Enigmas

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ENIGMAS.

"An Enigma!"————"Set your trap."

1. My house is large, it has no door. Answer. An egg.

2. My hen has laid among thorns. Ans. A pineapple.

3. Lay the mat, and let us eat kunazi [a small fruit]. Ans. The stars.

4. He goes out walking, he comes into the house, he says, "Mother, take me on your back." Ans. A bedstead.

5. The Sultan's bowl is open. Ans. A well.

6. My children have turbans; he who has no turban is no child of mine. Ans. A fuu [a sort of fruit which grows in a cup something like an acorn cup].

7. Open the red eye. Ans. The sun.

8. Going out to walk, I laid hold of the cow's tail. Ans. A cocoanut ladle for scooping up water.

9. The dollar's worth of meat does not fill a cup. Ans. A chain.

10. It is not set up, and does not stand of itself. Ans. A chain.

11. I sowed my great field and reaped it, and my hand was not full. Ans. Hair.

12. A scrape to Mecca. Ans. Slipping.

13. Two nuts cross a river. Ans. The eyes.