School: Cnocán an Teampaill, Ros Gréine
- Location:
- Knockantemple, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Nic Aodhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0554, Page 214
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- Q. What does a kettle suffer from most.
Ans. Boils
Q. What gets wet with drying
Ans. A towel
Q. Why is a dirty boy like flannel.
Ans. Because they both shrink from washing.
Q. What bird would we die without.
Ans. A swallow.
Q. Why are policemen like the dangs of mam.
Ans. Because they are numbered.
Q. Why do girls like looking at the moon.
Ans. Because there is a man in it.
Q. What part of the cow goes out a gap the first.
Ans. Her breath.
Q. What is it the older it gets the smaller it grows.
Ans. A bandle.
Q. If a man had ten sons each sons had a sister. How many children would that man have.
Ans. Eleven
Q. Why is a penny made.
Ans. Because it is meant to go round.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Bridget Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hill's-lot, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Railstown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Paddy Power
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Railstown, Co. Tipperary
