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School: Cor Dubh (roll number 13806)

Location:
An Chorr Dhubh, Co. Mhuineacháin
Teacher:
Mrs Flood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0934, Page 031

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    When is a man thinner than a lat?
    When he is shaving.
    Here I am well and wired
    A horse and cart I often hired
    Gold and silver, I decost,
    And now I am on the dung hill cast.
    Cinders.
    A houseful, a roomful and could not catch a spoonful.
    Smoke
    What is it that turns without moving?
    Milk.
    What is it that goes from house to house with it's head down?
    A nail in a man's boot.
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