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    Q. What is the difference between a school teacher and an engine driver?
    A. One trains the mind and the other minds the train.
    Q. What is the noisiest thing in the world?
    A. A candle, because it wakes the dead.
    Q. Why is the water in England so white?
    A. Because there is only one Black-Pool.
    Q. What has branches, but no leaves or flowers?
    A. A railway line.
    Q. What is always in an empty milk jug?
    A. Plenty of room
    Q. What can be empty and yet have something in it?
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Sivyer
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Galloping Green, Co. Dublin