i was sent this riddle.

[caslass]

I was sent this riddle by someone in America. I cannot work it out. Any help would be appreciated.

As i went through a garden gap
Who should I meet but Dick red cap
A stick in his hand
A stone in his throat
If you tell me this riddle
I'll give you a groat.

Can any one help as this is driving me mad. Cas

[tastymorsel]

a cherry

[twoflower-]

cherry

[caslass]

Please tell me how you get this answer?

[tastymorsel]

google the first line.

[twoflower-]

cherries are red with the stem bit being the stick in his hand and the stone in the centre, going through a garden gap i assume going through a gap into the orchard,
don't get the dick bit

[caslass]

About as clear as mud then.

[rowanwitch]

sadly the dick red cap is a smutty bit I suspect. Dick with a red cap after taking a cherry or virginity It is probably an old english country riddle and they liked a bit of smut in those days

[bibblebub]

It's on a nursery rhyme site http://www.nurseryrhy...com/a_cherry-2613.php
so it might all be innocent.

[rowanwitch]

about as innocent as baa baa black sheep

[64nahc]

I was taught this version as a child (many moons ago)

Riddle-me, riddle-me. wrote`t wrote
I know a man in a red coat
A stick in his hand
A stone in his throat
Riddle-me, riddle-me, wrote `t wrote.

What am I ?
Answer - a cherry

[ladyalex]

In Scotland we said

A wee wee man with a red red coat
A stick in his hand and a stone in his throat
Who is he ?
A cherry.

[Old_Geezer]

The first 2 lines are pretty much just setting the scene aren't they.
You don't have to have an exact reason for every word in a riddle, just so long as none of it makes the claimed answer, wrong. Otherwise I want to know where the groat we were promised, is :-)