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School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 328

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    What part of the cow reaches the ditch the first.
    Her breath.
    As round as a marble as flat as a pan, half of a woman and the whole of a man.
    A penny.
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    Betty inside the ditch and if you go near Betty she will bite you.
    A nettle.
    Black and white and red all over. A newspaper.
    Use me well and I am everybody. Scratch my back and I am nobody. A mirror.
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