MAP MYSTERIES.
(Copied by Allsa Wallace, Pah Road, Kpsom.)
Q. Find the mount which is forever taking its ease. A. Everest.
Q. The islands which never grow wise. A. Scilly Islands. Q. The Cape which a huntsman delights to hear. A. Cape Horn.
Q. The toffee-town Uncle Sam brings home.
A. Candy.
Q. The island you eat in the form of a cake. A. Madeira Wand.
Q. The inlands you take on a picnicking trip. A. Sandwich Islands. Q. The streum that is a dear little thijig.
A. Darling River. Q. The Jake that ia very stuck up. A. {Superior. HOWLERS. i (Copied by Peggy Wallace, Pah Road, Kptsom.) An herbaceous border is a lodger who won't eat moat. A boy writing an essay on a "wet day" paid: "It was raining cats and dogs and the street was covered with poodles." A baby horse is called a fowl. A deacon is a thin<; you pile on top of a hill and set fire to it. Polonius was a mythical sausage. The zebra is a sort of cream-coloured donkey with black stripes from which they make jjrat<> polish. Hie inhabitants of Moscow arc called mosquitoes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)
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