  1. When is a merchant like Ireland? 2. What kind of likeness can you spell with three letters? 3. Why is intemperance like a worn-out coat? 4. How can you prove that seven is half of twelve? 5. Why should a market-gardener always be punctual? 6. If you throw a chip into the water, what does it become? 7. How does a locomotive at full speed resemble idleness? 8. Where was Washington when his companions put all the lights out? 9. Why is a translated fable like hatred? 10. What is that which is broken by merely naming it? 11. What pies are you not likely to find at the baker’s? 12. Why is the heir-apparent of England like a cloudy day? 13. What foreign letter expresses a title? 14. What two letters express what you ought to do all things? 15. What two letters express an impoverished purse? 16. What four letters express a good drink for a cold? 17. What two letters name a river in America? 18. What two letters name a county in England? Old man 19. Why is it easy to break into an old man’s house? 20. What is the quickest way to make a thin man fat? 21. How much land is like a decayed tooth? 22. When do your teeth act like your tongue? 23. What foreign letter names the territory of a duke? 24. What tree pinches an Israelite? 25. What is that which pierces and leaves no hole? 26. When is a boat like a lady in love with an artist? 27. Do you know of any word entirely composed of vowels? 28. When does a bonnet resemble a useless search? 29. When are bad dispositions and flour alike? 30. What cordial is Dally’s Pain Extractor like? 31. What nations do poor people like best? Church spire 32. Why is a church spire like Antrim county, Ireland? 33. When we ask the cities of Europe what novelists are called, which one replies? 34. What bad effect does the letter B have upon sunshine? 35. Who is always ready to reply to any question? 36. What young lady is the most pugnaciously disposed? 37. What young lady most interferes with the serenity of our sanctum? 38. Why can you never believe a man who always fulfills his promises? 39. When may a man be said to be thinner than a shingle? 40. What is more desirable for man than good quarters? 41. What is that which always crosses a river with its head downward? 42. Why is an old woman who can not work, like a young woman who can work, and does work? 43. Where did Kossuth stand when he first landed in America? |
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