Note 68 — RIDDLES.
Reading edition
Cf. Canadian, Ontario, JAFL 31:63.
Argyleshire, 181:
Man, wife and sons to be ferried across.
Ibid.
Fox, goose and bag of corn.
West Highlands (Campbell), 408:
Three jealous soldiers and their wives in a boat that holds two.
Booke of Merry Riddles (Halliwell), 72:
Lamb, wolf and ‘bottle of hay.’
The Riddler (New Haven, 1835), 5:
Wolf, goat and cabbages.
Attributed to Alcuin, in Wright, Biographia Britannica Literaria, London, 1842, 1:74. ↑