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School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)

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Prison East, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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    If a man had eight gallons of stout in an eight gallon cask and he had an empty five gallon cask and an empty three gallon cask how would he make halves of it?
    He would fill the three gallon cask and throw it into the five gallon cask. Then he would fill the three gallon cask again and throw it into the five gallon cask and he would
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie M. Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    42
    Address
    Prison North, Co. Mayo