A FUNKY SPELLING BEE.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 543, 25 May 1889, Page 14

A FUNKY SPELLING BEE.

Mr Topnoody went to the City Hall last Saturday night, and the funny conundrums and jokes he heard set him to thinking. So at breakfast he began on Mrs Topnoody. She was not in the humour for pleasantry, but Topnoody slashed away. " I say, Mrs Topnoody, can you spell hard water with three letters ?" " No, I can't ; I might, though, if you had taken me to the Hall last night." This staggered him a little, but not seriously. " And you can't spell it ? Well, i-c-e, ain't that hard water." Mrs Topnoody never smiled, and Mr T. went oa. " Now spell ' money ' with four letters." " I don't know how," she said. " Ha, ha, ha, that's too good. A woman never can get at this sort of thing in the same clearheaded way a man can. Well, the way to spell it is c-a-s-h ; ain't that money ?" Again did Mrs T. fail to smile, and Topnoody started out with another. " Hold on a minute," she interrupted looking ugly ; " I've got one. Let's see if you can't guess it. Spell ' Topnoody " with four letters." Topnoody scratched his head awhile, and gave it up. "Ha, ha," laughed Mrs T. ; " that's too good. A man can never get at that sort of thing in the same clearheaded way a woman can. Well, the way to spell it is f-o-o-1 ; ain't that Topnoody?" But Topnoody never smiled, and the breakfast was finished in silence, except an occasional chuckle from Mrs Topnoody's end of the table.