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The Mist

Traditional

ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 7 seconds aloud

A short riddle rhyme describing something that fills a hill and a hole yet can never be caught in a bowl. The answer is mist, and it rewards a pause before you give it away.

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

A hill full, a hole full,
Yet you cannot catch a bowl full.

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

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