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School: St. Anne's (B.)

Location:
Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Mac an t Saoir
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    What goes round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night.
    Ans: A brush.
    Ques: Six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two, how many is that.
    Ans: five.
    Ques: There are two pigs in a sty, when they get meat they roar and cry, when they get none how quite they by.
    Ans: Two mill stones.
    Ques: What goes round the wood, and leaves a white rag on every bush.
    ANs: The snow.
    Ques: What goes round the house and draws its
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Aed Clarke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bailieborough, Co. Cavan