chapter+8+The+Queen's+Croquet+Ground

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. Pencil lead || || || || || || || || || assignment 1 in the queens court people get beheaded just because the queen doesn't like them or because they did something she didn't like, and every flower that is not red must be painted red by the gardeners. in the queens court every thing must go her way her rule is even over the kings she decides what to do. The game of croquet is played with flamingos as clubs and hedgehogs as balls the way the queen wanted to play. The queen made the soldiers stand on their hands and feet to create arches. The king even asks the queen permission to do things...like he asked the queen to get rid of the cheshire cat and the queen said "off with his head." ||
 * assignment 2
 * What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house? The sun  ||
 * What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else? My word  ||
 * What walks all day on its head? A nail in a horse shoe  ||
 * What gets wet when drying? A towel  ||
 * What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? The letter m  ||
 * What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up? A strainer  ||
 * There were five men going to church and it started to rain. The four that ran got wet and the one that stood still stayed dry. A dead body in a coffin  ||
 * The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? Footsteps  ||
 * He who has it doesn't tell it. He who takes it doesn't know it. He who knows it doesn't want it. What is it? Fake money ||
 * Brothers and sisters have I none but that man's father is my father's son. My son  ||
 * Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night? A fly ||
 * I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops. A sandal ||
 * What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood? The bark of a tree ||
 * I went to the city, I stopped there, I never went there, and I came back again. A watch ||
 * I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. A chick in a egg ||
 * Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof. Fire and smoke ||
 * There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good. Fire water and earth ||
 * A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man. Rain ||
 * Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all. Scissors ||
 * 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? Noise ||
 * It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. A cabbage ||
 * It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it? The moon ||
 * 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. Snow melted by the sun ||
 * 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? Sawdust ||
 * What belongs to you but others use it more than you do? Your name ||
 * What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up? An umbrella ||
 * What is it that you will break even when you name it? Silence ||
 * What fastens two people yet touches only one? Wedding ring ||
 * What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes? A hole ||
 * 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. The letter s ||
 * What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten? A pack of cards
 * Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other? Eyes
 * What holds water yet is full of holes? A sponge
 * Though it is not an ox, it has horns; though it is not an ass, it has a pack-saddle; and wherever it goes it leaves silver behind. What is it? A snail
 * Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth. An echo
 * A hundred-year-old man and his head one night old. Fresh snow on a tree stump
 * What goes into the water red and comes out black? Red-hot metal
 * What goes into the water black and comes out red? A lobster
 * When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing. A riddle