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Little Nanny Netticoat
Has a white petticoat;
The longer she stands
The shorter she grows;
Now cross both your hands,
And tell me who knows.
Ans.—A candle.

We have a horse
Without any head;
He is never alive,
And will never be dead.
Ans.—A clothes-horse.

As round as an apple,
As deep as a cup;
All the Queen's horses
Can't draw it up.
Ans.—A well.

A riddle, a riddle,
As I suppose;
Full of eyes,
But never a nose.
Ans.—A sieve.
 
Long legs, crooked thighs,
Little head, and no eyes.
Ans.—Tongs.
 
Humpty-dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty-dumpty got a great fall;
Threescore men, and threescore more,
Can't make Humpty as before.
Ans.—A broken egg.
 
Old Mother Twitchett has but one eye,
And a long tail which she makes fly;
And every time she goes over a gap,
She leaves a piece of her tail in a trap.
Ans.—Needle and thread.