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School: Bouleenshere (C.) (roll number 12865)

Location:
Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Mary A. Walsh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 397

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    Q. What is most like a horse's shoe?
    A. Another horse's shoe.
    Q. What is of no use to a train and still cannot go without it?
    A. Noise.
    Q. What is the difference between a school teacher and a railway guard.
    A. One trains the mind and the other minds the train.
    Q. What is the weight of the moon.
    A. A cwt because there are four quarters in it.
    Q. As father was B's brother what was A to B's mother.
    A. Grandchild.
    Q. Why is the letter F like a bananna skin.
    A. Because both make all fall.
    Q. What is the more you take from it
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