School: Ballyhaise

Location:
Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Thos. Plunkett
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    Answer: Addition tables
    What is the difference between a schoolmaster and an engine driver
    Answer: One mind the engine and the other engines the mind.
    What is full and holds more
    Answer: A pot of potatoes
    What goes round the house and drags its puddings after it.
    Answer. A hen and a flock of chickens
    Why are doctors always bad characters
    Answer: Because the worse people are the more they are with them.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Answer: Addition tables
    What is the difference between a schoolmaster and an engine driver
    Answer: One mind the engine and the other engines the mind.
    What is full and holds more
    Answer: A pot of potatoes
    What goes round the house and drags its puddings after it.
    A hen and a flock of chickens
    Why are doctors always bad characters
    Answer: Because the worse people are the more they are with them.
    Mary Hayes
    Ballyhaise
    Age 11 years 6th May 1938
    _____________________
    Question: What stands at one side of the wood and drinks out of the other
    Answer: A Pig drinking out of a trough
    Question: What goes round the house and round the house and leaes a loaf on every window
    Answer: Snow
    Question: As I went through a guttery gap I met my uncle Davy. I took off his hat and sucked his blood and left him lying easy
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.