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School: Gráig na Gréine (roll number 12819)

Location:
Graignagreana, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Anna Ní Shiocfhradha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0469, Page 009

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    Old Mother Twitcher had but one eye, and along tail which she lets fly. And every time she goes over a gap, she leaves a piece of her tail in the trap.
    A needle and thread.
    How many sticks go to the building of a crow's nest.
    None they are all carried.
    A riddle, a riddle as I suppose a hundred eyes and never a nose.
    A thimble.
    Wide in the bottom and narrow in the top a stick in the middle
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