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School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)

Location:
Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Thos. Mc Gettrick
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  1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    A cake in an oven.
    A flock of white sheep on a red hill, here they go, there they go, now they stand still?
    Teeth in the gums.
    A clipper of ditches a clipper of thorns a little brown cow with two leather horns?
    A hare.
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  2. A Collection of Riddles

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    Why is a dog like a tree?
    Because when they die they both loose their bark.
    What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
    The bark of a tree.
    Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Annie Conlon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockadalteen, Co. Sligo