School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)
- Location:
- Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 300
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- (continued from previous page)with seven wives each wife had seven cats and every cat had seven kits, kits, cats sacks and wives who many were going to the fair of St. Ives.
A One.
Q Black and white and red all over.
A A newspaper.
Q What two towns in France would make a man a bad pair of trousers.
A Toulon and Toulouse.
- Q If you get up on an elephant's back what would you get down off?
A From a goose's back.
Q There was a man who had no eyes went out one day to view the skies, he saw a tree with apples on, he took no apples off nor left no apples on. How many apples were on the tree?
A Two.
Q What goes round the house and round the house during the day, and waits for your bones in the morning?
A Your shoes.
Q What is it a train has and it's no use to it and it cannot go without it?
A Noise.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Harry Fuller
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
