Why may we doubt the existence of the Giants' Causeway? There are so many sham-rocks in Ireland, this may be one of them.
What is the difference between a certain part of Africa and the shade of Hamlet's father stalking in winter? One is the Gold Coast, the other the cold ghost.
Why is love like the Erie Canal? It's an internal transport.
Why is New York City like a flash light? It has a Battery.
When is a tourist in Ireland like a donkey? When he is going to Bray.
Why is a nabob like a beggar? He is an India gent (indigent).
Why is wit like a Chinese lady's foot? Because brevity is the sole (soul) of it.
What is a man like who is in the middle of the Thames and can't swim? Like to be drowned.
Why is the Hudson River like a shoe? Because it is a great place for tows (toes).
Why is a pleasure trip to Egypt fit only for very old gentlemen? Because it is a see-Nile (senile) thing to do.
What soap is hardest? Cast-steel (Castile).
Why is the Bank of England like a thrush? Because it often changes its notes.
Why is Canada like courtship? Because it borders on the United States.
Who were the original bog-trotters? The Fen-ians.
Why is a ship in a stream like a nail? Because it is often driven into Deal.
Why is Paris like the letter F? Because it is the capital of France.
Why is the Brooklyn Bridge like merit? Because it is very often passed over.
Why do so many people in China travel on foot? Because there is but one coach in China (Cochin China).
What American poet may be considered equal to three-fifths of the poets ancient and modern? Poe.
The names of which two Greek poems will you mention on alluding to their author's peculiar manner and indisposition? Homer's Odd-I-see and Ill-I-add.
Why is an unskillful physician like Peleus' son, Achilles? Because both have "sent many souls to Hades ere their time."
What injury did the Lavinia of Thomson's "Seasons" do to young Palemon? She pulled his ears and trod on his corns.
If a tough beefsteak could speak, what English poet would it mention? Chaw-sir (Chaucer).
Was it John Byrom who, in comparing two celebrated musicians, said one was Tweedledum, the other only Tweedledee? If so, state which of these two names was the more difficult to write. Tweedledum, because he wrote the other with more e's (ease).