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School: Kilkitt

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Kilkit, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Baoighealláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0941, Page 098

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    What goes up the chimney down and will not go up it up?
    Answer: An umbrella.
    As round as an apple as plump as a ball, over the market house steeple and all.
    Answer: The sun.
    Three legs on the top, two legs on bottom, the live man's head in the dead man's mouth
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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