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School: Cnoc Aoibhinn (Mount Pleasant) (roll number 13500)

Location:
Mountpleasant, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Peadar Ó Longáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090, Page 131

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    Go you my son. Fetch me my hat. You are my son and I'm not your father?
    A mother.
    It flies high lies low. It wears shoes and has none?
    A football.
    It grew in the wood and leaves on it. It travelled the fields and hair on it. Now it's dead and live-bones in it?
    A Clog.
    What it is thats full of water and yet holds more?
    A sponge.
    I went up to London. I saw a great wonder. I saw fice and twenty bulldogs tearing the ground asunder.
    A harrow.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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