School: Iubhrach (roll number 8074)
- Location:
- Uragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Cristíne Ní Shíoda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0189, Page 208
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- (continued from previous page)7. What are the three things which cannot be found in the world?
(A shoe for the foot of the mountain, a towel to wipe the face of the earth, and a sheet for the bed of the ocean.)
). Riddles.
1. A I went a dirty gap I met my Uncle Davy. I cut off his head, and drank his blood and left him lying easy.
A. A bottle of whiskey. 2. What is it you cannot touch with your let hand, and you can with your right?
(Your left elbow.) 3. What is full when it is half gone?
(The moon). 4. Why do you compare the July sun to a (tan) sixpence?
(Because it is a tanner.)(continues on next page)
