School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 104
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What nation does a criminal dread most? (Answer): Condemnation.
Why is milk like dancing? (Answer): Because it strengthens the calves
A Prayer.
I throw myself into the arms of Jesus, and into the arms of the three highest angels in Heaven, to guard, guide, protect me at home and abroad, asleep and awake, ghostly and bodily, visible and invisible, from the denial the world and the flesh.
