Can You Solve This Old-Timey Riddle? #38

Lewis Jesse Bridgman was a prolific turn-of-the-20th-century author and illustrator known for his work on a large number of children’s picture books in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As his illustrations became better known and his reputation in children’s literature grew, Bridgman—who eventually became well known enough to publish under a mononym, “Bridgman”—began writing his own children’s books, and accompanying his own work with his own illustrations.

His 1929 volume The Guess Book of Riddles contained page after page of rhyming riddles for children, each accompanied by a series of Bridgman’s pictures—and typically, the images told the reader what the answer to the riddle in question was not. The tricky rhyming riddle below was accompanied by pictures of a kitten and a puppy, eliminating them from the possible solutions. With that in mind, can you figure it out?

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