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School: Cnoc an Iubhair (C.)

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Kealid, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire Ní Cheallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 265

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    Alive at both ends and dead in the middle.
    A man ploughing.
    What is smaller than an ant's mouth?
    The bite he eats.
    The fiddler's wife was the piper's mother what was the piper and the fiddler to one another.
    A father and son.
    It stands on one leg and has its heart in its head.
    A head of cabbage.
    Who is always marrying and yet single.
    A Priest.
    Tis there and 'tis as old as myself.
    My Finger.
    I threw it up white and it came
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English