I'm always in black, and I'm always in white; I'm grave and I'm gay, I am heavy and light---- In form, too, I differ, ---- I'm thick and I'm thin.
I have no flesh and no bones, yet I'm covered with skin;
I'm English, I'm German, I'm French, and I'm Dutch.
Some love me too foundly, some slight me too much;
I often die soon, though I sometimes live ages.
What am I?
The answer to yeaterday's riddle:
Habbit is the most difficult to defeat.
If you delete the first letter, it does not change "a bit".
Delete another, and you still have a "bit" left.
Take off still another, and the shole of "it" remains.
But if you take it off, it is wholly used up.
This goes to prove that if you want to get rid of bad habbit, you must throw it off altogether.