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 Riddle 1. 
 
 In spring I loek gay, 
 Dress* d in comelv array, 
 In summer more clothing I 
 wear : 
 When colder it growl, 
 1 throw off my clothes, 
 And in winter quite naked 
 apptrar. 
 
 I've a tail like a flame, 
 Prav teli me my name. 
 
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 Answer to Riddle I 
 
 A TREE. 
 
 A COMET 
 
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 No. 3. 
 
 I am the terror of mankind, 
 My breath is flame, and by 
 its power 
 I urge my messenger to find 
 A way into the strongest 
 tower. 
 
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 My colors are various, black, 
 blue, red, and green, 
 
 I'm intended to hide what is 
 meant to be seen , 
 
 lM break ere I bend, so stub- 
 born am I, 
 
 Till by the tongue softened, 
 I'm raade to comply. 
 
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No. 5. 
 
 A tall and slender shape 1 bear 
 Mo lady's skin more white or 
 
 My Vjt- is short and doth decay 
 Sso soon.it seldom lasts a day. 
 If in the evening brought to 
 
 light. 
 I make my exit in the night. 
 
 I'm a creature by travellers 
 
 very well known, 
 And I walk on the ice in the 
 
 north frigid zone. 
 
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 What Snuff is that, the more 
 we take the fuller the box is ? 
 
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 A CANDLE 
 
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 Snuff of a Candle 
 

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 No. 8 
 
 Although we are but twenty- 
 Six, 
 We change to millions to; 
 A Itho'we oannot speak a word 
 We tell what others do. 
 
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 We are little p,iry creatures, 
 Yet we differ in our features; 
 
 One of us i n glass they set ; 
 Another's always plac'd in jet, 
 A third is seen in midst of tin 
 The fourth a box is found 
 
 within ; 
 The last, if you the search 
 
 pursue, 
 Will be always found in you 
 
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 The Alphabet. 
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 No. 10 
 
 I am rough, I am smooth, 
 1 am wet, I am dry, 
 !y station is low, 
 My title is high ; 
 he king my lawful master is 
 ai us'd by all, yet only his. 
 
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 / first when Pm hunting 
 Accompanies me : 
 v next swims in water, 
 Chough not in the sea* 
 
 whole is oft call'd for 
 7ken people are nice, 
 id then, with my first, 
 fcent away in a trice. 
 
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 HIGH- WAY 
 
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 T-JACK. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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