I have a riddle for you instead... If it takes a yard and a half of tripe, to make a three sleeved waist coat for an elephant, How long would it take, a silver skinned kipper, to swim through a barrel of treacle, with buttermilk, at three hapence a foot?
"Will you walk a little faster?" said the whiting to the snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail....