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School: Clinstown (roll number 4193)

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Clintstown, Co. Kilkenny
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S. Ó Dúnlaing
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 482

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    6.
    Why does a cock cross a road?
    A. To get to the other side.
    Q. Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry, spell me that without a "k"?
    A. "that".
    Q. Two hookers, two croockers, four stick-standers, and a lander?
    A. A cow.
    Q. A humpy-backed father, a hollow-backed mother, three little children, what's that?
    A. A pot.
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    7.
    Q. A little thing, a little thing, with a red nose; the longer it lives the shorter it grows?
    A. A Candle.
    Q. What always walks with it's head down?
    A. A nail in a man's boot.
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