24. (Twe)lve—twe(nty) = twenty.
25. Because it would be my newt (minute).
26. The steps by which, in paying my debt to a lawyer, a threepenny piece swells to the needed six and eightpence are these:—
Three pence is one and two pence;
One and two pence is fourteen pence;
Fourteen pence is six and eight pence!
27. When the Vickers Maxim (vicar smacks him).
28. Children should go to bed soon after tea because when “t” is taken away night is nigh.