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School: Rahan (B.)

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Rahan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
L. Ó Reannacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 181

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    1. As round as a butter box as sharp as a glance if you were on top of it, it would carry you to France?
    The Moon.
    2. What you can carry on your back goes up the chimney?
    A back goes up the. A bag of turf.
    3. What has four legs and cannot walk?
    A stool.
    4. As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the kings horses would not pull it up?
    A well.
    5. The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it?
    A Coffin.
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