School: Carrickallen
- Location:
- Carrickallen, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 145
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A. The letter L
VI Q Queen Amorock built a ship an in that ship her daughter sits an I'll be blamed for telling her name an that's three times I've told it yet.
A Anne.
VII
Q. What is better than God or worse than the devil the dead man eats it and if the living man eats it he'll die?
A Nothing
VIII Q What goes up the chimney down and won't go down the chimney up?
A An Umbrella.
IX Q. Why does a cow walk over the field?
A. Because she can't walk under it.
X Q Why does the hen pick the potstick?
A. Because she can't lick it.
XI Q Twelve little children sitting on a pan a lazy old woman and hard working man.
A The clock
XII Q What part of the cow goes in to the byre first?
A Her Breath.
XIII Q A house-full a room-full though you couldn't lift a spoonful.
A Smoke.
XIV Q Headed like a timble, tiled like a rat(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullyunshin, Co. Cavan
