General Riddles

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

People use me to keep themselves clean. I get slimmer whenever I do some work. After my workout is over people need water. Who am I?
A bar of soap.

What has a head and a tail, but no body?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

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