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School: Tashinny, Colehill (roll number 10223)

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Taghshinny, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Annie Trimble
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 29A

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    A well.
    Whats always walking with its head down.
    A nail in a man's boot.
    Long legs short thighs little head and no eyes.
    A thongs.
    Black and white and read all over.
    A newspaper.
    As black as ink as white as milk and hops about like Jack stones?
    A magpie.
    As round as a apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all all.
    The sun.
    Whats the last thing you do before you get into bed.
    Take your feet of the floor.
    Where does a mouse go when he gets out of a trap.
    In to his den.
    Ink yank under bank then drawing four
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Cody
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Colehill, Co. Longford