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Purpose:

Additions and corrections mainly make up this version.  There are
approximately fifteen new riddles including a song riddle.  Enjoy.
 
Author:

Mark Manning
 
Archival Date: 05/08/92 21:33:07
 
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This is the net.book.riddles.  It is the work of myself in the
collection of all of the riddles which have been submitted to myself
via e-mail and rec.games.frp.  I hope you enjoy it.

Please note that for MANY of these riddles, those who submitted them do
NOT take credit for their creation.  These are just those people who
submitted the riddles - NOT THE Authors.  There are some though,
which are the creation of the people submitting them.  If possible,
this has been marked.  Those not marked though, are the work of some
other Author unknown to myself or not specified when the riddle was
given to me.

Thanks to everyone who submitted riddles whether from books or from
their own head.  This is a lengthy list, so I hope everyone will bear
with me in this listing.  Thanks again everyone!

The format of these entries has been revamped to provide more information
about each of the submitters.  The form has been changed to the following:

Entry:  Entry number of the riddle as submitted to myself.
Date:   The date the riddle was submitted.
Who:    Who submitted the riddle
Author: The actual Author of the riddle (if different)
Title:  <If any>
Riddle: The riddle itself.

At the bottom of the list will be the answers.  The answers are listed
in the order of preference.  Thus, the most preferred answer will be
placed first with additional answers (if any) following.  All answers
are based upon the "Entry" field.  The entry field works in the following way:

1.  When you submit a riddle you are assigned a unique number (1-inf).
2.  The ID number will be the first part of the number.
3.  The second part of the number (after the period) is the number
    assigned to the riddle.

Ex:

Entry:  1.1
Date:   <Unknown>
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You eat something....

4.  As you can see, the "1.1" is by the entry field.  The first "1"
    means C. Pearce is the first person in the list.  The second "1"
    means this is his first riddle given to me.  His second would be
    labeled "1.2" and so on.  The answers are matched the same way.

I hope you enjoy the net.book.riddles and any (constructive) suggestions
are welcome and appreciated.  Thanks to everyone who has posted any kind
of a riddle to the Usenet.  I will make all additional entries on an
"As Time Allows" basis (Which might be never again - ya just don't know).

Notes:

Please send any and all updates and/or corrections to mark@trillian.jsc.gov.
If you can't get me there, then simply post it.  I should see it and will
try to get in touch with you instead.  Thanks again.

PS:If, on something which reads "Unknown", you know what should go
in that location - then please DO drop me a note.  None of these riddles
are meant to be rip offs from someone else's work.  I just thought I'd
compile a list of riddles and look what's happened!  :-)

Disclaimer:  I hereby throw this into the public domain.  I take no
responsibility for this book's merits, worth, or anything else.  However,
although ***THIS*** work is now in the public domain arena does NOT mean
the works contained within it are.  All of the individual authors (myself
included) would be highly upset if a new computer game came out with our
riddles in it without being paid some kind of a nominal fee.  Nor would an
anthology or other book containing these riddles be welcome without recourse
to being reimbursed for our time and efforts.  Therefore!  You can use these
riddles however you see fit - so long as you don't make any kind of a profit
from them.  If you decide you'd like to try to make money in some way through
the use of these riddles - then you should seek the agreement of the individual
authors.  That's why I've included who they are - so you can find them.
Nuff said (I think).
==========================================================================
                    The Infamous Net.Book.Riddles!

                           Version 2.0b
                      Compiled by Mark Manning

       but written by the genius of everyone else here on the net!

                           Thanks EVERYONE!!!!!!!
==========================================================================

Entry:  1.1
Date:   Unknown, but not long ago.
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You eat something you neither plant nor plow.
    It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.

Entry:  1.2
Date:   Unknown, but not long ago.
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A serpent swam in a silver urn.
    A golden bird did in its mouth abide
    The serpent drank the water, this in turn
    Killed the serpent. Then the gold bird died.

Entry:  1.3
Date:   Unknown, but not long ago.
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Teacher, open thy book.

Entry:  1.4
Date:   Unknown, but not long ago.
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Beyond Zork
Title:  None
Riddle:

    My tines are long.
    My tines are short.
    My tines end ere
    My first report.

Entry:  1.5
Date:   4/21/92
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Turn us on our backs
    And open up our stomachs
    You will be the wisest of men
    Though at start a lummox.

Entry:  1.6
Date:   4/21/92
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    The hungry dog howls
    For crust of bread.
    His cry goes unheard
    It's far overhead.

Entry:  1.7
Date:   4/21/92
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Bury deep,
    Pile on stones,
    Yet I will
    Dig up the bones.

Entry:  1.8
Date:   4/21/92
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A cloth poorly dyed
    And an early morning sky
    How are they the same?

Entry:  1.9
Date:   4/21/92
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Matt Morris
Title:  None
Riddle:

    It occurs once in every minute
    Twice in every moment
    And yet never in one hundred thousand years.

Entry:  1.10
Date:   4/21/92
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Matt Morris
Title:  None
Riddle:

    My first wears my second; my third might be
    What my first would acquire if he went to the sea.
    Put together my one, two, three
    And the belle of New York is the girl for me.

