Read see that me but not my got Up shall I love if me love for- And you love you that love for be Down and you if you do you shall Read up and down and you shall see.
Can you tell me why A hypocrite's eye Can better descry Than you or I On how many toes A pussy-cat goes?
A man of deceit Can best count-er-feit; And so, I suppose, Can best count her toes.
My first, though 'tis dirty, 's a thing to a door; My second is made into cakes and a bun; My third is, believe me, by none thought a bore; My whole we have frequently been led to believe by many authors of the United States is very often indeed called one. Mat-ry(e)-money.
Why is a cross old bachelor like the preceding conundrum? Because he's averse to matrimony.
By equal division, I know I am right; The half of thirteen you'll find to be eight. VIII XIII, ----, VIII AIII
[Transcriber's note: The letter A is used here to represent the lower half of the letter X, originally shown by an upside down V.]
I came to a field and couldn't get through it; So I went to school and learned how to do it. Fence.
Legs have I got, but seldom walk, I backbite all, yet never talk. A flea.
I am a good state, there can be no doubt of it; But those who are in, entirely are out of it. Sane; insane.
Formed long ago, yet made to-day, I'm most employed while others sleep; What none would like to give away, Yet no one likes to keep. Bed.
My first of anything is half, My second is complete; And so remains until once more My first and second meet. Semi-circle.
Pray tell me, ladies, if you can, Who is that highly favored man, Who, though he has married many a wife, May still live single all his life? A clergyman.
Great numbers do our use despise, But yet, at last they find, Without our help in many things, They might as well be blind. Spectacles.
My love for you will never know My first, nor yet my second; 'Tis like your wit and beauty, so My whole 'twill aye be reckoned. End-less.
As I was going through a field of wheat, I found something good to eat; It wasn't fish or flesh or bone; I kept it till it ran alone. An egg.
There's a word composed of three letters alone Which reads backwards and forwards the same, It expresses the sentiments warm from the heart, And to beauty lays principal claim. Eye.