What plant stands for No. 4?
Answer: Ivy (IV).
How can a gardener become thrifty?
Answer: By making the most of his thyme, and by always putting some celery in the bank.
Why is it probable that beer was made in the Ark?
Answer: Because the kangaroo went in with hops, and the bear was always bruin.
“What was the biggest thing you saw at the World’s Fair?” asked a wife of her husband.
Answer: “My hotel bill!” said he.
Why is C like a schoolmistress?
Answer: Because it forms lasses into classes.
What is that which never asks any questions and yet requires many answers?
Answer: The street-door.
If a man bumped his head against the top of a room, what article of stationery would he he supplied with ?
Answer: Ceiling whacks. (Sealing-wax.)
Which is the longest word in the English language?
Answer: Smiles; because there is a mile between the first and last letters.
Which is the oldest tree in England?
Answer: The Elder Tree.
How many sides are there to a tree?
Answer: Two, inside and out.
What is that which happens twice in a moment and not once in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
What sea would a man most like to be in on a wet day?
Answer: A dry attic. (Adriatic.)
Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain