Why are greenbacks like the Jews? Because they are the produce of Abraham.
What parts of what animals are like the spring and autumn gales? The equine hocks (equinox).
Two gamblers were sitting
Striving to cheat each other,
And, by a cunning trick, my last
Had raised a fearful bother.
The one who lost he looked my first,
But he who won assumed my whole,
Which little did the luckless one
Amid his bitter grief console.
Since both were rogues, we will not screen them—
There was not my second to choose between them.
Grim-ace.
Who was hung for not wearing a wig? Absalom.
Which eat most grass, black sheep or white? White, because there are more of them.
What is the difference between the manner of the death of a barber and a sculptor? One curls up and dies, and the other makes faces and busts.
What is the difference between a mother with a large family and a barber? One shaves with his razors, and the other raises her shavers.
My love for you will never know
My first, nor get my second:
’Tis like your wit and beauty, so
My whole ’twill aye be reckoned.