School: Creagán Buí, Cora Finne
- Location:
- Craggaunboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Consaidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0612, Page 410
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- (continued from previous page)What is it that the more you take out of it the bigger it gets? A hole.
It went to London and it stopped there it came home because it did not go there.
A watch.
What is the difference between a cat and a coma? A coma is a pause the end of a clause, and a cat has his claws at the end of his paws.
What is the difference between a school master and a post master? The school master licks with a stick and the post master sticks with a lick.
What band has no buckle? A band of soldiers.
What is the weight of the moon? A hundred-weight or four quarters.
What goes alround the wood and never gets through it? The bark.
Why is a horse like a bar of toffee? because the more you lick it the quicker it goes.
Why is the letter k like a pig's tail. Because it is at the end of pork.
What has four legs and one foot? A bed.
Why is a christmas cake like an ocean? Because it is full of currents.
As black as ink as white as milk and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moanreel North, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cullenagh, Co. Clare
