As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

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-- Joan Baez

I recently mentioned Frog Hollow as a long forgotten Augusta neighborhood that vanished with the passage of time.

The residential area, which resembled Harrisburg from the photos I've seen, sat in the low, flat plain in front of what is now University Hospital.

Carol Taylor, who used to live there, wrote in asking if I had a map that showed Frog Hollow's streets and names.

I didn't, but I found her one in The Chronicle's second-floor library, where the motto is: "We never throw anything away."

I mailed her a copy and she was so happy she passed along a squirrel repellent tip.

"We have a lot of them and they were chewing on my front porch," she wrote. "Someone told me to try human hair. I cut my own hair, so now every time I do, I sprinkle the hair on the porch. It works! You could probably get some from a barber shop if you don't cut your own hair."

Carol, I rushed out and got a haircut Saturday.

But I'm not sure I had enough to spare that would scare many squirrels.

RIDDLE: Earlier this month I asked you to solve a riddle, and no one even guessed.

Last week I asked a new one, and a lot of people got it. Quickly.

Barbara Patrick, Bill Wood, Sharon Byrum, Susan Humphreys, Ginny Guerrant, R.B. Fitzpatrick and Edith Flynt all quickly shared the answer.

Here's the riddle: A farmer was going to town with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. When he came to a stream, he had to cross in a tiny boat and could only take across one thing at a time. However, if he left the fox alone with the goose, the fox would eat the goose; and if he left the goose alone with the corn, the goose would eat the corn. How does he get them all safely over the stream?

The answer?

Trip No. 1 -- Takes goose across river

Trip No. 2 -- Takes grain across river and switches out with goose.

Trip No. 3 -- Switches fox for goose and takes fox across river.

Trip No. 4 -- Takes goose across river.

(Of course, as my father pointed out, no farmer is going to bother with rowing a fox across a stream ... but then it wouldn't have been much of a riddle.)

TODAY'S JOKE: Here's one I should have told Sunday.

A little boy was waiting for his mother to come out of the grocery store. As he waited, he was approached by a man who asked, "Son, can you tell me where the post office is?"

"Sure," the little boy replied. "Just go straight down this street a coupla blocks and turn to your right."

The man thanked the boy kindly and said, "I'm the new pastor in town. I'd like for you to come to church on Sunday. I'll tell you how to get to heaven."

"Awww, come on," the little boy replied with a chuckle. "You don't even know the way to the post office."