School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 052
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- Question Why are artists like washerwomen?
Answer. Because they are not satisfied until their works are " hung on the line".
Q. What is the difference between a bottle and a troublesome boy?
A. One is to be well shaken before taken, and the other to be taken and then shaken.
Q. Why may a beggar wear a very short coat?
A. Because it will be long enough before he gets another.
Q. Which has the hardest life of it coffee or tea?
A. Tea, for while coffee can settle down, tea is compelled to draw.
Q. An old woman in a red cloak was crossing a field in which a goat was feeding; what strange transformation suddenly took place?
A. The goat turned to butter, and the woman became a " scarlet runner".
Q. What word of three syllables specifies the time(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Naughton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 19
- Occupation
- Farmer's son
- Address
- Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
