What is it?

[Stacey Steve]

I found an old book of nursery rhymes yesterday and this was in it.

As I walked in a field of wheat,
I picked up something good to eat;
Neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor bone.
I kept it till it ran alone.

What did I find?

[di]

Ingredients for a gingerbread man?

although hving just seen Piskies idea...I might need to change mine to egg!...Makes a little more sense!

[Stacey Steve]

See if this helps.

In marble halls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

[Polly Fouracre]

I've heard this one before but can't remember the answer! I think an egg too.

[MaureenHall]

It's got to be an egg - a white one

[HotStuff]

And of course "I kept it till it ran alone" refers to the chick

[allotmentlady]

an egg deffo or are we all wrong?

[Stacey Steve]

You are correct, it's an egg.

There was this last one as well about an egg

As white as milk,
As soft as silk, As yellow as gall,
As round as a ball;
Found by a baby,
Bought by a king,
Tell me this riddle
I'll give you a ring.

But I can't work out the bits about a baby and a king

[Hilary B]

There is also one
"a box without hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid" (Isn't that the one Bilbo tries on Gollum?)

[Flummery]

As I came through the garden gap
who did I meet but Dick Redcap;
a stick in his hand, a stone in his throat,
if you tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat.

(no I'm not old enough to have been paid in groats!)



PS - tell you later!

[terrier]

As I came through the garden gap
who did I meet but Dick Redcap;
a stick in his hand, a stone in his throat,
if you tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat.

(no I'm not old enough to have been paid in groats!)



PS - tell you later!

When I was a little lad, my sisters used to hang them in pairs on their ears as 'earings' There's also a well known Victorian (I think) song about them.

[terrier]

If anyone has been watching The Victorian Farm on TV, you should get this one right away.

Flour of England, fruit of Spain,
Met together in a shower of rain;
Put in a bag tied round with a string,
If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a ring.

[Flummery]

Ah yes - mine (as Terrier guessed) is a cherry!
His is a pudding!

How about

Little Nancy Etticoat
with a white petticoat
and a red rose.
The longer she stands
the smaller she grows.

[terrier]

I'm not sure, but I think Elton John sang about her? Something about abdominal reflux

[Flummery]

-in the wind?

Yep, a candle. Golly this thread is taking me back!