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School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)

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Béal an Átha Móir, Co. Liatroma
Teacher:
Seán Heslin
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    6 Q What is it that flies high, flies low, has no feet, yet wears shoes
    A. Dust.

    7 Q What grows less tired the more it is worked?
    A. A spinning wheel.

    8 Q What is that is often put on the table, cut, and passed round,
    A. What is that which has form without substance and [?] but not eaten
    Without weight
    9 Q What is it flies high, flies low, wears shoes and has none?
    A A foot-ball
    10 Q What would you put into a barrel to make it light?
    A holes

    Headed like a thimble
    Tailed like a rat
    You may guess for ever
    But you'll never guess that
    S. The.
    A. pipe
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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