FUN WITH RIDDLES!!

Here are some riddles for you to solve.
How many can you get correct?

1.
My tail is long, my coat is brown,
I like the country, I like the town.
I can live in a house or live in a shed,
And I come out to play when you are in bed.
What am I?

2.
Has a mouth and does not speak,
Has a bed and does not sleep.
What is it?

3.
I sleep by day,
I fly by night.
I have no feathers
To aid my flight.
What am I?



4.
It has four legs and a foot
And can't walk.
It has a head
And can't talk.
What is it?

5.
My teeth are sharp,
My back is straight,
To cut things up it is my fate.
What am I?

6.
The greater it is
The less you see of it.
What is it?



7.
At night they come out without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen.
What are they?

8.
What has teeth
And can't bite?

9.
Four fingers and a thumb,
Yet flesh and blood I have none.
What am I?



10.
What runs around the garden without moving?

11.
A father's child
A mother's child
Yet no one's son.
What am I?

12.
My voice is tender
My waist is slender
I'm often invited to play.
Yet wherever I go
I must take my bow
Or else I have nothing to say.
What am I?



13.
We are a pair,
We can dart here and there,
Though we always stay in one place.
We can smile or shed tears,
Show our pleasure or fears,
And you'll find us on everyone's face.
What are we?

14.
I'm tempting, so it's said,
I have a shiny coat of red,
And my flesh is white beneath.
I smell so sweet,
Taste good to eat,
And help to guard your teeth.
What am I?

15.
Without a bridle, or a saddle,
Across a thing I ride a-straddle.
And those I ride, by help of me,
Though almost blind, are made to see.
What am I?



16.
I move silently, without wings,
Between silvery, silken strings,
And there stretched in the grass
You'll see my web as you pass.
What am I?

17.
Two bodies have I
Though both joined in one.
The more still I stand
The quicker I run.
What am I?

18.
Little Nancy Etticoat
Has a white petticoat
And a red nose.
She has no feet or hands;
The longer she stands
The shorter she grows.
What is she?



19.
What is full of holes and holds water?

20.
Old Mother Twitchett has but one eye,
And a long tail which she can let fly,
And every time she goes over a gap,
She leaves a bit of her tail in a trap.
What is she?

21.
Look in my face, I am somebody;
Look in my back, I am nobody.
What am I?



22.
What is it that has four legs
And one back,
Yet can't walk?

23.
To cross the water I'm the way,
For water I'm above:
I touch it not and, truth to say,
I neither swim nor move.
What am I?

24.
Violet, indigo, blue and green,
Yellow, orange and red,
These are the colours you have seen
After the storm has fled.
What am I?



25.
What is the thing which,
Once poured out,
Cannot be gathered again?

26.
Round as an apple,
Deep as a cup,
All the King's horses
Can't pull it up.
What is it?

27.
What always goes to bed with his shoes on?