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School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)

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Milltown, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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    (1) If a peacock got up on a wall and laid an egg into another woman's garden, which would the woman that owned the garden or the woman that owned the peacock, own the egg? (Neither, for a peacock does not lay)
    (2) What did God give to man that he did not give himself? (A beginning and an end)
    (3) What is it we always see, a king seldom sees, and God never sees? (An Equal)
    (4) "Father" said the child "how does it come that you are my father but I am not your son? (It was his daughter)
    (5) Sisters and brothers I have none yet that
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