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   forgotten? Because it is out of the head.
   Spell the red rogue of the world in three letters? Fox.
   What the poor man has, the rich man wants, the miser spends, the spendtrip saves and the dead man carries to his grave? Nothing.
   What is the biggest wonder in the map of Europe? That Hungary did not eat Turkey.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   When are soldiers like good flannels? When they dont shrink. Why is a calendar like a palm tree? You get dates from it. Spell black water in three letters? Ink. Four little bottles in top of a hill turned down and didn't spill. A cow's teats. Why does a hen cross the road? Because she can't go around. What is it that has a head and cannot think, one leg and cannot walk? A pin.

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   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Pauline Hardiman

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   14

   Address

   Kilmacrah, Co. Galway