School: Cluain Fhada (C.) (roll number 15558)

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   "Because she can't look under it."
   Why do you go to bed?
   "Because the bed will not come to you."

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   Why does the cow look over the ditch. "Because she cannot look under it." What would you put into a barrel to make it light? "Holes" It is long and it is wide and two green ribbons one each side. "A road" Where was Moses when the light went out. "In the dark." As I went out in the garden I met my uncle Tady I cut his head off And left his body easy "A head of cabbage." When was beef the highest. "When the cow jumped over the

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   English

   Collector

   Ellen Mc Guire

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   Baile Uí Chillín, Co. Mhaigh Eo

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   Michael Mc Guire

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   Age

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