Riddles from the Border Regions, 3/6/10

I have two legs
I wear a belt
Yet arms and head
I've not been dealt.

The clues in this riddle give us a physical description of the letter A:  Two legs and a belt, without arms or a head.   But here's a completely different strategy for an A riddle.   It's from the 1800's.   "I'm not in the gouty, though in the rheumatic/ Nor yet in the kitchen, though I'm in the attic/  I'm not in the light, though I blaze in the candle/ I'm not in the knife, though found in the handle."   This riddle presents pairs of related words:  one has an A in the, the other does not.

NEW RIDDLE:
Freakish, it has got three hands
The second is the third.
(answer:  see 3/13/10 piece)