Riddles4

1. A clever little craftsman
      Who builds houses without bricks,
      White walls without windows,
      Which after dismantling can all become clothes.

2. What is that which we swallow and live,
      but when it swallows us, we die.

3. The tree is too low to climb;
      It has swords that can't be used to hack,
      A hundred noses it has, yet it can't smell,
      And it has a bat that can't be used to bat.

4. Big creatures can get in, but
      Not! The tiny ones cannot.

5. What is it that is seen better as it grows darker?

6. When it was young (small) it wore a skirt;
      When it was old (big) it was naked.

7. There are no milestones,
      only twelve villages in single file.
      There are two men - one lean, one fat -
      who go round.
      When the lean one reaches twelve,
      the fat on completes a mile.

8. The flower that blooms over the mountain head,
      The flower that blooms when we are in bed.

9. What is it that take dried clothes of and wears wet
      clothes?

10. He is born under the waters of the seven seas;
      He has no head, only a trunk to please;
      His eyes are upwards,
      but the food on the ground he sees.

11. Why did Yokomo put some sugar under his pillow?

   Answers:
    1. A silk-worm                                                   7. A clock
    2. Water                                                            8. The moon
    3. A pineapple                                                    9. A clothesline
    4. A mosquito net                                             10. A crab
    5. A star                                                          11. Because he wanted to have sweet dreams
    6. An eggplant