School: Rakeeragil (roll number 11568)

Location:
Rakeeragh, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Murray
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  1. Riddles
    It's little white and round.It is full of meat and has no doors or windows to let me into it. An egg.
    What goes round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night? A brush.
    As round as an apple,as plump as a ball,can climb the church over steeple and all. The sun.
    A house full,a barn full and could not catch a spoonful. Smoke.
    As I went up to Dublin I saw a great wonder-four and twenty wild geese tearing the world asunder. A man harrowing.
    Six tea (sixty)cups were on the dresser,one fell how many were left? Five.
    Spell Black Water in three letters.
    Ink.
    As high as a wall,as red as blood,as white as milk,as sweet as honey.
    An apple.
    Spell broken down ditches in three letters. A gap.
    Londonderry,Cork and Kerry,spell that without a k. That.
    Two black men and a white man went out for a ride in a car.The two black men ate the white man.What was the number of the car? "281"
    What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound? A fiddle.
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