School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)

Location:
Skerries North, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
E. Tansey
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  1. 1. What has a head and no face.
    A Pin
    2. What is it that a white hen can do that a black hen can not do. Lay a egg the colour of her-self.
    3. A hard working father a wee lazy woman twelve little children all like one another.
    A clock.
    4. What goes with the cart and it is no good to the cart still the cart wont go without it. Noise.
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