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254 when as before a cry of affected surprise is raised:

In both cases the trifling difference of the absence of the aspirate is considered as being of no moment.

A similar catch which I give from another source is attempted by the questioner beginning:

Here of course the answer is still desired to be "Like I," but if the boy that is being practised upon be not taken unawares, he turns the tables on his questioner by replying "Like you."

Here is another similar catch:

The rhymes which children indulge in, in their nursery games and amusements, are of great variety, and range from lines which are