Why are circus-horses such slow goers? Because they are taught-’orses (tortoises).
I am forever, yet was never. Eternity.
Why is a railroad-car like a bed-bug? Because it runs on sleepers.
Why is it impossible for a man to boil his father thoroughly. Because he can only be par-boiled.
What soup would cannibals prefer? The broth of a boy.
Why is an old coat like iron? Because it is a specimen of hard-ware.
Place three sixes together, so as to make seven. 6 6-6.
Add one to nine and make it twenty. IX—cross the I, it makes XX.
My first of anything is half,
My second is complete;
And so remains until once more
My first and second meet.
Semi-circle.