WATERBURY CONUNDRUMS.
An Aucklander who evidently throws off conundrums as readily as a Scotchman takes to porridge, or a duck to water, sends us five, two of which will probably figure in the final score submitted to the public for ballot. From "A. M„" Mount Eden, Auckland : " Why are the watches manufactured */ the Waterbury Watch Companylike the number forty ?" " Because they XL." "Why is the best watch manufacturea like a funeral at sea?" " Because it's a Water Bury." Good morrow, good sir, a goodly braoe* but, as the monkey observed about his eye* brows, those remaining are a pair I
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9759, 23 June 1892, Page 2
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100WATERBURY CONUNDRUMS. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9759, 23 June 1892, Page 2
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