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    When does a man look most like a cannon ball?
    When he looks round
    What is white and black and red all over
    Times Newspaper
    Blacky and whity went up to the hill Blacky came back but whity sat still
    A hen laying an egg.
    What is that which will give a cold cure a cold and pay the doctors bill?
    A draught.
    Why is a short persons like an entertaining book?
    Because he is often looked over.
    Why ought the children of a thief be burned
    Because their dad steals.
    What is both inside and outside?
    A window.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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