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1. Collection of Riddles (continued)

   

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   19. What goes up when the rain comes down? Answer = An umbrella 20. What goes round the house and round the house and stops in the corner? Answer = A brush 21. What has a broad foot but no sign of a leg? Answer = A hill. 22. When is a spider like a cork? Answer = When it stops a blue-bottle. 23. What is one side of the moon like? Answer = The other half.

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2. Collection of Riddles

   

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   24.
   Two yanks went into a public house in Cove. It happened that one of the yanks was the father of the other yank's son. How was that? One of the yanks was a woman.
   25.
   What is the last thing you do before you go into bed? Answer: Take your feet off the ground.
   26.
   What is it you take a bit off to make it longer. Answer: A grave
   27.
   As round as a marble, as deep as a cup, all the men in the

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