Entry:  1.11
Date:   4/21/92
Who:    cpearce@morticia.cnns.unt.edu
Author: Phil Weaver
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Never ahead, ever behind,
    Yet flying swiftly past;
    For a child I last forever,
    For adults I'm gone too fast.

Entry:  2.1
Date:   Wed Apr  8 12:49:46 1992
Who:    dschoen@cs.vu.nl
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Two horses, swiftest travelling,
    Harnessed in a pair, and
    Grazing ever in places
    Distant from them.

Entry:  3.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Shadowraiker
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    It can be said:
    To be gold is to be good;
    To be stone is to be nothing;
    To be glass is to be fragile;
    To be cold is to be cruel.
    Unmetaphored, what am I?

Entry:  4.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    2390carrolld.vms.csd.mu.edu
Author: Dack A. Carroll (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    round she is,
    yet flat as a board
    altar of the Lupine Lord
    Pearl on black velvet
    Jewel in the sea
    Unchanged yet e'er changing
    Eternally.

Entry:  5.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    KM42%MARISTB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Author: KM42000 (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Twice four and twenty blackbirds
    sitting in the rain
    I shot and killed a quarter of them
    How many do remain?

Entry:  6.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    v892079%SI.HHS.NL@uga.cc.uga.edu
Author: Gentevoort (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    first will be last
    last will be first
    and all inbetween will also be cursed
    open the door and the thing will be there
    so be carefull and beware !

Entry:  7.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    gusar@uniwa.uwa.oz.au
Author: Sean (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    It has a golden head
    It has a golden tail
    but it hasn't got a body.

Entry:  8.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    BILLERMA%XAVIER.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A leathery snake,
    With a stinging bite,
    I'll stay coiled up,
    Unless I must fight.

Entry:  9.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    Unknown
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    My life can be measured in hours,
    I serve by being devoured.
    Thin, I am quick
    Fat, I am slow
    Wind is my foe.

Entry:  10.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    What has roots as nobody sees,
    Is taller than trees,
    Up, up it goes,
    And yet never grows?

Entry:  10.2
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Thirty white horses on a red hill,
    First they champ,
    Then they stamp,
    Then they stand still.

Entry:  10.3
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Voiceless it cries,
    Wingless it flutters,
    Toothless bites,
    Mouthless mutters.

Entry:  10.4
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    An eye in a blue face
    Saw an eye in a green face.
    "That eye is like to this eye"
    Said the first eye,
    "But in low place,
    Not in high place."

Entry:  10.5
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
    Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
    It lies behind stars and under hills,
    And empty holes it fills.
    It comes first and follows after,
    Ends life, kills laughter.

Entry:  10.6
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A box without hinges, key, or lid,
    Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Entry:  10.7
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

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    Alive without breath,
    As cold as death;
    Never thirsty, ever drinking,
    All in mail never clinking.

Entry:  10.8
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    This thing all things devours:
    Birds, beast,trees, flowers;
    Gnaws iron, bites steel;
    Grinds hard stones to meal;
    Slays king, ruins town,
    And beats high mountain down.

Entry:  10.9
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You feel it, but never see it and never will.

Entry:  10.10
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You must keep it after giving it.

Entry:  10.11
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    As light as a feather, but you can't hold it for ten minutes.

Entry:  10.12
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Has a mouth but does not speak, has a bed but never sleeps.

Entry:  10.13
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb!

Entry:  10.14
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You break it even if you name it!

Entry:  10.15
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    It passes before the sun and makes no shadow.

Entry:  10.16
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: From the SSI Computer Game "Secret of the Silver Blades"
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You feed it, it lives, you give it something to drink, it dies.

Entry:  10.17
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A red drum which sounds
    Without being touched,
    And grows silent,
    When it is touched.

Entry:  10.18
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A harvest sown and reaped on the same day
    In an unplowed field,
    Which increases without growing,
    Remains whole though it is eaten
    Within and without,
    Is useless and yet
    The staple of nations.

Entry:  10.19
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    If you break me
    I do not stop working,
    If you touch me
    I may be snared,
    If you lose me
    Nothing will matter.

Entry:  10.20
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    All about, but cannot be seen,
    Can be captured, cannot be held
    No throat, but can be heard.

Entry:  10.21
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I go around in circles,
    But always straight ahead
    Never complain,
    No matter where I am led.

Entry:  10.22
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Lighter than what
    I am made of,
    More of me is hidden
    Than is seen.

Entry:  10.23
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    If a man carried my burden,
    He would break his back.
    I am not rich,
    But leave silver in my track.

Entry:  10.24
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    My life can be measured in hours,
    I serve by being devoured.
    Thin, I am quick
    Fat, I am slow
    Wind is my foe.

Entry:  10.25
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Weight in my belly,
    Trees on my back,
    Nails in my ribs,
    Feet I do lack.

Entry:  10.26
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    You can see nothing else
    When you look in my face
    I will look you in the eye
    And I will never lie.

Entry:  10.27
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am always hungry,
    I must always be fed,
    The finger I lick
    Will soon turn red.

Entry:  10.28
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Three lives have I.
    Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
    Light enough to caress the sky
    Hard enough to crack rocks.

Entry:  10.29
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Glittering points
    That downward thrust,
    Sparkling spears
    That never rust.

