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School: Lios Maol

Location:
Lismoyle, Co. Roscommon
Teachers:
Seán Ó Súilleabháin Eoghan Mac Seághain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0268, Page 161

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    37. What walks on its head?
    A nail in a boot.
    38. The more you walk the more you leave behind you.
    Your footsteps.
    39. The Queen of Morocco built a ship and (Ann) in that ship her daughter sits and (Ann) I'll be blamed for telling her name and (Ann) that is three times I've told it yet?
    Ann is her name.
    40. Round the house and round the house and never touches the house?
    A path.
    41. Up the road and down the road and I took the road on my back?
    A ladder.
    42. Black and white and (read) red all over?
    A letter.
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