School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile

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Kinsale, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An tSr. Úna
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    5 When is a shoemaker dying.
    Answer. When he is preparing the sole for the last.
    6 What is it has eight arms but no hands. A wooden leg but cannot stand. Is often wet but cannot feel, has no boots, but is shod with steel. A dress of silk with a belt around the middle.
    Ans umbrella.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
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    Máire Ní Próinséas
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