FOR THE PLAY-HOUR

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1928, Page 20

FOR THE PLAY-HOUR

EVER BEEN CAUGHT? Tell your friend that you can show him something that he nor you has ever seen before, and that, when you’ve seen it, neither of you will be able to do so again. Then crack a nut and eat the kernel! WHAT! —CAUGHT AGAIN ! Try this, too. Tell your friend that you can make two sixes make eleven. He’ll not believe you, but —take six matches, place them so that they make two Roman sixes. Then rearrange them, one six turned round and placed beneath tire other, when you’ll have a Roman XI. SOME RIDDLES. What is headless, but eyed ?—A needle. What is eyeless, although it has a head?—A pin. Why is a blacksmith like a elock?— Because they both strike. | What is it that has got a heart aivt islands on one leg?—A cabbage. A TRICK TO TRY. Here’s rather a good trick for you to play with match-boxes. First ot all you’ll require a couple of empty match boxes. Into one place a few maii-ms, and then place this inside your cuff, so that it is quite secure and quite hidden. Take the second match-box, which is empty, shake your arm up and down, 30 that the matches in the Lox up your sleeve rattle. Then hand the empty box to a friend, and “ay, “Will you please give me a mate!) out of the box?” and lo anil behold, when he opens it, it is quite empty! He’ll think yon have been very clover to have made the notches disappear in that manner.