84 HOME AMUSEMENTS.

And grant me the favour to raise your surprise,
In relating my wonderful number of eyes:

Tf narrowly search’d, more than thirty you'll find;
And, strange to behold, they oft centre behind.
The food that my kind benefactress bestows,

T receive at the eyes, as my owner well knows;
With the ladies I bear an unlimited sway,

And always accomplish my labour by day.

 

RIDDLE, CLXXIV.
WO legs [ve got, which never walk on ground;
But when I go or run, one leg turns round.

 

RIDDLE CLXXYV.
[fF you're to idleness inclined,
A lesson take from me;
Though small in body, yet you'll find
I work with constant glee.

And lest stern Winter’s chilling snow
Should spread the verdure o’er;

While Summer’s sun is in full glow,
I then secure my store.