The Washington herald., 1921-07-17
Contributor Has
List of Riddles
ToG Get Ones Goat

zles and riddles that I though you
might use in the Girls and Boys
Herald:
When may a mans pockets be
empty and yet have something in It?
Answer-when II has q hole In 1t.
How does a postage stamp have
the advantage Of a small boy2
Answer-It can never be licked
but once
Why is a man who makes pens
very wicked?
Answer-He makes people steel
pens and then say they do write.
| What is the difference between
a hill and a pill.
Answer-One is hard to get up
and the other is hard to get down
What is that which has neither
flesh nor blood, yet has four fingers
and a thumb?
Answer-A glove.
Take nifty, add cipher, add fve.
add the fifth of eight. and the total
is the sum of human happiness.
Answer-Love.
! A Poultry Problen.
I bought some fowls the other day.
One hundred dollars did ! pay.
Each turkey did five dollars touch,
Each goose did bring half as much.
While chickens, IL IT must be told.
For ten cents each were freely sold,
One hundred fowls had I in all,
OF each, how many did / buy.
Answer-Twelve turkeys, thirteen
geese and seventy-five chickens.
Can you make a sentence con-
tanning every letter in the al
phabet7
Answer-John quickly extempo-
rized two fine bags.
Answer-James P. Brady gave me
q black walnut of quite small size.
Answer-Why does a quick nim-
Bile fox jump over a lazy dog3
Six ears of corn are in a hollow
stump: how long will Il take a
squirrel to carry them all out II he
takes out three ears a day?
Answer-(The catch" is on the
word ears.) He takes out two ear.
|, on his head. and one ear OF corr
each day. Hence, II takes six days
A man having a fox. a goose ant
some corn came to a river which 4
was necessary to cross. He could
: however, take only one across a
. a time and IL he left the goose ant
the corn while he took the fox owe
| the goose would eat the corn, but 1
: he left-the fox and the goose, tn
Y fox would kill the goose. How
shall he get them all safely over
s Answer-First he takes the COOS
over and returns and takes the 70,
k over, then he takes the goose bacl
4 n nd he ~ ffa
e which he returns and takes tn
| goose over again.
There's a word composed of thre
letters alone,
Which reads backwards and for
?. wards the same,
= 1t expresses the sentiment wax
ie from the heart,
And to beauty lays princips
claim.
Answer-Eye
: My first is in a game, my secon
I Is what we use our eyes for, m
whole is a State of American.
Answer-Tennes-see
Ny number, definite and known,
Is 10x10, told ten times Ger:
One half Of me Is one alone
The other exceeds all count an
score.
Answer-Thousand
My first brings Joy to all around
Ny second may sorrow bring,
My whole but once a year is found
And may be your tomorrow.
Answer-Birthday.
My hrst I hope you are, my sec
ond and see you are, my whole
know you are.
/ Answer-Welcome.
BETTY BURKE.
Age II; IA Grade, H. d. Cook
School.
What has mouth and never eats
and has a bed and never sleeps?
Answer. A river.
What occurs once in a minute
twice in a moment, but not once 4
a hundred years?
Answer. Letter N.
What State is round ion both end
and high in the middle?
Answer. Ohio.
How do you spell:
Easy? &c. 70 Elsie? IL C.
See? (C). Tea? (T). Empty (A
To Cutie? 60. IT, Are? (R,
Be? OBJ
ERNEsTIYE HAIL
|. What is The dreariest part of tn
day?
Answer. The morning (mourning'
| What is like most people that
like pineapple? Most people gc
eyes and so has pineapple.
What color flower makes tn
loudest noise?
Answer. Yeil-o.
ROSE HAsKINs.
s-YEAR-OLD. GLEN ECHO.
There are many of them in som
ladders and We have two of theI
as a part OF our body.
Answer-Feet.
Something we give to the poo
y Is also a part of our body.