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School: An Charraig (roll number 13839)

Location:
Carrick, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0268, Page 027

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    As round as an apple as plump as a ball, it would cover Kilkenny castle and all
    I sent a parsel to New York, and it went there and stopped there, and came back because it would not go there
    a watch
    A duck behind two ducks, and a duck infront of two ducks, and a duck in the middle. How many ducks?
    Three ducks
    What goes through the wood with its head down
    The nails in your boots
    In this hive we are all alive, good liquor makes us funny. If you be dry step in and try the flavour of the honey.
    A Public House
    What grows larger the more you take from it
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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    English