NURSERY RHYMING RIDDLES. A red rogue came to our house, Do you know the red rogue's name, (A FOX.) We have a horse, Without any head, And although not alive, (A CLOTHES-HORSE.) Higgledy, piggledy, here we lie, Picked and plucked, and put in a pie. (PIGEONS.) What is there filled with knowledge, and yet knowing nothing? (A BOOK-CASE.) As I was going over London Bridge, I met Mister Rusticap; Pins and needles in his back, A-going to Thorny Fair. (A HEDGE-HOG.) The king could not read it, no more could the queen ; They sent for a wise man out of the East, Who said it had horns, but was not a beast. (A FIR, OR HOLLY-TREE.) Peas-porridge hot, peas-porridge cold, What drink is like a letter of the Alphabet? (TEA.) NURSERY RHYMING riddles. Purple, yellow, red, and green, The prince cannot reach it, nor yet can the queen; (A RAINBOW.) Thirty white horses. Now they tramp, Now they champ, Now they stand still. (TEETH AND GUMS.) A palace made of gilded brass, Two legs sat upon three legs, And runs away with one leg. Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws them after four legs, And makes him bring one leg back. (ONE LEG, is a Leg of Mutton: TWO LEGS, a Man; THREE LEGS, a Stool; and FOUR LEGS, a Dog.) There was a man who had no eyes, He took not apples off, yet left not apples on it. (The man had but ONE eye, and the tree but TWO apples on it.) Formed long ago, yet made to-day, Employed while others sleep; Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty got a great fall; Three score men, and three score more, Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before. Every lady in this land Hath twenty nails upon each hand (AS IT SHOULD BE SAID.) Hath twenty nails; upon each Hand five; and twenty on hands and feet. As I went through the garden gate, Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, (A NEEDLE AND THREAD.) |