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School: Piercetown (C.) (roll number 8690)

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Piercetown, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Máire Furlong
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0879, Page 352

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    1: What is the surest thing in the world?
    Ans: A mouse's nest in a cat's ear.
    2: As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, and all the King's horses couldn't draw it up?
    Ans: A well.
    3: What is it that you take away the whole, you have some left?
    Ans: Wholesome.
    4: I have a little house, it wouldn't hold a mouse, but still I could light a fire in it?
    Ans: A pipe.
    5: Little Nellie had a little doll, she put it on a little stool, to wash it in a pool. How many (?) in that/
    Ans: There are no (?) in that?
    6: Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry spell me that without a H?
    Ans: That.
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