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THE BOSTON CHARADES 
 
 BY 
 
 HERBERT INGAI.I.S 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 I.BE & SHKPARD 
 
 1895 
 
Copyright, 1895, 
 By Herbert Ingalls 
 
 All rights reserved^ 
 
 Republican Press Associstioa 
 COKCOBD, w. H. 
 

 Charades and riddles as at Christmas. 
 
 —Tennyson : The Princess. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The cleverest charades in the English language are, 
 beyond doubt, those of that illustrious writer of " soci" 
 ety*' and other fine verse, Winthrop Praed. His 
 charades are neat and ingenious, and are likely to 
 maintain their superior position for some time yet. 
 One of them, happily disguising the name of a noble poet, 
 has been frequently cited for its spirited movement and 
 its simple literary excellence. Another of them is even 
 now without a solution upon which all readers agree. 
 
 In the present original work, it has not been attempted 
 to rival the brightness of Praed ; but it is confidently 
 believed that these examples may furnish considerable 
 entertainment, and, incidentally, some instruction ; that 
 they may give pleasure around the evening lamp of 
 home,* in the friendly competition of party or of club ; 
 in the sweet idleness of summer days by the seashore 
 or among the hills. 
 
 Some of the charades are confessedly so transparent 
 that the proverbial " any school-boy " may solve them 
 at a glance. There are others, however, of which it is 
 believed that the answers cannot be so readily dis- 
 cerned. 
 
 The charades adhere invariably to the correct spell- 
 ing of the words upon which they are based. The 
 words are all syllabled in the authorized manner. 
 
 After a reasonable interval a complete list of the 
 solutions will be printed in one or more of the daily 
 newspapers. Meanwhile, the words which will then 
 and thus appear may be found in that excellent manual, 
 Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary. 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 
 in 2007 with funding from 
 
 IVIicrosoft Corporation 
 
 http://www.archive.org/details/bostoncharadesOOingarich 
 
My First is foremost of an English set ; 
 
 My Second stalks through Illinois : 
 My Whole the little children get, 
 
 In woods and pastures, for a toy. 
 
My First describes a sort of letter ; 
 My Second makes the vision better : 
 Beneath the sails that swell or flutter 
 My Whole is seen, — a window shutter. 
 
8 
 
 My First in old taverns was sung or was read ; 
 
 It was commonly rhyme without reason ; 
 My Second he is who gets out of his bed : 
 
 My Whole is a thing for a season. 
 
My First a kind of fish denotes ; 
 
 My Second is the ocean's roar : 
 My Whole was deadly at the throats 
 
 Of victims on the Spanish shore. 
 
My First is ownership canine ; 
 My Second is for audience : 
 
 And they who love good books decline 
 To use my Whole, for better sense 
 Suggests another reference. 
 
6 
 
 My First to every housewife brings 
 Discomfort on its fearless wings ; 
 
 It disappears at last, and now 
 Departs my Second from the bough : 
 
 My Whole, unreadable, precedes 
 The ** book that everybody reads." 
 
Through desert space, with fire and force, 
 
 My First his way pursued ; 
 His drink was water at its source, 
 
 My Second was his food. 
 
 He had but little time for rest ; 
 
 Across the burning sand 
 He bore my Whole within his breast, 
 
 It was the king's command. 
 
s 
 
 My First meant vacancy of food 
 For which old Mother Hubbard went ; 
 Upon my Second Zekle stopd 
 When he was diffident. 
 
 The newest cure for nerves that fret 
 And jar at every trifling noise 
 Is this : To go my Whole, and set 
 The pace like Whittier's boy's. 
 
9 
 
 My First is a musical sound ; 
 
 My Second, an Indian tree : 
 My Whole is a fibre, and found 
 
 By the Caribbean Sea. 
 
10 
 
 Fair is the sight that is seen in the orchard 
 
 When the apple-tree's blossoms have burst ; 
 Sweet is the sound that is heard from the branches ; 
 The voice is my First. 
 
