CHAPTER VI.
RIDDLES AND RHYMES.
Riddles.
What comes, and goes, and yet never leaves the spot?—(A door.)
[" Qu'est ce qui va, qui vient, et ne quitte pas sa place."—(Les Soirees Amusantes. Par Attigny. Ardennes, 1856.)]
A little white house, well shaped but without doors or windows. — (An egg.)
I see to me,
I see from me,
Two miles over the sea,
A little blue man.
In a green boatee:
His shui; is lined with a skein of red.—(The rainbow.)
The lad that eats his own flesh and drinks his own blood.—(A candle.)
[De qu'es acò? De qu'es acò?
Que bien soun sang
E minja sous budels?—Dialect of Lower Languedoc.]
Three times four and four times three.
That make only two and four.— (24.)
Poetical Sayings. (Older than 1750.)
1.
Tha è nios air slige firimn.
He is now on the journey of truth—viz. dying.
2.
Tha è mios air ford na firimn. He lies now under the turf of truth.
3.
Uigh air uigh thig an t-slaint, 's na torma mòr au ca slainte— or, Health comes gradually, but in huge billows cometh ailment.
