RIDDLES. 33

T always stand still, and ne’er go to bed ;

The food I take in goes out at my head.

If my stomach’s o’ercharged, assistance is found,
Which cures, but ne’er fails to proclaim it around:
Of late I have been more than usual opprest
With a kind of a whirligig placed in my breast.
I’m often so hot, that there are many days,

When a spark, I may say, would set me in blaze.

 

RIDDLE LXYI.

ERFECT with a head, perfect without a head;
perfect with a tail, perfect without a tail; per-
fect with either, neither, or both.

 

RIDDLE LXVII.

[™ fair to a proverb, as feathers I’m light,
But dark and quite heavy, if squeezed rather tight ;
Though candid and pure is the face that I wear,
Yet many poor innocents oft I ensnare ;
And though neither coquet, a prude, nor a rake,
The foulest impressions I eusily take :
My parent and I do produce one another—
Mamma creates daughter, and daughter the mother.
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