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CCLI.

AS white as milk
And not milk;

As green as grass,
And not grass;

As red as blood,

And not blood;

As black as soot,
And not sovt!

A bramble biossom.

CCLIL,

. [A young man and a young woman quarrelled, and the former, in his anger,
exclaimed,

Three words I know to be true,
All which begin with W.

{The young woman immediately guessed the enigma, and replied ina similar strain,

I too know them,
And eke three which begin with M.]

Woman Wants Wit. Man Much More

CCLITI

BANKS full, braes full,
Though ye gather all day,
Ye'll not gather your hands full.

The mist.

[From Northumberland.—Sometimes thus :

A hill full, a hoie fuii,
Ye cannot catch a bowlful. j