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School: Lios Maol

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Lismoyle, Co. Roscommon
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Seán Ó Súilleabháin Eoghan Mac Seághain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0268, Page 127

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    31. As I looked out one day I saw a thing and it was neither fish, flesh nor bone and after a while it stood up once and walked alone?
    A hatched egg.
    32. What is it that wares boots and gets none?
    A football.
    33. As I went up the hill I saw five and twenty bulldogs tearing up a nation.
    A Harrow.
    34. How many cows tails would reach the moon?
    one if it was long enough.
    35. Big body mother long legged father and the three children all the one colour?
    a big pot.
    36. Why does a hen pick a pot?
    Because she cannot lick it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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