Riddles for the Kiddies.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 16, 31 December 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

Riddles for the Kiddies.

Q. What i-: than going to law? A. Judging for yourself. Q. What is taken from you betore you get it? A. Your portrait. Q. On wl.at day of the year do mon talk least? A. The (shortest day. Q. What is that- which is full of h>>:." and yet holds water? V A sponge Q. What is the charactert-tic of a watch A. Modestv, at i* keeps its hands before its face, and runs down its own works. Q. I went to the wood and got it. when I got it I looked for it, the more f looked fot it the less I Tked it, and I absolutely came a.vay with it in my hand because I could nut find it? A A thorn. VERY ACTIVE. I’m a person rwd useful, most active well known. Alike I’m esteemed both in country and t -vn : Take one 1-tte- from me, take three or take four, And still von behold me the same as before. Can you tell who I am? SOLUTION. A Pcstm an. AVE GIVE IT UP . Writes a reader: — Mr. Editor, tell me why co’onel Is spelt in a way so infolonel, Shed one r-.iv of b'ght On an ir.norent wight Who for rears has subscrilied to your joh.nel. INDISPENSABLE. fn pvi rv v. ord < | every age—■ In every speech of man. Although I shun the printed page, I've been since Time began.

Man can direct me. Man destroy, Or check me ps I c will ; But while he live-;, in wre> cr joy. I must be with him still. Scarce human eye mv form may know—let humm lives I save: And .it Inst must a'l n>en go, Without me, to trie grave! SOLUTION. A Breath WORDS WITH WINGS. The best things are the nearest: The light, the free, fresh air. Flowers that spring up around us. Birds singing everywhere. Be not for ever grasning, Tim st-rs far overhead. Bn* do 1 fe's common duii s. Enjoy your daily bread. Frank E. Middleton.