RIDDLES FROM READERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 117, 20 May 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

RIDDLES FROM READERS.

(Sent in by V. Brown, 7, Slieehan Street, Ponsouby.)

Q. A number, part of t tlie face and a relative. Find a poet. A.—Ten-eye-son (Tennyson). Q. Not dead, and a mineral. Think of an explorer who was in Africa. A. Livingstone.

Q. A place where corn is ground, and a weight. Find the name of a noted author who was blind. A. Mill-ton. Q. —To be agitated and n, weapon. Think of a great poet. A. Shake-spear. Q. Enjoyed at breakfast. The name 01 an essay writer. A. Bacon. (By Catherine Dennis, Woodcocks Road, vVurkworlh.) Q. What has only one foot? A A leg. Q. Which burns the longest, a tallow candlo or a wax candle? A. Neither. They both burn shorter. Q. • When does a ship toll falsehoods? A. When it lies at the wharf. "Q. When is a kettle happy? A. When it sings. Q. When is a girl's hair like the sea ? A. When it is in " waves."

(Sent in by Margaret Swann, Suva, Fiji.) (J. What is that which a pudding has, and which everything else that pan be found in the world lias also? A. A name. Q. What sort of monkeys would make the best wine? A. Grey-apes. Q. What is yotirs, and is used by others more than yourself? A. Your name. Q. Why is an old bachelor like an accurate mathematician? A. Because he is not likely to misstake. Q. When is a man like a lookingglass ? A. When he reflects. Q. Why did the tomato blush? A. Because the sun kissed it. (Sent in by Edith Cleveland, Lunn Avenue, Mount Wellington.) Q.—When are you not yourself? A. : —When you are a little pale (pail). Q. —In what month do children talk the' least ? A.—February, because it is the shortest. Q. —Why is a lazy dog like a hill? A.—Because he is a slow pup (slope up). Q. —How can you make a slow horse fast? / A.—Tie him to a post.