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School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.) (roll number 1867)

Location:
Castlelyons, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 022

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    As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle David I cut off his hand and left him easy?
    A head cabbage.
    A flock of white sheep on a red hill. What is that?
    The teeth on your gums.
    Hody doddy a round black body riddle me what is that?
    A pot.
    'Tis in, 'Tis out, tis like a trout tis slippery wet and greasy
    A persons tongue.
    How many thorns in an acre of furze?
    One and all the rest.
    What part of a cow goes over the gap first?
    Her breath.
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