RIDDLES FOR ALICE
Questions: 1. What tune can be made out of bank notes? 2. On what toes does a corn never grow? 3. Where can happiness always be found? 4. What goes up and down but never touches earth or sky? 5. If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you? 6. Why is a man’s hand never longer than eleven inches? Answers: 1. A for-tune. 2. Mistle-toe. 3. In the dictionary. 4. A pump handle. 5. Your mother. 6. Because if it were longer it would be a foot. —Valerie Salmond, Nelson.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 10 March 1944, Page 3
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99RIDDLES FOR ALICE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 10 March 1944, Page 3
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