School: Lios na gCraobh (roll number 5341)
- Location:
- Lisnagreeve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 145
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- Q What is most like a horse's tail?
A. A Mare's tail.
Q What is that which every living person is doing at the same time?
A. Getting older.
Q What is it that has a body & a head but no legs.?
A A motor - car.
Q Where does a girl go on her tenth birthday?
A. Into her eleventh year.
Q. Why is clock the shiest thing in the world?
A Because it always has it hands on it's face
Q There was a man a week old when Adam was no more, and before that man was five weeks old Adam was four score.?
A The man in the moon
Q Why is and should Dublin be the largest city in the world.?
A Because it is doubling (Dublin), every day and night.
Q. Why can't they hang a man with a glass eye?
A. Because they must hang him with a rope.
- Collector
- Mary Mc Nally
- Gender
- Female
