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School: Gearrbhaile (Garbh-dhoire?) (roll number 12110)

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Garbally, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Mícheál Mac Giollabháin
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    What are the three things which cannot be found?
    Ans: A shoe for the foot of a mountain, a towel to wipe the face of the earth and a sheet to cover the ocean.
    In the garden was placed the happiest maid that ever the sun did adorn, she was made a bride the first day of her life and she died before she was born, Who was the maid?
    Ans: Eve
    A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat, you may guess forever but you will never guess that?
    Ans: A pipe
    What has two wings, eleven head, twenty -two legs and yet cannot fly or walk?
    Ans: A football team
    Which has the hardest life of it tea or coffee?
    Ans: Tea, for while coffee can settle down, tea is
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