School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 264
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As round as an apple, as plump as a ball can climb over church over steeple and all.? = The Sun.
What goes in dry and comes out wet.
Tea.
Why is a black hen better than a white hen.? = Because a black hen can lay a white egg and a white hen cannot lay a black egg.
When would three black hens make three white hens.? =. When they are plucked.
What is the difference between a blind man and a sailor in prison.
The blind man cannot see to go and the sailor cannot go to sea.
The beginning of eternity the end of time or place the beginning of every end and the end of place.?= C.
What county would fit in a bottle? = County Cork.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Mary Kilgallon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fallathurteen, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Kilgallon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Fallathurteen, Co. Sligo
