School: Termonfeckin
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 214
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- (continued from previous page)where is his tale pointing:-
A To the ground:-32 Q Why is a ship called a she:-
A Because she moos to a buoy and keeps clear of the swells:-33 Q As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the kings horses could not pull it up:-
A A well:
- 34 Their was an old woman going to the market one morning and she met a man on the road and he said to her "Good morning man with your forty geese." The woman said I have not forty nor the the half of forty but if I had as many more and half as many more and two and a half I would have forty."
Answer is geese.35 If a donkey went up to a bucket of water and a bucket of beer which of them would he drink
"The water" Why because he is an ass.36 There are four corners on a house. There is a cat(continues on next page) - Collector
- James Garvey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baltray, Co. Louth
