National Cancer Awareness Day - 7 November

1. Why is shoemaking the easiest of trades?
2. What trees have fire no effect upon?
3. What is that which happens twice in a moment and not once in a thousand years?
4. Why was the first day of Adam's life the longest?
5. Why is it certain that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was not written by the hand of its reputed author?
6. If you have one, you want to share it. But once you share it, you do not have it
7. What is the worst weather for rats and mice?
8. When is a sailor not a sailor?
9. Why is coffee like an axe with a dull edge?
10. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor and not crack it?

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1. Because the boots are always soled (sold) before they are made.
2. Ash-trees; because when they are burned, they are ashes still.
3. The letter M.
4. Because it had no Eve.
5. Because it was written by Mrs. Beecher's toe (Stowe).
6. A secret
7. When it rains cats and dogs.
8. When he is aboard (a board).
9. Because it must be ground before it is used.
10. No problem, a concrete floor will not crack by dropping an egg