other is hard to get down.

What is the difference between a pastry-cook and a billsticker?
One puffs up paste, the other pastes up puffs.

What is the difference between an auction and seasickness?
One is the sale of effects and the other is the effects of a sail.

Why is a photographic album like a drainer on a bar counter?
Because it is often a receptacle for empty mugs.

Why is an interesting book like a toper's nose?
Because it is read (red) to the end.

What relation is your uncle's brother to you, if he is not your
uncle?
Your father.

What is the best throw of the dice?
To throw them away.

What tree clothes half the world?--Cotton.
What tree gives milk? The cow tree.
What tree is a city in Ireland?--Cork.
What plant is a letter of the alphabet?--The Tea (T).
What kind of bat flies without wings?--A brickbat.

Why is a dog biting his own tail like a good manager?
Because he makes both ends meet.

Why is a dog's tail like the pith of a tree?
Because it's the farthest from the bark.

Why does a dog's tail resemble happiness?
Because, run after it as he will, he cannot catch it.

If the Devil lost his tail, where should he go to find a new one?
To a gin palace, for bad spirits are retailed there.

What key is hardest to turn?--A donkey.

Why is a whirlpool like a donkey?
Because it is an eddy.

[Illustration: Man on Donkey--Dangling Carrots from his Long Nose.]

What is it that smells most when you go into a chemist's shop?
Your nose.

Why does a donkey prefer thistles to corn?
Because he's an ass.

Why is a lollypop like a horse?
Because the more you lick it, the faster it goes.

Why is a well-trained horse like a benevolent man?
Because it stops at the sound of woe.

I went to a wood and got it, I sat down to look for it, and brought
it home because I could not find it--
A thorn in my foot.

Why is a naughty boy like a postage stamp?
Because he is licked and put in the corner to make him stick to his
letters.

What is the difference between twice twenty-eight and twice eight
and twenty.
Twenty; because twice twenty eight is fifty-six, and twice eight
and twenty is thirty-six.

What grows less tired the more it works?
A carriage wheel.

What is that which increases the more you take from it?
A hole.

Why is a tight boot like an oak-tree?
Because it produces a-corn.

Who killed one-fourth of the people in the world?