HardRhyming Riddle
A useful thing, hard, firm, and white, outside in shaggy robe bedight; Hallowed within right cleverly, it goes to work both white and dry. When after labor it comes back, you'll find it moist and very black; for service it is ready ever, and fails the hand that guides it never.
Riddle
A useful thing, hard, firm, and white, outside in shaggy robe bedight; Hallowed within right cleverly, it goes to work both white and dry. When after labor it comes back, you'll find it moist and very black; for service it is ready ever, and fails the hand that guides it never.
Choose an answer
A.A feather
B.An inkwell
C.A fountain pen
D.A quill pen
Hint: It's a 3-word phrase with 9 letters, starting with "A".
Answer
A quill pen
Why this is the answer
This old riddle describes a quill pen: a hard white feather shaft in its "shaggy robe" of down, hollowed out and cut to a nib, dipped white and dry into the inkwell, and returning from writing ("labor") stained black with ink.
This riddle is filed under Rhyming Riddles and rated Hard.