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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 266

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    down yellow.
    An egg.
    A flock of white sheep on a red hill, there they go and now they stand still.
    Your teeth.
    How many feet have forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog.
    Two feet.
    What turns without moving.
    Milk.
    The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
    A coffin.
    What has feet and cannot walk.
    A Rule.
    What is half the moon like.
    The other half.
    Why does a hen cross the road.
    To get to the other side.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English