head of cabbage.
If you had only one match and had a fire, a pipe, and a candle to light which of them would you light first?
Answer. The match.
If you fell from a three storied house What did you fall against?
Answer. You would fall against your mind.
When is a cow roundest?
Answer. When she is salted in the barrel.
John Morrow
Address on next page.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William Morrow
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
