School: Moys (roll number 10837)

Location:
Moy Otra, Co. Monaghan
Teachers:
P. Dawson C. Mac an Ghirr
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    Two black men and a white man went for a ride if the black men eat the white man what was the number of the car.
    Two, eight, one.
    What is full of blood in the daytime and empty at night.
    A boot.
    A riddle a riddle a farmers fiddle alive at both ends and dead in the middle.
    A plough.
    There was a man born in America, reared in England. died in Ireland, buried in Italy. What kind of a man was he.
    A dead man.
    Spell a red running rogue in three letters.
    Fox.
    There was a man looking for a number and he asked a girl to help him she asked him what number did he want and he said he wanted Adam's number What was the number.
    281 apple.
    Spell a living mouse-trap in three letters.
    A cat.
    Blackie and whitie went over the
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
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