Like most of the other puzzles in Briggs’s collection, each of the couplets here hints at a different parts of riddle’s ...

Whether these riddles were Ritson’s work too is unclear, but whoever Peter Puzzlecap might have been, he was nevertheless responsible for setting the rhyming riddle below. Can you figure it out?

As the book’s title would suggest, it consisted of a curious mixture of illustrated verses and nursery rhymes about birds, set alongside a series of oddly fiendish riddles and poetic puzzles.