Volume 5 — Conundrums.
Reading edition
1. What is often on the table, often cut, but never eaten?
2. Why is a pair of skates like an apple?
3. Why do we look over a stone wall?
4. In what place did the cock crow when everybody in the world heard him?
5. Why is sin like a picture-frame?
6. What wine is mock agony?
7. Why is a peach-stone like a regiment?
8. Why is a bat like a king?
9. Why is a dancing-master like a tree?
10. Why is death like the letter E?
11. Why is the letter P like uncle’s fat wife going up a hill?
12. Why is the letter G like the sun?
13. Why are a fisherman and a shepherd like beggars?
14. Why is a woman churning like a caterpillar?
15. Why is a madman like two men?
16. Why is a drop of blood like one of Scott’s novels?
17. Why is a baker like a beggar?
18. If I kiss you and you kiss me, what kind of riddle do we make?
19. Whose best works are the most trampled on?
20. Why is a button-hole like a cloudy sky?
21. If you throw up a ripe pumpkin, what will it become?
22. Why do white sheep produce more wool than black ones?
23. What is handsomer when the head is off?
