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236 CHAPTER VI.

RIDDLES AND RHYMES.

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What comes, and goes, and yet never leaves the spot?—(A door.)

[" Qu'est ce qui va, qui vient, et ne quitte pas sa place."—(Les Soirees Amusantes. Par Attigny. Ardennes, 1856.)]

A little white house, well shaped but without doors or windows. — (An egg.)

I see to me,

I see from me,

Two miles over the sea,

A little blue man.

In a green boatee:

His shui; is lined with a skein of red.—(The rainbow.)

The lad that eats his own flesh and drinks his own blood.—(A candle.)

[De qu'es acò? De qu'es acò?

Que bien soun sang

E minja sous budels?—Dialect of Lower Languedoc.]

Three times four and four times three.

That make only two and four.— (24.)

. (Older than 1750.)

1.

Tha è nios air slige firimn.

He is now on the journey of truth—''viz. dying''.

2.

Tha è mios air ford na firimn. He lies now under the turf of truth.

3.

Uigh air uigh thig an t-slaint, 's na torma mòr au ca slainte— or, Health comes gradually, but in huge billows cometh ailment.