Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various
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Query. Is this answer complete and correct? Now for another specimen: "Q. Wise Oracle show, A good reason why, When from tavern we _go_, You're wel_come_ they cry. "A. The reason is plain, 'Cause doubtful to know, Till seeing their gain, If you _came well_ or no." The following is an example of unanswerable refutation. To show why a man has not one rib less than a woman, it is stated that imperfections are not hereditary; as in the case of "One Mr. L----, an honest sailor not far from Stepney, who has but one arm, and who cannot walk himself without the assistance of a wooden leg, and yet has a son, born some years after the amputation of is own limbs, whom he has bred both a fiddler and a dancing master." One more, not for the wretched play upon words, but because it may make a new Query,--What does it all mean? "Q. Gentlemen, in the preamble to the late Earl of Oxford's patent, I observed, 'And whom they have congratulated upon his |
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