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School: Clochar na Trocaire

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Tuam, Co. Galway
Teacher:
an tSiúr M. Oilibhéir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0027, Page 0056

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    When we draw long faces.
    When are coffee berries like the earth?
    When they are ground.
    What is made longer by cutting both ends?
    A trench.
    What is the difference between one who is very surprised and a leopard? One is rooted (on the spoted on the rooted) on the spot and the other is spotted on the root.
    How many wells make a river?
    One if it is big enough.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Fitzmaurice
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tuam, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs K. Fitzmaurice
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tuam, Co. Galway