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School: Lorrha (C.) (roll number 601)

Location:
Lorrha, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Gertrude M. Lee
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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    What goes round the wood, and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
    (The bark of the tree)
    Eileen Quinlan
    24:11:'37
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    What is it that rises and falls, travels about and wears shoes out but never had any shoes?
    (A football)
    What grows larger the more you take from it?
    (A hole when a man is digging it)
    I went to America and stopped there and came back because I never went there. What am I?
    (A watch)
    (continues on next page)
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Goonan
    Gender
    Female