THINK TWICE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 15

THINK TWICE.

What birds have four feet and yellow feathers?— Two canaries. Do you know what all our friends have seen, but will never see again?— Yesterday, of course. What is always at the .head of fashion and yet always out of date?— The letter F. ' What word of five letters is never pronounced right?— Wrong. When is it a good thing to lose your temper?— When it is a bad one. What word of seven letters is spelt the samo backwards as forwards?— Reviver. What letter made Queen Elizabeth mind her P's and Q's?—R made her (Amada). A WORD SQUARE. These clues will help you to find four words which, written one under the other, will make a square of words. Each word, of course, has four letters: A bird's home. Always. A prefix meaning half. Stumble. A REVERSED WORD. I'm the god of the plains, Among satyrs and swains; A pudding I often contain; • Reverse me, 'twill show What I'm sure, sir, that you,' B When drowsy, would wish to obtain. AN ENIGMA. Since time began my age I date, Yet still retain my youthful state; And if I live till all things moulder I never Bhall be one day older. I'm.that which none can ever sec Or what now is shall never be; I always rise with every morn, And yet must die before I'm born. Parties, I ask to dino with me. But with,them I can never be; As long as time remains the same, So long shall I retain my name. And though my life is but a span, Yet time must die before I can; To find mo out this clue I'll give: If time were dead, I could not live. A CHARADE. My first is out when you're asleep; My second lives within the deep, And now my whole you'll wish to see; You'll find me perched upon a tree. AN ACROSTIC. 1. A compound of. metals. 2. The goddess of youth. ','>. An island continent. 4. Seen at every railway station. ~>. A sixteenth of two gallons, ti. A brute in human form, in Gulliver 's Travels. 7. Though Latin, this is new. 8. An elongated fish. !>. The ivy clings to this. The initials and finals make a topical greeting.