Entry:  10.30
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Each morning I appear
    To lie at your feet,
    All day I follow
    No matter how fast you run,
    Yet I nearly perish
    In the midday sun.

Entry:  10.31
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Keys without locks
    Yet I unlock the soul.

Entry:  10.32
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Something wholly unreal, yet seems real to I
    Think my friend, tell me where does it lie?

Entry:  10.33
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am so simple,
    That I can only point
    Yet I guide men
    All over the world.

Entry:  10.34
Date:   Unknown
Who:    The Riddle Manual
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A beggar's brother went out to sea and drowned.
    But the man who drowned had no brother.
    What was the relationship between the man who drowned and the beggar?

Entry:  11.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    For our ambrosia we were blessed,
    by Jupiter, with a sting of death.
    Though our might, to some is jest,
    we have quelled the dragon's breath.
    Who are we?

Entry:  11.2
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Colored as a maiden tweaked,
    time was naught when I began;
    through the garden I was sneaked,
    I alone am the fall of man.
    What am I?

Entry:  11.3
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Early ages the iron boot tread,
    with Europe at her command.
    Through time power slipped and fled,
    'til the creation of new holy land.
    Who am I?

Entry:  11.4
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    One thin, one bold,
    one sick, one cold.
    The earth we span,
    to prey upon man.
    Who are we?

Entry:  11.5
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    One where none should be,
    or maybe where two should be,
    seeking out purity,
    in the kings trees.
    What am I?

Entry:  11.6
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    He who makes it does not keep it.
    He who takes it does not know it.
    He who knows it does not want it.
    He who gathers it must destroy it.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.7
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:
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    One tooth to bite,
    he's the forests foe.
    One tooth to fight,
    as all Norse know.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.8
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    This creature, part man and part tree,
    hates the termite as much as the flea.
    His tracks do not match,
    and his limbs may detach,
    but he's not a strange creature to see.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.9
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    The part of the bird
    that is not in the sky,
    which can swim in the ocean
    and always stay dry.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.10
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Dead and bound,
    what once was free.
    What made no sound,
    now sings with glee.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.11
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    The root tops the trunk
    on this backward thing,
    that grows in the winter
    and dies in the spring.
    What is it?

Entry:  11.12
Date:   Unknown
Who:    s892804@MINYOS.XX.RMIT.OZ.AU
Author: Wee Willie
        Compiled by Dan Judd.
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Touching one, yet holding two,
    it is a one link chain
    binding those who keep words true,
    'til death rent it in twain.
    What is it?

Entry:  12.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    Unknown
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    The man who made it didn't need it.
    The man who bought it didn't use it.
    The man who used it didn't want it.

Entry:  13.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    Unknown
Author: Deon Ramsey
Title:  None
Riddle:

    A Statue with the Inscription : All ye who Enter here, weep, for my Story
    is a sorrowfull one. (Or something similar)
    The correct response was to weep in front of the statue, which opened a secret
    door behind It. I used a slightly harder version of that on my Group, and it
    stumped them for quite a while :-)

Entry:  14.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    Unknown
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    The wise and knowledgeable man is sure of it.
    Even the fool knows it.
    The rich man wants it.
    The greatest of heroes fears it.
    Yet the lowliest of cowards would die for it.

    What is this upon which I ponder?

Entry:  15.1
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am and yet can not
    am an Idea, yet can rot
    am two but none
    am on land, but on sea.
    What am I?

Entry:  15.2
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    all in white
    Fossil, fresh snow, a loan, the sky,
    Just what am I?

Entry:  16.1
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
        dschoen@cs.vu.nl
Author: Duncan Schoen (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am better than sex,
    I am worse than MS-DOS,
    Dead men eat me,
    If you eat me you'll die.

Entry:  16.2
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
        dschoen@cs.vu.nl
Author: Duncan Schoen (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Two horses, swiftest travelling,
    Harnessed in a pair, and
    Grazing ever in places
    Distant from them.

Entry:  16.3
Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:45:57 1992
Who:    jmarvin@us.oracle.com
        dschoen@cs.vu.nl
Author: Duncan Schoen (?)
Title:  None
Riddle:

    What is greater than God,
    Worse than the Devil,
    Dead man eat it,
    If you eat it you'll die.

Entry:  17.1
Date:   Wed Apr 15 11:33:19 1992
Who:    lgrant@maths.tcd.ie
Author: _A Feast Of Creatures. Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs_ by Craig Williamson
        ISBN 0-85967-671-4
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I am a wonderful help to women,
    The hope of something to come. I harm
    No citizen except my slayer.
    Rooted I stand on a high bed.
    I am shaggy below. Sometimes the beautiful
    Peasant's daughter, an eager-armed,
    Proud woman grabs my body,
    Rushes my red skin, holds me hard,
    Claims my head. The curly-haired
    Woman who catches me fast will feel
    Our meeting. Her eye will be wet.

Entry:  17.2
Date:   Wed Apr 15 11:33:19 1992
Who:    lgrant@maths.tcd.ie
Author: _A Feast Of Creatures. Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs_ by Craig Williamson
        ISBN 0-85967-671-4
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I saw a swift one shoot out on the road:
    S   S   I   P
    I saw a woman sitting alone.

