Today I am happy to present five beautiful pieces of English classical riddles. I
hope you will enjoy them. Try to resist a temptation to have a peep at the answer
(which you can make visible by selecting the hidden text), let your brains get it for
you! Good luck!

1.
Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it, can neither see nor feel it.
start selection >>> coffin <<< end selection

2.
It is said among my people that some things are improved by death.
Tell me, what stinks while living, but in death, smells good?
start selection >>> pig <<< end selection

3.
What work is it that the faster you work,
the longer it is before you're done,
and the slower you work,
the sooner you're finished?
start selection >>> roast meat on the spit <<< end selection

4.
I know a word of letters three.
Add two, and fewer there will be.
start selection >>> few <<< end selection

5.
My love, when I gaze on thy beautiful face,
Careering along, yet always in place #151;
The thought has often come into my mind
If I ever shall see thy glorious behind.
start selection >>> the moon, poem by Sir Edmund Gosse <<< end selection