School: Cluain Fhada (C.) (roll number 15558)

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   What part of a cow goes over a ditch first. "her breath".
   I went up the road and I went down the road and I carried the road on my back. "A ladder"
   What is always behind time. "The back of the clock."

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   As I was walking along the road I met a thing it had four fingers and a thumb. It was neither fish flesh, bone nor feather and what was it. Ans. "A glove." It wears shoes and it has no shoes. Ans. "The road" As long as my arm as white as white as the snow. The longer it will live the less it will grow. Ans. A candle A small little house smaller than a mouse. There are as many windows in it as the Lord de

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Burke

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Parke, Co. Mhaigh Eo

   Informant

   Mrs Burke

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   40

   Address

   Parke, Co. Mhaigh Eo