130.
130.
My first, you hear its sullen roarWhen wandering by the ocean’s shore;My second in the gambler’s artHath played no mean or paltry part,But, fired with sordid thirst to win,It often aids him in his sin.My whole is something that is foundUpon the face of all around,Yet if you take from me my face,I am a title commonplace.
My first, you hear its sullen roarWhen wandering by the ocean’s shore;My second in the gambler’s artHath played no mean or paltry part,But, fired with sordid thirst to win,It often aids him in his sin.My whole is something that is foundUpon the face of all around,Yet if you take from me my face,I am a title commonplace.
My first, you hear its sullen roar
When wandering by the ocean’s shore;
My second in the gambler’s art
Hath played no mean or paltry part,
But, fired with sordid thirst to win,
It often aids him in his sin.
My whole is something that is found
Upon the face of all around,
Yet if you take from me my face,
I am a title commonplace.
131. If the earth were annihilated, why would it be a pleasant pastime to make it again?
132. My first describes a person, add an adjective and show that person’s condition.
133. What is it you must keep after giving it to another?
134. How would you express in one word having met a doctor of medicine?
135. What is that which makes every person sick except the one who swallows it?
136. Why is a person who never lays a wager as bad as a regular gambler?
137. What is the difference between a sun-bonnet and a Sunday bonnet?
138. If I shoot at three pigeons on a tree, and kill one, how many will remain?
139. My first means more than one? my second means a solitary one; my third is highly popular now (with boys more than with their parents.—A. S.), and my whole you are to guess.