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Forty Traditional Riddles - Part II (21 through 40)

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21- What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?

22- It stands on one leg with its heart in its head.

23- It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?

24- A white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and picked it up handless, ate it up toothless, and carried it away wingless.

25- As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?

26- What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?

27- What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?

28- What is is that you will break even when you name it?

29- What fastens two people yet touches only one?

30- What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes?

31- I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

32- What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

33- Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other?

34- What holds water yet is full of holes?

35- Though it is not an ox, it has horns; though it is not an a $ $, it has a pack-saddle; and wherever it goes it leaves silver behind. What is it?

36- Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth.

37- A hundred-year-old man and his head one night old.

38- What goes into the water red and comes out black?

39- What goes into the water black and comes out red?

40- When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.

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