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School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)

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Adamstown, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Donnchadh Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 370

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    Q. A bite and every bite I follow, and never a bite I ever swallow.
    A. A scissors
    Q. Tom, Tom, tiddle walking in the puddle, with a pair of yellow legs, and a green cap
    A. A drake.
    Q. Up Chip cherry and down chip cherry, and all the men in chip cherry could not climb it.
    A. Smoke.
    Q. East, West, North and South three hundred teeth and no mouth.
    A. A briar
    Q. Fly high, fly low cut grass and don't mow.
    A. A galloping horse
    Q. I went the path and came the path and carried the path upon my back
    A. A ladder
    Q. 'Tis in the neck and it is not in the stone,
    'tis in the marrow and its not in bone,
    'tis in the church and its not in steeple, '
    'tis in the priest and
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