little thing you ever did see?'--
'A watch.'

"Humpty Dumpty set on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Can't put Humpty Dumpty back again.'
'A egg.'

"'Round as a ring, deep as a cup,
All the king's horses can't pull it up.'
'A well.'

"'House full, yard full, can't ketch--'"

"Hush, Jimmy!" cried Lina, in disgust. "You don't know how to ask
riddles. You must n't give the answers, too. Ask one riddle at a time
and let some one else answer it. I'll ask one and see who can answer it:

"'As I was going through a field of wheat
I picked up something good to eat,
'Twas neither fish nor flesh nor bone,
I kept it till it ran alone?'"

"A snake! A snake!" guessed Florence. "That's a easy riddle."

"Snake, nothing!" scoffed Jimmy, "you can't eat a snake. 'Sides Lina
wouldn't 'a' picked up a snake. Is it a little baby rabbit, Lina?"

"It was neither fish nor flesh nor bone," she declared; "and a rabbit is
flesh and bone."

"Then it's boun' to be a apple," was Jimmy's next guess; "that ain't no
flesh and blood and it's good to eat."

"An apple can't run alone," she triumphantly answered. "Give it up?
Well, it was an egg and it hatched to a chicken. Now, Florence, you ask
one."

"S'pose a man was locked up in a house," she asked, "how'd he get out?"

"Clam' outer a winder," guessed Billy.

"'Twa'n't no winder to the house," she declared.

"Crawled out th'oo the chim'ly, like Santa Claus," was Billy's next
guess.

"'Twa'n't no chim'ly to it. Give it up? Give it up?" the little girl
laughed gleefully. "Well, he just broke out with measles."

"It is Billy's time," said Lina, who seemed to be mistress of
ceremonies.

"Tabernicle learnt this here one at school; 'see, if y' all can guess
it: 'Tabby had four kittens but Stillshee didn't have none 't all"'

"I don't see no sense a tall in that," argued Jimmy, "'thout some bad
little boys drownded 'em."

"Tabby was a cat," explained the other boy, "and she had four kittens;
and Stillshee was a little girl, and she didn't have no kittens 't all."

"What's this," asked Jimmy: "'A man rode'cross a bridge and Fido walked?
'Had a little dog name' Fido."

"You didn't ask that right, Jimmy," said Lina, "you always get things
wrong. The riddle is, 'A man