School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)
- Location:
- Baile na Martra, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0396, Page 027
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- Q. When does a lamp move without being moved?
A. When it goes out.
Q. What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
A. Your word.
Q. What is it that can take a crowd of people, but it not large enough to hold a rabbit?
A. A camera.
Q. Why can't letters sit?
A. Because they always stand for something.
Q. What can fly with twenty legs?
A. Ten birds.
Q. A hard working father, a lazy old mother and twelve little children all the same colour?
A. A clock.
Q. What is it that has four legs & cannot walk, and has two eyes & cannot see and can jump as high as any tree?
A. A dead donkey.
Q. Why is a giraffe's neck so long?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Msater S. Doolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile na Martra, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr J. Garde
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Baile na Martra, Co. Chorcaí
