School: Scoil na mBráthar, Dúrlas Éile
- Location:
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Br. T. S. Ó Maoilchiaráin
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- (continued from previous page)a front bone in my back.
A. A lie
Q. There was a flock of geese flying in the sky. There was a grey goose on the ground. 'Ye hundred geese are flying high' said the grey goose. 'We are not a hundred geese. If we had as many more and half as may more and a quarter as many and you old grey goose we would have a hundred' How many geese were there?
A. 36 geese
Q. Why is a towel like a fresh herring?
A. Because both make you dry.
Q. Why do you stir a plum pudding
A. To make it go around Hassett's had asses drawing ashes from Hassets ash hole.
Q. If a hen and a half layed an egg and a half in a day and a half how may will she lay in a week?
A. Seven(continues on next page)
