Then he asked:

―Are you good at riddles?

Stephen answered:

―Not very good.

Then he said:

―Can you answer me this one? Why is the county of Kildare like the leg of a fellow’s breeches?

Stephen thought what could be the answer and then said:

―I give it up.

―Because there is a thigh in it, he said. Do you see the joke? Athy is the town in the county Kildare and a thigh is the other thigh.

―Oh, I see, Stephen said.

―That’s an old riddle, he said.