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School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)

Location:
Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Kathleen Grehan
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  1. Cures (continued)

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    Cure for a sore throat.
    A potato or an onion roasted and put in a cloth around your neck.
    Dympna Gavin
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  2. Riddles

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    What is the first thing you fall against when you fall of an ass.
    Your will.
    Cork and Kerry London Derry spell me that with out a k.
    That.
    As I went out on a gap I met my uncle Dermod knocked off his head and left him lying easy.
    A bottle of porter.
    It is in the marrow and is not in the bone it is in the rock and is not in stone it is in the bolster and is not in the bed it is in the
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Christina Flynn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Meedian, Co. Westmeath