 A set of like things is my Second, including 
 
 Receivers for cupboard or shelf; 
 The little one takes in the lesser, and later, 
 Is swallowed itself. 
 
 My Whole is a dainty that comes to the table 
 
 When heavier things have gone past ; 
 
 Composed from the bough and the box and the 
 
 barrel, 
 
 ' T is eaten at last. 
 
11 
 
 To plastic forms my First has genius wrought ; 
 My Second, Oliver in vain besought : 
 My Whole the fighting clansman freely drew, 
 And sheathed again with sanguinary hue. 
 
12 
 
 My First is a bank at the mouth of a harbor ; 
 
 My Second most persons are striving to get : 
 My Whole the dry-goods men with confidence 
 offer, — 
 
 «* The best we have advertised yet." 
 
13 
 
 My First is a name of the master of ♦* Schneider" 
 Who goes with the gun in pursuance of game ; 
 
 My Second is what an ambitious outsider 
 
 Might give at the door of the temple of fame. 
 
 Surrounded by weeds and incrusted with mosses, 
 Where winds to the morning make music or 
 moan, 
 Where landward the surge of the ocean wave 
 tosses, 
 My Whole is, — a wall of irregular stone. 
 
14 
 
 Than my First you may wish a security higher ; 
 To govern my Second a priest may aspire : 
 My Whole is devoutly devoted to fire. 
 
15 
 
 My First is spoken, in contempt, 
 Of him who loves the noisy town ; 
 
 If he is not from tax exempt. 
 He has to pay my Second down. 
 
 My Whole in chemistry is made 
 From certain acids and a base ; 
 
 Apothecaries have displayed 
 The thing on counter or in case. 
 
16 
 
 My First may be upon the lips 
 
 Before the letter closes ; 
 My Second is a flag that whips 
 
 In air and then reposes. 
 
 My Whole is best when it is new 
 And hottest from the batter ; 
 
 With base-ball it has naught to do — 
 But that is no great matter. 
 
17 
 
 My First was a god of the primitive Gauls ; 
 
 My Second consists of a squall : 
 My Whole to the sensitive person befalls 
 
 When the sailors are ordered to haul. 
 
18 
 
 My First is thin and flying cloud 
 Wherein my Second may appear : 
 
 With age the peasant's back is bowed, 
 My Whole to him seems too severe. 
 
19 
 
 My First sustains the flesh of beasts 
 
 And very many fishes ; 
 It forms, at certain annual feasts, 
 
 A medium for wishes. 
 
 My Second often is arranged 
 
 For levee or cotillion ; 
 Howe'er its method may be changed, 
 
 It is not for the million. 
 
 My Whole is a familiar herb 
 Which, by a strong infusion, 
 
 Incipient illnesses may curb. 
 Or bring to quick 'conclusion. 
 
20 
 
 My First consists of level ground ; 
 
 My Second is a fit of peevishness : 
 My Whole goes to the court-house, bound 
 
 To tell his wrongs and there to seek redress. 
 
21 
 
 My First was a dog ; he gave men his affection ; 
 
 In life and in death he was greatly adored ; 
 My Second is hazard, and, after election, 
 Of men and their money it severs connection : 
 
 My Whole is a cut or a groove in a board. 
 
22 
 
 My First is a thing that is very much feared ; 
 
 My Second is equal to nothing : 
 My Whole, when the winds of the winter are weird, 
 
 Is a part of a mariner's clothing. 
 
23 
 
 It was a most oppressive day ; 
 
 The heat seemed at its worst : 
 A woman stood beside Broadway 
 
 And held aloft my First. 
 
 She mounted to a certain height 
 
 And laid my First aside, 
 In order that my Second might 
 
 Enable her to ride. 
 
 What sound is loud along the street? 
 
 What ranks are moving there ? 
 The trumpet blows, the drum-sticks beat, 
 
 My Whole is in the air. 
 
