For instance, supposing a lizard has been hidden, this is how a clever player would tell us that he had guessed it:
“It is not a dragon, for it has no horns;
It is not a serpent, for it has feet;
It can divide itself, and it can climb up walls.
It is a lizard.”
One day three objects were hidden under the bell—a swallow’s egg, a piece of honeycomb, and a spider. The following were the quatrains which revealed the nature of the hidden objects:—
“The first is one of the beloved of spring, who climbs on the roofs of the drawing-rooms.
When the male or the female is fledged,
It at once spreads out its wings.