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   As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Thady, I cut off his head and left his body easy. Ans. a head of cabbage.
   As I went out a slippery gap I met my Aunty Mary, she had timber toes and an iron nose and 'pon my word she'd frighten the crows. Ans. A gun.
   Old Missus Twitcher has but one eye, and a very long tail which she lets fly every time she goes over a gap a bit of her tail gets caught in a trap. Ans. A needle and thread.
   I saw the living, living on the dead, five they are and six will be, answer my riddle and set me free. Ans. a birds nest on a dead man's skull five birds were out and one to come.
   I have a little house and a mouse wouldn't fit in it. All the men in a town couldn't count all the windows in it. Ans. A thimble.
   As black as ink, as white as milk and hops in the road like hailstone. Ans. A magpie.
   Black and white and read all over. Ans. A newspaper.
   The blind fiddler had a brother, the fiddler's brother had a sister what was the blind fiddler's brothers sister to the blind fiddler. Ans. the blind fiddler herself.
   As round as a marble as flat as a pan half a woman and half a man. Ans. a penny.
   Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for

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