School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)

Location:
Oilgate, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Braoin
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    Because it is gone out of your head.
    What is the difference between a hill and a pill.
    One goes up and the other goes down.
    Up chip cherry down chip cherry all the men in Ireland could not catch chip cherry.
    Smoke.
    As black as ink, as red as blood as green as grass what's that.
    A Blackberry.
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