Meditações - de mãos na cara

Why is a clock always bashful? – Because its hands are ever before its face.

Guess Me, a curious collection of enigmas, charades, acting charades, double acrostics, conundrums, verbal puzzles, hieroglyphics, anagrams, etc. Compiled and arranged by Frederick D'Arros Planché; 1879; Pott, Young and co. in New York. Illustrated by George Cruikshank among others.