91.
91.
Take half of the needleBy which sailors steerTheir ship through the water,Be it cloudy or clear;Do not really break it—This of all things were worst—But in your mind take it,And this makes my first.At thanksgiving or Christmas,My second you see;With care well compounded,From grain, shrub, and tree.My whole like some peopleWho make great pretense,Of words have a plenty,But no great stock of sense.
Take half of the needleBy which sailors steerTheir ship through the water,Be it cloudy or clear;Do not really break it—This of all things were worst—But in your mind take it,And this makes my first.At thanksgiving or Christmas,My second you see;With care well compounded,From grain, shrub, and tree.My whole like some peopleWho make great pretense,Of words have a plenty,But no great stock of sense.
Take half of the needle
By which sailors steer
Their ship through the water,
Be it cloudy or clear;
Do not really break it—
This of all things were worst—
But in your mind take it,
And this makes my first.
At thanksgiving or Christmas,
My second you see;
With care well compounded,
From grain, shrub, and tree.
My whole like some people
Who make great pretense,
Of words have a plenty,
But no great stock of sense.
92. How is it that Methuselah was the oldest man, when he died before his father?
93.
My first is a negative greatly in use,By which people begin when they mean to refuse;My second is Fashion, or so called in France,But, like other whims, is the servant of chance.An article always in use is my whole,With texture and form under fashion’s control;But, alas! not a thing can it see which goes by,Although many have four sights, and all have one eye.
My first is a negative greatly in use,By which people begin when they mean to refuse;My second is Fashion, or so called in France,But, like other whims, is the servant of chance.An article always in use is my whole,With texture and form under fashion’s control;But, alas! not a thing can it see which goes by,Although many have four sights, and all have one eye.
My first is a negative greatly in use,
By which people begin when they mean to refuse;
My second is Fashion, or so called in France,
But, like other whims, is the servant of chance.
An article always in use is my whole,
With texture and form under fashion’s control;
But, alas! not a thing can it see which goes by,
Although many have four sights, and all have one eye.
94. What is that which, supposing its greatest breadth to be four inches, length nine inches, and depth three inches, contains a solid foot?