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School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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Baile Thomáis, Co. Thiobraid Árann
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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    What has a neck and a body and nothing else
    A bottle
    What is a lay always looking for and never hopes to find
    A hole in her stocking
    Whey does a hen cross the road
    To go to the other side
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    As I went out a garden gap I met Dick with a red cap a stick in his hand a stone in this throat riddle me that and I will give you a groat - a cherry
    If a tongs and poker cost sixpence what would a ton of coal amount to - ashes
    As I went up a hill I saw the world's wonder, twenety-four bull dogs tearing the hill asunder
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