School: Killallon (roll number 5207)

Location:
Boherard, Co. na Mí
Teacher:
Stiophán Ó Scalaighe
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    When I got it I sat down to look for it I could not find it so I brought it home with me.
    A Thorn.
    As round as an apple as plump as a ball everyone feeds on it and no one eats it at all.
    A Milkbottle.
    Two of the Jowell's Frawous went out of a misty morning to cut moss. All they cut they left it after them and all they didnt cut they brought it with them.
    A man cutting another man's hair.
    A maiden fair as the flowers of morn, she became a man's wife the first day of her life and died before she was born.
    Eve.
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