This section is from the book "Facts Worth Knowing", by Robert Kemp Philip. Also available from Amazon: Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know.
What is the longest, and yet the shortest thing in the world; the swiftest and the most slow; the most divisible and the most extended; the least valued, and the most regretted; without which nothing can be done; which devours everything, however 6mall, and yet gives life and spirit to all things however great? Answer - Time.
3238. Riddle. Beneath the skies a creature once did dwell, -So sacred writers unto us do tell, -He lived, he breathed, in this vain world, 'tis true, Though he ne'er sinn'd or any evil knew
He never shall in Heaven's high kingdom dwell, Or e'er be doomed to feel the pangs of
Hell; Yet in him an immortal soul there was That must be damn'd - or, live among the just.
Answer - The Fish that swallowed Jonah.
 
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