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   Question: What is England like a copybook?
   Answer: Because it is well ruled.

   Question: What goes under the water and above the water and never touches the water?
   Answer: A crows shadow

   Question: Why does a hen pick a pot?
   Answer: Because she can't lick it.

   Question: What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
   Answer: A hole

   Question: What town in Ireland spells the same way backwards and forwards?
   Answer: NAVAN

   Question: What is it the longer it stands the shorter it grows?
   Answer: A candle

   Question: It a poke and tongs goes to five shillings what would a load of turf go to?
   Answer: It would to go ashes.

   Question: If Ireland was flooded, what city would be safe?
   Answer: Cork because it would float.

   Question: What city in Ireland would fit into a bottle?
   Answer: Cork

   Question: What is cured and isn't sick?
   Answer: Bacon

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Jimmy Williams

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