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School: Radharc na Sionainne (roll number 16477)

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Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Nóirín Ní Uiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 170

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    Long legs and crooked thighs
    Small head and no eyes.
    (Tongs)
    It goes up the chimney up and down the chimney down.
    (smoke).
    Little thing, litle thing, smaller than a mouse
    It has as many windows as in the King's house.
    (A thimble)
    What is the highest thing in a wood
    (A cow's loo)
    What is it that travels all Ireland
    And never wets a foot.
    (a bee).
    What's full but holds more.
    (A pot full of potatoes when water is poured in).
    What is it thats like half the moon.
    (The other half)
    As I went out in my grandfather's garden
    I saw the rea, rue ragh eating the rea rue ranpie.
    (A sow eating a mangold)
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