School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
- Location:
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Thornton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 168
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- 1. What is the difference between a soldier and a lady
Answer. One faces powder and the other powders her face.
2. What is the difference between an aeroplane and a tree.
Answer. One sheds his leaves and the other leaves his shed
3. What are the most unsociable things in the world.
Answer. Milestones.You never see two together.
4. Why should hungry people go to Sahara.
Answer. Because of the sand which is (sandwiches) there
- One night in the winter a man from the village was coming home from a house in which he had been playing cards, he was passing the fourteen haunted trees near Sandpitts.
His bicycle refused to go, he took the deck of cards out of his pocket and picked from it the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rita Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mr Peter Hughes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
