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Royal Riddle Book.

ALTHO in number I'm the smallest, O'er kings I reign, and best the tallest. The Ace of Frump

When first into this world I came, No sign of sense had I; My mother she was poor and mean, and at the last did die: Another mother soon I had, by whom I came alive: By her in down I soon was clad, now for a living strive

A Chicke

Full forty years I live and oft do alms give, Yet never roam half a mile from home; But when I'm dead it plainly doth appear, I travel night and day both far and near

An Ouk, made into a Shi

Much higher than the trees I am, my bull exceeds a house; And yet I seem unto most men, no larger than a mouse.

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