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School: Carraig Áluinn (roll number 16.474)

Location:
Carraig Álainn, Co. Liatroma
Teacher:
Pádhraic Mag Uidhir
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  1. A Collection of Riddles

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    1. A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns
    a bonny brown cow, with two leather horns
    A hare
    2. Tink, tank, under bank
    a noggin full of bunnies
    nest of wrens
    3. Riddle my riddle my randy o,
    my father gave me a seed to sow,
    the seed was black, the ground was white
    Riddle me that and I'll give you a pipe
    Writing a letter
    4. A kitchen full, a room full
    And you couldn't lift a spoon full.
    Smoke
    5. What goes round the house all day and sleeps in the wood at night?
    Tea cloth
    6. What part of a cow goes into a gap first?
    Her breath
    7. Spell black and white in 3 letter.
    Mag
    8 What's black and white and read all over?
    Newspaper
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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