School: Clonmacnoise

Location:
Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 104

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    What is that which occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment but not once in a year? (Answer): The letter M.
    What goes round the house, and round the house and never touches the house? (Answer): A lazy woman
    Why is a policeman like an aeroplane? (Answer): They both take people up
    What nation does a criminal dread most? (Answer): Condemnation.
    Why is milk like dancing? (Answer): Because it strengthens the calves
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. What is that which occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment but not once in a year? (Answer): The letter M.
    What goes round the house, and round the house and never touches the house? (Answer): A lazy woman
    Why is a policeman like an aeroplane? (Answer): They both take people up
    What nation does a criminal dread most? (Answer): Condemnation.
    Why is milk like dancing? (Answer): Because it strengthens the calves
    A Prayer.
    I throw myself into the arms of Jesus, and into the arms of the three highest angels in Heaven, to guard, guide, protect me at home and abroad, asleep and awake, ghostly and bodily, visible and invisible, from the denial the world and the flesh.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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