Nursery Rhyme. CCXXXVI. Riddles.

        [Gloves.]

    As I was going o'er London Bridge,
    I met a cart full of fingers and thumbs!

        [A Cherry.]

    As I went through the garden gap,
    Who should I meet but Dick Red-cap!
    A stick in his hand, a stone in his throat,
    If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat.

        [A Cinder-sifter.]

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

        [A tobacco-pipe.]

    I went into my grandmother's garden,
    And there I found a farthing.
    I went into my next door neighbour's,
    There I bought a pipkin and a popkin -
    A slipkin and a slopkin,
    A nailboard, a sailboard,
    And all for a farthing.

        [Pair of tongs.]

    Long legs, crooked thighs,
    Little head and no eyes.

        [A thorn.]

    I went to the wood and got it,
    I sat me down and looked at it;
    The more I looked at it the less I liked it,
    And I brought it home because I couldn't help it.