Puzzledom.

Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1443, 20 July 1933, Page 3

Puzzledom.

TONGUE TWISTERS. (Sent by Alfred Barlow) “My flat front feet feel funny,” said Freddy, the freckled French Merry Mary marched merrily along with Mick, the mischievous Maltese monkey. RIDDLES FOR YOU. 1. Why are large rivers like branches ? 2. When is a woman not a woman? 3. When has a man four hands? 4. Why is the summer sun like a

sixpence ? 5. What kind of paper tells yott who you are ? 6. What is a young lady- who keeps refusing you? 7. Why did the apple turn over? 8. What animal reversed becomes a water plant? 9. What is the Smallest place a person can move in? 10. Why is the letter A never ill? 11. When is a lady like an echo? 12. What table is useful though it has no legs? 13. Why had Eve no fear of the measles ? 14. Why are ears like a regimental band ? 15. Tell us the best way to make the hours go fast. 16. Why is the letter E the most forward letter? (Answers at end of column)

RIDDLES GUESSED. 1. Because they have branches. 2. When she is a little cross. 3. When he doubles his fists. 4. Because it is a tanner. 5. Tissue (’tis you). 6. Too “no ”-ing. 7. Because it saw the coal scuttle. 8. Deer, reed. 9. His shoes. 10. Because it is always seen in health. 11. When she always will have the last word. 12. The multiplication table. 13. Because she’d Adam (she’d ’ad ’em). 14. Because they have drums in them. 15. Use the spur of the moment. 16. Because it is at the beginning of everything. ANSWERS. Behead and Curtail. —Pirate, irate, rate, rat, at. What Reptile?—Snake. Changing Heads. —1, Weed, deed; 2, permit, hermit; 3, decline, recline; 4, pat, cat; 5, hunch, bunch; 6, render, tender; 7, sever, lever; 8, rear, fear.