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From: "Robert C. McArtor" <>
Subject: Re: Old country ways with words!!
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:16:49 -0500
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My earlier guess was birds eggs. Aye, Bob McArtor

James and Sue Stone wrote:
>
> My guess is snails...
>
> S
>
> Mikey wrote:
> >
> > 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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