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School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)

Location:
Baile idir Dhá Abhainn, Co. Shligigh
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 002

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  3. XML “A Clown”
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  1. A Clown (continued)

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    end of the town where he slept for the night. In the morning before anyone got up he had disappeared to some other place to spend the day.
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  2. Riddles

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    Chip chip cherry, all the men in Derry, could not count chip chip cherry.
    Ans - sun
    As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb over church over steeple and all.
    Ans - sun
    What goes round the wood and round the wood but never touches the wood
    Ans - The bark of a tree?
    What is it that always walks with its head down?
    Ans - A nail in your boot.
    Middy-noddy round body three feet
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Maye
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Baile idir Dhá Abhainn, Co. Shligigh