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School: Cluain Fhada (C.) (roll number 15558)

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Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Mrs. Flood
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    What part of a cow goes over a ditch first. "her breath".
    I went up the road and I went down the road and I carried the road on my back. "A ladder"
    What is always behind time. "The back of the clock."
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    As I was walking along the road I met a thing it had four fingers and a thumb. It was neither fish flesh, bone nor feather and what was it. Ans. "A glove."
    It wears shoes and it has no shoes.
    Ans. "The road"
    As long as my arm as white as white as the snow. The longer it will live the less it will grow. Ans. A candle
    A small little house smaller than a mouse. There are as many windows in it as the Lord de
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Burke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Parke, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Burke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Parke, Co. Mayo