20. London for many years was a wonderful place for sound, for you could laugh at 5 p.m. at Waterloo Junction, and by walking briskly across the river be in time for the late Echo at Charing Cross.
21. Because it may be smelt!
22. The full reading of “1s. 6d. me a bloater” is “Bob Tanner sent me a bloater.”
Note.—If any solver should ask, “But where is the ‘sent’?” we reply, “The scent was in the bloater!”
23. The solution of the prime conundrum “Why is a moth flying round a candle like a garden gate?” is—Because if it keeps on it singes its wings (its hinges it swings).