Chapter 28

125.pictorial puzzle

125.pictorial puzzle

125.

126.pictorial puzzle

126.pictorial puzzle

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127.

What skillful housewife does not knowWhen, where to place my first?When nicely done, it will not show;Conspicuous, it is worst.My second all the world must do,Either with head or hand,In different ways the same pursue,On water, or on land.My whole a picture is of life,Varied with good or ill,With bright or dull, with light or dark,Arranged with art and skill.

What skillful housewife does not knowWhen, where to place my first?When nicely done, it will not show;Conspicuous, it is worst.My second all the world must do,Either with head or hand,In different ways the same pursue,On water, or on land.My whole a picture is of life,Varied with good or ill,With bright or dull, with light or dark,Arranged with art and skill.

What skillful housewife does not know

When, where to place my first?

When nicely done, it will not show;

Conspicuous, it is worst.

My second all the world must do,

Either with head or hand,

In different ways the same pursue,

On water, or on land.

My whole a picture is of life,

Varied with good or ill,

With bright or dull, with light or dark,

Arranged with art and skill.

128. What is that which will make you catch cold—cure the cold—and pay the doctor’s bill?

129. Why is a joke like a cocoa-nut?

130. When did Esau, the hairy man, lose his whiskers?

131. Why do postmasters deserve the execration of all true Americans?

132.

Just equal are my head and tail,My middle slender as can be,Whether I stand on head or heel,’Tis all the same to you or me.But if my head should be cut off,The matter’s true, although ’tis strange,My head and body, severed thus,Immediately to nothing change.

Just equal are my head and tail,My middle slender as can be,Whether I stand on head or heel,’Tis all the same to you or me.But if my head should be cut off,The matter’s true, although ’tis strange,My head and body, severed thus,Immediately to nothing change.

Just equal are my head and tail,

My middle slender as can be,

Whether I stand on head or heel,

’Tis all the same to you or me.

But if my head should be cut off,

The matter’s true, although ’tis strange,

My head and body, severed thus,

Immediately to nothing change.

133. If a loafer, smoking a cigar, sets fire to the brush on his upper lip, is it a case of spontaneous combustion?

134.

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