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Drumshanbo (C.)

School: Drumshanbo (C.) (roll number 12873)

Location:: Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:: Margaret Flynn

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Riddles (continued)

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As I went out on yonder gap
I met Mr Rusticap
Pins and needles on his back
And also thorns fair.
A hedgehog.

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Riddles

What is the word pronounced wrong by all Irish people.
Wrong.

There was a man who had no eyes
He went out one night to view the skies
He saw a tree with apples on
He pulled no apples off or he left no apples on.
He had one eye. There were two apples on the tree one of which he pulled.

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