Entry:  17.3
Date:   Wed Apr 15 11:33:19 1992
Who:    lgrant@maths.tcd.ie
Author: _A Feast Of Creatures. Anglo-Saxon Riddle Songs_ by Craig Williamson
        ISBN 0-85967-671-4
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Power and treasure for a prince to hold,
    Hard and steep-cheeked, wrapped in red
    Gold and garnet, ripped from a plain
    Of bright flowers, wrought - a remnant
    Of fire and file, bound in stark beauty
    With delicate wire, my grip makes
    Warriors weep, my sting threatens
    The hand that grasps gold. Studded
    With a ring, I ravage heir and heirloom.

    To my lord and foes always lovely
    And deadly, altering face and form.

Entry:  18.1
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Young People's Series
Title:  None
Riddle:

    As I was going to Saint Ives,
    I met a man with seven wives,
    With each wife were seven sacks,
    In each sack were seven kits,
    With each kit were seven cats,
    Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
    How many were going to Saint Ives?

Entry:  18.2
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Young People's Series
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Thirty white horses upon a red hill,
    Now they stamp,
    Now they champ,
    Now they stand still.

Entry:  18.3
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Dawns away,
    The day's turned grey,
    And I must travel far away.
    But I'll be back,
    And then we'll track,
    The light of yet another day.

Entry:  18.4
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Deep, dark, underground,
    That is the place where I'll be found.
    Yet brought into the light of day,
    I sprinkle sunlight every-which-a-way.
    Though dulled with oil I will be found,
    I am remarkably well and throughly sound.
    Cut me quick and it will be seen,
    That I instantly have a marvelous sheen.

Entry:  18.5
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Young People's Series
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Little hips,
    Bent thighs,
    Long legs,
    One eye.

Entry:  18.6
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Monkee's TV Show
Title:  None
Riddle:

   What has six eyes,
   Six arms,
   Six legs,
   Three heads,
   And a very short life?

Entry:  18.7
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   What is it that speaks without any words?
   And can be loudly, and distinctly heard?
   Will drive away friend, and foe alike.
   And is enough to make a stolid man's face alight?

Entry:  18.8
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   What must be in the oven yet can not be baked?
   Grows in the heat yet shuns the light of day?
   What sinks in water but rises with air?
   Looks like skin, but is fine as hair?

Entry:  18.9
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Little Johnny Walker,
   My, but he was a talker!
   Yet nary a word did he say!
   When I took him out,
   Then they would all point and shout!
   And ask that I put him away.

   (This is NOT a dirty riddle.
    So get your mind out of the gutter!)

Entry:  18.10
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Young People's Series
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Two legs sat upon three legs with one leg in his lap.
   In comes four legs, grabs one leg, and runs off with him.
   Up jumps two legs, grabs up three legs, throws it after four legs,
   and makes him bring back one leg.

   Who are we?

Entry:  18.11
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   They are many and one,
   They wave and they drum,
   Used to cover a stare,
   They go with you everywhere.

Entry:  18.12
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Stomp, stomp,
   Chomp, chomp,
   Romp, romp.
   Standing still,
   all in gear.

Entry:  18.13
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
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Riddle:

   Sweet tooth,
   Ah shoot,
   All gone,
   We all long,
   For another piece of it.

Entry:  18.14
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   It comes in on little cat's feet,
   Is neither sour, nor sweet.
   Hovers in the air,
   And then is not there.

Entry:  18.15
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   A laugh,
   A cry,
   A moan,
   A sigh.

Entry:  18.16
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   What is it you have to answer?
   But to answer you have to ask?
   And to ask you have to speak?
   And to speak you have to know,
   The answer.

Entry:  18.17
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I can hit you in the eye,
    Yet twinkle in the sky,
    Expanding when I die,
    What do you think am I?

Entry:  18.18
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Squishes,
    Squashes,
    Wishes I washes,
    Can get it in my hair,
    Makes me not look too fair.

Entry:  18.19
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    White on black,
    And black on white.
    Helps you to know things,
    By using your sight.

Entry:  18.20
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Up a hill,
    Down a hill,
    Over them I may roam,
    But after all my walking,
    There's no place like my own.

Entry:  18.21
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    This thing is a most amazing thing.
    For it can be both as sharp as a knife,
    Or as flat as a floor.
    And yet, for all that it can be,
    It is as natural as a bee.

Entry:  18.22
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Deep, deep, do they go.
    Spreading out as they go.
    Never needing any air.
    They are sometimes as fine as hair.

Entry:  18.23
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Oh Lord!  I am not worthy!
    I bend my limbs to the ground.
    I cry, yet without a sound.
    Let me drink of waters deep.
    And in silence I will weep.

Entry:  18.24
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Shifting, Shifting, Drifting deep.
    Below me great and mighty cities sleep.
    Swirling, Scurlling, All around.
    I'm only where no water will be found.

Entry:  18.25
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I bubble and laugh
    And spit water in your face.
    I am no lady,
    And I don't wear lace.

Entry:  18.26
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   What has wings,
   But can not fly.
   Is enclosed,
   But can outside also lie.
   Can open itself up,
   Or close itself away.
   Is the place of kings and queens,
   And doggerel of every means.
   What is it upon which I stand?
   Which can lead us to different lands.

