School: Carrowreagh (roll number 15220)

Location:
Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Elizabeth Benson
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    bigger it gets. A hole
    As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other side a man. A penny.
    As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry would not lift it up. A well.
    As I went out the guttery gap I met my uncle Today I snapped off his cap and drank his blood and left him lying easy. A bottle of whiskey.
    Little Jenny Huddle sitting in a puddle with a green gown and a white petticoat of rush.
    What goes round the wood and round the wood and never going into the wood.
    The Bark of a tree.
    Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty got a great fall all the king's horses and all the king's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again An egg
    As round as an apple as plump as a
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English