“Each tricky guest had filled his demijohn at the pump, thinking that amid so much cider his aqueous contribution would escape unnoticed. But this trickery, like the trickery of modern politics, had been a little too unanimous.”
A DIFFERENCE WITHOUT A DISTINCTION
It was a Pennsylvania German farmer’s wife who having baked a large number of very fine pies, some mince and some apple, marked the crust of each with two letters—T. M. Being asked by a neighbor what these letters stood for, she said:
“Vy, T. M. on this pie means ‘’Tis mince,’ and on that pie it means ‘’Tain’t mince.”
THE SHY BOARDER
If landladies served flying-fish,
I believe, by jing,
That every time they passed the dish
I’d get a wing.
A KNIGHTLY CONUNDRUM
Query—A Knight to Jerusalem did repair,
And had the colic, when? and where?
Answer—In the middle of the Knight.