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School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)

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Baltrasna, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 287

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    1/ As I was going to Dublin I met a little sailor I put him in my pocket for fear the ducks would eat him he began to jump, and I began to beat him. I threw him in the river the way teh ducks would eat him?
    Ans. A frog.
    2/ A King met a king in a narrow lane said the king to the king where have you been all day. I have been a hunting with the cat and the doe will you lend me your little dog for I to do so. If you lend me your little dog it would be sure to blame there is twice in that riddle I have told you his name?
    Ans. Been is his name.
    3/ If twenty feet of iceberg is above the water what is below?
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