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   What goes round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood?
   Answer = The bark of a tree.

   Londonderry, Cork and Kerry. Spell me that without a K.
   Answer = T H A T.

   What is neither within nor without?
   Answer A pain of glass in a window.

   What goes round the wood and round the wood and never touches a bit of the wood?
   Answer = A knife in a man's pocket.

   A man that has it never sees it and a man that saw it never wanted it?
   Answer = A coffin

   Long legs, short thighs, big head, and no eyes?
   Answer = A tongs.

   As round as an apple, as plump as a ball,
   Can climb over church, yard, stable, and all?
   Answer = The Sun

   Why is there such a scarcity of honey in Berlin?
   Answer = There is only one B in it.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patricia O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Aghakilmore, Co. Longford

   Informant

   Peter Sullivan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Aghakilmore, Co. Longford