School: Gleann Buidhe (roll number 14847)

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   days and he could not get them. He went into the house and his Granny asked him where did he get the porringer and he said he got it at the fairy fort. She said to him to go and leave it where he got it and he did so and his cours [?] came to him.

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   What goes up the road with his head down?
   A nail in your shoe.
   What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a half crown.
   A mouth-organ.
   As round as an apple, as plump as a ball can climb the church steeple over wood land and all?
   The sun.
   As white as milk as black as ink and hops on the road like hailstones?
   A magpie.
   What has four legs and cannot walk?
   A stool.

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