School: Tisaran
- Location:
- Moystown Demesne, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: M. Ní Éireamhóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 014
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- (continued from previous page)never touches the fire.
A. A cake in an oven.
Q. What turns, and never moves?
A. Milk.
Q. Whats full of eyes, yet cant see?
A. A potato.
Q. White and black and read all over?
A. A newspaper.
Q.As I went through a gap, I met my uncle Teddy, I pulled of his head, and drank his blood, and left him lying easy.
A. A bottle of stout.
Q. Twenty sick sheep went through a gap, if one died how many left?
A. Nineteen.
Q. Why is toffee like a race horse?
A. The more you lick it, the faster it goes.
Q. What's the difference between a school master, and a station master?
A. One trains the mind, and the other minds the train.
Q. It goes in dry, it comes out wet, the longer you leave it, the stronger it gets.
A. Tea.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eilis Ní Uait
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Creggan, Co. Offaly
