School: Ballyroebuck (roll number 12841)
- Location:
- Ballyroebuck, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Seán Diolúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)A. A Newspaper.
Q. What is very like a horses shoe?
A. His other shoes.
Q. Ink, ank on the bank ten drawing four?
A. A woman milking a cow.
Q. I have a little sister she sits in the ditch and when you go near her she will give you the itch?
A. A nettle.
Q. Why does a chicken cross the road?
A. To get to the other side.
Q. Why is a horse cleverer than a fox?
A. Because he can run away when in a trap.
Q. What was the first word Adam said to Eve?
A. No one can tell.
Q. Why are long girls lazier than short ones?
A. Because they are longer in bed.
- Informant
- James Somers
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballingate, Co. Wicklow
