School: Anacarty (B.) (roll number 572)
- Location:
- Annacarty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Liam Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0581, Page 296
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- Why does a clock not strick thirteen.
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It has not the face to do so.I knew a little man in the middle of the field. If you left up his tail his nose will bleed.
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A pump.Said the child to the father
"How does it come that you are my father and I am not your son."
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It was his daughter who spoke.There was a fiddler in Cork who had a brother a fiddler in Dublin, and the fiddler in Dublin had no brother a fiddler in Cork.
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The fiddler in Cork was a girl.Tom went out and his dog went with him. His neiher went behind, him,(continues on next page)
