School: Baile Theas (B.), Malla (roll number 4953)
- Location:
- An Baile Theas, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hanluain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0364, Page 314
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- Who was it? That all the world was at his funeral. He was born before his father, christened before his mother and had the virginity of his grandmother. Ans, Abel.
The beginning of eternity the end of time and space the beginning of every end and the end of every place? Ans. The letter E.
As I went to Mallow I saw a great wonder two pots boiling and no fire under? Ans. Two pots of lime.
A boat went down the Blackwatere full of people and there was not a single person in it? Ans They were all married.
What is the most dangerous time of the year?
Ans. Spring, because the cowslips about the bullrush is out and all the buds are shooting.
Where do the bad soles go? Ans. To the cobblers shop to be mended.
What are four impossible things to get?
Ans A boot for the foot of a mountain, a sheet for the bed of the ocean, a tooth for the mouth of the Blackwater and a towel to wipe the face of the earth.
What is it that walks on four legs in the morning on two legs in the middle of the day and on three legs in the evening?
Ans. Man because he walks on his hands and knees in the morning of life and he walks on his two feet in the middle of life and with a crutch in his old age.
What is it? That all men bring first to life.
The poor man has the rich despise,
The miser spends the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves? Ans Nothing.(continues on next page)
