School: Cloigeann
- Location:
- Cleggan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Fathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0004, Page 323
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- (continued from previous page)12. At what time of the year are soldiers tired? At the end of a march.
13. If a man had ten sons and each son had a sister, how many children had the man? Eleven.
14. Why is a dog with a broken leg much like a boy doing sums? Because he puts down three and carries one.
15. What head and it can't get a hat to fit it? Slyne Head.Q. It grows in the wood it sounds in the town and earns its master many a half-crown?
A. A Fiddle.
Q. It goes through the wood and don't knock a bramble.
A. An Echo.
Q. A man went for a cart of wood he didn't bring straight trees or crocked trees. What did he bring
A. He brought a cart of saw-dust.
Q. It comes in dry and goes out wet
A. A pot of tea.
Q. As I went through the wood I found it, I sat down and searched for it and when I searched for it I couldn't find it.
A. A thorn.
Q. What is on you, it isn't inside on you it isn't outside on you But it is on you.
A. Your name.
Q. Why is a river like a clock.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Newman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Newman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Cleggan, Co. Galway
