School: Gort an Locha (roll number 1414)

Location:
Gortalough, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
S. Ó Docraigh
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    One, if it was long enough.
    When is a door a-jar?
    When it is partly open.
    Two twin brothers were born in March. Their birthday was September the tenth, and when one of them was twenty, the other was twenty too. Explain this.
    Both were born in a place called March.
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  2. I have a little man outside in the field,
    When I pull his leg, his nose will bleed.
    A pump.
    There was a man in Adam's race,
    Who lived in a certain place.
    Neither in heaven nor in hell,
    (continues on next page)
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