School: Rosenallis (roll number 5442)
- Location:
- Rosenallis, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Mrs L. Dagg
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0823, Page 423
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- What is the hardest thing in the world to be found?
A mouse's nest in a cats ear.
Why does a hen cross the road?
To get to the other side.
Little red nancy with her red nose the longer she lives the shorter it grows?
A candle lighting.
Why does B come before C?
Because you must be before you can see.
I back bite everyone yet never talk?
A flea.
Head like a timble tail like a rat you may guess forever but you will never guess that?
A pipe.
As round as an apple as deep as a pan the half of a woman the whole of a man?
A penny.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tom Warren
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corbally, Co. Laois
