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School: Árd an Teampoill (roll number 12568)

Location:
Mount Temple, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Mhoicheadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0156, Page 266

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    A needle and thread.
    Little genny muddle sitting in a puddle with a green gown and a white petticoat?
    A sash.
    What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earn its master many a pound?
    A fiddle.
    There is a man in Ballymote and he sells thread he isnt in it or he isn't out of it or he isn't dead and he is in Ballymote and he sells thread?
    He has two houses one on one side of the road and he has the other on the other side and he is in one of them one time and the other an other time.
    As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry couldn't pull it up?
    A Well
    Why does a hen cross a road?
    To get to the other side.
    How long did Cain hate his brother?
    A long as he was Abel.
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