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[Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "Best Conundrum Yet," from Alexander's Weekly Messenger, May 6, 1840, page 2, column 6.]


 
BEST CONUNDRUM YET.

    With this heading we find the following in the New York Signal.--"Why may Prince Albert be considered a saving and frugal personage ?" Answer--because he lays by a sovereign every night." Mr. Benjamin, we have a very high respect for you, but not for your opinion about your own puns. Do you seriously think that conundrum a good one we don't. To be good, a double entendre should be at least good English when viewed on either side. Now we may lay by a piece of money--but we lie by a wife.



 
[This item was first attributed to Poe by Clarence S. Brigham in Edgar Allan Poe's Contributions to Alexander's Weekly Messenger, 1943, p. 83.]
 
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