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School: Gráinleathan (C.) (roll number 15664)

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Garranlahan, Co. Roscommon
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Cáit Ní Uaithne
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  1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever, but you won't guess, that. (A Piper)
    What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood. ( The bark of the tree)
    As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can the church, over steeple, and all. (The sun)
    What goes away, between two woods and comes home, between two waters. (A man fetching water in pail)
    Which is it more correct to say, the yoke of the egg is white or are white. (The yoke of the egg is yellow)
    As i went up the road, I met a crowd of people, there were neither men, women or children in it who
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lizzie Murray
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Rogers
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    73
    Address
    Lisnagroob, Co. Roscommon