24 
 
 When, in the theatre's vast hall, 
 Men's hearts and hands are stirred 
 
 A favored actor to recall, 
 My First is seen and heard. 
 
 Betimes a ghost or harlequin 
 Shocks or delights the tiers ; 
 
 My Second opes to take him in. 
 And so he disappears. 
 
 My Whole has, in the recent days, 
 
 Had clamorous applause ; 
 In spite of all the critic says, 
 
 It is a thing that draws. 
 
25 
 
 Whence came my First, whose advent brought 
 
 Unhappiness to man? 
 With countless ills it has been fraught 
 
 Since years began. 
 
 My Second with the song-bird's bill 
 
 Is lifted toward the sky. 
 If you are quite my Whole you will 
 
 Detest a He. 
 
26 
 
 My First in Shakespeare's morning song 
 
 Is at the gate of heaven ; 
 And Shelley's lovely lines prolong 
 
 That spirit's voice at even. 
 
 The huntsman to the chase has gone, 
 
 The loud halloo is given ; 
 The flagging steed he urges on, 
 
 My Second deep is driven. 
 
 With drops of dew or summer rain 
 My azure Whole shall glisten ; 
 
 And, in the Laureate's lyric strain. 
 It has been said to listen. 
 
27 
 
 When Beatrice and Benedick 
 
 Had ceased their witty bout. 
 My First, whose wits were densely thick. 
 
 Upon the rounds went out. 
 
 When Portia had addressed the court 
 
 My Second strange to plead, 
 The Jew gave o'er his '* merry sport," 
 
 To give a bloodless deed. 
 
 ** Good cousin Shallow" heard the sound 
 Of bells at midnight's chime : 
 
 My Whole has latterly been found 
 To be a guard of time. 
 
28 
 
 My First is a tube ; it is deadly in force 
 
 On the flank of an army ; my Second, a whip 
 
 Has often produced on the flank of a horse : 
 My Whole is a part of the side of a ship. 
 
29 
 
 My First is an islet, a key, or a reef; 
 
 My Second he was who discovered the same : 
 My Whole on the southern St. Johns is the chief 
 
 Attraction in four-footed game. 
 
30 
 
 My First is very near the chin ; 
 
 My Second guards the carriage wheel : 
 My Whole is a familiar story 
 Of what was said or what has been ; 
 
 It causes listeners to feel 
 A little sad and somewhat sorry. 
 
31 
 
 My First is the thinker ; my Second is round ; 
 
 My First is like one thing, my Second like 
 naught : 
 My Whole, after death, was in Egypt renowned. 
 
 And her worship as Isis was piously taught. 
 
32 
 
 My First gave horns to one fat knight 
 Who was too fond of winking ; 
 
 My Second, in a seaward fight, 
 May set a foe to sinking. 
 
 All in my Whole two men were clad ; 
 
 The number grew to seven ; 
 And yet the knight went on to add 
 
 Until there were eleven. 
 
33 
 
 My First is a man or a woman employed ; 
 
 My Second is part of the head of a bird : 
 My Whole is a sheet without price, and destroyed 
 
 By many who read not a word. 
 
34 
 
 My Plrst we may do if we're harking; 
 
 My Second we do when w^e speak : 
 My Whole is result of remarking, 
 
 But the truth may be further to seek. 
 
35 
 
 In the house-top, my First is a rafter ; 
 
 My Second means things in a rank : 
 In English, my Whole is a nuisance 
 
 For which we have England to thank. 
 
36 
 
 My First is utterance of one that basks ^ 
 
 Soft-clad, beside the hearth ; 
 What — of my Second, lovely woman asks 
 
 In Paris — is it Worth? 
 
 My Whole will indicate a search for what 
 
 Is ardently desired ; 
 It may result in something that is not 
 
 At all to be admired. 
 
37 
 
 My First is called a power ; it gives 
 The book its page and cover ; 
 
 Or, in another sense, it lives 
 For comrade and for lover. 
 
