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   iron with a tail of wool.
   A thick needle with a woollen stitch.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   Old Mother Twitcher had but one eye, and along tail which she lets fly. And every time she goes over a gap, she leaves a piece of her tail in the trap. A needle and thread. How many sticks go to the building of a crow's nest. None they are all carried. A riddle, a riddle as I suppose a hundred eyes and never a nose. A thimble. Wide in the bottom and narrow in the top a stick in the middle

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