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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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