I am a man, and my name is Thomas Jones.

I am the handle of the cross-bar of a bell-crank, on the upper end of which is fixed a small piece of metal that projects through the pavement of a street, and on the lower end of…

This question was first published in the year 1840, and the answer was as follows:-I am a little short life, included between the extended limits of birth and death, from the…