Nursery Rhyme. CCXXV. Riddles.

        [A Cinder-sifter.]

    A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose,
    A hundred eyes, and never a nose.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXIX. Paradoxes.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXII. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXCI. Riddles.

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