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School: Druim Beag (roll number 9035)

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Drumbeg, Co. Dhún na nGall
Teacher:
Sinéad Bean de Faoite
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    XXVIII
    What has eyes and cannot see.
    Ans A potato.
    XXVIIII
    I went into the wood and I got it, I sat down and looked for it and could'nt get it, I came home and it with me.
    Ans A thorn in your foot.
    XXX
    How far can a rabbit run into a wood.
    Ans As far as the middle.
    XXXI
    What goes between two woods and back between two waters.
    Ans A man going for two pails of water.
    XXXII
    What goes away over the ground and comes back under the ground.
    Ans a man going for sods and carrying them back on his head.
    XXXIII
    As I was sitting on my hunkers looking through my eye winkers, I saw the dead burying the living
    Ans : Dead ashes on live coals.
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