Conandrums New and Old: Riddels, Puszles, and Gags

Riddle

Q: Why do women carry parasols?

A: They shield women’s heads from the mind-control rays of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

In nothing is the doctrine of the survival of the fittest more aptly illustrated than in the bloody striving of animals to consume one another.

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Collected by John Jay Rederick J. Drake & Company Publishers Chicago, 1902

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