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School: Fahan Lower (roll number 14506)

Location:
Fahan Lower, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
R. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 520

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    Answer: Seven eggs.
    What is it that the more you take out the bigger it gets?
    Answer: A hole
    Which is it right to say the yoke of an egg is white or the yoke of an egg are white?
    Answer: Neither because the yoke of an egg is not white.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Doreen Barr
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Buncrana, Co. Donegal