'
"Humpty Dumpty set on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Can't put Humpty Dumpty back again. '
`A egg.'
"`Round as a ring, deep as a cup,
All the king's horses can't pull it up. '
`A well.'
"`House full, yard full, can't ketch--'"
"Hush, Jimmy!" cried Lina, in disgust. "You don't know how
to ask riddles. You must n't give the answers, too. Ask one
riddle at a time and let some one else answer it. I'll ask
one and see who can answer it:
"'As I was going through a field of wheat
I picked up something good to eat,
'Twas neither fish nor flesh nor bone,
I kept it till it ran alone?'"
"A snake! A snake!" guessed Florence. "That's a easy riddle."
"Snake, nothing!" scoffed Jimmy, "you can't eat a snake. 'Sides
Lina wouldn't 'a' picked up a snake. Is it a little baby rabbit,
Lina?"
"It was neither fish nor flesh nor bone," she declared; "and a
rabbit is flesh and bone.
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