School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 123
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- (continued from previous page)Q. There is something on your hand that you can't see?
A. The first finger as long as the second
Q. Can February March.
A. No, but April May.
Q. Why should one always carry a watch when crossing a desert.
A. In order that he may not come short of a spring.
Q. As I was goinf out a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy, I took out my knife and cut off his head and left his body "aisy".
A. A head of cabbage.
Q. An umbrella has what everything has, and everything has what an umbrella has?
A. A name.
Q. Why does a person cross over the road?
A. Because he couldn't cross under it.
Q. What is it that walks on its head all day.
A A nail in a person's shoe.
Q. What is the difference between a riddle and a donkey sitting on a cake?
A. One's a conundrum and the other's a bun under 'im.
- Collector
- Teresa Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Magowry, Co. Tipperary
