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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    A road.
    78. What is the first thing you do when you go to bed at night?
    Pull up the clothes.
    79. What is it that has an eye, and cannot see?
    A needle.
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    80. What has a hundred eyes?
    Soup.
    81. What is it that we see and God never sees
    His own equal.
    82. What it it that goes round the house and round the house with a harrow after it?
    A hen and a flock of chickens.
    83. A field full of white daisies,
    A red one in the middle?
    Your tongue and your teeth.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Smith
    Gender
    Female