RIDDLES FOR ALICE
Questions: 1. Why are the crows very wife birds? 2. What wig does no barber cut? 3. What teeth are never pulled out? —Delma Meads, Kawai Street (1 point) 4. When is a horse like an artist? 5. When is a policeman like a photograph? 6. What is the difference between a tree and an aeroplane? —Thelma Gill, Stoka. (1 point) Answers: 1. Because they never complain with, out caws (cause). 2. An earwig. 3. The teeth of a comb. 4. When it draws a cart. 5. When it is mounfed. 6. One sheds its leaves and the other leaves its shed. * * * * Questions: 1. Why did the owl (h) owl? 2. Why did the fly fly? 3. Why did the jam roll? 4. Why did the penny stamp? Answers: 1. Because the wood pecker woodpecker (would peck her). 2. Because the spider spider (spied her). 3. Because the apple turnover. 4. Because the threepenny bit. —Sent in by Royce Sigley. Riwaka. (1 point)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 26 August 1939, Page 12
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166RIDDLES FOR ALICE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 26 August 1939, Page 12
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