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School: Newbawn (roll number 16072)

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Newbawn, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Seán de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 393

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    “I know a little round house and it is full of meat. It has neither doors or windows to let me in to eat.”

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    I know a little round house and it is full of meat. It has neither doors nor windows to let me in to eat.
    Answer An egg.

    I have a little red cow. She sits by the wall she eats all I gibve her ad drinks none at all.
    Answer A fire.

    When is a horse not a horse
    Answer When she is turned into a field

    What is out in the wood and sounded in the town and earns his master many a crown.
    Answer A fiddle

    What goes up a ladder with its head downwards
    Answer A nail in your boot
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