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School: An Bealach, Crosaire an Ghúlaigh (roll number 1131)

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Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Diarmuid Mac Fhloinn
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    A peacock went into another man's garden and laid an egg there. Who owned the egg?
    Ans: Neither because a peacock could not lay an egg.
    As round as a cup, as deep as a house and all the King's horses can't draw it up.
    Ans: A well.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Caitlín Ní Riain
    Gender
    Female

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    11. It is red and it is blue and valuable green and the King cannot come at it no more than the Queen?
    Ans: A rainbow
    Humpty dumpty sat on a wall.
    Humpty dumpty got a great fall. All the King's horses, all the King's men
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