I’m sharing another riddle from “Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek Appalachian Riddles & Rusties” by James Still.
“In summer I’m dressed fit to marry the Queen of Sheba.
In winter I’m naked as a wheat straw. ”
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The last riddle I shared was from “Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek Appalachian Riddles & Rusties” by James Still. Most all of you got it. The answer was a creek or river.
“Crooked as a blacksnake, level as a plate,
Forty thousand oxen couldn’t pull it straight.”
Tipper
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Solomon’s Seal
All i can think of , some kind of tree.
A lily.
Probably wrong, but sounds like a sunflower with its beautiful golden crown, but nothing more stark and skinny in the Winter after the birds and/or children have decapitated it.
Hmmmm a flowering plant for sure I would think. But beyond that what seems to be a Biblical reference to the Queen of Sheba coming to visit Solomon stumps me. Hope some of you all can tell me.
A tree or a field?
A tree.
It must be some kind of tree, other than an evergreen. Could be a mighty oak .