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School: Convent Girls' School, Ballymote

Location:
Ballymote, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Sr. M. Patrick
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    1. I have a little cow with its back to the wall
    And he'd eat all the fodder
    from here to Donegal.
    Answer:- fire
    2. Mrs Bern has a little iron horse
    And quick as he gallops
    he swallows the rope.
    Answer:- machine
    3. It grows in the wood
    It sounds in the town
    Its worth a guinea or a half a crown.
    Answer:- A Fiddle.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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