School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)

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   “It is said that there was a man crossing the a rath in Mr Wards field...”

   

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   It is said that there was a man crossing a rath in Mr Ward's field and the fairies stood beside him and asked him to get a ring that was lost there 1, 254 years ago. The man was not able to get it and he was changed into a tree.

   

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   “A man was going to the fair with pigs and he went into a shop and when he came back to the cart the pigs were gone.”

   

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   A man was going to the fair with pigs and he went into a shop and when he came back to the cart the pigs were gone. There was a fairy and the man asked him where were the pigs. The fairy said they are sold and the man went home and his wife asked him where was the money and the man said "I have no money a fairy took the pigs.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)
   2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kitty Weld

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   11

3. Riddles

   

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   As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, Can climb the church over steeple and all.
   The Sun.

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