Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Her Conundrum. [ARTICLE]

Her Conundrum.

It is often hard to determine a hit from “good wit” In the case of children, and some of their flashes of precocity seem not to be unconscious, but rather the fragment of some remembered knowledge. A little maid of 5, who had been listening quietly to the puzzles and conundrums of the older children, seemed at last to divine the method of their construction and after some thought, asked: . “What could you get on a very high, steep mountain?” The answers were Ice, snow, rocks, eagles’ nests and the like, to all of which the little one persistently shook her head. When asked to tell the answer she triumphantly cried, “Nothing!” “But why?” asked the others, in a breath. “Because you Couldn’t get up there after it,” was the demure reply.