A man was sentenced to prison. the judge told him if he could solve this riddle he would be set free. the riddle goes like this: As I looked over yonder on yonder hillside, bare sare in pole, pitch pole, harper tarper. sit down old mother huck tuck and give me a suck. rise a den go to trip and tred and do as your mother did. Use a fine spool of velvet through a rock through a rill through an old spinning wheel. Pluck it to pull make little fine wool and make high gene pone. Six there were and seven they sprung. Out of the dead the living come or six there were and seven there be. tell me this riddle an I'll set you free. The man thought for a few minutes and solved the riddle. A mother bird built a nest in a dead horse's skull and laid six eggs and hatched out six baby birds. 1 mother bird + 6 baby birds = 7 birds. the man was set fee.