School: Sráid (roll number 14369)

Location:: An tSráid, Co. Mhaigh Eo
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plundering for the money. They searched for it everywhere but they could not get it. They were talking to one of the undertakers and he said they put a bag under the miser's head in the coffin. They went to the grave and dug down to the coffin. They opened it and found the bag under the man's head. They took it out and filled up the grave again. They brought home the bag and they opened it and seven thousand crookdiles ran out and it took all the men in a thickly populated village to kill them.
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Tomhaiseanna

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Why does a hen pick a pot?
Because she can not lick it.
What is half the moon like?
The other half.
Why does a cow look a cross a fence?
Because she can not look under it.
What runs and has not legs?
Water

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