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School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)

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Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Michael Quinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0261, Page 033

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    33. As I went up the steeple I met three christian people. They were neither men, women, nor children. What were they?
    Answer - A man, woman and child
    34. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you can guess for ever, but you won't guess that.
    Answer - a pipe
    35. Twenty sheep went out a gap, twenty more followed that six, sever, ten, eleven, two and three. How many is that?
    Answer - Five
    36. A riddle a riddle, a farmers fiddle, alive in the two ends and dead in the middle
    Answer - A man ploughing
    37. What goes round the house and round the house and leaves but the one track?
    Answer - a barrow
    38. A round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all
    Answer - The sun
    39. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, and all the men in Derry would not pull it up
    Answer - A well
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