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School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)

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Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Cáinte
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    Which is the cleanest letter in the alphabet? H because it is in the middle of washing.
    What is to day was yesterday and will be tomorrow? To day.
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    In marble walls as white as milk
    lined with a skin as soft as silk,
    Within a fountain crystal clear.
    No doors there are to this stronghold,
    Yet thieves break through and steal the gold? An egg.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John O' Keeffe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mrs Comerford
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bleenaleen Upper, Co. Tipperary