School: Clondulane, Mainistir Fhearmuighe
- Location:
- Clondulane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Aindrias Ó Scannail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0378, Page 214
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- (continued from previous page)Why is a lazy boy like a Christmas pudding? - Because both are better after a good stirring up.
When is a carving knife on its travels? - When it cuts its way through Turkey and Greece.
Where do all boys go on their tenth birthday? - Into their eleventh year.
Why don't they hang a man with a glass eye? - Because they hang (a man with a rope.)
What goes off and yet stays in the same place? - A gun.
Rich men want it. Poor men have it. Blind men see it. Deaf men hear it. What is it? - Nothing.
What has a mouth and no face? - A river.
What has a bonnet and a body but no head or legs? - A car.
When are eyes not eyes? - When the wind makes hem water.
When may a mans pocket be empty and yet may have something in it? - When it has a hole in it.
When is money damp? - When it is due (dew) in the morning and missed (mist) at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Cochláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clondulane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Maurice Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clondulane, Co. Cork
