| RIDDLES. 161

CCLXX.
JACKATAWAD ran over the moor:
Never: behind, but always before!
The zenis fatuus, or Will-o’-the-wisp.

[‘‘Jackatawad ” is a provincial term for this phenomenon. ]

CCLXXI.

LINK lank on a bank,
Ten against four.

A milkmaid.

CCLXXII.

Two legs sat upon three legs,
With four legs standing by ;

Four then were drawn by ten:

Read my riddle ye can’t,
However much ye try.

 

An amplification of the above, the milk-
maid, of course, sitting on a three-legged
stool.

CCLXXIIL.

As straight as a maypole,
As little as a pin,
As bent as a bucker,
And as round as a ring.
[We do not know the solution of this riddle. A “ bucker” is a bent piece of wood
Sa slaughtered sheep are hung up by their expanded hind legs, before being

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