The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza. Fitz-Gerald Shafto Justin Adair
and Willie vowed they would not cross him for anything, let alone nothing, and so the Zankiwank was appeased and offered to give them the correct answer to his own unanswerable 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.
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