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School: Coolboyoge

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Coolboyoge, Co. Cavan
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P. Roddy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0974, Page 151

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    Q: Long Jane, red nose the longer she sits, the less she grows? A candle.
    Q: A leper of ditches a cropper of corn a little brown cow with a leather pair of horns? A Hare.
    Q: What grows in the woods and sounds in the town and earns its master many a pound? A Fiddle.
    Q: I washed my face in neither run nor stream and I dried it in a towel that was neither woven nor spun?
    I washed my face in the dew of the grass and dried it in the heat of the sun.
    Q: Two feet on the ground and three over-head, the head of the living
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