School: Cill Chuana (roll number 12782)

Location:
Kilcoona, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam Ó Conáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0037

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    Answer. One faces the powder and the other powders the face.
    When is money damp. When it is due in the morning.
    A little white, round house, it has no doors nor windows to let me in to eat.
    An egg.
    Four legs up and four legs down, soft in the middle and hard all round.
    A bed.
    As I went out a gap I met a little red man, he said he was more afraid of a cock or a hen than all King George's men.
    A worm.
    What two towns in France are like an ill fitting dress.
    Toulon and Toulouse.
    Why does a cow look over the wall.
    Because she cannot look under it.
    The man that made it never wore
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