JOKES AND RIDDLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1935, Page 18 (Supplement)

JOKES AND RIDDLES.

Harry: “Is the sea big, mummy?” Mother: “Yes; it stretches ever so far.” Harry: “Well, I never knew it was made of elastic!” (Sent by Joan and Ivan Kyle). ® # » • RIDDLE-ME-REE. An old verse asks:— “What goes on four legs, on two legs, then on three, and the fewer it goes on the stronger it be?” Can you solve this riddle of what this strange creature is? You have all seen plenty of them, but in case you cannot work it out the answer is "man.” Goir|; on four legs means the baby crawling, not yet strong enough to walk by itself, going on three means an old person who must have a stick to walk with, so that man is certainly strongest when he walks just ordinarily, on two legs. (Sent by Keith Knofflock). # # * * HoW would you make a Venetian blind?—Poke your finger in his eye. (Sent by Marie O’Sullivan). What has four legs and two arms but yet cannot move away?—An arm-chair. (Sent by Doreen Treweek). I often cross the stormy sea and make a noise and grow on a tree. What am I?—Bark (barque). (Sent by Nairne Ross).