Riddle 1: “While I was going to St. Ives, I met a man who had seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives, how many people were going to St. Ives?”
Answer: Only one person was going to St. Ives, the narrator.
Riddle 2: “This thing devours everything: birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel; grinds hard rocks into powder; kills kings, destroys towns, and knocks down high mountains.”
Answer: Time.
Riddle 3: “First think of the person who lives in lies, who trades in secrets and tells only lies. Next, tell me what is always the last thing to fix, the middle of the middle and the end of the end? And finally, tell me the sound that is often heard when searching for a difficult word. Now string them together, and answer me, which creature would you not want to kiss?”
Answer: A spider.
