School: Clonmacnoise

Location:
Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 084

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  1. Riddles
    Black within and black without, four corners round about.
    (Anwer): A sod of turf.
    There is thing both long and droll and decent people sucks a hole in it.
    (Answer) A pipe.
    Twenty sheep went out a gap, twenty more after that, six, seven, ten eleven, two and three how many is that?
    (Answer) 5
    I have a roomful and cannot take a spoonful.
    (Answer) Smoke
    Two pots boiling and no coal under.
    (Answer) Lime
    I took up the botherine? and down the
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