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Two Puzzling Queries.
Read the following surprising sentence.
All 0.
Ans. Nothing after all.
Make one word of the letters of words new door.
Ans. One word.
Grammatical Puzzle.
Take away one letter from a word in the abovestanza and substitute another, leaving the word sometamorphosed still a word of the English language;and, by that change, totally alter the syntacticalconstruction of the whole sentence, changingthe moods and tenses of verbs, turning verbsinto nouns, nouns into adjectives, and adjectivesinto adverbs, etc., and so make the entire stanzabear quite a different meaning from that which ithas as it stands above.
Answer to Grammatical Puzzle.
Take away L in the subjunctive “Let” at the beginningof the first line, and substitute S, and so[3]turn it into the imperative “Set,” when thechanges which necessarily follow will be immediatelyapparent.
Conundrums.
1. Why is ambition like a weathercock? Becauseit is a vain and glittering thing to aspire(a-spire).
2. What preserve would an egg name if itcould speak? Ma-me-laid (Marmelade).
3. What is the difference between a schoolmasterand an engine driver? One trains the mind,the other minds the train.
4. Why are railways like laundresses? Becausethey have “ironed” the world, and occasionallydone a little mangling.
5. Which is the most difficult train to catch?The 12:50, because it is ten to one if you do catchit.
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