The Good Child’s Amusing Riddle-Book was a collection of rhyming verse puzzles published in England in 1807.
The book might have been intended for children, but some of the riddling poems it contained were surprisingly complicated, and by no means as straightforward as they might appear—including the puzzle below, which, in addition to requiring a little thinking outside the box to solve it, also has a decidedly not-particularly-child-friendly vibe. Can you figure out what is being described here?
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