School: Woodland (roll number 8464)

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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   6 What is the same as a horse shoe? (A mare's shoe) 7 What goes below the water and above the water and yet never touches the water? (A duck with her egg) 8 What goes round the wood and never touches the wood? (The bark of a tree) 9 What has feet and never walks? (A pot) 10 Something old something new, something borrowed, something blue (A bride who borrows something on her wedding day) Beneath the shore, old harbour lies, Nobody laughs and nobody cries. Where he goes or how he fares nobody knows and nobody cares. (A snail under a stone)

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2. Riddles

   

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   1 When was beef the highest?
   When the cow jumped over the moon.
   2 What is the resemblance between a pig in a parlour and a house on fire?
   The sooner it is out the better.
   3 Spell a hole in the ditch with three letters.
   Gap
   4 What has a tongue and cannot speak?

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