Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31

5uppobeo 10 DeBin anew at eacn stream, II
certainly does go across. A somewhat bet
ter variant Of the same idea is in the next;
What dat come right to yo' DOT
Ever come in-No. No.
This is a path.
The following is no doubt an adaptation
put into dialect:
Deep, deep, deep-round as a D
All King Georges horses cant pull 1t up.
A well.
The next surely belongs right where 1t
10 found, in the Alabama prairie belt.
watered as Il has been since the late SOS
with overlooking artesian wells.
Run all day, run all night.
Run all over itself, run away
Yit right heah hit do stayl
The place mentioned in the following
suggests again the old days when our
Anslo-saxon forefathsrs felt themselves
near to the old land and unoonsciously
planted the names Of its places and fea-
lures in the converse OF their servants:
a. / was %crossin' London Bridge
met my good g~randaddy-
l found II sweet,
He blood / drink-oh, heyi
He skin I flung awayl
The ~grandaddy here is supposed to be a
watermelon-a more unlikely thing It would
be hard to meet on London Bridget
Some few OF these riddles hold old super
s~titions, as this one:
Rusty back and bullet eye
IL you kill him 20 Mammy's
Cow will die,
Or this:
Marry track
Green back
Hand legs long
Tail cut short
Spit on you
Give you wart.
HhA -a..z- L. 80 49,
The answer to the following is a lizard.
Somethin' ala on de fence
Got a purse. but no GEMS,
Bite you he Will make you grin,
Laugh all time and laugh ag'ln.
Many riddles that are favorite ones are
but little interesting to the collector, but
they are 30 often told and retold, always
with such gusto that several are here
given. They seem to nave grown out OF
some special happening n for some un-
known reason to have rooted themselves
in the fancy Of the negro.
six! She sot-
Seven sprung
From de dead livtn' run.
The ans7yer; A buzzard sat upon six
eggs which she had laid in the carcass Of a
dead horse; Mother BuzEard and six young
ones eventually run out from the nest Of
dry bones.
White In white,
White run white outer white.
A white COW found her way into q white
cotton field, a white man came and drove
out the white COW.
Another about the speed Of the above:
on bought oil,
Put oil on oil,
OIL rode oil.
Which being translated Isl A man named
OIL bought a saddle, put 1t on a horse and
rode the horse. II the maker OF this
riddle had named his story's chief charac-
ter, Hyde, the riddle would have read
rather better.
The following is a very widely recited
one and needs explanation rather than
guessing;
II Il come
II no come.
II II no come,
II sho come.
The rather intricate answer to this is:
II the crow comes the corn win not come.
II the crow does not come the corn will
come.
Here is one whose answer is a swarm Of
bees:
Some seenika
Some scenaka
Some de color
II HAgWh AobaNN0s
The answer TO the next Is a cow
Two hooks,
Two looks.
-Four stiff stand outs
one switch all about!
The following nave both for their answer
a wagon
What run to water. run across.
Never drink, but feel no loss2
And again:
What without legs
Can run, but not walk;
What has a tongue
But never can talks
One told on svery plantation Is this:
What runs round and round de hous
And makes one only single trackf
Answer; A w~heelbarrow.
The following is a very popular one:
what's dis, friend.
Dead In de middle
Live at bof end?
Answer; A plough.
Who dis-Blind John
No mo- sense dan 20 work right on2
Answer; A hoe.
one arm AaNia