Look in the papers, I’m sure to appear;
Look in the oven, perhaps I am there;
Sometimes I assist in promoting a flame,
Sometimes I extinguish—now, reader, my name?
Puff.
If a bear were to go into a dry-goods store, what would he want? Muzzlin’ (muslin).
When my first is broken, it stands in need of my second, and my whole is part of a lady’s dress? Rib-band.
Let us inquire why a vine is like a soldier? Because it is ’listed, trained, has tendrils, and then shoots.
Why is a blacksmith the most likely person to make money by causing the alphabet to quarrel? Because he makes A poke-R and shove-L, and gets paid for so doing?
If the poker, shovel, and tongs cost $7.75, what would a ton of coals come to? To ashes.
What part of a lady’s dress can a blacksmith make? No, no, not her crinoline; guess again; why, her-mits. [Nonsense, we don’t mean hermits; we mean he can make an anchor right (anchorite).]
Why is a blacksmith the most dissatisfied of all mechanics? Because he is always on the strike for wages.