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(d) Respond to the following riddles.

1. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

2. What has a head, and a tail, is brown or grey, and has no legs?
3. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
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4. What runs around the whole yard without moving?
5. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

6. What has a neck but no head?

7. I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
8. The person who makes it sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The
person who uses it never knows they’re using it. What is it?

9. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive
with the wind. What am I?

10. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t
go outside. What am I?

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