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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 137

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    (1) What is it that has only one leg?
    A stocking.
    (2) How many grains of oaten meal in a square foot of stirrabout?
    (3) How is a hen on a fence to be compared to a penny?
    Because its tail is on one side and the head on the other.
    (4) What falls but never breaks?
    Night
    (5) What breaks but never falls?
    Day.
    (6) What is the smallest room in the world?
    A mushroom.
    (7) What is the smallest bridge in the world?
    The bridge of your nose.
    (8) It is in the marrow, its not in the bone
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