School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)90 Little thing little thing less than a mouse, have more windows than any king's house.
A thimble.
91 What is taken from you before you got it?
Your photo.
92 What is it that is abroad and the two ends of it in?
A bolb
93 What runs without any legs?
A river.
- 94 What cuts but never eats?
A knife.
95 Three men went into a shop to buy a cap, which man took the biggest cap?
The man with the biggest head.
96 When is a lamp in bad temper?
When it is out of oil.
97 Said the child to the father "how is it done, you are my father and I'm not your son".
His daughter. - Collector
- Kitty Quigley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coonmore, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- James Quigley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coonmore, Co. Tipperary
- 98 As I went out a slippery sloppery gap, I met a little boy with a red cap, he had a stick in his(continues on next page)
