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School: Na Tearmoinn (C.) (roll number 8932)

Location:
Tarmon East, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Margt. Meskell
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    What has teeth and can't eat?
    A Comb.
    Who was the first man to travel the world?
    The man in the moon.
    Where did you go on your twelfth birthday?
    Into your thirteenth year.
    What is full and yet can hold more?
    A pot full of potatoes when you pour water into them.
    I went to South America, I stopped there, I was sent home again because I would not go there?
    A watch.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Scanlan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dooncaha, Co. Kerry