School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 050
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- (continued from previous page)I saw three men hanging, I sucked their blood and eat their flesh and left their bones there hanging.
A. Blackberries.
Q. Head like a thimble, tail like a rat, you may guess for ever but you'll never guess that.
A. A pipe.
- R Why does a cow look over the ditch?
A Because she could not look under it.
R What thing is it the more you take from it, the bigger it gets?
A A hole.
R Little Red Jenny with her red nose, the longer she lives the shorter she grows?
A A candle lighting.
R I saw two dead men fighting, two blind men looking on, two cripples running for the police, and two dummies saying hurry on?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Joan Dineen
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Stephen Buckley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
