Howard's Book of Conundrums and Riddles

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...and was to-morrow? Why to-day, of course! By well employing my second you will never regret my first, and you will the more thoroughly enjoy my whole? Past-time! And what question is that to which you must positively answer yes? What does y-e-s spell? ' Why is an author the most wonderful man in the world? Because his tail (tale) comes out of his head! Why are cheese-mites like a book of Bulwer's? Because they are the Pilgrims of the Rhine! Why was Bulwer more likely to get tired of novelwriting than Warren? Because Bulwer wrote Night and Morning, Warren only wrote Now and Then. What author would eye-glasses and spectacles mention to the world if they could only speak? You see by us (Eusebius)! Why is a wax candle like Mr. Dickens'--the immortal Dickens'--last book? Because it's a cereal (serial) work. If you suddenly saw a house on fire, what three celebrated authors would you feel at once disposed to name? Dickens--Howitt--Burns! When is a slug like a poem of Tennyson's? When it's in a garden ( Enoch Arden )! What question of three words may be asked Tennyson concerning a brother poet, the said question consisting of the names of three poets only? Watt's Tupper's Wordsworth (what's Tupper's words worth)? Name the difference between a field of oats and M. F. Tupper? One is cut down, the other cut up! How do we know Lord Byron did not wear a wig? Because every one admired his coarse-hair (corsair so much! Why ought Shakespeare's dramatic works be considered unpopular? Because they contain Much Ado About Nothing. Why was Dickens a greater man than Shakespeare? Because Shakespeare wrote well, but Dickens wrote Weller. Why are apples like printer's types? Because they are often in pi(e). How do we know Lord Byron was good-...