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School: Cros-Bhóthar (roll number 14688)

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Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Seán Ó Maoláin
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  2. Tomhaiseanna

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    1) Patch upon patch with no stitches
    Riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches.
    A Cabbage
    2) What goes around the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
    The bark of a the tree.
    3) What is it that always walks with its head down? A nail in your boot.
    4) Headed like a thimble
    Tailed like a rat
    If you were guessing for ever
    You would not guess that.
    A Pipe.
    5) Why does a cow look over the fence
    Because she cannot look under it.
    6) one half dead, the other half alive
    And a tail wagging
    A dog with his head in a pot.
    7) As round as an apple
    As flat as a pan
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