MAKE A WORSE ONE IF YOU CAN.
Q. When is a landlord an insect tamer?
A. When he has ten-ants at will.
PRETTY LITTLE PUZZLES TO PUZZLE PRETTY
LITTLE PUZZLERS.
(A number of the "Comic," with the Editor's Autograph, in red ink, will
be given to any one who finds the solution of these puzzles.)
Thomson, who is a clerk in the Bank, gives his wife permission to spend the day with a dear friend at Camberwell. At six he comes home to dinner, and they bring him up
A AND B
Can you find out how Thomson is to make a dinner of it?
Monsieur le Marquis de Clichy, on his arrival at Leicester Square, has an order for the Opera given to him. On looking over his wardrobe, he finds all his stock of linen to consist of
whilst his chaussure is on the following footing:—
How ever is it possible for Monsieur le Marquis to go to the Opera as a gentleman?
L, who is an excellent swimmer, goes to Paddington one beautiful warm summer's evening for a refreshing dip in the canal. He leaves on the shore
Whilst he is enjoying himself in the limpid stream, B are carried off by
who leave L as they find him.
How, in the name of goodness, is L to get home?
Little Tommy and Harry (H, T) have a penny given to them each by their kind papa, to go and enjoy themselves at the fair. They get into a swing and are soon whirled to the top. There they remain, quite delighted, for half an hour, till it comes on to rain, when little Tommy and Harry venture to ask AX (the proprietor) when is he going to move on?
AX's answer is very plain—"Not till every blessed seat is taken."
How long do little Harry and Tommy remain perched up in the swing before they get their ride?
Brook Green has for dinner on Monday a beautiful sirloin of beef (B), which he flatters himself will last all the week.
On Tuesday he is told there is not a bit of it left. Brook Green is thunderstruck. He cannot understand it. He asks to see the landlady. She "is extremely sorry, but her bothersome cat (C) has eaten it all."
You are requested to put the two together, and to state candidly if you think it very likely; and, if you have any doubt, you are to find out who really is (C) the cat?
Mrs. Large (of Wapping) has a private box (A) sent to her at Christmas, for the Adelphi, by her obliging friend Mr. Sams. The box is in the upper tier, over the proscenium. Mrs. Large (of Wapping) does not like any of her dear children to lose such a treat, so she takes all her family (B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K), besides one or two friends from Panton Square, who are stopping, for change of air, with her.
You are to find out how many the box was to admit; and how you are to get Mrs. Large and her party into it without having a single one over.
Military Intelligence.—We see a book advertised called "The Cornet Made Easy." We are very glad to hear this, and hope the poor fellow will make himself comfortable; only we should like to know what it is that has lately made the Cornet uneasy.
First Love.—The conversation at Holland House turned upon first love. Tom Moore compared it to a potato, "Because it shoots from the eyes." "Or, rather," exclaimed Byron, "because it becomes all the less by paring."