The verse below is another puzzle taken from Riddles in Rhyme, a 1927 collection of “charades old and new” by the American author (and former Harvard College dean) LeBaron Russell Briggs.

This is another choice riddle from Wit Newly Revived, an anonymous collection of short rhyming verses and riddles published in the north of England in 1775. (You can try your hand at the first one ...