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Rh &ensp;&emsp;&emsp;&ensp;‘Call upon him, call upon him.’ &ensp;&emsp;&emsp;&ensp;‘What is his name?’ &ensp;&emsp;&emsp;&ensp;‘I have told you twice, &ensp;&emsp;&emsp;&ensp;And won’t tell you again.’&thinsp;”

(viii.)—The answer to the following riddle or puzzle is to be found by altering the punctuation, when it will be seen that the whole sense is completely changed.

I think I cannot do better in closing this last section of Dorsetshire children’s games and rhymes than quote at length a humorous poem by the late Mr. Barnes, called “Riddles,” which contains very fair specimens of that kind of ingenious word-puzzling which affords so much amusement to the peasant youth of both sexes and in most countries.