School: Rathcormac (roll number 8463)
- Location:
- Ráth Chormaic, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Fhéinneadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 032
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- 1. What is always behind time?
1. The back of a clock.2. What letters would frighten a thief?
2. G! I.C.U.3. A long father, and a short mother, and twelve black children?
3. A clock.4. What is the first thing you put in a cake?
4. Your teeth.5. What man in Dublin wears the biggest hat?
5. The man with the biggest head.6. The man that made it did not want it. The man that bought it did not use it. The man that used it did not see it!
6. A coffin.7. When was beef the highest?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
