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CHIPS. 



[May 1885. 



Chips. 



THE TREE CONUNDRUM. 



The " tree puzzle " that follows is one 

 of tlie most ingenious tritles of the kind 

 now current : — 



1 — What's the social tree, 

 2 — And the dancing tree, 

 3 — And the tree that's nearest the 

 sea '': 

 4 — The dandiest tree, 

 5 — And the kissable tree, 

 C— And the tree where the ships 

 may be ? 



7 — What is the tell-tale tree, 

 8 — And the traitor's tree, 

 9 — And the tree that's the warmest 

 clad ? 

 10 — The languishing tree, 

 11 — The chronologist's tree, 

 12 — And the tree that makes one sad ? 



13 — What's the emulous tree, 

 14 — The industrious tree, 

 15 — And the tree that will never stand 

 still ? 

 16 — The unhealthiest tree, 

 17 — The Egyptian-plague tree, 

 18 — And the tree neither up nor down 

 hill ? 



19 — The contemptible tree, 



20 — The most yielding tree, 

 21— And the tree that bears a curse ? 



22 — The reddish-brown tree, 



23— The reddish-blue tree, 

 24 — And the tree like an Irish nurse ? 



25 — AVhat is the tree 



That makes each townsman 

 Hee 'I 

 2G — And what round itself doth en- 

 twine l 



27 — What's the housewife's tree, 

 28 — And the fisherman's tree, 

 29 — What by cockneys is turned into 

 wine ? 



30— What's the tree that's got up, 

 31 — And the tree that was lazy, 

 32 — And the tree that guides ships to 

 go forth '] 

 33 — The tree that's immortal, 

 34 — The trees that are not, 

 35 — And the tree w hose wood faces the 

 north 'I 



36 — The tree in a bottle, 

 37 — The tree in a fog, 

 33 — And what each must become ere 

 he's old ^ 

 39 — The tree of the people, 

 40 — The traveller's tree, 

 41— And the sad tree when school- 

 masters hokl ? 



42 — What's the tree that has passed 

 through the fiery heat, 

 43 — That half-given to doctors when 

 ill I 

 44 — The tree that we offer to friends 

 when we meet, 

 45 — And the tree we may use as a 

 quill ■] 



46 — What's the tree that in death will 

 benight you ? 

 47 — And the tree that your wants 

 will supply 'I 

 48 — And the tree that to travel invites 

 you, 

 49 — And the tree that forbids you to 

 die I 



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