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School: Cill Chonaill (B) (roll number 14377)

Location:
Kilconnell, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Riobárd Ó Séaghdha
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    Riddles
    Q. Four little bottles on the side of a hill always turned down and never will spill
    A. A cow's teats
    Q. What goes from Dublin to Galway without moving?
    A. The Railway line.
    Q. What is the shortest way to go from France to Dover?
    A. A half penny
    Q. What grows bigger the more you take out of it a hole?
    Q. Why does a cow look over the ditch?
    A. Because she can not look under it
    Q. Ink and under the bank ten dawing four?
    A. a man milking a cow.
    Q. Black and white and red all over.
    A. a book
    Q. I found it. I sat down to look for it; I found it I would
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Dooley
    Gender
    Male