School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)
- Location:
- Clontuskert, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)6. Why does a cow look over the ditch?
Because she can't look under it.7. As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a man and the other a woman?
A penny.8. Why does a person go up to bed?
Because the bed won't come down.9. My name is spelt with letters five and it is far from weighty without my head tail or bulk and it is multiplied by twice eighty?
A stone.10. I knew a boy he killed his own mother buried his own father married his own sister and still commit no sin. What was he?
A Priest.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Quinn
- Gender
- Female
