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School: Rahan (B.)

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Rahan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
L. Ó Reannacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 167

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    (1) A quick father a slow mother twelve little children all like one another.
    (A) a clock
    (2) A little white man with a small white nose, the longer he lives the shorter he grows??
    (A) a Candle
    (3) headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you will never guess that?
    (A) A pipe
    (4) As black as ink as white as milk and
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