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   Question. What never was nor never will be look in your hand and there you will see?
   Answer. Your little finger is not so long as the rest.
   Question As round as as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other a man.
   Answer. A penny.
   Q. As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Derry would not lift it up.
   A. A well.
   Q. As I went up to Dublin I saw a great wonder four and twenty wild geese tearing the earth asunder.
   A. A harrow.
   Q. What is it that the more you take out of it the bigger it gets.
   A. A hole in the ground.
   Q. Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes.
   A. The tongs.
   Q. As I went up to Dublin I saw a great wonder four pots boiling and no fire under.
   A. A spring well.
   Q. What goes round the world and round the world and leaves a rag on every bush.
   A. The mist.
   Q. House full and room full and you. could not catch a spoonful.
   A. Smoke.

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