(125) Four and twenty white Bulls sate upon a stall, forth came the red Bull & licked them all.
Yorkshire riddles (Notes & Queries, 3rd series, VIII):
Four-&-twenty white beasts,
And t’ red one licks them all.
Canadian: Ontario, JAFL 31:67
Zulu:
3. I puzzle you with a goat-ram which grazes, and white goats; it moves about much, but they eat in one place.
Catalan:
XVIII. Un convent de monjas blancas, dintre hi ha un frare vermell que ’ls hi repica las ancas. [↑]
[12] Cf. Booke of Merry Riddles (Halliwell):