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 313
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- Q What do you call the wee white things that bite in your head.
A Your teeth.Q Why do you go to bed.
A. Because the bed won't come to you.Q What is the difference between a lady and an umbrella.
A You can shut up an umbrella but you cannot shut up a lady.Q What goes up a ladder with its head down.
A A nail in your boot.Q Why is an old maid like a lemon.
A Because she is not worth squeezing.Q When is a bad boy like peas.
A When he wants to be rodded.Q She was tall and handsome
He was black and small
He loved her was an everlasting love and she hated him with a cruel hatred and the end of it was he died cracked.
A A flea on a lady's back.
- Collector
- Bobbie Corrie
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Q What passes every door and stops at no door.
A The wind.Q What is constantly eaten and never swallowed
A A pair of scissors.(continues on next page)
