Why is quizzing like the letter D on horseback? It is deriding (D riding).
When did "Chicago" begin with a "C" and end with an "e"? Chicago always began with a "C" and end always began with an "e."
There is an English word of more than two letters, of which la is the middle, is the beginning, and is the end, though there is but one "a" and one "l" in the word. What is it? Island, of which "la" is the middle, "is" the beginning, "and" is the end.
What word is there of five letters, that, by taking two away, leaves but one? Stone.
What word of one syllable, if you take two letters from it, remains a word of two syllables? Plague; ague.
Why is the letter E a gloomy and discontented vowel? Because, though never out of health and pocket, it never appears in spirits.
Why are the fourteenth and fifteenth letters of the alphabet of more importance than the others? Because we cannot get ON well without them.
Why is the letter D like a squalling child? Because it makes ma mad.
What river is ever without a beginning and ending? S-ever-n.
Which is the coldest river? The Ice is (Isis).