Entry:  18.27
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Do not begrude this,
   For it is the fate of every man.
   Yet it is feared,
   And shunned in many lands.
   Causes problems, and sometimes gaps,
   Can hobble the strongest, and make memory laps.
   What is this danger we all face?
   For being a part - of the human race.

Entry:  18.28
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Woe to Norman,
   That craggy man.
   Who's known such horrors,
   As to exceed the grief of man.
   And as it was written,
   A daughter was lost.
   When the seas came a coming,
   With a shout, and hoar frost.
   Oh, where can he be?
   This man of cruel fate.
   Whose teeth are gnashing,
   And a face full of hate.

Entry:  18.29
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   His eyes were raging,
   That scraggly beast.
   His lips were bursting,
   With rows of angry teeth.
   Upon his back a razor was found,
   And in his thoughts - my death abound.
   It was a fearsome battle we fought,
   My life - or his, one would be bought.
   And when we were through, and death chilled the air,
   We cut out his heart, and ate it with flair.

   Who was he?

Entry:  18.30
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   I travelled inwards,
   To that heart where no one else roamed.
   Where only the birds and animals found a home.
   Where the pixies flew with an audible air,
   And tangles twigs and leaves within my hair.
   Ah.  I love this place, this paradise,
   Where everything is so beautiful,
   So still, and so nice.

   Where did he go?

Entry:  18.31
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Of these things - I have two.
   One for me - and one for you.
   And when you ask about the price,
   I simply smile and nod twice.

Entry:  18.32
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   I am a strange creature,
   Hovering in the air,
   Moving from here to there,
   With a brilliant flare.
   Some say I sing,
   But others say I have no voice.
   So I just hum - as a matter of choice.

   What am I?

Entry:  18.33
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Sleeping during the day,
   I hide away.
   Watchful through the night,
   I open at dawn's light.
   But only for the briefest time,
   Do I shine.
   And then I hide away,
   And sleep through the day.

Entry:  18.34
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Looks like water,
   But it's heat.
   Sits on sand,
   Lays on concrete.
   People have been known,
   To follow it everywhere.
   But it gets them no place,
   And all they can do is stare.

Entry:  18.35
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   A part of heaven,
   Though it touches the earth.
   Some say it's valuable,
   Others - no worth.

Entry:  18.36
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   I stand,
   And look across the sea,
   With its waves, crests, troughs, and valleys.
   I stride,
   Across this water, my horse following after,
   And while it laps against his withers,
   And brushes against my thighs,
   I fill the emptiness with laughter.
   And he - with his sighs.
   Whether do we go?
   Or do we go at all?
   Or are we simply out here wading,
   To the next port of call.
   Where the sea ends,
   Where the loam lays firm beneath my feet,
   And I can mount my steed again,
   And continue til next we meet.

   What is really being talked about?

Entry:  18.37
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   It roars its challenge,
   And I respond.
   It takes my abuse,
   And goes beyond.
   Filled with liquid,
   In my hurried haste,
   I wield my staff,
   In this turgid race.
   But once I have vanquished,
   The mighty foe,
   I float like a thistle,
   While moving ever so slow.

   What are we talking about really?

Entry:  18.38
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   I was born blind,
   And could not see,
   Until it was a quarter of three.
   I could not smile,
   Til half past six,
   And all of my arms and legs
   Were made of sticks.

Entry:  18.39
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Ah!  My breath doth shake,
   My limbs are thin,
   My belly aches.
   Whiteness doth crown my head,
   And the tracks I leave,
   Are unsteady where I've led.
   I look out through rheumy eyes,
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   And seem to say my last goodbyes.
   The darkness doth draw me near,
   I lean towards it - the better to hear.

Entry:  18.40
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   A riddle given by two people to a third:

   (1st person, 2nd person)

   Tis not, tis is.
   Tis good, tis bad.
   Tis left, tis right.
   Tis day, tis night.

Entry:  18.41
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: The Young People's Series
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more,
    On the King's kitchen door.
    All the King's horses,
    And all the King's men,
    Couldn't get Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more,
    Off the King's kitchen door.

Entry:  18.42
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   It was once upon a time,
   and nursery rhymes.
   When genii's stood all in a row.
   When Little Jack Horner,
   Sat in his corner,
   And all the King's men said "Aye!  Aye!" today.
   So Heigh-Diddle-diddle,
   Eat crumpets and play the fiddle,
   While a cow makes curry and whey.
   And we'll all laugh,
   To see such fun,
   And maybe we'll come again - to play.

Entry:  18.43
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   It is a tolling of the night.
   When all is still.
   And the wind whispers near the mill.
   Twas struck twelve times!
   And his voice rang out!
   And then, it was stilled.

Entry:  18.44
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   What mysteries are in its creation?
   Who's hand did bend its ore?
   Where did the knowledge come from?
   And could he have made any more?
   On his finger it did lie,
   Yet on his soul the more.
   For the fire it would bring,
   Would make his heart ring,
   And death, would come knocking at his door.

Entry:  18.45
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   It was asked of me what I could be made,
   And so people were fed from me.
   It was asked of me what I could be made,
   And so houses were built.
   It was asked of me what I could be made,
   And so it was written.
   It was asked of me what I could be made,
   And so I fertilized the ground.
   But when asked more of what I could be made,
   There was nothing to be found.

