School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)

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Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
E. Blackburn
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    that thing was five weeks old. Adam was years five score?
    The moon.
    147. What is the shiest thing in the world?
    A clock.
    148. What goes round the house and peeps into every window?
    The sun.
    149. Where did Noah hit the first nail in the ark?
    On the head.
    150. We left our little ones at home. We marched in a perfect row. The wicked still in view. We lived to man, and died to God. Yet nothing of religion knew.?
    The cows that brought the ark.
    151. I had only one match in my pocket. I had a cigarette and a stove to light, which would I light first?
    The match.
    152. What is sweeter than a bowl of sugar.?
    Sugar in your mouth.
    153. I have a little dog and he is terrible after ducks. I tip him in the middle, and he blows out his guts.?
    A gun.
    154. We spoke as man spoke, and n'eer did sin commit, and yet in heaven he shall never sit?
    Baalen's donkey.
    155. A golden bomb, a silken curtain, and a marble.?
    An egg.
    156. The downfall of Turkey, the break up of
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