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 2 THE Royal Riddle Book.



CURIOUS RIDDLES.

LTHO' in number I'm the ſmalleſt,

O'er kings I reign, and beat the talleſt,

The Ace of Trumps.

When firſt into this world I came,

no ſign of ſenſe had I,

My mother ſhe was poor and mean,

and at the length did die:

Another mother ſoon I had,

by which I came alive,

By her in down I ſoon was clad,

now for a living ſtrive.

A Chicken

Full forty years I live, and oft alms I do give

Yet then 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 Oak, now a Ship

Much higher than the trees I am,

my bulk exceeds a houſe ;

And yet I ſeem unto moſt men,

no larger than a mouſe.

A Stall