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School: An Ghráinseach, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12700)

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Grange West, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Díomsaigh
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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    What bus has found room for most?
    Columbus, because he found America.
    What is taken before you get it?
    A photograph.
    What is it that is flesh nor bone and yet it has four fingers and a thumb?
    A glove.
    What is it that the more you take from it the bigger it gets?
    A hole.
    What always walks with its head down?
    A nail in a boot.
    What tree is nearest to the sun?
    The beach (beech)
    As round as a marble, as deep as a cup and all the men in town could not draw it up?
    A well.
    I have a little house and a mouse couldn't live in it, and all the men in town couldn't count all the windows in it?
    A thimble.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Joyce
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Acres, Co. Cork