25. Making Riddles
Reading edition
You remember that during the recess in Santa Claus's workshop some of the fairies made riddles. Peter said that these were about toys. Here are two they might have made:
It has two arms, two legs, and a head, like a human being, but it cannot walk or work or talk. What is it?
I spend most of my life in a little wooden box. I press against its cover day and night. I want to get out. Oh, how I leap when some one opens the box! Oh, how frightened little girls and boys look when they first see me! What am I?
Oral Exercise. 1. Of course you have guessed the first of these two riddles. But can you guess the second one?
2. Make riddles for your classmates to guess, about toys and other things that are suitable for Christmas presents.