FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

A -blind beggar had a" Brother, -and "the brother died. What^. relation was the blind beggar .to" the brother „- who died ? Most people answer-- at once,'"' Brother, of " course ' ;" but the proper solution is ' Sister.' A gemtleman nained'Llewellynn Ottiwell Wood,, being - a witness in a case, and. asked to spell his name-, as- .' tonished the clerk as follows :—: — . ,; '•Dbiuble L E~ double D ; -B" double L ;." V double N •' '"* O double T"; I double'U ;' E double L ; double U ; double ' Is 'ifr Possible ?~Sideby side place- three pieces - of anything (money is- most convenient), then, take away ' the - middle piece without touching it. . " By; - removing ~; the 4 " right "hand, piece to the side -of the left,,, you thus' take away the centre without - touching it. '"..•,• ••.•'- Here is .a little poser that will take in not' a few,people. A gen*tleinan ' stood upon his breakfast table ; two egg cups, and An each, ,he placed an "egg' that had - been intended for his' morning • meal. * -He f had notbought, the eggs,- he; had not; stolen them, he did not himself ■ keep v hens*- '.arid' -the- eggs had been "neitherlent" nor given to Tiinil ~ " How, then, did he get the' eggs to put into - the; two egg cups ? The correct answer to the" puzzle is the gentleman ilcept ducks*