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THINK TWICE.

If a caterpillar walks on twelve legs, and an elephant on four, what goes on oneI?—tA stocking. ; Why is a letter A like twelve o'clock? (—Because they both come in ...the middle 'of day. Why is the nose in the middle of the if aco ?—Because it is .the centre (scentjer •" ■ . . .■ . What is the word that cannot posfeib : pronounced correctly!— Wrong ■because'it cannot possibly be pronoune- - ed right. What never was, never is, and always ■will be? —To-morrow. Why is the letter G like twelve o'clock? —Because it is in tho middle of night and the end of morning. A WOED SQUARE. The four clues which follow will enable you to build up a word square, of which the four words down are the same as those across. 1. A short, sudden movement. 2. Name of a famous college. 3. A dress. 4. Acquainted with. A TONGUE-TIE. You'll be very, very clever if you can memorise this very long tonguetwister. You'll find it fun trying, • though. Please, doctor, when one doctor doctors another doctor, doos the doctor doing the doctoring doctor tho other doctor as the other doctor wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor tho other doctor as tho doctor doing the doctoring wants to doctor him? It's a rather wonderful sentence, too, isn't it?

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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 15

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THINK TWICE. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 15

THINK TWICE. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 15

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