The Handbook of Conundrums
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Edith B. Ordway. The Handbook of Conundrums
The Handbook of Conundrums
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. Early English Wit
CHAPTER II. Mythological Conundrums
CHAPTER III. Biblical Conundrums
CHAPTER IV. Historical Conundrums
CHAPTER V. Conundrums of the Civil War Period
CHAPTER VI. Geographical Conundrums
CHAPTER VII. Literary Conundrums
Names of Authors
CHAPTER VIII. Conundrums on the Alphabet
CHAPTER IX. General Conundrums
Echoes
CHAPTER X. Charades, Stories, and Contests
Stories
Age Contest
Ant Contest
City Contest
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Edith B. Ordway
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Who is he that has a fine wit in jest? A fool in earnest.
One, hearing that a traveler had been on the peak of Teneriffe (which is supposed to be one of the highest hills in the world), asked him why he had not stayed there, for he was sure he would never come so near heaven again.
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