School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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- (continued from previous page)not to get bogs nor sticks and still bring home timber.
A. He brought home sawdust.
R. What always goes with its head down.
A. A nail in a shoe.
R. A man had a fox a hen and a sheaf of oats he was to bring them across a river one by one and he could not do it because if he brought over the fox, the hen would pick the oat and if he brought over the hen the fox would lie on the oats and if he brought over the oats the fox would kill the hen.
R. What has no belly and a head?
A. A match.
R. How many pounds of meat are on a fish
A. No meat because it all fish.
R. What has ribs and no flesh.
A. A numbrella.
- R. Why does an ass look over the ditch?
A. Because he could not look under it
R. Twenty-sick sheep went out a gap one died andhow many cane back?
A. Nineteen.
R. What is the difference between an engine driver(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs O' Driscoll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
