People find great amusement in riddles. These are some I have heard in the locality. (1) A house full, a room full, and you could not take a spoon full? Smoke (2) How used Adam sleep? With his eyes closed. (3) Two legs on the ground three on the head; the head of the living in the mouth of the dead? A person carrying a pot on his head. (4) Where was Moses when the light went out? In the dark. (5) What is full and yet holds more? A pot of potatoes. (6) What is no use until it is broken? An egg. (7) How many feet has forty sheep a shepherd and a dog? Two feet
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