School: Dunmanus, Toormore

Location:
Dún Mánais Thoir, Co. Chorcaí
Teacher:
Helena Lucey
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  1. 1.
    It opens like a barn door it shuts like a trap you would often think of man[?] but you would never think of that.?
    A Scissors
    2.
    As round as an apple, as deep as a pail, it never cries out until it is caught by the tail.?
    A church bell.
    3.
    Little thing, little thing less than a mouse it has more windows than a king's house.? Thimble.
    4.
    Two black men and a white man went motoring, and the two black men ate the white man what was the number of the motor car? 281.
    5.
    The bleat of a lamb and the honey of a bee put them together and spell it for me? Mahoney.
    6.
    Black and white and red all over?
    A newspaper.
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