There was a thing a full month old, When Adam was no more; But ere that thing was five weeks old, Adam was years five score. 4 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] A CAT. In almost every house I'm seen, (No wonder then I'm common), I'm neither man, nor maid, nor child, Nor yet a married woman. 5 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] A CANNON. I am the terror of mankind, My breath is flame, and by its power I urge my messenger to find A way into the strongest tower. 6 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] AN OWL. My patron is Wisdom--if Wisdom you prize, In me put your confidence, borrow my eyes, Who into a mill-stone can see quite as far As the best of you all, by the light of a star. 7 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] A TOP. I ne'er offend thee, Yet thou dost me whip, Which don't amend me, Though I dance and skip; When I'm upright, Me you always like best, And barbarously whip me When I want rest. 8 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] BOOKS. With words unnumber'd I abound; In me mankind do take delight; In me much learning's to be found; Yet I can neither read nor write. 9 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] A DRUM. My sides are firmly Lac'd about, Yet nothing is within: You'll think my head Is strange indeed, Being nothing else but skin. 10 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] A SAND-GLASS. Made of two bodies join'd, Without foot or hand; And yet you will find I can both run and stand. 11 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] TIME. Ever eating, never cloying, All devouring, all destroying, Never finding full repast Till I eat the world at last. 12 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] DEATH. The gate of life, the cause of strife, The fruit of sin, When I appear, you drop a tear, And stay within. 13 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] A PAIR OF SHOES. To rich and poor We useful are; And yet for our reward, By both at last We're thrown away, Without the least regard. 14 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] A SQUIRREL. I am a busy active creature, Fashion'd for the sport of nature, Nimbly skip from tree to tree, Under a well-wrought canopy; Bid Chloe then to Mira tell What's my name and where I dwell. 15 _Guess Book._ [Illustration] A FISH. Though it be cold I wear no clothes, The frost and snow I never fear; I value neither shoes nor hose, And yet I wander far and near. [Illustration] [Illustration] [Signature: John Catnach] AT NEWCASTLE. "There is no fooling with Life, when it is once turned forty: the seeking of a Fortune then is but a desperate after-game: it is a hundred to one if a man fling three sixes, and recover all; if his hand be no luckier than mine."--_Cowley._