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School: Ráithín (B.) (roll number 9304)

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An Ráithín, Co. Chiarraí
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ua Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0456, Page 532

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    cup there is a sup which everyone must take?
    Death.
    What is always washed in cold water but is never dried in the sun nor before the fire?
    Butter.
    Roly-poly against the wall, roly-poly got a great fall. Two score men and two score more could not put roly-poly as it was before.
    Egg.
    A little white house is full of meat with no door or window to let me in.
    Egg.
    A little red cow with two leather horns can jump over ditches and leap over thorns.
    A hare.
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