Entry:  18.46
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   With this you can do wonderous things.
   Look at things close, or far away,
   You can see things big,
   Or you can see things small.
   Or maybe you don't see things at all.
   I come in many colors and hues,
   Sometimes green and sometimes blue.
   And when I'm red - it's not from shame,
   But from something with a different name.

Entry:  18.47
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Oh how I love my dancing feet!
   They stay together - oh so neat.
   And when I want to walk a line,
   They all stay together and do double time.
   I count them up, ten times or more,
   And race on-off, across the floor.

Entry:  18.48
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   They were made for a fairy queen's feet.
   To cover them and keep them tidy, and neat.
   A flower, of various sizes and hues,
   Their name is the opposite of a grown man's shoes.

Entry:  18.49
Date:   Unknown
Who:    mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author: Mark Manning
Title:  None
Riddle:

   Part pickle, part crazy,
   You can't call this flower lazy.
   It perks its head up with a snout
   And if it had a voice - I'm sure it'd shout.

Entry:	18.50
Date:	5/8/92
Who:	mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author:	Mark Manning
Title:	None
Riddle:

	Bound by age, comfort and zest,
	The inquiring hand could not rest.
	But given to her heart's desire,
	She gave to us - our worst quagmires.
	And so now we wallow in our grief,
	And seeking to close the box we weep.
	While famine, plague, and other woes,
	Beset ourselves - and our foes.

Entry:	18.51
Date:	5/8/92
Who:	mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author:	Mark Manning
Title:	None
Riddle:

	Nestled among a thorny embrace,
	What should I see but a small, plump, face.
	With cheeks rosey red,
	And neck way too long.
	He'll be ripe for plucking,
	Before too long.

Entry:	18.52
Date:	5/8/92
Who:	mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author:	Mark Manning
Title:	None
Riddle:

	A muttered rumble was heard from the pen,
	And I, in my walking, stopped to look in.
	What was this I saw?
	A massive beast, hooved, and jawed.
	With spikes upon its mighty brow,
	I watched as he struck the turf and prowled.
	And yet for all of his magnificience,
	He couldn't get out of that wooden fence.

Entry:	18.53
Date:	5/8/92
Who:	mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author:	Mark Manning
Title:	A song riddle
Riddle:

	There once was a man who sang this song:
	Hey! Dilly, dill, dang, dang!
	He'd sit around and sing this song:
	Hey! Dilly, dill, dang, dang!
	"Hi! Ho!" away he'd go,
	Singing all night long!
	Hey dilly, dill, dang, dang, do-reeee!
	He'd stay up til it was three!

	On his knee he'd keep a jug!
	Hey! Dilly, dill, dang, dang!
	And with it he'd keep a mug!
	Hey! Dilly, dill, dang, dang!
	"Hi! Ho!" away he'd go!
	Off to see the girls.
	To laugh and sing and play his games,
	Until he went insane!

	Oh what can it be that's this much fun?
	Hey! Dilly, dill, dang, dang!
	Seems its liked by everyone.
	Hey! Dilly, dill, dang, dang!
	"Hi! Ho!" off we go!
	Off to have some fun!
	To have a taste, a bit of fun,
	And be like everyone!

	Tell me now, all about this row!
	Hey! Dilly, dill, dang, dang!
	Oh, what's this now, I feel like a sow?
	Hey! Dilly, dill, dang, dang!
	Up is down and down is up,
	I feel so sick inside.
	Guess I'll have to drink some more,
	Or cover my head and hide!

	"Hi! Ho!" away we go!
	Off into the night!
	And if you can tell me what this is,
	I'll tell you that you're right!
	"Hi! Ho!" away we go!
	Off into the night!
	So tell me quick, I've got an itch,
	To have some more tonight!
	YEAH!

Entry:	18.54
Date:	5/8/92
Who:	mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author:	Mark Manning
Title:	None
Riddle:

	Twas the night of the day
	in which I must relay
	that in which I took part in.
	For the sun was out
	and without so much as a shout
	he quietly went in.
	Twas ever so queer
	I thought he would leer
	but never a word did I get in.
	For without another word
	(at least that's what I heard)
	He was back to the place he'd been in.

Entry:	18.55
Date:	5/8/92
Who:	mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author:	Mark Manning
Title:	None
Riddle:

	Twas the giantess who told me what to do.
	Twas she who opened the doors,
	And close the windows.  Not I.
	Twas her who decided the chair did well on the lawn.
	And the table should be in the basement.
	I have done naught to deserve punishment,
	For I did not place the dog on the lamp,
	Nor the cat in the chimney.
	Twas the giantess.

Entry:	18.56
Date:	5/8/92
Who:	mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author:	Mark Manning
Title:	None
Riddle:

	A lazy day looked down upon her,
	And with eyes barely slitted, she saw me.
	I wondered if I should wander.
	But drew back when her eyes grew the bigger.
	Satisfied of my cowering, she stretched,
	Yawned, and spread her fingers langorously.
	And I, with my petite fingers rubbed my nose as I watched.
	She knew I had to eat and that soon I would emerge.
	Drawing my darkness forth with me to escape notice.
	It would not matter, for in the end we would
	Perform our pagan dance.  With its rituals of sunlight,
	And shadow.  Of words, softly spoken - or sprayed upon the wall.
	If I am lucky, oh so lucky, I will whisk away
	Upon a squeal of delight - or is it pain?
	And ponder the world once more, from within
	The hovel, the crawl space, the cracks.
	Where I live.

