Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — Conundrums. [ARTICLE]

Conundrums.

Why is a healthy boy like the United States? Because he has a good constitution. When is a fish above its station? When it rises and takes a fly. When is a tourist in Ireland like a donkey? When he is going to Bray. What is the keynote to good manners? B natural. Why is a short negro like a white man? Because be is not at all black (a tall black). Why is a hen walking like a conspiracy? It Is a fowl (foul) proceeding. What makes a pair of boots? Two boots. What is the easiest thing in the world to break? Silence. Poetical Butterfly. This is a game played bj any number of persons, one of whom, called tbe “butterfly,” names the others after trees, flowers, birds or Insects. The butterfly pretends to fly from one to another, asking each for his story and then commenting on it as be pleases. Each of the players when thus addressed must give some quotation or mention some tale or legend about the tree, flower, bird or Insect which he represents. Thus the apple tree may allude to the story of William Tell and the robin to the cock robin, while the blackbird may quote: Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie.