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School: Coolcappa, Árd-achadh (roll number 11955)

Location:
Coolcappagh, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Shíthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0501, Page 320

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    It grows in winter and it dies in summer and it roots upwards:- An icicle.
    Why does a donkey eat thistles:- Because he is a donkey.
    What is that a bit is cut out of to make it long:- A grave.
    Jenny inside the ditch and Jenny outside the ditch and if you touch Jenny he will bite you:- A nettle.
    If a person had a candle, match, and lamp which would he light first:- The match.
    There was twenty blackbirds in a bush if I shot one how many was left.
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