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School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)

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Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 111

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Q. As black as ink; as white as milk; and it hops on the ground like hail-stone
    A. Magpie
    Q. As round as a marble; as deep as a cup and all the sea would not fill it up
    A. A strainer.
    Q. What's full and holds more?
    A. A pot of potatoes when you pour water in
    Q. What goes round the wood, and round the wood and never gets into wood?
    A. The bark of the tree
    Q. I went up a borheen; I went down a borheen and I took the borheen on my back.
    A. A ladder
    Q. What is the beginning of eternity; the end of life and space; the beginning of every end and the end of every place?
    A. The letter "E".
    Q. What is it, the longer it lives the shorter it grows?
    A. A lighting Candle
    Q. I went into a field; there was no one there; yet there were hundred of eyes looking at me.
    A. A field of potatoes.
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