As the answer is foot-ball, the two last lines should manifestly have been placed first.
The “Conundrums” are next in the arrangement, and I cite one of them:
“Why are there, strictly speaking, only 325 days in the year?”
“Because,” is the reply, “forty of them are lent and never returned.” The “Riddles” follow in this portion of the “Nuts to Crack.” Of these, one is not very difficult to be solved, though it is distinguished for the usual grammatical confusion of tenses:
“A man has three daughters, and each of these have a brother. How many children had he?”
The “Charades” complete the series. Of these I select one of the best:
“I am a word of letters seven,
I’m sinful in the sight of heaven,
To every virtue I’m opposed,
Man’s weary life I’ve often closed.