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School: Cill Chiaráin

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Kilkerrin, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Caitlín, Bean Uí Chuimín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 185

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    What are the three most forcible letters in the alphabet? - N.R.G (Energy)
    If a man got a shilling for walking forty miles what would he get for walking one hundred miles? Sore feet.
    What is the easiest way to save your soul (sole)? - To walk on your heel.
    As old as Adam and still alive four weeks old yet never was five?
    The moon.
    Spell black-water in three letters? I.n.k.
    What gets bigger the more you take from it? - A hole.
    What word can be pronounced "quicker" by adding a syllable to it? Quick
    What is the difference between a hill and a pill? One is hard to get up and the other is hard to get down.
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