“Oben spitz und unten breit
Durch und durch voll Süssigkeit.”
(Zuckerhut.)
“First white as snow,
Then green as clover,
Then red as blood,
They taste to all children good.”
(Cherries.)
The play is more genuine, however, when the characteristics are more veiled, as in (1) metaphor and (2) apparent contradiction. The riddles which follow are evidently calculated to put one on the wrong scent. On the coast of Malabar two familiar riddles are “Little man, strong voice,” and “A little pig in the woods.” The answer to the former is Grasshopper, and to the latter Pediculus cervicalis.
“There is a little man