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School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

Location:
Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 328

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    What "miss" is that, whose company nobody wants.
    Misfortune.
    Smoke in wood but no fire - A fog.
    What is that which nobody has seen? Tomorrow.
    What is that which runs over the house but never moves.
    What is full of holes but can hold water? A sponge.
    Headed like a thimble
    Tailed like a rat
    If you guess for ever
    You'd never guess that.
    A pipe.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Kane
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