Entry:	18.57
Date:	5/8/92
Who:	mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author:	Mark Manning
Title:	None
Riddle:

	From sun up to sun down I stare out across the sea.
	From sun down to sun up I stare out across the sea.
	But while with sun up I can only blink in the brightness.
	With the sun down I can blink out the brightness.

Entry:	18.58
Date:	5/8/92
Who:	mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
Author:	Mark Manning
Title:	None
Riddle:

	(Talked with a definite beat.)

	A lot of bark,
	But no one notices.
	A lot to bite,
	And everyone cares.
	I'm not a dog,
	If anyone notices.
	And there's a lot to me,
	But I don't have hair.
	I stand up straight,
	If you've noticed me.
	I've got lots of limbs,
	If anyone cares.
	I can give you shade,
	If you've noticed it.
	And I do even more,
	I give you air.

Entry:  19.1
Date:   18 Apr 92 20:06:34 GMT
Who:    heath@anchor.as.utexas.edu (James Heath)
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    They can be harbored, but few hold water,
    You can nurse them, but only by holding them against someone else,
    You can carry them, but not with your arms,
    You can bury them, but not in the earth.

Entry:  19.2
Date:   18 Apr 92 20:06:34 GMT
Who:    heath@anchor.as.utexas.edu (James Heath)
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Deep as a bowl, round as a cup,
    Yet all the world's oceans can't fill it up.

Entry:  19.3
Date:   18 Apr 92 20:06:34 GMT
Who:    heath@anchor.as.utexas.edu (James Heath)
Author: Unknown
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Though desert men once called me God,
        To-day men call me mad,
    For I wag my tail when I am angry,
        And growl when I am glad.

Entry:  20.1
Date:   Tue Apr 21 15:13:49 1992
Who:    rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie
Author: Russell Wallace
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Fat Man at Dead Man's Journey.

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Entry:  20.2
Date:   Tue Apr 21 15:13:49 1992
Who:    rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie
Author: Russell Wallace
Title:  None
Riddle:

    What answer is blowing in the wind?

Entry:  21.1
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 92 13:20:32 -0700
Who:    zorn@apple.com
Author: Jed Hartman
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I heard of an invading, vanquishing army
    sweeping across the land, liquid-quick;
    conquering everything, quelling resistance.
    With it came darkness, dimming the light.
    Humans hid in their houses, while outside
    spears pierced, shattering stone walls.
    Uncountable soldiers smashed into the ground,
    but each elicited life as he died;
    when the army had vanished, advancing northward,
    the land was green and growing, refreshed.

Entry:  21.2
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 92 13:20:32 -0700
Who:    zorn@apple.com
Author: Jed Hartman
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I saw a strange creature:
    Long, hard, and straight,
    Thrusting into a round, dark opening,
    Preparing to discharge its load of lives.
    Puffing and squealing noises accompanied it,
    Then a final screech as it slowed and stopped.
    Say what I mean.

Entry:  21.3
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 92 13:20:32 -0700
Who:    zorn@apple.com
Author: James Thurber's _The Thirteen Clocks_
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I can find a thing I cannot see and see a thing I cannot find.
    The first is time, the second is a spot before my eyes.
    
Entry:  21.4
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 92 13:20:32 -0700
Who:    zorn@apple.com
Author: James Thurber's _The Thirteen Clocks_
Title:  None
Riddle:

    I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel.
    The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

Entry:  22.1
Date:   Wed, 06 May 1992 11:29:14 CDT
Who:    Sean Molley -> mollems@WKUVX1.BITNET
Author: From Zork II by Infocom
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Never ahead, ever behind,
    Yet flying swiftly past,
    For a child, I last forever,
    For adults, I'm gone too fast.

Entry:  22.2
Date:   Wed, 06 May 1992 11:29:14 CDT
Who:    Sean Molley -> mollems@WKUVX1.BITNET
Author: From Zork II by Infocom
Title:  None
Riddle:

    Tall she is, and round as a cup,
    Yet all the king's horses
    Can't draw her up.

Entry:  22.3
Date:   Wed, 06 May 1992 11:29:14 CDT
Who:    Sean Molley -> mollems@WKUVX1.BITNET
Author: From Might & Magic II by New World Computing
Title:  None
Riddle:

    There more of it there is,
    The less you see.

Entry:  22.4
Date:   Wed, 06 May 1992 11:29:14 CDT
Who:    Sean Molley -> mollems@WKUVX1.BITNET
Author: From Might & Magic II by New World Computing
Title:  None
Riddle:

    What is not enough for one,
    Just right for two,
    Too much for three?

Entry:  22.5
Date:   Wed, 06 May 1992 11:29:14 CDT
Who:    Sean Molley -> mollems@WKUVX1.BITNET
Author: Sean Molley
Title:  None
Riddle:

    What gets wetter the more it dries?

