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School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)

Location:
Derrymore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire Uí hOistín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138D, Page 01_004

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    4. What is it that grows smaller, as it grows older?
    A Candle
    5. Long legs, crooked thighs, a big head and no eyes?
    A tongs
    6. Twenty sick sheep went out a gap, one died how many is that?
    Ninteen
    7. As I went out a dirty gap, I met my uncle Davy
    I cut his neck and drank his blood and left him dying easy
    A bottle of stout
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Áine Ní Oistín
    Gender
    Female