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School: Aodh Rua, Dún na nGall (roll number 13382)

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Donegal, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Mag Shamhráin
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    Once upon a time a preacher was preaching about miracles. But there was one man who could not understand the meaning of miracles and asked the preacher to explain them to him. The minister then told the man to turn round his back to him. The man did so and then the minister lifted his stick and hit him a wallop on the back and tossed him on the ground. The the priest asked the man if he had felt the wallop and of course the groaning man answered that he did. “Well” said the priest if you had not felt it, it would have been a miracle.
    Once upon a time a policeman who was coming home from his work not a little boy who was crying in the street. He asked the boy why he was crying and the boy
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Shaun Mac Intyre
    Gender
    Male