Mrs Biggar had a baby. Which was the bigger? The baby was a little Biggar!
Which was the bigger, Mr Biggar or the baby? Mr Biggar was father Biggar!
Mr Biggar died; was the baby then bigger than Mrs Biggar? No, for the baby was fatherless!
MAGIC CARD SQUARE
Place the sixteen court cards from an ordinary pack in the form of a square, so arranged that no row, no column, and neither of the diagonals shall contain more than one card of each suit, and one of each rank.
As the solution presents no difficulty, but merely calls for patience and attention, we will leave it to the ingenuity of our readers.
THE ANNO DOMINI PUZZLE
A Scottish tradesman had made, as he supposed, about £4,000, but his old clerk produced a balance-sheet which plainly showed £6,000 to his credit. It came upon the old gentleman as quite a disappointing shock when presently the puzzle was solved by the discovery that in the addition the year of Our Lord had been taken into account!
A PUBLIC SINK
The following ingenious play upon words dates from the days when a promise was made that the Thames pollution should cease in five years:—