 My Second names a sort of plough 
 That goes, with frequent furrows, 
 
 Across the swarded field where now 
 And then a rodent burrows. 
 
 My Whole has been an instrument 
 
 Of watery oppression ; 
 It seized on men against their bent, 
 
 And took undue possession. 
 
38 
 
 An author took my First to say 
 
 That more than sword it may be mighty ; 
 Some commentators of to-day 
 
 Pronounce the statement flighty. 
 
 However it be, the sword may get,. 
 
 With frequent strokes, my Second in it, 
 
 And, fighting on the parapet, 
 The brave may lose or win it. 
 
 Memorial upon the wall, 
 
 The idle weapon is suspended : 
 
 It has become my Whole, for all 
 The battles have been ended. 
 
39 
 
 My First is the voice of the emblem of peace ; 
 My Second is false, be it censure or praise : 
 My Whole is an Indian, whose labors will cease 
 At the end of his days. 
 
40 
 
 My First is a darling ; since she was my Second 
 Her parents have loved her with perfect devotion : 
 
 My Whole, in the park or the highway, is reckoned 
 An excellent thing to promote locomotion. 
 
41 
 
 My First is something for denial ; 
 My Second, something from a vial : 
 My Whole describes a knotty trial. 
 
42 
 
 My First is never at the front ; 
 
 My Second is a taste of food : 
 Sir Benjamin my Whole was wont 
 
 To utter nothing good. 
 
43 
 
 My First upon Mount Shasta's height 
 Is ever in the gazer's sight ; 
 
 My Second gives a sudden shock 
 To owners of depressing stock : 
 
 My Whole has blossoms that appear 
 The earliest in the floral year. 
 
44 
 
 My First is the name of a sea-going whip ; 
 My Second sought Tantalus vainly to sip : 
 The pet of the household is happy to roll 
 About in and eat of the leaves of my Whole. 
 
45 
 
 My First is a third of the visible world ; 
 
 My Second is great in his personal pride : 
 On the heave of the ocean my Whole is upcurled 
 
 When the winds and the waters subside. 
 
 ;:^-: 
 
46 
 
 My First, repeated, names a sunken fence ; 
 
 My Second bids us see : 
 My Whole, to ordinary sense, 
 
 Is a heavenly mystery. 
 
47 
 
 My First is vainest of the things 
 That interfere with labor ; 
 
 If any tyro touch the strings, 
 My First will vex his neighbor. 
 
 My Second has been called a curse, 
 But those who are about it 
 
 Are not less fortunate, nor worse. 
 Than those who live without it. 
 
 My Whole in masonry is used 
 
 To decorate a border ; 
 It must by no means be confused 
 
 With the Masonic order. 
 
43 
 
 My First, at Nantucket, is signal of news ; 
 
 To farm-boys its sound is as sweet as a song ; 
 With my Second the sun takes a sip at the dews : 
 
 My Whole is a timber especially strong. 
 
49 
 
 My First beneath a cord will roll 
 
 To lift a heavy weight ; 
 My Second constitutes a poll 
 
 For every candidate. 
 
 The good knight, Walter Raleigh, lost 
 
 My Second at my First ; 
 My Second, time will touch with frost 
 
 By later time dispersed. 
 
 My Whole was in derision held 
 
 By wise king Solomon ; 
 The name, however, is not spelled 
 
 As is the present one. 
 
60 
 
 My First goes into various wards 
 And with returns goes back ; 
 
 For lazy people it records 
 Solutions that they lack. 
 
 My Second is for grace or luck 
 
 Upon a lady's hand ; 
 A giant once my Second struck 
 
 And left a fatal brand. 
 
 My Whole became a sobriquet 
 
 For an extensive state 
 Whose darkest things give brightest ray, 
 
 Whose founts illuminate. 
 
51 
 
 In ordered ranks my First shall stand 
 And glide from space to space, 
 
 Diagonal, on either hand 
 To seek a kingly place. 
 
