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School: Carlanstown (roll number 884)

Location:
Carlanstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Gérbheannaigh
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    8) "Why does a hen run across a road."?
    Because she can't run under it.'
    9) "Headed like a timble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you will never guess that."?
    A pipe
    10) "I have a little house, and it would not hold a mouse, and it had as many windows as the Lord Mayors house."?
    A timble
    11) "What has teeth, and cant eat."?
    A comb.
    12) "What is the strongest thing in the world."?
    A snail, because he carries his house on his back.
    13) "Runner of hedges, clipper of thorns, a little brown cow, wrapt in leather horns."?
    A rabbit."
    14) "In a house there is a dresser, in the dresser, there is a drawer, in the drawer ther is a cup, and every one has to taste it."?
    Death.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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