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 Each sack had seven cats,

Each cat lad seven kittens;

Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives,

How many were going to St. Ives?

29. A duck before two ducks, a duck behind two ducks and a duck between two ducks. How many ducks were there in all?

30. A word of three syllables seek till you find,

That in it have twenty-four letters combined.

31. I went into a wood and got it; when I got it, I looked at it; the more I looked at it the less I liked it; and I carried it home in my hand because I could not find it.

32. When walking thro' a field of wheat

I pick'd up something good to eat;

'Twas neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor bone,

And I kept it till it ran alone.

33. What is that which grows with its root upwards, lives only in winter, and is never seen in summer?

34. I know a word of letters three,

Add two and fewer they will be.

35. What is that which goes from Glasgow to Edinburgh without moving?

36. What word is that of five letters, from which if you take away two, you leave but one?

37. What is every body doing at the same time?

38. What is brought to table, cut, and handed about, but never eaten?

39. What word is that, which to name it is to break it?

40. Where did the cock crow when all the world could hear him?

41. If a poker, shovel, and tongs, cost a guinea, what will a hundredweight of coals come to?