 Alone upon an oblong plain 
 
 My Second shall be seen 
 The king's pretensions to disdain, 
 
 To captivate the queen. 
 
 My Whole is something that attends 
 The drought, the flood, the fire ; 
 
 To adversaries it portends 
 A mischievous desire. 
 
52 
 
 My First gives a name to a strong little light 
 That sometimes is seen by the sea ; 
 
 If you meet with my Second, alone and at night, 
 You may wish to climb in a tree. 
 
 But if the dread object you misapprehend, 
 
 Then your fancy is idle and vain : 
 It is only my Whole that you see ; and the end 
 
 Is, — Don't see such a phantom again. 
 
63 
 
 My First falls lightly on the emerald lawn 
 
 At quiet eventide ; 
 Within my Second has the mother drawn 
 
 The infant, sleepy-eyed. 
 
 The shadows darken o'er the cottage wall ; 
 
 Upon the grassy knoll 
 The yoke-free oxen are asleep, and all 
 
 Possess my Whole. 
 
54 
 
 My First is the trunk of a plant or a tree ; 
 
 My Second with spirits overflows : 
 My Whole is what any live creature may be 
 
 That stands in a state of repose. 
 
55 
 
 My First is much opposed to water ; 
 My Second correlates a daughter : 
 My Whole, a fruit, in Salop grows. 
 And ripens, in the garden close. 
 
66 
 
 My First is a detested, cool, 
 
 And crafty combination ; 
 It makes the citizen the tool 
 
 Of its dissimulation. 
 
 Some men refuse to vote, and go 
 
 Away into the thicket ; 
 Some make my Second ; then they throw 
 
 An independent ticket. 
 
 My Whole is iron, with an eye 
 
 Too hollow for reflection ; 
 And tars, who have it, seldom try 
 
 To carry an election. 
 
57 
 
 My First in doubt a moment stood, 
 He heard a sound of dread, 
 
 Then far within the dark green wood 
 With fearful feet he sped. 
 
 My Second in a wide extent 
 
 Is product of the saw. 
 Or, in a modern government, 
 
 A creature of the law. 
 
 My Whole below the forest bough 
 On roughest roads has rolled ; 
 
 It is improved and stylish now. 
 With changes manifold. 
 
58 
 
 According to mythology, 
 
 My First was taken from the sky ; 
 
 My Second may be leather, 
 It may be beef, it may be party. 
 It may be beaten at ecart^ ; 
 
 On sea it goes with weather : 
 My Whole with grateful warmth and light 
 Is shining in the wintry night. 
 
59 
 
 At my First men try the law, 
 
 And my Second tried the martyrs : 
 
 To my Whole the troops withdraw 
 From the fisrht with Tartars. 
 
60 
 
 A dozen equal things compose 
 
 My First, if placed in right rotation ; 
 
 Within my brutish Second flows 
 The ether for inflation. 
 
 Before my Whole the actor stands ; 
 
 From box to box the radiance reaches ; 
 And, answering to the call of hands, 
 
 He makes his graceful speeches. 
 
61 
 
 My First is absolutely silent ; 
 
 My Second means mine own : 
 My Whole, at rest in many wrappings, 
 
 Is still as any stone. 
 
M 62 
 
 Xanthippe, wife of Socrates, 
 When she was at her worst, 
 
 Would give her husband little ease, 
 Because she was my First. 
 
 My Second, Congressmen adjust 
 Not quite to please themselves ; 
 
 While many schemes at last are thrust 
 Upon the dusty shelves. 
 
 When man or woman goes to law 
 
 To compass a divorce. 
 The counsellor my Whole may draw 
 
 And seek to put in force. 
 
63 
 
 My First had clothed the mead ; the field 
 
 To tilt and tourney rung ; 
 The knight came forth, in armor steeled, 
 
 And there my Second flung. 
 
 My Whole has naught to do with scath, 
 
 Or fight of man or brute ; 
 Beside the gravelled garden-path 
 
 It grows, a summer fruit. 
 
