When is sugar like a pig’s tooth? When in a hog’s head.
If you met a pig in tears, what animal’s name might you mention to it? Pork you pine.
The proverb says, “One swallow does not make Spring;” when is the proverb wrong? When the swallow is one gulp at a big boiling hot cup of tea in a railway station, as, if that one swallow does not make one spring, we should be glad to hear what does.
How many Spanish noblemen does it take to make one American run? Ten-dons!
What is that which we all swallow before we speak? Pap!
Enigma guessers, tell me what I am.
I’ve been a drake, a fox, a hare, a lamb—
You all possess me, and in every street
In varied shape and form with me you’ll meet;
With Christians I am never single known,
Am green, or scarlet, brown, white, gray, or stone.
I dwelt in Paradise with Mother Eve,
And went with her, when she, alas! did leave.
To Britain with Caractacus I came,
And made Augustus Cæsar known to fame.
The lover gives me on his wedding-day,
The poet writes me in his natal lay;
The father always gives me to each son,
It matters not if he has twelve or one;
But has he daughters?—then ’tis plainly shown
That I to them am seldom but a loan.
Name.
What is that which belongs to yourself, yet is used by every one more than yourself? Your name.
What tongue is it that frequently hurts and grieves you, and yet does not speak a word? The tongue of your shoe.