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School: Cloncarneel

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Cloncarneel, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Bhreacáin
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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    one eye. He went out one night to view the sky. He saw a tree with two apples one, he took one apple off and left one apple on.
    What is always behind time?
    The back of a watch.
    As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman, and the other side a man?
    A penny
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  2. Riddles

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    Which eats more grass the black sheep or white sheep?
    White sheep because there are more of them in it.
    What is funnier that Jonah in a whale?
    Four men in a fly.
    When is a fish like a bird?
    When it rises to take a fly.
    What is the biggest wonder in the Map of Europe?
    That Hungary did not eat Turkey.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lillie Rooney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloncarneel, Co. Meath