38 HOME AMUSEMENTS.

RIDDLE UXXVII.

O the noise of a bird
Unite one third
Of a fruit which grows in the field ;
And they will declare
What those men wear
Who regal authority wield.

 

RIDDLE LXXVIII.
I COUNTERFEIT all bodies, yet have none;

Bodies have shadows, shadows give me one ;
Loved for another’s sake, that person yet
Is my chief enemy, whene’er we meet;
Thinks me too old, though blest with endless youth ;
And, like a monarch, hates my speaking truth.

 

RIDDLE LXXIX.
HAT is the longest and the shortest thing in the
world? The swiftest and the slowest? The
most indivisible and the most extended? The least
valued, and the most regretted? = Withiut . which
nothing can be done? Which devours ally that is
small, yet gives life to all that is great ? iu