64 
 
 My First gives passengers a place ; 
 
 My Second comes there with the news : 
 My Whole, in wood or wicker case, 
 
 Is something which the druggists use. 
 
65 
 
 My First is the downward incline of a mine ; 
 
 My Second is cant for the copper-hued man ; 
 He may on my Third in his wigwam recline 
 
 While my Whole is unfolding a government 
 plan. 
 
66 
 
 My First goes forth and back to blend 
 The sweetest things afield ; 
 
 My Second from an absent friend 
 Has sweeter things revealed. 
 
 My Whole may never come in view, 
 
 Though always in the air ; 
 But they who steadily pursue 
 
 Need never to despair. 
 
67 
 
 My First is a retiring beast 
 That goes with level ears ; 
 
 My Second calls to prayer, to feast, 
 To happiness, to tears : 
 
 My Whole upon a slender stalk 
 Has flowers of brilliant blue ; 
 
 And on the hillside where you walk 
 It may appeal to you. 
 
68 
 
 For her protection from the storm, 
 
 One dismal winter day, 
 She drew my First about her form 
 
 And went to see the play, 
 
 And in my Second had a chair ; 
 
 The scene was brightly gay : 
 And from her forehead low and fair 
 
 It drove my Whole away. 
 
69 
 
 My First is a brindled creature 
 That looks out for the flocks ; 
 
 My Second is a feature 
 
 Of the serpent of the rocks. 
 
 My Whole is along the bay-side 
 Where the hours in idlesse pass ; 
 
 And it waves upon the way-side, 
 A certain sort of grass. 
 
70 
 
 My First is a brittle, transparent affair ; 
 
 My Second is home — if one happily chooses : 
 Whoever may dwell in my Whole must beware 
 
 What sort of projectile he uses. 
 
71 
 
 My First goes round and round 
 Where many mill-wheels whir ; 
 
 Where controversies much abound 
 My Second makes demur. 
 
 When Congress met in Washington 
 Its members were my Third : 
 
 My Whole was held by every one 
 And frequently was heard. 
 
72 
 
 My First is something made of maize ; 
 
 My Second indicates extent : 
 My Whole the market-gardeners raise, 
 
 A rare and curious esculent. 
 
73 
 
 My First is a sort of barley grain ; 
 
 My Second actors often wear : 
 My Whole is a person possibly vain 
 
 Of gown and frown and superfluous hair. 
 
74 
 
 My First flies from the log ; 
 
 My Second is the mire : 
 My Whole goes all agog 
 
 For nutty branches higher. 
 
75 
 
 My First goes up the river from the sea, 
 * * Anadromous " 't is therefore said to be ; 
 
 My Second holds the ships that bide 
 The parting time of wind and tide : 
 
 My Whole is a Floridian fruit 
 That now is held in great repute. 
 
76 
 
 My First is a dozy, droning sound ; 
 A hoax, my Second makes men wroth : 
 
 With my Whole the Sepoy wraps him round — 
 'Tis a certain kind of cotton cloth. 
 
77 
 
 My First is partner of a thief 
 
 And shares the plunder of his chief; 
 
 My Second is a little word 
 Imprinted here and daily heard ; 
 
 My Third is in the cannon's crack 
 And on the stormy ocean's wrack : 
 
 My Whole is an uncertain knight, 
 Prepared to wander or to fight. 
 
78 
 
 My First is something to contest 
 For speed upon the river's breast ; 
 
 My Second is an ocean craft 
 
 That sails with rigging fore and aft : 
 
 A tree my Whole is ; — once it lent 
 Its other name to a President. 
 
79 
 
 In ancient ages, when the world 
 
 Was greatly out of joint, 
 My First the Grecian warrior hurled, 
 
 And death was at its point. 
 
 My Second holds a brilliant set 
 Diverse of look and tone, 
 
 And many circles bright have met 
 Within its bounds of stone. 
 
