A young man seated at dinner one time said to his wife': “Ellen, if you are good at guessing, here is a conundrum for for you: If the. devil should lose his tail where would he go to get another one?” After some time spent in guessing .she gave it up. “Well,” said he, “where they retail spirits.” Eager to get it off, she hastened to a lady friend with: “Oh, Marian. I have such a niee conundrum. Joe just told me of it. I know you can guess it. If the devil should lose his tail, where would he go to get another one?” Iler friend Marian, having given it up, she said: “Where they sell liquor by the glass.” Marian couldn’t see the point of the joke.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 5, 3 February 1909, Page 61
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