School: Doohamlet

Location:
Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Mac an Bháird
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  1. (continued from previous page)
    As I was going up Tara hill, Tara hill was shaing, four and twenty black things tearing up an acre?
    A Man Harrowing
    Down in yon meadow there is a house and in that house, there is a girl and I told her name three times and I will not tell it again?
    Ann
    What belongs to yourself and is used by your friend more than by yourself?
    Your name.
    What is taken from you before it is given to you
    Your photograph
    What has eyes and cannot see.
    A potatoe.
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