Here and THERE
RIDDLES What coat can never be stitched? A coat of paint.
Why do sailors know that there are mountains on the moon? Because they'have been to see (sea). —RUTH DICKIE 'aged 12), Glentunnel.
When are we all artists? When we draw long faces. Why is a dirty boy like a woollen garment? Because they both shrink from washing.
RIDDLEMEREE
My first is in window but not in house, My second is in mice but not in mouse, My third is in nothing but not in lot. My fourth is in bed but not in cot, My whole is a thing that makes trees rock. Answer; Wind. —JENNIFER WARREN. 78 Armagh street, Christchurch.
A boy asked his lather what he was smoking, and his father replied: "Two parts of a cross, a circle, an upright standing where two semicircles meet, a triangle standing on two feet, two semi-circles, and a circle.” The boy was nonplussed, so his father wrote down. Tobacco. —BERYL AVIS, Oaro.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23191, 30 November 1940, Page 4
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166Here and THERE Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23191, 30 November 1940, Page 4
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