School: Caherline, Pallasgreen (roll number 15226)
- Location:
- Caherline, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0523, Page 004
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- Q: How many feet have forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog.
A: Two
Q: What has teeth and cannot eat.
A: A comb.
Q: Forty sheep went out a gap, forty more followed that, twice a eleven, two and seven three and two, (have) how many is that.
A: Five.
Q: Under the fire and over the fire, and it never touches the fire.
A: A cake of bread in an oven.
Q: What is the difference between an engine driver and a school-teatcher.
A: One minds trains, the other trains minds.
Q: As black as ink, as white as milk and it hops on the ground like hailstones.
A: A magpie.
Q: What part of a cow goes over the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Greta O' Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyhobin, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs W. Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonteere, Co. Limerick
