School: Roundwood
- Location:
- Roundwood, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Peadar Réamonn
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- What goes up a ladder with its head down? A nail in a mans boot.
Why is an engine driver so much like a schoolmaster? One minds the trading and the other trains the mind.
What has a head but cannot move it? A pin.
Why did the boy call his rooster Robinson? Because he crew so (Crusoe).
Why is it useless to give a horse food?
Because he cannot eat a bit.
When will water stop running down hill? When it reaches the bottom.
When is a horse not a horse? When he is turned into a field.
Who was the first whistler and what was his tune? The Wind when it whistled "Over the Hills and far away".
What English word contains three vowels three syllables and only four letters. Idea.
Forty sheep went through a gap, forty sheep followed that, a shepherd and his dog(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Matthew Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roundwood, Co. Wicklow