A short riddle: what has a hundred eyes and never a nose? A sieve. Good for a quick guessing game before bath or bed.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose,
A hundred eyes and never a nose!
About this rhyme
Text checked against source: 'A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose, A hundred eyes and never a nose!' Sieve is the standard, long-recorded answer to this riddle (appears with this answer in Halliwell-era riddle collections).
This is a riddle rhyme, the kind meant to be guessed rather than just recited. A hundred eyes and no nose: the answer is a sieve, all those holes standing in for eyes. Say the riddle first and let your child guess before you tell them. Half the fun is the wait.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition