And why is it that she keeps us all at arm's length, even that confounded Glarn?" Howard's eyes grew sharp; but he smiled languidly, as he said: "You ought to edit a riddle book, Bertie, my son.

A book of riddle rimes.

And, indeed, to me at all events, the difficulty of Swift's riddle lies, not in his savagery, but in his charm.

SELBY A dangerous meaning in your riddle lurks.

So firm a strength, and yet withal so sweet, Did never but in Samson's riddle meet.

But if that any Oedipus unware Shall chaunce, through power of some divining spright, To reade the secrete of this riddle rare, And know the purporte of my evill plight, Let him rest pleased with his owne insight, Ne further seeke to glose upon the text: For griefe enough it is to grieved wight To feele his fault, and not be further vext.

But all that monster's history, how it fell, Fain would I tell thee who hast ears to hear, Save only whence it came: for none of all The Argive host could read that riddle right.

The beginning falls to the share of France; Locke receives that tangled skein, the problem of knowledge, from the hand of Descartes, and passes it on to Leibnitz; and while the Illumination in all three countries is converting the gold inherited from Locke and Leibnitz into small coin, the solution of the riddle rings out from Königsberg.

Sovereigns and shillings in and out as plenty as to riddle rape seed.

I can dig in a bog, Feed pigs or for firewood can split up a log, Clean shoes, riddle cinders, or help to boil down— Or whatever you please, but graze lands of the Crown. WALLABI JOE (Air: “The Mistletoe Bough.”)