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Otago Witness, Issue 1989, 7 April 1892, Page 32

•m/T ORE CONUNDRUMS. A Heathcote Valley boy in a moment of cheerful exhilaration fills three sheets with what he - styles " Conundrums, Puns, Jokes, iio.," and although in two or three instances he, has fallen into the error made by several of our correspondents, he is at other times fairly " on the spot." We tried hard in our advertisement to make it understood that what wo required were conundrums on the Waterbxvry watch, not threadbare jokes applicable to any obsolete "ticker" rehashed, adapted, and otherwise distorted on the off chance of lauding our prize. Here is a sample :—: — From " J. P.," Heathcote Valley : " Why is the spring of a Watcrbury like tin: harvest ? " " Because it sets the hands to work." Exactly ; and doesn't the spring of any other watch ? Here is a better by the sanio author : — " What did the^engineers do after the invention of the Waterbury ? " "They cfcopped their levers and handled the Waterbury." "J. P." His joke:— " Tommy, my boy, when will you be able to swim ?" "Well, daddy, if I cannot swim by this timo next year, may the Water bury me,"