School: Ardvarney (roll number 15116)

Location:
Ardvarney, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Amhaltúin
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  2. Riddles
    1) The King of Morrocco built a ship ann in that ship my daughter sits ann I'll be blamed for telling her name ann that's three times I have said her name
    (Ann)
    2) What goes through the wood and through the wood and never toughes the wood.
    (A knife in a man's pocket)
    3) I sat on my hunkers and looked through my winkers and I saw the dead burying the live
    (A person making a fire)
    4) In between two woods and out between two waters
    (Aperson carrying two wooden buckets of water)
    5) What part of a cow goes out on a gap first.
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