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... Give me one of your eggs , and then I shall have double the num- ber that you have . " - " No , " said the other ; " give me one of yours , and then we shall have equal . ” How many eggs had each of these women ? RIDDLE XI . PART of a ...
... Give me one of your eggs , and then I shall have double the num- ber that you have . " - " No , " said the other ; " give me one of yours , and then we shall have equal . ” How many eggs had each of these women ? RIDDLE XI . PART of a ...
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... gives me voice ; I answer all , yet never speak , by choice : One only language , I can talk , yet should In every country be understood . Unless peculiarly inspired , I'm dumb ; I know not what is past , nor what's to come . What I ...
... gives me voice ; I answer all , yet never speak , by choice : One only language , I can talk , yet should In every country be understood . Unless peculiarly inspired , I'm dumb ; I know not what is past , nor what's to come . What I ...
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... give new life- Th ' invention's better than a knife . I'm sometimes patent , sometimes not , Yet an old - fashion'd name I've got . Sometimes I have a costly stand , Sometimes a plain one , at command-- And oft❜ner none , -and so ...
... give new life- Th ' invention's better than a knife . I'm sometimes patent , sometimes not , Yet an old - fashion'd name I've got . Sometimes I have a costly stand , Sometimes a plain one , at command-- And oft❜ner none , -and so ...
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Peter Puzzlewell (pseud.) Then promising in future you Will give to me the homage due , Thus we go on from year to year , - My name pray let the party hear . RIDDLE XXVI . WHAT is that which , while it lives , constantly changes its ...
Peter Puzzlewell (pseud.) Then promising in future you Will give to me the homage due , Thus we go on from year to year , - My name pray let the party hear . RIDDLE XXVI . WHAT is that which , while it lives , constantly changes its ...
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... give I think fit , - We all of us stand before we can sit . RIDDLE XLII . THREE feet I have , but ne'er attempt to go , And many nails thereon , but not one toe . RIDDLE XLIII . TWO brothers wisely kept apart , Together ne'er employed ...
... give I think fit , - We all of us stand before we can sit . RIDDLE XLII . THREE feet I have , but ne'er attempt to go , And many nails thereon , but not one toe . RIDDLE XLIII . TWO brothers wisely kept apart , Together ne'er employed ...
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AFRICAN WANDERERS alphabet amusement animal answer Author beautiful BIRDS called catch chair CHARADE circle cloth coloured dear delight dress eyes FANNY fat hen Fcap Fieldfare flowers Frontispiece genteel GILBERT gilt edges give Grand Mufti guess guesser hand HARRISON WEIR head HISTORY hold Illustrated by H Illustrations by JOHN JOHN ABSOLON JOHN GILBERT king LADY F leader letter LIST OF BIRDS look maid mother ne'er neighbour never papa PARLOUR GAMES party pay a forfeit person plain played player Primmy Queen Victoria question Red-cap repeated reply rhyme RIDDLE RODERICK RODK round Royal 16mo RUSHINGTON SALLY seat Second Edition seen SIR DAVID SIR F SIR FELIX Small 4to sometimes stand Super-royal 16mo tell thing third THOMAS HOOD thump tion Titiens tree trencher turn walk wand WEIR whole wish word young
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