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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   a car. There was two black men and a white man in the car. the two black men ate the white man. What was the number of the car.
   128 (one, two, ate)

   36. What goes round the world and round the world and leaves a bit of its tail on every bush.
   The mist

   37. How many wells would make a river.
   One if it was big enough.

   38. Forty sheep went through forty mor followed that six, seven, eleven, three and two how many is that.
   five.

   39. The latest of fruit the greatest of gain the largest of measure and that spells my name.
   Hamleton. "Haw" "mill" "ton"

   40. As round as an apple as flat as the pan. The half of a woman the whole of a man.
   Penny, (Queen Victoria)

   41. Half-ways in and half-ways out its just half-ways between it's neither in or out
   A door-case.

   42. Whats too short and take a piece off it to make it longer.
   A grave.

   43. A half penny wet and penny half dry four pence half-penny and a half-penny and a half-penny behind four pence half-penny

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   E. Treanor

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Teacher