School: Ferbane (B.)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 149
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- Why does a hen cross a road?
Because she wants to get to the other side.
Said a child to its father
How does it come,
That you are my father,
And I'm not your son?
She was his daughter.
When were there only twenty - five letters in the alphabet?
At the time of Noah (no a)
Why is a flea like a train?
Because they both run over sleepers.
If a brother of your father's brother isn't your uncle what is he to you?
Your father.
What turns without moving?
Milk
What goes from house to without moving.
A road.
What is the smallest room in the world?
A mushroom.
Black and white and red (read) all over
A newspaper.
As I was passing an orchard I saw some apples on a tree I took no apples off it, I left no apples on it. What did I do?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- James Buachalla
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghaboy, Co. Offaly
