School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 374
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- (continued from previous page)He summoned them to court, and they were to be hanged. The judge asked them where would they like to be hanged. One said, he would like to be hanged on an ash tree in Scotland; the second in Scotland also. But the other being an Irishman, said he would wish to be hanged on the smallest gooseberry bush in Ireland. The judge said it is too small and weak but the Irishman said he was in no hurry, he would wait for it to grow.
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“Why is the letter k like a pig's tail?”
Why is the letter K like a pig's tail?
Because it is at the end of pork.
What room can you not enter?
A mushroom.
Why is it dangerous to enter a wood in spring?
Because the trees are shooting.
When was beef the highest?
When the cow jumped over the moon.
Once a minute, twice a moment and never in a thousand years? The letter M.
Why didn't Moses smoke in the ark?
Because he was never in it.
Why are soldiers tired in the month of April?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kevin Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pass, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Pass, Co. Clare
