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A Sieve

Traditional

ages 2 to 5nursery rhymesread aloudabout 7 seconds aloud

A short riddle: what has a hundred eyes and never a nose? A sieve. Good for a quick guessing game before bath or bed.

From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.

A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose,
A hundred eyes and never a nose!

Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition

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