Why is a vine like a soldier?
Answer: Because it is listed and has ten drills (tendrils) and shoots.
Why is an opera-singer like a confectioner?
Answer: Because she deals in ice-creams (high screams).
If a man who is carrying a dozen glass lamps drops one, what does he become?
Answer: A lamp lighter.
What belongs to yourself, but is used more by your friends than by yourself?
Answer: Your name.
Why is a spider a good correspondent?
Answer: Because he drops a line at every post.
When is the clock on the stars dangerous?
Answer: When it runs down.
Why is the letter “k” like a pig’s tail?
Answer: Because it comes at the end of pork.
What is the keynote to good manners ?
Answer: B natural.
Why is a five pound bank note much more profitable than five sovereigns?
Answer: Because when you put it in your pocket you double it, and when you take it out you will find it increases (in creases.)
Why is a watch like a river?
Answer: Because it doesn’t run long without winding.
What is that which flies high, flies low, has no feet, and yet wears shoes?
Answer: Dust.
When has a man four hands?
Answer: When he doubles his fists.
What trees has fire no effect upon?
Answer: Ash-trees; because when they are burned, they are ashes still.
What is the difference between a schoolmaster and an engine-driver?
Answer: One minds the train and the other trains the mind.
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Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain