School: Dernakesh (B)
- Location:
- Doire na Ceise, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 310
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- (continued from previous page)A. An egg in a duck.
Q. Forty sheep went through a gap, twenty more followed that, six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how much is that.
A. Five.
- Q. Why does a hen cross the road?
A. To get to the other side.
Q. Judy and Jack dressed in black with a row of button down their back?
A. A pair of boots.
Q. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other a man?
A. A penny.
Q. As I went by yon chapel wall, I met a man who let a bawl, his head was flesh, his mouth was horn, such a man was never born?
A. A cock crow.
Q. It's red and it's green and it's yellow between, the King cannot touch it and neither can the Queen.
A. The rainbow. - Collector
- Vincent Shalvey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doire na Ceise, Co. an Chabháin
