School: O' Connor Don
- Location:
- Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 033
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- What is often brought to the table often cut but never eaten? Cards.
As I looked over the garden wall I heard an old man give a great call, his lip was a bone, his nose a horn such a man was never born? A cock crowing.
Why does a hen pick the pot? Because can't lick it.
When you go into a shop what smells first? Your nose.
Why are steel pens used in writing secrets? Because quills are liable to split.
Ten men drawing a narrow bag up a narrow hill? Stocking up your leg.
Hink Ank under the bank ten drawing four? Milking a cow.
Up the ladder and down the ladder and all heads down. Nails in a shoe.
There is an old hag in the corner(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheal Finan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonfower, Co. Roscommon
