School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Fethard (roll number 8903)
- Location:
- Fethard, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr M. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 351
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- (continued from previous page)rabbits.
Black and white and red all over? A newspaper.
There was a man who was born in Australia, his father was an Englishman, his mother an Irish woman, and he died in America, what was he? A corpse
A hard working man and a lazy old woman, twelve little children and they all the same colour? A clock.
Ink and ank under the bank ten draws four? A woman milking a cow.
Two dead men fighting, two blind men looking on two cripples running for the doctor and two dummies shouting hurry in, what is it? A lie
What is it and cut a bit off it, it will be long enough? A grave.
The longer it lives the shorter it grows? A candle
When is a horse not a horse?(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Miss N. Costigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moglass, Co. Tipperary
