School: Ros Mór, Béal Átha Fhinghín (roll number 10378)
- Location:
- Rossmore, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Michéal Ó Corcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0307, Page 028
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- 1.
What is that which never asks questions, and yet requires many answers? a door bell.
2.
What country would a hungry man like? Turkey.
3.
What relation is that child to its father who is not its father's own son? a daughter
4.
Spell enemy in three words? N.M.E.
5.
Why are the feathers of a cock always smooth? because he carries a comb about him.
6.
When does a pork-butcher sell a yard of meat? When he sells three crubeens.
7.
What is the most wonderful creature in the farm-yard? The pig because it is killed first and cured afterwards.
8.
If Jacks father is Pat's brother what is Jack to Pat's mother? Grandson.
9.
There is a fidler in Cork who has a brother in Dublin but the brother in Dublin has no brother in Cork? he has a sister.
10. What is that you saw once and will never see again? Yesterday.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Mary Fehily
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rossmore, Co. Cork
