Ape-ril (1).
What grows the less tired the more it works? A carriage-wheel.
Which would you rather, look a greater fool than you are, or be a greater fool than you look? Let a person choose, then say, “That’s impossible.”
What was Joan of Arc made of? She was—we have every reason to believe—Maid of Orleans!
Which would you rather, that a lion ate you or a tiger? Why, you would rather that the lion ate the tiger, of course!
When does a leopard change his spots? When he moves from one spot to another!
I paint without colors, I fly without wings,
I people the air with most fanciful things;
I hear sweetest music where no sound is heard,
And eloquence moves me, nor utters a word.
The past and the present together I bring,
The distant and near gather under my wing.
Far swifter than lightning my wonderful flight,
Through the sunshine of day, or the darkness of night;
And those who would find me, must find me, indeed,
As this picture they scan, and this poesy read.
Imagination.
A pudding-bag is a pudding-bag, and a pudding-bag has what everything else has; what is it? A name.
What vegetable does a lady’s tongue resemble? The scarlet runner!