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7 42. Which is heavier-a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?

43. What is that which is black, white, and read all over?

44. Where did Noah strike the first nail in the ark?

45. Where was Peter when the candle went out?

46. What difference is there between live fish and fish alive?

47. What's that which no man ever yet did see,

Which never was, but always is to be?

48. You eat me, you drink me,

Come guess if you ean,

I'm sometimes a woman,

And sometimes a man.

49. What is that which you and every living person has seen, but can never see again?

50. How many black beans will make five white ones?

51. Which is the middle letter of the alphabet?

52. Pray tell me, ladies, if you can,

Who is that highly-favoured man,

Who, tho' he marries many a wife,

May be a bachelor all his life?

53. From a number that's odd cut off the head,

It then will even be;

It's tail, I pray, take next away,

Your mother then you'll see.

54. What every one wants, what every one gives,

What many a one asks, and what very few take.

55. What kin is that child to its own father, who is not its father's own son?

56. One thing good sir, of you I crave,

Which you yourself can never have,

Nor ever had in time that's past,

Nor ever can while tine doth last;