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School: Doire Gealbhan (C.), Ceann Tuirc (roll number 9788)

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Derrygalun, Co. Cork
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 389

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    must taste.
    Death.
    Two long men both tall and when when one walks out the other walks in.
    A pair of knitting needles.
    Two young ladies dressed in white got sick and died last night.
    Two candles .
    As I went out a slipping gap I met my uncle Davy with eyes and nose and timber toes and upon my word he would frighten the crows.
    A gun.
    What goes to Cork without ever stopping.
    A road.
    As I went to London I saw a great wonder two pots boiling and no fire under.
    Two buckets of lime.
    Why is a woman in labour compared with a window.
    Because they have pains.
    What goes through the wall without making
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English