This has a further parallel in France in a rhyme which reproduces the German expression Engelland regardless of its intrinsic meaning:-- Boule, boule su l'keyere, Boule, boule par terre. Y n'a nuz homme en Angleterre Pou l'erfaire.[46] "B. b. on the bench, B. b. on the ground. There is no man in England who can restore him." [46] Rolland, E., _Devinettes on énigmes populaires_, 1877, p. 199, from Mons. The forty doctors of our rhyme who figure also as twice threescore men, reappear in the German rhyme as "no doctor in _Engelland_," as "no man in all the land" in the Scandinavian rhyme, and as "no man in England" literally translated, of the French version. In one version of our rhyme those who are powerless to restore what is broken are described as "all the king's soldiers and all the king's men." This expression is also used in the riddle-rhymes on Smoke and on the Well, which are found in our own and in foreign nursery collections. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, And all the king's horses cannot pull it up. (The Well, 1846, p. 75.) As high as a castle, as weak as a wastle, And all the king's soldiers cannot pull it down. (Smoke, 1849, p. 144.) In Swabia they say:-- Es ist etwas in meinem Haus, Es ziehen es hundert tausend Gäule nicht naus. (Me., p. 79.) "There is something in my house, not a hundred thousand horses can pull it out." The answer is "Smoke." In France they say:-- Qu'est-ce-qui est rond comme un dé, Et que des chevaux ne peuvent porter.[47] "What is as round as a thimble, and horses cannot pull it?" [47] Rolland, E., _Devinettes on énigmes populaires_, 1877, p. 98, from Paris. The answer is "A well." Possibly the "king" of these rhymes stands for the sun as the representative of power, whose horses and men are alike powerless. The egg, which in these rhymes is designated by fanciful names, in other riddle-rhymes current abroad is described as a cask containing two kinds of beer. A riddle was put by the god Wodan in the character of a wayfarer to King Heidrek, and stood as follows:-- "Blond--haired brides, bondswomen both, carried ale to the barn; the casks were not turned with hands nor forged by hammers; she that made it strutted about outside the isle." The answer is "Eider-ducks' eggs" (C. P., I, 89). The egg is also likened to a cask containing beer in a short riddle-rhyme which is current from Lapland to Hungary. In the Faroe Islands it takes this form: "Bolli fell from the ledge, all its hoops fell off. There is no man in the East, there is no man in the West, who can restore it" (M., p. 417). In Prussia they say:-- Kommt ein Tonn aus Engelland, Ohne Boden, ohne Band; Ist zweierleai Bier drin. (Sim., p. 287.) "A cask comes from Engelland, without bottom, without band; it contains two kinds of beer."