School: Bóthar Mór, Caherconlish (roll number 8342)
- Location:
- Bohermore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Chráinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0524, Page 164
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- 1. What is a kiss?
Answer: Nothing divided by two
2. What is it God never saw, the king seldom sees and the poor man sees every day?
Answer: An equal
3. What is the difference between a rejected lover and a loving husband?
Answer: One misses the kisses and the other kisses the missus.
4. What gets bigger the more you take from it?
Answer: A grave
5. Which is the bigger, Mr Bigger or his baby?
Answer: The baby because it is a little bigger
6. If two policemen came to tea, what would a ton of coal come to?
Answer: To ashes
7. What goes from here to Dublin without moving?
Answer: a road
8. Spell blind pig in two letters
Answer: A pig without an eye
9. What animals grow on the vine?
Answer: gr[?]
10. What fish does a woman prefer?
Answer: Her-ring
- Collector
- Agnes Stacke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Srahane, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Stacke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Srahane East, Co. Limerick
