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School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)

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Dangan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 216

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    When is coffee like mud?
    When it is ground.
    Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you will never guess that?
    A pipe.
    As round as an apple as plump as a ball; can climb the church; over steeple and all?
    The sun.
    As I went up Tara Hill, Tara Hill was shaking and I
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