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School: Loughshinny (roll number 8434)

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Loughshinny, Co. Dublin
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James Monks
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 76

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  1. Shipwrecks (continued)

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  2. Riddles

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    When can water stay in a fiz? (strainer) When it is frozen.
    What is the thing that goes around the house all day and sleeps in the corner at night? A brush
    What is the thing that goes around the table, is often cut but never is eaten? A pack of cards.
    There is a ship that is full of people and there is not a single one in it? They were all married.
    As I looked out my grandfathers window I saw a wonderful thing I saw the dead carring the living; what was that wonderful thing? A ship carrying passengers.
    As I looked out my grandfathers window I saw forty little
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