School: An Clochar, Gráig na Muilte Iarainn

Location:
Woodford, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Sr. I. Breathnach
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    Q. What is the difference between a dressmaker and a farmer?

    What is the difference between a dressmaker and a farmer?
    One sews that she gathers and the other gathers what he sows.
    What is the difference between a fisherman and a schoolboy?
    One baits his hook and the other hates his book.
    I went to the wood and I got it: I sat down and saw it and home against my will I brought it?
    A torn in my foot.
    The King of England built a ship an in the ship his daughter lay and I'll be blamed if I tell her name an' that's three times I have told it plain
    What was her name?
    Ann.
    A beautiful mad in the garden was laid, as bright as the sun did adorn, she was mad a bride the first day of her lift and died before she was born. Who was she?
    Eve
    What is it that drinks all and
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