This riddle, taken from the book ‘Food for the Mind‘ by “John-the-Giant-Killer, Esq.”, dates back to the 1770s. Can you ...

As the book’s title would suggest, it consisted of a curious mixture of illustrated verses and nursery rhymes about birds, set alongside a series of oddly fiendish riddles and poetic puzzles.

A riddle is a type of poem that works like a puzzle. Riddles describe something and sometimes use words with a double meaning. Try writing your own riddle, a friend can try to guess what it describes!