Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NURSERY RIDDLES. I Sat wi' my love, and I drank wi' my love, And my love she gave me light; I '11 give any man a pint o' wine, That '11 read my riddle right. Solution.—I sat in a chair made of my mistress's bones, drank out of her skull, and was lighted by a candle made of the substance of her body. There stands a tree at our house-end, It "s a' clad owre wi' leather bend; It'll fecht a bull, it '11 fecht a bear, It '11 fecht a thousand men o' weir (war). —Death. There was a man o' Adam's race, He had a certain dwalling-place; It was neither in heeven, earth, nor hell— Tell me where this man did dwell! —Jonah in the whale's belly. Pease-porridge hot, pease-porridge cold, Pease-porridge in a caup, nine days old: Tell me that in four letters. -T, H, A, T. There was a man made a thing, And he that made it did it bring; But he 'twas made for did not know Whether 'twas a thing or no. —A coffin. Down in yon ha' I heard a cock craw, A dead man seeking a drink. Mouthed like the mill-door, luggit like the cat ; Though ye guessed a' day, ye 'd no guess that ! A large broth-pot of the old construction. Mouth o' horn, and beard o' leather ; Ye '11 no guess that though ye were hanged in a tether. A cock. Bonny Kitty Brannie, she stands at the wa', Gie her little, gie her muckle, she licks up a'; Gie her stanes, she '11 eat them — but water, she '11 dee : Come tell this bonny riddleum to me. The fire. Hair without, and hair within, A' hair, and nae skin. —A hair-rope. On the nettle: Heg-beg adist1 the dike, and Heg-beg ayont the dike, If ye touch Heg-beg, Heg-beg will gar you fyke. On a cherry: Riddle me, riddle me, rot-tot-tot, A little wee man in a red red coat, A staff in his hand...