Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

chapter in Browne's Vulgar and Common Errors, iii. 3. The gall-bladder

does not exist in the dove.

THE DEMANDS JOYOUS.

It is not generally known that many of our popular riddles are centuries old. Yet such is the fact, and those whose course of reading has made them acquainted with ancient collections are not unfrequently startled by observing a quibble of the fifteenth ...