Two hooting owls, and one small wren to boot,
Did each one lodge last night within my beard."
King Lear, Act IV., Sc. 6.
Hence show, by internal evidence, that Edward Lear wrote Bakespeare.
5. State the various questions to the following answer:— "Because there's a 'b' in both."
6. Give the meaning, if any, to the subjoined flowers of speech:—cheese your patter, perform the negative, a runcible cat, cow-chilo, do a drag, a pale paradox, going tommy-dodd, dead-lurk a crib, the hush of the corn, ferjunt rarm, the mome-raths outgrabe, and filling up the cup.
7. Trace the origin of the following legends:—(a) The old lady who travelled twice round the Inner Circle Railway against her wish; (b) The conversation between Toole and St. Peter about Henry Irving; (c) The leading journalist whose nose cost him £8,000 to colour; and mention any other chestnuts you may know of.
8. Compose a leader in the Times style on Ballet-girls and their Little Ways; in D. T. phraseology on Quaternions; à la Pink 'Un on the Delights of Sunday School; and in the best Guardian manner in Defence of Prize-fighting.
9. Write down all you don't know about any mortal subject you are most ignorant of, provided it has nothing to do with the English language and literature.