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FOOD for the MIND:
OR, A NEW
RIDDLE-BOOK.
Compiled for the Use of
The Great and the Little
GOOD BOYS and GIRLS
In England, Scotland, and Ireland.
By John-the-Giant-Killer, Esq;
Who Riddles tells, and merry Tale,
O'er nut-brown Cakes and Mugs of Ale.
Homer.
Come riddle me riddle me riddle me Ree,
None are so blind as they that wont see.
Puffendorf.
LONDON:
Printed for the Booksellers of Europe, Asia,
Africa, and America; and sold by T. Carnan
and F. Newbery, Jun. at Number 65, St.
Paul's Church Yard. 1778.
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The Public are desired to observe, thatF. Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul'sChurch-Yard and Ludgate Street, hasnot the least Concern in any of the late Mr.John Newbery's Entertaining Booksfor Children; and, to prevent having paltryCompilation obtruded on them insteadof Mr. John Newbery's useful Publications,they are desired to be particularlycareful to apply for them to T. Carnanand F. Newbery, Jun. (Successors tothe late Mr. John Newbery) at Number65, near the Bar in St. Paul'sChurch-Yard.
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 PREFACE.
The art of making riddlesis so antique, that it bearsdate almost with our earliestaccounts of time, andis a diversion with which Sampson,the strongest of all mankind, amusedhimself. Nor has it been confinedto common people, as a certain authorsupposes; for Kings, and evensome of the wisest of them, are saidto have been adepts in the science;ivfor such was the ever-to-be-rememberedKing Solomon, and such was hisfriend Hiram the King of Tyre.
Riddling, if I am not mistaken,  isthe art of both dissembling  and undissembling,and, if what a great Politicianhas  asserted  to be true, that hewho knows not how to dissembleknows not how to reign, this art mustbe eminently useful to Princes, andtheir Ministers, and not to them only,but to all those who are any ways connectedwith courts, or concerned inpolitical transactions; for as peoplein high life do not always speak asthey mean,                        
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