Then said the King: “This is the first riddle:
“ ‘Put it all around from top to bottom,
Leave, and leave a place with nothing around.’ ”
Paka waited. He waited, watching an oven that was being heated. If he did not give the correct answer, he would be flung into that oven. When the oven was all heated, he said:
“It is a house. A house is thatched all around, with a place for the doorway left open.”
“Then answer my second riddle,” said the King, and he gave it out:
“The men that stand up,
The men that lie down,
The men that are folded.”
“The answer to that, too,” said Paka, “is a house. For the timbers of a house stand up, the beams lie down, the thatch is folded.”