Quite Right.
The young man had been invited to attend a chur-.-li social. and when he arrived he found that it was a "fonumdruni Parly." and that each person was exnect.-d to propound at least one conundrum of his own devising. When Ills turn came he ask“d to be excused until later in the evening, saying that Ik* must have lime to think up a good one. So he was passed over until the very last, when the master of ceremonies asked him if he were ready. “I am.” he said. “Why is this conundrum like the first meal you eat on your first trip across Cook Straits’’’ And when everybody said they would give it up. he said that was the answer.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 17
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123Quite Right. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 17
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