50 RIDDLES. 
Mr John Corrie, member of this Society, has collected a num- 
ber of Folk Riddles, from the parish of Glencairn (vzde Transactions, 
1891-92), It struck me that I might supplement that paper with 
examples of a few more current in Tynron, but I fear destined 
goon to become unknown. I shall also give examples of other 
rhymes, but take the Folk Riddles first. 
What is it that you have, and I have not, and [| use it more 
than you do? Ans., Your name. 
What goes through the wood and through the wood and 
never touches the bushes? Ans., A sound. 
What goes through the wood and leaves a bat on every bush? 
Ans., Snow. 
As white as snaw, but snaw it’s not ; 
As red as blood, but blood it’s not ; 
As black as ink, but ink it’s not ; 
Ans., A bramble, whose blossoms are white, and its fruit first red 
and then black. It equally well suits the gean, or wild cherry. 
Through the wood and through the wood, 
And through the wood it ran, 
And though it is a wee thing 
Tt could kill a big man. 
Ans., A bullet, which runs through the wooden tube of the gun. 
T have a little sister, they call her Peep Peep, 
Over the waiters deep, deep, deep, 
Over the mountains high, high, high, 
And the poor little creature has just one eye. 
Ans., A star. 
What is it that God never saw, kings seldom see, and you and 
I see it every day? Ans., Your equal. 
What goes up the water and up the water and never comes 
to the head of it? Ans., A mill-wheel. 
There was a man who saw a pear tree, and pears on the tree. 
He stretched out his hand and plucked, but he neither took pears 
nor left pears onthe tree. Thisisa verbal quibble. The explana- 
tion is that he took ove pear and left ove. 
Here is a riddle we have upon a beetle, or, as the children 
call it, a “clock.” The description is quaint and graphic. 
