A collection of rhyming riddles for young readers, introduced by a mock-learned preface that traces riddling back to Samson, King Solomon and Hiram of Tyre. Each verse describes some everyday object or element in its own voice and invites the reader to guess. This edition was reprinted in a Victorian series of forgotten children’s books.
A curious survival from the early days of children’s publishing, still fun to puzzle over aloud. Download the free EPUB.