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School: Tobar Colmáin, Ráthluirc (roll number 8930)

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Saint Colman's Well, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Bean Uí Aoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 392

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    in it? A thimble.
    What has eyes and cannot see? A potato.
    A house full, a room full and you couldn't take a spoonful? Smoke.
    When is the clock hungry? When it is going to eight.
    Why is there no such thing as a whole day? Because every day begins by breaking.
    Why is life the greatest of all riddles? Because we must all give it up.
    What grows bigger the more you take from it? A grave.
    What man wears the biggest hat? The man with the largest head.
    What is that which has never been felt, seen, nor heard never existed yet has a name?
    Nothing.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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