For an In-door Evening.
The season of the year approaches when in-door parties are held. At these parties riddles are often called for. Several members send us some riddles. We group them here, with answers, that you may use them if you have need:
For no crime did I come to my end,
No rope round my neck was e'er tied;
Though no jury decided my fate,
I was hanged from a tree till I died.
Answer: Absalom.
I was a baron bold and bad,
A follower of King John;
I lost my place, I lost my power,
And all my wealth was gone.
My story, told in jingling rhyme,
Familiar is to all:
For I'm only —— ——
The —— that had a fall.
Answer: Humpty Dumpty. Egg.
My first a party leader is,
A river is my second,
Whoever bears my third will still
A man of mark be reckoned.
An emperor, in sad disgrace,
Knelt barefoot at the portal
Of him whose name my whole betrays,
In church and state immortal.
Answer: Hill-Dee-Brand.—Hildebrand.
I'm a very busy person
About this time of year;
At morning and at night-time
I'm almost always here,
But at high noon I steal away
To come again at close of day.
Answer: Jack Frost.