School: Sruth Nua

Location:
Ardnacally, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tomás de Brún
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    Riddles
    As I went up the gutter gap I met my uncle Dan, I pulled off his cap and drank his his blood and left his body there?
    A bottle of wine.
    I looked and I got it it was easy to get it a thing that God could get if he looked for it?
    A master
    The man bought it but saw it but the man that wore it did not?
    A habit.
    Tink tank under bank ten drawing four?
    Milking a cow.
    Two feet on the ground and three feet up in the air a head of a living
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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