School: Mullach Buí (roll number 2793)
- Location:
- Castletowncooley, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Micheál De Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0658, Page 284
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- (continued from previous page)difference between putting your hand in the fire and a piece of bacon? (One is a rash act and the other is a rasher.) Why is a mouse trap like measles? (Because it is so catching.) What thing is it that is lower with a head than without one? (A pillow.) Which is the left side of a pudding? (The side that is not eaten.) If it would take a yard of cloth to make a suit what would it take to make a waistcoat? (A tailor.)Evelyn M Burke,
Riverstown,
Dundalk.
5th May 1938
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- Collector
- Margaret Donnelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenmore, Co. Louth
