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School: Ardvarney (roll number 15116)

Location:
Ardvarney, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Amhaltúin
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    it gets?
    (A whole in a wall)
    Why does a duck cross a street?
    To get to the other side.
    What goes round the house and round the house and peeps in every hole.
    (The sun)
    As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other side a man.
    A penny
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    Why does a donkey prefer thistles before grass?
    (Because he is an ass)
    What is it that was three weeks old when Adam entered the garden of Eden and is not five yet?
    (The moon)
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