Robert Merry’s Second Book of Puzzles
3. My first is (in sound) what my second often does; my whole is a turning-point.
4. My first is found in every country of the globe; my second is what we all should be; my whole is the same as my first.
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6. Entire, I am a period of time; behead me, I am an article of food; again behead me, and I am used for food.
7. Entire, I am an emblem of beauty; behead me, and I am a powerful liquid; curtail me, and I am a preposition; replace my head, and I am a useful article.
9. Why was Noah saved without a Pope?
10. What is the only word in the English language that can be written without pen, pencil, chalk, or any other pigment?
11. I am composed of 9 letters. In me may be found: 1, a title; 2, a metal; 3, a weight; 4, a coin; 5, one of the Merry cousins; 6, part of a wheel; 7, neat; 8, an adverb; 9 and 10, two prepositions. My whole is a place in New York State.
12. Entire, I am a country; curtail me, and I am an inhabitant of the same; behead and transpose, and I am to prevent.
13.
My first is seen in pillared halls,
Where kings and princes dwell;
’Tis found in every woodland vale,
In every sunny dell.
Upon the yellow sandy beach,
The ocean billows roar,
My next—you’ll find it in the foam,
Rippling upon the shore.
Within the dark and gloomy cave,
Hid from the sun’s bright glare,
Precious jewels line the walls,
And my third is always there.
My fourth and last is found in France,
But never seen in Spain;
It has always been in England’s clime,
In every monarch’s reign.
My whole from Jupiter’s court on high,
Descends to cheer the earth;
Without his presence there would be
Of happiness a dearth.
14.
I am composed of 14 letters:
My 1, 4, 3, 1, 9, 6 is a handsome kind of cloth.
My 2, 5, 11 is a conjunction.
My 8, 7, 5, 9 is a number.
My 10, 3, 12, 13 is to kill.
My whole is a celebrated day.
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16. Entire, I am a sentence; behead me, and I am a fortress; curtailed, I am to strive violently; now transpose, and I am inexperienced.
17. Behead a slipping, and leave the slip.
19. A fox, 90 rods due south of a greyhound, is pursued by the hound at the rate of 5 rods to 4 of the fox, the fox running a due east course. How far will the hound run to overtake the fox?
20. What kind of morals are most easily put on and off?
21.
My first is a female,
My second the same,
My whole is much dreaded—
Pray what is its name?
22. I am composed of four syllables, and am very popular just now; my first and second form a Latin verb; my third is a species of animal; my first, second, and third form a kind of rule; my fourth, reversed, is thin and narrow; and my third and fourth, without my final, is intellectual.
23. Why are unprotected hearth-fires like insolent beggars?
24.
I am composed of 14 letters.
My 13, 11, 7, 3, 1, 12 is a dream.
My 8, 14, 10, 9 is a net.
My 1, 6, 8, 4, 13, 14, 2, 5 is a balance.
My whole is a celebrated man.
25. Entire, I am a noun; behead and transpose, and I am lean; replace my head, curtail me, and I am necessary to the accomplishment of any great object; curtail me again, transpose, and I am sometimes used as a seat.
27. Why are most of the heroes and heroines in novels like the letter O?
28. What poet is like a sly piece of bacon?
29.
I cheer the pilgrim’s lonely way,
As toils he on from day to day;
Curtail me, and I then am found
What students do on college ground;
Curtail once more, and by inspection
You’ll find I am an interjection.
30. What kind of a diary is productive of mischief?
31. Entire, I am a murmur; curtail me, and I signify to produce; omit my first and last, and I am a disturbance; and without my first two I am a bird.
32.
My first speeds proudly through our land;
My next is what my first doth do;
My whole is one of that noble band
Who signed the freedom of our land,
And struggled bravely through.
33. Transpose a wrong way of treating another’s regard into the most foolish manner of doing it.
34. My second, which, by the way, I hope you have took my first after using my whole at dinner.
35. Behead an animal, transpose, and find a flower.
37. I am a word of five letters; in my normal condition I have a tendency to heal. Transposed, I still have a tendency to heel, and have been known to take to them when opportunity offered. Less one fifth, I bathe; again transposed, I am good to eat. Four fifths transposed, form an article much used as an ornament; the same again transposed, is to preserve. Three fifths, properly arranged, will intoxicate. Three fifths, in right order, make a prayer.
39. When did Job call nicknames?
40. Did Jonah cry when the whale swallowed him?
41. Curtail a ruler; transpose, and leave a fastening.
42. Curtail a coin, and transpose it into a country.
43. When is roast beef most valuable?
44.
Fair Bessy promised to bestow
My first upon her lover,
And much I hope that no dark clouds
Around the pair may hover.
Sweet Bessy’s age is just eighteen,
Of gold she has my second;
On bearing off the lovely prize
How many beaus had reckon’d!
And now my riddle I’ll conclude,
And hope you’ll not me quiz,
For what I say is very true—
My whole fair Bessy is.
