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School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)

Location:
Baltrasna, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 283

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    6/ What is neither within or without?
    Ans. A window.
    7/ As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry would not lift it up?
    Ans. A moon shining in a well.
    8/ What goes up when the rain comes down?
    Ans. An umbrella.
    9/ If a farmer raised an acre of wheat in dry weather what will he raise in wet weather?
    Ans. His umbrella.
    10/ A head a foot and four legs?
    Ans. A bed.
    11/ What is the last thing you take off going to bed?
    Ans. Your feet off the floor.
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    1/ Patch up patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches?
    Ans. A cabbage.
    2/ As round as an apple as plump as a ball can
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