School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0866, Page 217
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- (continued from previous page)other "is that clock right" and the man said "if it was it wouldn't be here."
- Big and green you see me in every street. I stay, people come to feed me, not with oats or hay, paper food they give me, just pop it in my mouth, people come to feed from, north, east, south, and west.
A letter box.Why does a miller wear a white cap.
To cover his head.Patches upon top of patches and still no stiches.
A head of cabbage.What goes up the ladder with it's head down.
A nail in a man's boot.Why does a hen cross the road.
To get to the other side.What's made round to go around.
Money.Why does the tin whistle
because the tin can.Why does a hen pick a pot?
becaue she can't lick it. - Collector
- Joseph Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Jer Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
