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School: Newtown (roll number 3275)

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Creevagh, Co. Meath
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Séamus Ó Conbháidh
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  2. A Collection of Riddles

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    A beautiful maid, in a garden was laid. 'Twas the first time in life she became a wife, And she died before she was borne. Eve.
    A clipper of ditches, a cutter of thorns, A little brown cow with two leather horns? A hare.
    One was watching everything while the other heard. Each with the other never spoke, yet they told a third. Even then before he heard everything he knew, He indeed without a word told them what to do. Who were they? The eye, ear and brain.
    It grows in the wood and it sounds in the town, and it earns its master many a pound? A fiddle.
    From the Heavens it falls, on earth it begins, no body on earth could show such a skin; its as light as a
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