FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 22 November 1906, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

A word of five letters I am": Come, puzzle me out, if you can. My first and my Jast are alike, 1 declare ; My second and fourth are also a pair ; Read backwards and forwards, I'm always the same ; Behead and curtail me, then I'm a name. The rest I shall leave:- to my carpenter friends, Who oft take my whole to accomplish their ends. Answer — Level. „ . The Dancing. Egg. — Send for" 'some eggs, and take care to place among them one which has been emptied of its contents, and to which isi fastened - a . long hair, at the other end of which is tied a crooked pin. Borrow a small stick 'from one of the spectators, and as you go behind your table contrive to hook the bent pin into your coat, passing it over .the stick. Then place the egg on' an inverted hat, and ask for some music, but directly it begins- to sound, a slight and imperceptible depression or- elevation of the stick will cause the* egg to twist land roll about upon it as if it had life. You must be. careful to turn gently now and then, so as apparently to vary the distance of ' the -egg 'from the body. What is .the -superlative of temper ? Tempest. What nation does a criminal dread ? . Condemnation. What is there t y oil 'cannot "lake with a kodak ? A hint., "' -" '-"' -_- A< --' What "animals, when beheadod, become very cold ? Mice. What is the waste of time ? The middle of an hourglass.- , ; . .„_. • ....,-. , . ■ - _■ What animals are; generally . brought to a funeral? Black kids; - '- •■'•-- -«r - , - -■ What is it whicli works when it plays and' plays whenit works? .A fountaihT*._ ... , i '■ « -. ' ■' Of" what.4rade are" ail'the presidents of the" United States ? Cabinet makers, -< Two .ducks before a duck. and two ducks behind a duck and a duck ih'the middle.' How many ducks in all? Three. ..-...._ " >. ■ . W'hatis the, difference, between an oak tree and a tight boot ? ' One makes acorns, and the other makes -. corns - ache. .----.-.-.' Why -does a' cat ~ look first on one side and— then on' the other when she comes into a room ? Because she can't look both ways at once*