45. What is that which every one likes to have, and to get rid of as soon as possible after he gets it?
46. My first is found on a ship; my second is a vowel; my third is a title; my whole is the name of an animal.
47. Entire, I’m a man’s name; behead me, and I’m a Turkish coin; behead me again, and I’m too close; again, and I’m a prefix.
49. My second is a useful appendage to my first, and my whole is to abridge.
50.
I am composed of 21 letters.
My 4, 9, 12 is a Greek preposition.
My 7, 5, 8, 14 a vessel used in the Scotch sea.
My 17, 13, 21 is entity.
My 18, 19, 3, 10 is a bed formed by birds.
My 1, 11, 15 is to dip.
My 20, 6, 2, 16 is to tarnish.
My whole is want of symmetry.
51. A squirrel, finding nine ears of corn in a box, took from it, daily, three ears; how many days was he in removing the corn from the box?
52. My first is found in an oyster; my second is possessed by the nobility; every house contains my third; my whole no one applies to himself.
53. What word is that, of three letters, which, read backward, indicates the quality of many who participate in it?
54.
In my first, relations most generally find
An interest of a peculiar kind;
My second, an adverb of humble degree,
Combined with my first names a beautiful tree.
Towns in New York
55. A color and a mineral.
56. An element and a game.
57. Part of a gun and a liquor.
58. An animal.
59. A color and part of a house.
60. A hole and a heap.
Shrubs, Flowers, etc.
61. A vehicle, and where it takes you.
62. A traitor, and the place where he died.
63. To hurt, a nickname, and an engine of war.
64. Take a (1) life preserver; (2) decapitate it and show a mode of using it; (3) again transpose and show how it has been used; (4) transpose and show what is used with it; (5) transpose and give a Greek letter; (6) transpose the original word and make a famous rock; (7) transpose and make a locomotive power; (8) transpose and make it dull; (9) transpose and it will utter a war-cry to dogs; (10) transpose it now into a girl’s name; (11) curtail it and express a concurrence; (12) again curtail, and see what you may call yourself.
66.
’Twas night—a stormy, tempestuous night,
All wakeful and anxious the crew,
As they watched my first in its wild, mad flight,
While over the waves it flew.
And now, in the midst of these wild alarms,
My second is dashed on the shore,
Till Ocean opens her treacherous arms,
And gathers it home once more.
Let us turn from these dreary scenes away,
So solemn and filled with gloom,
And in meadows or pleasant gardens stray,
Where in beauty my whole doth bloom.
67.
I am composed of 12 letters:
My 1, 9, 11 is an animal.
My 3, 9, 10, 11 is a grain.
My 4, 5, 7 is part of a barn.
My 12, 2, 6, 8 is a stone.
My whole is a body politic.
68. Behead an article of apparel, and leave one who sometimes wears it.
70. Not theory glides not towards rule of action twice too a Roman coin indefinite article original sinner revolves ideas use of the needle pronoun boy’s nickname theatrical performance.
71. If you should lose your nose, what kind of one would you get?
72. Find a word of six letters, something that many people laugh at; subtract one letter, and leave what many worship.
Charade
73.
A preposition my first;
My second’s a number;
My third a brisk motion
That drives away slumber;
My whole is a service
For which dearly we pay;
At least, ’tis charged so
In hotel bills they say.
Dutch Puzzle
74. Add 2 strokes to | | | | and make nothing.
75. What bird most resembles a peddler?
77.
My 1st is in pie, but not in cake.
My 2d is in hoe, but not in rake.
My 3d is in house, but not in barn.
My 4th is in wool, but not in yarn.
My 5th is in take, but not in give.
My 6th is in strainer, but not in sieve.
My 7th is in rye, but not in wheat.
And my whole is sometimes good to eat.
78. Why is a weathercock like ambition?
79. Why is a Turk like a violin belonging to an inn?
80. Why is a used up horse like a bad play?
81. Why is a sick Jew like a diamond ring?
82. Why is a printer like a postman?
83. Entire I am a bird; cut off my tail, and I shall be a surname; now transpose, and I shall be something singular.
84. Why are fowls the most economical things farmers keep?
85. Why is a cricket on the hearth like a soldier in battle?
86.
Entire, I am of bloody mien,
And spread destruction all around;
Beheaded—cheerfully I’m seen
Where pleasure’s votaries are found.
87. Why should a brigadier-general, with his troops, be able to cross any river?
88. Join a verb and conjunction, and make a noun.
89. Join a conjunction and a noun, and form an adverb.
90. Join a noun and adjective, and make a verb.
91. I am a word of three syllables; my first member is one of the family of fruits; my second component part is an article in very common use, at once a receptacle for the most valuable and the most useless things; my last member is an interjection. Entire, I am a substance employed in writing and drawing.
Scriptural Enigma
93. Who cowardly a prince did kill?
94. Who built a city on a hill?
95. Whose son profane his life did lose?
96. What Persian queen preserved the Jews?
97. What Jewish king a leper died?
98. Whose wicked mother “Treason” cried?
99.
The initial letters, joined aright,
A famous Jew will bring to light.