School: Eachroim (roll number 14684)

Location:
Aughrim, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Máiréad, Bean Uí Bheirn
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  1. (continued from previous page)
    The more you take out of it the larger it grows.
    A hole
    A leaper of ditches,
    A clipper of thorns,
    A little brown goat,
    With two leather horns.
    A hare.
    What is smaller than a midges mouth?
    What he eats.
    Two N's, two O's, an L and a D.
    Put them together and spell them for me,
    London.
    I went up the road and down the road and I brought the road on my back.
    A ladder.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English