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    (1) What is it that has only one leg?
    A stocking.
    (2) How many grains of oaten meal in a square foot of stirrabout?
    (3) How is a hen on a fence to be compared to a penny?
    Because its tail is on one side and the head on the other.
    (4) What falls but never breaks?
    Night
    (5) What breaks but never falls?
    Day.
    (6) What is the smallest room in the world?
    A mushroom.
    (7) What is the smallest bridge in the world?
    The bridge of your nose.
    (8) It is in the marrow, its not in the bone
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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
    Owen Devery
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Noggusduff, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs M. Devery
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    38
    Address
    Noggusduff, Co. Offaly