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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 153

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    16. I have a little house, and it wouldn't hold a mouse, and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayor's house?
    A thimble.
    17. A man one night went out to view the skys. He saw a tree with apples on it, he neither took apples off it, or left apples on it?
    There was only two apples on it. he took one apple, and left one apple.
    18. I'm either round, oval or square. My sole is always suffering, yet never from a sin?
    A pot.
    19 How you you spell dry grass in three letters?
    H A Y.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Quinn
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Valleymount, Co. Wicklow