At Night They Come
At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
The stars.
What Boys Use, Girls Like and Parents Hate
Boys use it, girls like it, parents hate it. What is this 5-letter word?
The phone.
Black, Red and White
What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all through with it?
Charcoal.
A Creature, Part Man
This creature, part man and part tree,
hates the termite as much as the flea.
His tracks do not match,
and his limbs may detach,
but he’s not a strange creature to see.
What is it?
A man with a wooden leg.
Serve Many But They Forget About Me
I serve many, confirmed by how healthy those I serve are. Yet after they’re successful they forget about me. It’s true, sometimes I hit them and they’re often bloody, but they don’t mind.
What am I?
A doctor (more specifically, an obstetrician) or a midwife. They deliver thousands of healthy babies but they are soon forgotten. Sometimes they smack the baby on the butt to clear the airway, and newborn babies can have blood on them from the placenta being pulled from the walls of the uterus or from an episiotomy.
Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
Whoever knows it, wants it not
Counterfeit money or poison.