Why is coffee like an axe with a dull edge?
Answer: Because it must be ground before it is used.
What is the difference between a bottle of medicine and a troublesome boy?
Answer: One is to be well shaken before taken, and the other is to be taken and then shaken.
What makes more noise than a pig under a gate?
Answer: Two pigs.
When is a door not a door?
Answer: When it is a-jar.
What is the difference between a naughty boy and a postage stamp?
Answer: Because one you stick with a lick, and the other you lick with a stick.
Why did William Tell shudder when he shot the apple from his son’s head?
Answer: Because it was an arrow escape for his child.
What is that which the more you take from it the larger it grows?
Answer: A hole.
What is the best land for little kittens?
Answer: Lapland.
Why should a man always wear a watch when he travels in a waterless desert?
Answer: Because every watch has a spring in it.
Of what trade is the sun?
Answer: A tanner.
What relation is a door-mat to a dood?
Answer: Step-fa(r)ther.
What is that which you cannot hold ten minutes, although it is as light as a feather?
Answer: Your breath.
What is the worst weather for rats and mice?
Answer: When it rains cats and dogs.
What is that which never uses its teeth for eating purposes?
Answer: A comb.
Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain