School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Doirín an Lomáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- (continued from previous page)What is the shyest thing in the house?
Ans., A clock, because its two hands are always up to its face.
What has legs but cannot walk?
Ans., A tongs.
Why is the wick of a candle like the city of Athens?
Ans., Because it is in the centre of Greece.
What has a pain but is never sick?
Ans., A window.
Spell a broken down fence in three letters?
Ans., Gap.
- What gets bigger the more you take from it?
Ans., a hole.
There is a well and in the well there is a cup and in the cup there is a sup and everyone shall taste it?
Ans., death.
As round as a marble, as deep as a cup and all the king's army could not take it up?
Ans., a well. - Collector
- Cornelius Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Dhreóin Bheag, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Barry
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Dhreóin Bheag, Co. Chorcaí
