Chapter 7

10.pictorial puzzle

10.pictorial puzzle

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11.pictorial puzzle

11.pictorial puzzle

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12. What is that which is often brought to table, often cut, but never eaten?

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My first is four-sixths of a step that is long,My second is a person of state;My whole is a thing that is known to be wrong,And is a strong symptom of hate.

My first is four-sixths of a step that is long,My second is a person of state;My whole is a thing that is known to be wrong,And is a strong symptom of hate.

My first is four-sixths of a step that is long,

My second is a person of state;

My whole is a thing that is known to be wrong,

And is a strong symptom of hate.

14. Why are your nose and chin always at variance?

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Without my first you can not stand,My second beauteous fair command;Together I attend your will,And am your humble servant still.

Without my first you can not stand,My second beauteous fair command;Together I attend your will,And am your humble servant still.

Without my first you can not stand,

My second beauteous fair command;

Together I attend your will,

And am your humble servant still.

16. Why ought a fisherman to be very wealthy?

17. Why is a man in debt like a misty morning?

18. Who was the first that bore arms?

19. There is a word of seven letters; the first two refers to man, the first three refers to woman, the first four signifies a great man, the seven a great woman.

20. I am a word of five letters. Take away my first and I am the name of what adorns the estate of many of the nobility of England. Take away my first and second, and I am the name of a place where all the world was once congregated. Take away my last, and I am the name of a beautiful mineral. Take away my two last, and I am the name of a fashionable place of resort. I am small in stature, but capable of doing a great deal of mischief, as I once did in London in the year 1666.

21. Spell eye-water four letters.

22. Why is swearing like an old coat?

23. Why is a thump like a hat?

24. Why is an inn like a burial-ground?


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