MILDREN’S PUZZLE COLUMN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XV, 13 October 1894, Page 359

MILDREN’S PUZZLE COLUMN.

*0 (1) What has a pudding got H that everything else has ’ (2) ® Why is a cow’s tail like a swan’s bosom ? (3) Why does a donkey prefer thistles to oats ’ (4) Why is an engine driver ’->r like a schoolmaster?—Cousin | 1 h Maude. iJmi K // (11 Which is easiest to spell 11 —fiddle-de-dee or fiddle - de,|l ;' \l dum ? (2) What word will, if <QE3fI ‘ \ y°« takeaway the first letter, make you sick ? (3) Why is life the most puzzling of riddles’—Cousin Lena,

ANSWERS. Answer to Cousin Kate’s ‘A good riddle.’ Here are the words : Sutler, ulster, rustle, lustre, lurest, rulest, result.— Cousin Kate. Answer to Cousin Emily’s riddle : Because it is always Dublin (doubling). Lena guesses right. Answer to E.W.’s puzzles : (1) A candle ; (2) A pair of spectacles ; (3) A five-pound note ; because you double it when you put it in your pocket, and find it increases when you take it out. Lena guesses this right. Answer to Nina Slatter’s: (1) A bed ; (2) Because it is full of sharps and fiats. (3) Eight cats. Cousin Sylvia guesses the first correctly, but the second she thinks is noise, which is wrong. Answer to Stella’s puzzle : One. Answer to Stanley’s riddle : When the cow jumped over the moon. Congreve’s buried names : (1) Rena; (2) Nora. Answer to cousin Ruby’s first puzzle : Six herrings. Cousin Lou.—You will have seen before this that your answer is correct.