120 Glencairn Folk Riddles. 



Here is another of this class ia which the riddUst effectively 

 invokes " apt alliteration's artful aid " : — 



As I stood on my timper tillies, 



And looked through my wimper willies, 



I saw a muckle big bag 



In the whirly-whig-whag, 



I sent my little tig-tag 



To bring the muckle big bag 



Got o' the whu'ly-whig-whag. 



Ans., A woman on tiptoes looking through a window sees a cow 

 among the turnips, and sends her little dog to bring the cow out. 



Subjoined are a few others of a more general character. In 

 some the merit as riddles may not be great, but the least meri- 

 torious in that respect not unfrequently stand highest in anti- 

 quarian value : — 



What is't that's neither withoot nor within and it's aye on the 

 dyke dryin' ? Ans., The window. 



I gaed away abune grun and I cam hame below't. Ans., A 

 man goes to cut a sod and returns carrying the sod on his head. 



What gangs away wi' the carriage, comes back wi' the 

 carriage, is of no use to the carriage, and yet the carriage cannot 

 do without it? Ans., The sound. 



There is a wee hoose that's fu' o' meat, 

 And there's neither door nor window in't. 



Ans., An egg. 



As wee as a mouse, as high as a house, 

 And yet it canna get into the kirk door. 



Ans., A star. 



Doon in yon meadow there lies twa swine, 

 Ane's my faither's, the aither's mine; 

 The mair ye gie them the mair they cry, 

 The less ye gie them the quater they lie. 



Ans., Two guns. 



Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear, 

 By which we are sorely oppressed. 



