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Riddles
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Anyway, I have The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes which I got mainly to help me write Drusilla. In it are a couple of "riddles":
As I was going o'er London Bridge,
And peeped through a nick,
I saw four and twenty ladies
Riding on a stick.
Solution: sparks.
As I was going o'er London Bridge,
I heard something crack;
Not a man in all England
Can mend that!
Solution: ice.
ETA: And here's another, just as impenetrable:
I went into my grandmother's garden,
And there I found a farthing.
I went into my next door neighbour's;
There I bought a pipkin and a popkin,
A slipkin and a slopkin,
A nailboard, a sailboard,
And all for a farthing.
Solution: a tobacco pipe.
ETA2:
Anyway, I have The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes which I got mainly to help me write Drusilla. In it are a couple of "riddles":
As I was going o'er London Bridge,
And peeped through a nick,
I saw four and twenty ladies
Riding on a stick.
Solution: sparks.
As I was going o'er London Bridge,
I heard something crack;
Not a man in all England
Can mend that!
Solution: ice.
ETA: And here's another, just as impenetrable:
I went into my grandmother's garden,
And there I found a farthing.
I went into my next door neighbour's;
There I bought a pipkin and a popkin,
A slipkin and a slopkin,
A nailboard, a sailboard,
And all for a farthing.
Solution: a tobacco pipe.
ETA2: