CONUNDRUMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1415, 24 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

CONUNDRUMS.

1. Why does a wooden-leggedman surprise you? 2. Why are young ladies like bells 1 3. What is the difference between a hurdygurdy man and a double tooth ?

4. Which is the most dissipated city in the world ? 5. When is a baby a four-footed animal ? 6. When is good tea like pure water ? 7. What vice is that which it is frequently advisable to follow 1 8. When is a butterfly like a kiss ? 9* What time by the clock is lhe best for a pun?

10. Why do ladies have to replenish their wardrobe so often ?

11. What is the difference between a railway train and an insolvent bank 1

12. Why is the indorser of a promissory note called a surety ? 13. Why is a hotel ghost like a policeman ? 14. Why are good husbands like dough 1 15. When is a chimney like a chicken 1

ANSWERS.

1. Because he is one foot less than when born.

2. Because you can never find their metal until you have given them a ring. 3. One is an organ grinder, the other a grinding organ. 4. Berlin, for it is always on the Spree. 5. When it is a little dear (deer). 6. When it is well drawn. 7. Advice. 8. When it alights on tulips. 9. A joke takes best when it strikes one. 10. Because their new clothes are sure to be worn out as soon as they get them. 11. In one case the break causes a stoppage, in the other the stoppage causes the break. 12. Because he is almost cure to have to pay it. 13. Because it is an inn-spectre. 14. Because women need them. 15. When it is a little foul.