The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-02-29
WORLD.
A TRADE IN RIDDLES.

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go to Schalampt was allowed to come
on board and journey with them upon
condition that he would conduct himself
with propriety, and give the Captain Is
krentzers for his passage.
Now, it is true something jingled in
the Jews pocket, when he had struck
his hand against it; but the only money
there. was twelve-kreutzer piece, for
the other was brass button.
Notwithstanding this, he accepted
the offer with gratitude, for he thought
to himself: Something may be earned
even upon the water. There has many
man grown rich on the river Rhine"
During the first part of the voyage
the passengers were very talkative and
merry, and the Jew, with his wallet un,
der his arm, for he did not lay it aside,
was an object of much mirth and mock
cry, as, alas! is often the case with
those of his nation.
But as the vessel sailed onward, and
passed Thuringen and St. Welt, the pas
sengers, one after another, grew silent,
and gaped and gazed listlessly down
the river, until one cried
"Come, Jew, do you know any pas
time that will amuse us? Your fathers
must have contrived many one during
their journey through the wilderness"
"Now is the time" thought the Jew,
to "shear my sheep"
He then proposed that they should
sit round in a circle, and he. with their
permission, would sit with them. Those
who could not answer the questions any
one proposed, should pay the one who
propounded them a twelve-kreutzer
piece; and those who answered them
pertinently should receive a twelve
kreutzer piece.
This proposal pleased the company,
and, hoping to divert themselves with
the Jews wit or stupidity, each one
asked at random, whatever CHANGED to
enter his head Thus, for example, the
first one asked
"How many softboiled eggs could
Giant Goliah eat on an empty stomach?"I
All said it was impossible TO answer
that question; but the Jew said:
Zone; for he who has eaten one egg
cannot put the second on an empty
stomach" and the other paid him II
kreutzers.
"Wait, jew" thought the second, Il
will try you out of the New Testament
and l think l shall win my piece"
Then said he, why did the Apostle
Paul write the Second Epistle to the
Corinthians"
Because he was not in Corinth, said
the Jew, otherwise he would have
spoken to them"
So he won another twelve-kreutzer
piece. When the third saw that the
Jew was well versed in the Bible he
tried him in different way
Who" said he, "prolongs his work
to as great length as possible, and
it in timer"
"The ropemaker, if he is Industrious"
said the Jew.
In the meantime they drew near to a
village, and one said to the other.
q That is Bamlach."
Then the fourth said:
"In what month do the people of l
eat leastp
"In February" said the Jew; for it
has only % days" {
There are two natural brothers." /,
said the fifth, "and still only one of them I
is my uncle" I
"The uncle is your fathers brother" I
said the Jew, land your father is not
your uncle"
A fish now leaped out of the water, :
and the sixth asked.
what fish have their eyes nearest G
'
"The smallest" said the Jew. t
The seventh asked:
How can man ride from Balse to
Berne in the shade, in the summer time 5
when the sun is shining?" J
When he comes to place where c
here is no shade he must dismount and C
20 on foot" was the answer, n
The eighth asked y
when a man rides in the winter s
ime from Berne to Balse, and has for Ii
,otten his gloves, how must he manage b
o that his hands won't freezer" t
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