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School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)

Location:
Drumbaragh, Co. Meath
Teachers:
M. Brighid Bean Uí Draoighneáin
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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    7. A cart of people went over a bridge there was'nt a single person in it.
    ALL MARRIED
    8. What is it that has one eye and cant see.
    NEEDLE
    9. Long and short thick and thin and every where it goes it leaves it tail behind it
    NEEDLE AND THREAD
    10. Hairy in and hairy out hairy turn it inside out
    A STOCKING
    11. Twenty sheep went out a gap twenty more follow that six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how much is that.
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    12. What is it goes round the house and round the house and stays in the corner at night
    A BRUSH
    13. What is it that goes up stairs white and down stairs read
    A PAPER
    14. Black and white went over the hill white stood away and black came back.
    A HEN LAYING A EGG
    15. Ink onk on the bank ten drawen four.
    A WOMEN MILKING A COW
    16. What is that a head a foot and four legs and still it never walks.
    A BED
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Black
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Commons of Lloyd, Co. Meath