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School: Denbawn

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Deinn Bán, Co. an Chabháin
Teacher:
T. Ó Cionnaigh
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  1. A Collection of Riddles

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    As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb over clouds and church steeple and all.
    Answer: The Sun
    What is more numerous in a riddle than holes?
    Answer: Corners.
    Opens like a barn door, shuts like a trap, you may guess for ever but you will never guess that.
    Answer: A Umbrella.
    I have a little cow and she stands against the wall give hot water and she will die, give her wind and she will fly.
    Answer: A fire.
    Stiff and stout when it is out, greasy when it is in, and when it is out, it is like a trout, wet slabbery and greasy.
    Answer: A head of cabbage.
    Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you might
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