School: Inis Sionnach (Haulbowline) (roll number 3195)
- Location:
- Haulbowline Island, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Gearóid Ó Hiarfhlatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 237
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- Why is a horse cleverer than a mouse? Because it can run away when in a trap.
As black as ink as white as milk and hops on the ground like Hailstones? A Magpie.
A brass man driving a steel horse With a flaxen tail over a bone bridge? A thimble, A Needle, A thread.
What smells most in a Chemist's shop? Your Nose.
Why is a butcher a dishonest man? He steels all his own knifes
Black and red and white all over? A News paper.
What is full and holds more? A pot of potatoes.
Patch upon patch without any stitches? A head of cabbage
What goes round the wood and around the wood and never touches the wood? the b
When is an umbrella like suet?
When it is dripping.
I went in to an orchard there were apples on a tree, I took no apples off and I left no apples on?
There were two apples on the tree, I took one off and I left one on.
What is the first thing you do when you fall into the sea?
Why does the collector, at the railway station punch a hole in your ticket.
To let you pass through.
- Collector
- Eileen Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haulbowline Island, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr P. Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Haulbowline Island, Co. Cork
