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From: "Mikey" <>
Subject: Old country ways with words!!
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:22:56 -0000


Dear Friends,

A litle riddle was once posed to me by a lovely old man, a
Shepherd by the name of Ken. I worked very happily with
him on the same 2000 acre Kent farm for several years.

He spent his entire life in the country and there was no food he
had not at one time drunk or eaten. He lived a rich simple
life; my current Sheepdog Hey is a descendant of one that
was a gift to me from him out of a lovely pair of his. Between
us one weekend we travelled a total of 754 miles to aquire them.

He asked me the riddle one late summers harvest day as we were
tippling Ken Cramps notorious double fermented 13% Kent Cider
called "Double Vision". He was full of little sayings. One was:

Beer on Cider makes a good rider,
Cider on beer makes you feel queer.

How very true!:-)) I never saw him without a smile.

I have tried to recall & reconstucted the Riddle as this.


One day walking in the fields
On my strolls I discovered
Something very good to eat.
.
Neither Furred nor Feathered
Tis not scaled nor leathered
Nor was it either Fish or Meat

Was niether vegetable nor Fruit
Not a Herb, Seed, Nut nor Fungi,
What was it I took home to eat?


Regards,

Mikey.
Spectemur Agendo.

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