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 conundrum. Do you know what a conundrum is though? I will tell you while the Zankiwank is curling his whiskers:—

A conundrum is an impossible question with an improbable answer. Think it over the next time you read “Robinson Crusoe.”

“Nothing is better than a good little girl; But a jam tart is better than nothing, Therefore a jam tart is better than the best little girl alive.”

“What do you think of that?” said the Zankiwank.

“I have heard something like it before. But that is nothing. Anyhow I would much rather be a little girl than a jam tart—because a jam tart must be sour because it’s tart, and a little girl is always sweet,” promptly replied Willie, kissing his sister Maude on the nose—but that was an accident, because she moved at the wrong moment.

“You distress me,” said the Zankiwank. “Suppose I were to try to shoot Folly as it flies, and hit a Fool’s Cap and Bells instead, what would you say?”