Dragaera

A Riddle

Thu Apr 7 14:51:19 PDT 2005

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Kronengold" <mneme at io.com>
To: <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: A Riddle



> Four came before me.
> Two commanded me.
> One was within me.
> 

A carriage

> What I killed for enslaved me.
> Whom I tried to kill stole it from me.
> Whom I tried to steal it from, I served,
> And in the end, I saved him.
> Who am I?
> 
Gotta think on this one

> I drank from a king.
> Yet kings have striven to drink from me?
> What am I?

The Holy Grail
> 
> Hermes's silver snake,
> I speed but do not slither,
> Burrow but do not dig.
> What am I?

An arrow? I don't think that's correct. . . 
> 
> Famed am I.
> Yet my final, fabled fate
> is filetting flour.


ummmmm, one more line please?

Jeff