Tuesday, January 15, 2008

riddles

1. Black within and red without;
Four corners round about.

2. Little Nanny Etticoat
In a white petticoat,
And a red nose;
The longer she stands
The shorter she grows.

3. Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye,
And a long tail which she let fly;
And every time she went over a gap,
She left a bit of her tail in a trap.

4. Lives in winter,
Dies in summer,
And grows with its root upwards.

5. Flour of England, fruit of Spain,
Met together in a shower of rain;
Put in a bag tied round with a string,
If you'll tell me this riddle,
I'll give you a ring.

6. In marble walls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

7. Thirty white horses upon a red hill,
Now they tramp, now they champ, now they stand still.

8. As I went through a garden gap,
Who should I meet but Dick Red-Cap!
A stick in his hand, a stone in his throat,
If you'll tell me this riddle,
I'll give you a groat.

9. As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits -
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

10. What the heck is a groat?

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Answers:
1. chimney
2. candle
3. needle and thread
4. icicle
5. plum pudding
6. egg
7. your teeth
8. a cherry
9. one
10. fourpence (a former English silver coin worth four pennies)

1 comment:

Maria (also Bia) said...

this was GREAT! i am going to use these riddles this fri. for our family night (it's my turn to plan it) and maybe offer fun prizes. Thanks for sharing.

is everyone over the stomach flu? take care, and God bless.