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‘HOW TO SOLVE CONUNDRUMS, 81
“When is a woman nota woman? When, she is a little cross.
h Why is dr unkenness like a ragged coat? Because it is a bad
abit. -
Why isa proud lady like a music book? Because she is s full
of airs,
Why is a pianist like. the warder of a prison? Because ho
fingers the keys.
Why -is: an. avaricious merchant like a Turk? Because he-
Worships the profit,
When is a plant to he dreaded more than a ‘mad. dog? When o
it is madder.
Why is a harmonium. like the Bank of England? Because it
issues notes,
Why is love like a candle? Because tho longer it. burns tho
less it becomes.
Why can no man say his timo is his own? Because it is mado
up of hours (ours).
Why is a hen walking like a base conspiracy? Because it is a
foul (fowl) proceeding, oo
Why is a curtain lecture like’ darkness? “Because it lasts from
night till morning,
Why is aship the Bo bow thing in the world? | ‘Because ‘she
always advances with a bow.
Why is a good sermon like a kiss? Because it only roquires
two heads and an application.
Why should a thirsty man always carry a wateh? Because
there’s a spring inside of it.
Why is a well-trained horse liko a benevolent man? Because
he stops at the sound of wo (woe). :
Why is a miser like a man with a short memory? Beenuse he _
is always for gotting (forgetting).
~ Why are clergymen liko cabinet-makers when performing the.
marriage ceremony? Because they are joiners. _
Why is it easy to break into an old man’s house? Because his
gait (gate) is broken and his locks are few... ~
(Why should the world become blind if deprived of its philoso-
phers? Because there would be no seers,
Why are blacksmiths the most discontented of tradesmen? :
Because they are always on tho strike for wages.
Why would a great gourmand cake a very clumsy dress- —
maker? Because the more he takes in, the more he tucks out.
Why is a baker the cheapest landlord but the dearest builder? —
Hoe is the cheapest [landlord when ho ean sell you a little cottage
' for twopence; when he is the dearest builder is Whon he charges
you sixpenco for a brick.
What is the difference between a man who has nothing to da
and alaborer? The one gets-agreat deal of “ otium cum dis. "
the latter a great deal i dig. Without otium,
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