School: Cnoc Rua
- Location:
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Mac Diarmada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 388
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- Q. What is the longest word in the English language:
A. Smiles, because there is a mile between the first and last letter.
Q. What turns without moving:
A. Milk.
Q. What would Neptune say if the sea dried up:
A. I haven't an notion (ocean).
Q. Why does a donkey eat thistles:
A. Because he is an ass.
Q. What meat is never cheap?
A. Deer flesh of course.
Q. There were three men in a car two black men and one white man, if the two black men eat the white man what was the number of the car?
A. 281.
Q. Five hundred begins it five hundreds ends it and five in middle is seen, the first of all letters the first of all figures take up there postion between?
A. DAVID.
Q. If the poker, shovel, tongs and fender costs £1-18s-6d what would the coal come to?
A. Ashes.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Charles Duignan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ratallen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- James Beirne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ratallen, Co. Roscommon
