LITTLE FOLKS' RIDDLES.
103. By Gertrude B. Clark, Pukerau ;— Why is a loaf of bread on the top of a mountain like a racehorse ? lu4. By Matilda A. Bradley, Kaittngata :— Rough on one side and smooth on the other — Wee Billy Brown licking his mother. 103. By Jan?, Lee Stream:— l will send one riddle: Within a crystal fountain clear— A golden ball Ido appear;— My walls are marble, white as milk,— Lined with curtains sofb as silk ; — No gates there are fco my stronghold,— Yet thieves break through and steal my gold. 106. By Bmily West :— Where did the cock crow when all the world heard ifc?
107. By Agnes Morton, Oamavu : -What did the spider do when it left the ark ? lv>B. By Kmily Alice, Kaitangata:— I strengthen the weak,— l cross tlie wide sea,— l frighten the thief,— And I grow on every tree 109. By Mary Clelland.Londoun.Timaru : -I send you a riddle that I copied out of the " Girls' Own , Paper." It is in a piece called "Oho History of Home," and it is a riddle that people gave in the time of Henry VIII It is: What ia it that never whs or never will be ? 110. By J. S., Lawrence:— lf a thin man were to dresa himeolf in a fat man's clothes, what two cities of Franco would he resemble ? 111. By Ellen Barnes, Cromwell :— What is that which everyone wiahes to have and which everyone strives to get rid of directly he obtains it ?
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Otago Witness, Issue 1918, 24 August 1888, Page 35
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