School: Baile Roibín, Knocktopher
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 216
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- 1. What is the size of a rabbits eye.
Its other eye.
2. Why does a chicken cross the road.
To get to the other side.
3. what stick never grows in a wood.
A candle stick.
4. what is the loudest thing in the world.
A candle stick, because it wakes the dead
5. what man in the Duil wears the biggest hat.
The man with the biggest head.
6. What do a man never want to get but when he gets it he would not part with it for the whole world.
A bald head.
7. What do an engine never want but it cannot go without it.
Noise.
8. How far can a rabbit bolt into a wood.
Half way, it would be bolting out again then.
9. How many cows tails would reach the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fergus Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny
