Name that which with only one eye put out has but a nose left. Noise.

What is that which you can go nowhere without, and yet is of no use to you? Noise.

What is that which stands fast, yet sometimes runs fast? The nose.

When has a man four hands? When he doubles his fists.

The tea-things were gone, and round grandpapa’s chair
The young people tumultuously came;
“Now give us a puzzle, dear grandpa,” they cried;
“An enigma, or some pretty game.”

“You shall have an enigma—a puzzling one, too,”
Said the old man, with fun in his eye;
“You all know it well; it is found in this room;
Now, see who’ll be first to reply:”

  1. In a bright sunny clime was the place of my birth,
    Where flourished and grew on my native earth;
  2. And my parents’ dear side ne’er left for an hour
    Until gain-seeking man got me into his power—
  3. When he bore me away o’er the wide ocean wave,
    And now daily and hourly to serve him I slave.
  4. I am used by the weakly to keep them from cold,
  5. And the nervous and timid I tend to make bold;
  6. To destruction sometimes I the heedless betray,
  7. Or may shelter the head from the heat of the day.
  8. I am placed in the mouth to make matters secure,
  9. But that none wish to eat me I feel pretty sure.
  10. The minds of the young I oft serve to amuse,
    While the blood through their systems I freely diffuse;
  11. And in me may the representation be seen
    Of the old ruined castle, or church on the green.

What Egyptian official would a little boy mention if he were to call his mother to the window to see something wonderful? Mammy-look (Mameluke).

What’s the difference between a Bedouin Arab and a milkman in a large way of business? One has high dromedaries, the other has hired roomy dairies (higher dromedaries).

Why was the whale that swallowed Jonah like a milkman who has retired on an independence? Because he took a great profit (prophet) out of the water.