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School: Doire an Daimh (Derrindaffe) (roll number 10976)

Location:
Derrindaff, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Foghludha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0410C, Page 14_010

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    red blood, it is as white as milk and it is as sweet as honey? An apple.
    It is the shape of your head and it is as long as one hundred trees put together? A ball of thread.
    As I went up a bothrin I saw a thing and it was neither fish, flesh nor bone and three weeks after it walked into the house? A hatching egg.
    A white featherless bird came down from Paradise and perched on the walls of Paris? Snow.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Quille
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrindaff, Co. Kerry