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OCR: The Queen of Riddles The queen of Petersburg promised that she would marry anyone who could ask her three riddles she could not answer. Many young men tried to win her hand, but to no avail. Finally, along came Ivan the peasant and he said: 'I saw one good thing with another good thing in it. In order to do good, I took the second good thing out of the first good thing. The queen did not know what to say so pretended she had a headache to put off her answer. She got her maidservant to coax the answer out of Ivan, Next day the queen said to Ivan: