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School: Kilmorgan (roll number 12444)

Location:
Kilmorgan, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Kathleen M. Doyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 305

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  1. Riddles

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    In a garden was laid a beautiful maid as fair and as bright as the morn she was made a wife the first day of her life and she died before she was born.
    Ans Eve.
    If, from a ruler three feet long a shadow is made what is the height of a steeple in yards that's ninety feet in shade.
    Ans Eighteen yards.
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        1. riddles (~7,209)
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      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
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  2. A Story

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    There is an old garden near the bog quite convenient to my house. There lived a man in a wooden house about three hundred years ago No body liked to see him looking at their cattle because it was said that he would over look them. One day he came to my grand father's father and asked him to sell him three of the cows. The man had no notion of selling them and he said he would not. Then the buyer was
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