School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- An Carbad Beag, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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- (continued from previous page)II. As I was going out the gap I meet a man with a red cap, stick your hand a stone in his belly, riddle me that and I will give you a penny
Answer:- A Haw.
III. How many sticks goes to a crow's nest. Answer:- All she brings.
IIII. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a harp and the other side a man.
Answer:- A Penny.
V. I have a little horse with an iron throat, and as fast as he gallops he swallows the rope.
Answer:- A spinning wheel.
IV. Under the fire and over the fire and cannot tutch the fire
Answer:- A cake in a oven.
IIV. There is a little bush in the well and when the well dryes the bush will die.
Answer: A wick in a lamp.
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Cortoon, Stillala
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