School: Cill Mhic Dhuach (roll number 6610)
- Location:
- Kilmacduagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cathail
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- (continued from previous page)Why do we go to bed?
Because the bed would'nt come to us.Why is a dead horse like a narrow boreen?
Because he has no breath.Where was Moses when the light went out?
In the dark.Use me well and I am everybody, scrape my back and I am nobody? A mirror.If a shovel and poker cost three and sixpence what would a ton of coal come to? Ashes.Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes? A tongs.As I went up the boreen, I met my Aunty Noreen, she had steel toes, iron nose and upon my word she'd frighten the crows?A gun.Two black men, and a white man went out in a car, the two black men ate the white man what was the number of the car?
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