n who asks questions the strangest of all individuals?
Because he is the querist.

What is that which travels about, goes much up and down, and wears
shoes, but never had any shoes? A football.

Why are the pages of a book like the days of a man? Because they are
numbered.

What word makes you sick if you leave out one of its letters? Music.

Why is a race at a circus like a big conflagration? Because the heat
is in tents (intense).

Which is the left side of a plum pudding? The part that is not eaten.

Why is a man who runs in debt like a clock? He runs on tick.

Why is a bee-hive like a spectator? Because it is a bee-holder
(beholder).

Why are fixed stars like pen, ink, and paper? Because they are
stationary (stationery).

Why is a cook like a barber? He dresses hare (hair).

Why is a waiter like a race-horse? He often runs for a plate or a
cup.

Why is a good story like a church bell? Because it is often tolled
(told).

What is the weight of the moon? Four quarters.

How can you distinguish a fashionable man from a tired dog? One wears
an entire costume; the other simply pants.

What is the difference between a new sponge and a fashionable man? If
you well wet one it makes it swell, but if you well wet the other it
takes all the swell out of him.

If I were to see you riding on a donkey, what fruit should I be
reminded of? A pair (pear).

Why are cats like unskillful surgeons? Because they mew-till-late and
destroy patience (mutilate and destroy patients).

When may you be said literally to "drink in" music? When you have a
piano for-tea (forte).

What is the difference between a professional pianoforte player, and
the one who hears him? One plays for his pay, the other pays for his
play.

Why is a thief like a bolus given to a lady? Because he's a pilferer
(pill for her).

Why is a dead doctor like a dead duck? Because they have both done
quacking.

Why is a commercial traveler whose "walk in life" is selling eggs,
certain to be successful? Because he shows a good egg-sample from
egg-sell-ent motives (example from excellent motives).

Why is an egg overdone like an egg underdone? Because it's hardly
done.

What is most like a hen stealing? Why, a cock-robin.

Why have chickens no fear of a future state? Because they have their
next world in this (necks twirled).

By what female name would an egg object to be called? Addle-laid
(Adelaide).

Why ought cocks to be the smoothest bi