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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    the number of the car?
    Ans. 281
    26. Why is fat like a wet umbrella?
    Ans. Because it is dripping.
    27. What is that which is often brought to a table, often cut but never eaten?
    Ans. A pack of cards.
    28. What are the most unsociable things in the world?
    Ans. Milestones, for you never see two of them together.
    29. Why is love like a potato?
    Ans. Because it springs from the eyes.
    30. When is a schoolmaster like a man with one eye?
    Ans. When he has a vacancy for a pupil.
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    31. A beautiful maiden in a garden alone,
    as rich as the sun could adorn, but the first day of her life, she became a wife, and died before she was born. Ans..Eve.
    32. There was a thing was one month old,
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    Topics
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Coyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lattoon, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Miss Kitty Coyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lattoon, Co. Cavan