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School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)

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Ballyglass West, Co. Galway
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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Humpy dumty sat on the wall humpy dumty got a great fall and all the kings horses and all the kings men wouldn’t put humpy dumty together again. An egg
    Twenty sheep went out a gap twenty more went after that the shepherd and his dog how many feet is that. Two feet
    Twenty (sick) six sheep went out a gap one died and how many came back. Nineteen
    As round as a rainbow and has teeth like a cat and if you were guessing forever you would
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Howley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lavally, Co. Galway