Entry:  22.6
Date:   Wed, 06 May 1992 11:29:14 CDT
Who:    Sean Molley -> mollems@WKUVX1.BITNET
Author: Sean Molley
Title:  None
Riddle:

    H I J K L M N O
    What word does this represent?

==========================================================================
                          Answers to the above riddles
==========================================================================
 1.1 Salt
     Ice.

 1.2 A silver dish of some kind floating in an oil lamp with the flame above
     it.

 1.3 A butterfly

 1.4 Lightning
     Lightning Bolt

 1.5 A book

 1.6 A dog baying at the cresent moon.

 1.7 Memories

 1.8 Their color changes easily

 1.9 Unknown

 1.10 Unknown

 1.11 Unknown

 2.1 Your eyes
     The Sun and the Moon

 3.1 A Heart.

 4.1 The Moon

 5.1 Since, after shooting 1/4 of the birds, the rest will fly off, the answer
     should be either (2*(4+20))/4=12 or ((2*4)+20)/4=7.

 6.1 Unknown.  Thought to be: Post.  As in the post on a door.

 7.1 A golden coin

 8.1 A whip

 9.1 A candle

10.1 A mountain

10.2 Your teeth

10.3 The wind

10.4 A daisy in field of grass, big eye is sun (stupid one.)

10.5 The darkness

10.6 Eggssesss
     Orange

10.7 A fish

10.8 Time

10.9 Your heart

10.10 Your word

10.11 Your breath

10.12 A river

10.13 Water

10.14 Silence

10.15 The air?

10.16 A fire

10.17 Your heart

10.18 A war

10.19 Hope

10.20 The air? The wind?

10.21 A wheel

10.22 An iceberg or a piece of ice

10.23 A snail

10.24 A candle

10.25 A boat
      A cave

10.26 A mirror

10.27 A fire

10.28 Water

10.29 Icicles
      teeth
      stalactites

10.30 A shadow

10.31 A piano
      A harpsichord

10.32 In the mind

10.33 A compass.

10.34 The beggar was his sister
      Two priests

11.1 Bees

11.2 An Apple

11.3 Italy (Rome)

11.4 The Four Horsemen of Apocolypse

11.5 A Unicorn

11.6 Counterfiet Money

11.7 An Axe

11.8 A Man With A Wooden Leg

11.9 A Shadow

11.10 A Wooden, Stringed Instrument

11.11 An Icicle

11.12 A Wedding Ring

12.1 A coffin

13.1 Weeping

14.1 Nothing.

15.1 Paradox  (and a pair of docks)

15.2 A bride  (something old, something new, something borrowed something blue)

16.1

16.2

16.3

17.1 An onion

17.2 Piss (yes, really...)

17.3 A sword.

18.1 One

18.2 Teeth

18.3 The Sun
     A Shadow

18.4 A Diamond
     A gem

18.5 A pair of tongs

18.6 Three peasants about to be eaten by a dragon.
     The Monkees about to be eaten by a dragon.

18.7 Passing Gas

18.8 Yeast

18.9 Your opinions

18.10 One leg is a leg of mutton.
      Two legs is a person.
      Three legs is a stool.
      Four legs is a dog.

18.11 Your hands

18.12 Horses

18.13 Candy

18.14 Fog
      Mist

18.15 Emotions

18.16 A Riddle

18.17 A star

18.18 Mud (Your mom wishes you'd wash it off)

18.19 A monitor (More of a Traveller riddle)

18.20 Your home

18.21 Music

18.22 Roots

18.23 A Weeping Willow

18.24 The desert

18.25 A fountain

18.26 A stage

18.27 Growing Old

18.28 The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
      (The reef of Norman's Woe)

18.29 A wild boar (Razor back)

18.30 The heart of the forest

18.31 Sharing

18.32 A Hummingbird

18.33 A Morning Glory

18.34 A mirage

18.35 A rainbow

18.36 The open plains

18.37 Going down a river with rapids in a boat.

18.38 A doll

18.39 Old age

18.40 Paradox/Opposites

18.41 Sunlight

18.42 Childhood
      Childhood's Fairy Tales

18.43 A bell ringing out at midnight.

18.44 A ring of fire.

18.45 A tree  (A BIT obscure, I'd say!)

18.46 Your eyes

18.47 A centipede or millipede

18.48 Lady Slippers

18.49 Daffodil

18.50 Pandora's Box

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18.51 Prickly Pear or other thorny, fruit bearing plant.

18.52 A bull

18.53 Liquor

18.54 An eclipse

18.55 A child playing with her doll house.

18.56 A cat and mouse.

18.57 A lighthouse

18.58 A tree

19.1 A grudge

19.2 A sieve/collander   (Sphere of Annihilation  ;-)

19.3 A cat

20.1 The Trinity A-bomb test at La Jornada del Muerto, Alamogordo, New Mexico

20.2 Forty-two.
     (How many roads must a man walk down ...)

21.1 A rainstorm.

21.2 Train/Subway

21.3 Time

21.4 Your Heart

22.1 Youth

22.2 A Well

22.3 Darkness

22.4 A Secret

22.5 A Towel

22.6 Water (H to O ... H2O)
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