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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0918, Page 121

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    Q What is the height of nonsense?
    A Stopping the wave with a pitch fork.
    Q As round as an apple as deep as a cup
    All the kings horses would not draw it up?
    A A draw well.
    Q The more you take from it the bigger it gets?
    A A grave.
    Q What part of a car goes into the town first?
    A The noise.
    Q I went to the wood and I got it.
    I looked for it and I could not find it.
    The more I looked for it the worse I liked it.
    and I brought it home because I could not find it.
    A A thorn in your finger.
    Q What goes all around wood and never goes into it?
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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