School: Anabla
- Location:
- Anablaha, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 057
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- (continued from previous page)Why is it the letter A so much like Madrid? Because both are in the centre of Spain.
What has no legs, head or body, but has four fingers and a thumb? A glove.
How many bricks go to the building of a house? None, they all have to be carried.
'Tis in this out tis like a trout tis slippery fat and greasy? Your tongue.
A hopper of ditches a leaper of thorns, a brown little cow with two leather horns? A Hare.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever, but you can never guess that? A Pipe.
Why is a lame dog like a school-boy doing a sum? Because he puts down three and carries one.
What is it like that a man can out into his right hand, but never into his left? His left elbow.
How may kinds of trees in the forest? Two-, crooked and straight.
What key is the hardest to turn? Donkey.
On what side of the jug is the handle? On the outside.
- Collector
- John M. O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toornanaunagh, Co. Kerry
