Here’s one of my favorite riddles by Shakespeare:
“Who builds stronger things than a stonemason, a shipbuilder, or a carpenter?”
The answer is a gravedigger. “… The houses that he makes last till doomsday.”
The riddle comes from Act V of Hamlet, and it’s told, of course, by a gravedigger.
Text & illustration copyright (c) 2018 by George Hagen
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