1. Why is a drunken man like a Quaker? 2. Why is a nobleman like a book? 3. What burns to keep a secret? 4. When is a door not a door? 5. Why is your nose like V in incivility? 6. Which is the left side of a plum-pudding? 7. Why do we all go to bed? 8. In which month do ladies talk least? 9. Why is Paris like the letter F? 10. Why is London like the letter E? 11. Which is the greatest Friday in the year? 12. Why is a book like a tree? 13. Why is a cobbler like a parson? 14. Why is a cook like a barber? 15. Why do cats see best in the dark? 16. Why is an umbrella like a woman? 17. Why does a miller wear a white hat? 18. Why is an apothecary like a woodcock? 19. Why is money like a whip? 20. Why is a pack of cards like a garden? 21. Why is the Pope of Rome like a pepper-box?
Riddles.
1.
My body is thin,
And no bowels within,
Have neither a head, face, or eye;
Yet a tail I possess,
Forty feet and no less,
And without any wings I can fly.
2.