Can You Solve This Old-Timey Riddle? #52

This is another riddle from the 19th-century English antiquarian (and former librarian of the British Museum) John Winter Jones’s collection of Riddles, Charades, and Conundrums. In addition to straightforward question-and-answer style puzzles and lateral-thinking exercises, Jones’s book also contained several hundred verse riddles in which a person, creature, or object was described in a cryptic poem that the reader had to decode.

Admittedly, many of Jones’s games were a product of their time (with answers elsewhere in the book including the likes of “a set of fire irons,” “candle-snuffers,” “a whetstone,” and “a wax seal”) but the answer to the puzzle below thankfully isn’t quite that dated. Can you work it out?

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