School: Cill Mhic Dhuach (roll number 6610)
- Location:
- Kilmacduagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cathail
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- (continued from previous page)If a man got thirty shillings for walking 10 miles what would he get for walking 100 miles?
Sore feet.
Who makes a living by driving his customers away? A taxi-driver.How would you make a slow horse fast?
By giving him nothing to eat.The King and Queen seldom see it, God never saw it but we always see it? An equal.How would you spare a trouser?
Make the vest and coat first. Londonderry Cork and Kerry spell me that without a "k"? "That"It is not inside nor outside but still it is under the roof of the house? The windowA little red cow by the wall and she would eat all the food from here to Donegal? The fire.What has a tongue but cannot speak?
A boot.(continues on next page)
