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School: Clún na Gaoithe (roll number 8740)

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Cloongee, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Héaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0125, Page 342

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    Ans:- A funeral.
    7. Tink tank under the bank ten drawing four.
    Ans:- A person milking a cow.
    8. I went up the boreern and I carried the boreen on my back.
    Ans. A ladder.
    9. The man that bought it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
    Ans:- A habit
    10. four little brothers thin an tall one wont do without them all one goes in and the other goes out and still them all goes round about.
    Ans. Kniting needles.
    11. Its red and its yellow and its parable green and the king could not catch it no more than the queen.
    Ans:- The rainbow.
    12. It was got in the wood and it creaks through the town and earns for its master many a half crown.
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