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We are two sisters' sons, we are two brothers dear, 

 Our father was our grandfather, it's queer our kin's so near. 

 Ans. — The sons of Lot's two daughters. 



A deep, deep dungeon, a dark, dark cave, 

 A leevin' man, and a leevin' grave. 



Ans. — Jonah in the whale's belly. 



Peter alone of New Testament worthies comes in for notice, and 

 the reference is an incidental one : — 



There lives a prophet in the land. 



No man his age can tell. 

 And he was at his greatest height 



Before that Adam fell. 

 He was with Noah in the Ark, 



With Adam in Paradise, 

 And helped Peter at a time 



To gain his soul a prize. 

 He wears a robe about his neck. 



It is for ever new, 

 And there's no a shoemaker in the land 



Can fit him for a shoe. 



Ans. — The cock. 



Some of the examples from animated nature are specially inter- 

 esting. Listen to this : — 



A lang man, legless, cam' tae oor door fitless ; says he, " Guidwife, 



keep in ye're hens, as for ye're dougs I carena." 



Ans. — A worm. 



Or this :— 



As I gaed ower London Brig, 



I met my uncle Tarn, 

 Wi' a' the warl on his back. 

 He was a michty man. 

 Ans. — A mole. 



In this riddle the word " house " is sometimes substituted for 

 '* warl " or world, and the answer is then " A snail carrying his 

 shell." Here is a more mtricate example : — 



As a gaed ower yon heathery hill 



I met John Reekum-teekum-tanguil 



Carrying away a poor demaujil ; 



I took up my hunjil-cunjel-caujel. 



And made John Reekum-teekum-tanguil 



Lay down the poor demaujil. 

 Ans. — A fox carrying a lamb away, when a man with a stick attacks 

 the fox and causes it to lay the lamb down. 



