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School: Scoil na gCeithre Máighistrí, Dún na nGall (roll number 14247)

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Copany, Co. Dhún na nGall
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Cathal Mag Fhionntaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1035, Page 336

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  1. Old Riddles (continued)

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    (continued from previous page)
    7. In marble halls as white as milk.
    Lined with skin as soft as silk
    Within a crystal clear
    A golden apple doth appear
    No doors are there in that stronghold
    Yet thieves still in
    And get the gold
    Ans. An Egg.
    8. In Spring I look gay
    In comely array
    In Summer more clothing I wear
    As colder it grows
    I throw off my clothes
    And in Winter quite naked appear.
    Ans. A tree.
    9. Its long and its narrow
    And its not very wide
    And it wears a green coat
    On every side
    Ans. The road.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Adhamhnan Mag Fhionntaigh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13