 My Whole a spicy relish has 
 When taken in the mouth ; 
 
 And highly 't is regarded as 
 A flavor, in the South. 
 
80 
 
 My First is one of Neptune's arms ; 
 
 My Second shows emotion ; 
 Within my Third come captive swarms 
 
 Of fishes from the ocean. 
 
 My Whole goes foremost, keen and cold, 
 When angry nations quarrel ; 
 
 And, like the old Gambrinus bold, 
 It sits upon a barrel. 
 
81 
 
 Whatever waters round thee roll, 
 
 Wherever sunlight shine, 
 Love thou my First with faithful soul 
 
 If it by birth be thine. 
 
 The world-wide wanderer, home returned, 
 
 With weary steps may wind 
 Among the haunts for which he yearned. 
 
 And there my Second find. 
 
 My Whole a noble title wears 
 
 In Europe's central clime ; 
 But if he soil the name he bears 
 
 It were not worth a rhyme. 
 
82 
 
 At the point of a finger my First is on hand ; 
 
 My Second is first at the end of a boot : 
 On my Whole in the orchard perhaps you will 
 stand 
 
 If you stretch to the bough for its fruit. 
 
83 
 
 My First has a place in a famous incline ; 
 
 My Second is seen at the bars ; 
 My Third is an accent peculiarly fine : 
 
 My Whole is a cluster of stars. 
 
84 
 
 A certain Lay of Ancient Rome 
 
 Declares my First a * * wicked" number ; 
 In later times, in many a home, 
 
 It marks the hour for slumber. 
 
 My Second is a title, dear 
 
 And much esteemed in Spanish ; 
 
 Though did the owner wear it here 
 Its high repute might vanish. 
 
 My Whole is used in work and game ; 
 
 It makes repulsion and attraction ; 
 The oyster shares its other name 
 
 But differs in its action. 
 
 I 
 
86 
 
 Wherever ocean's waters lave 
 
 Our nation's stately ships of white ; 
 
 Upon my First the flag shall wave, 
 And cheer the sailor's sight. 
 
 All they who pass, with eyes attent, 
 Manhattan's handsome midmost square, 
 
 May think of one marine event, 
 Seeing my Second there. 
 
 My Whole has made the sailor great. 
 Has proved the soldier statesman wise, 
 
 It may with truth prognosticate 
 The aspect of the skies. 
 
86 
 
 My First means glossy, soft, or mild, — 
 For instance, grass upon a lawn ; 
 
 My Second drives one nearly wild, 
 Or gives him tendency to yawn : 
 
 My Whole a sort of gun is styled. 
 And duly fired at night and dawn. 
 
87 
 
 My First is issued by the government 
 
 Among its promises to pay ; 
 He feels my Second imminent 
 
 Who knows his hair is getting gray : 
 Had men been in my Whole content, 
 
 As slaves they would have toiled to-day. 
 
88 
 
 My First is a name for a tub ; 
 
 My Second is manual art : 
 And he who discoursed of * ' The Hub " 
 
 Was versed in my Whole from the start. 
 

 89 
 
 My First is what Sir Toby had 
 In Twelfth Night, and by day ; 
 
 It may be reckoned good or bad, 
 ' Tis ever in the play. 
 
 The kingly Henry fought in France 
 And, when the fight was o'er. 
 
 He lowered there his haughty glance 
 And thence my Second bore. 
 
 My Whole the beverages drew 
 
 For men from field or fort. 
 And served them^ round, [the old or new, 
 
 Or of a mingled sort. 
 
90 
 
 My First is used in tending sheep ; 
 
 My Second ranks below the head : 
 My Whole is gathered in a heap 
 
 And curls up in the barn or shed. 
 
91 
 
 My First is, in vernacular, a fault; 
 
 My Second names the persons of the play : 
 My homeless Whole beside your house may halt ; 
 
 You wish him well — oh, very well — away. 
 
92 
 
 My First to the eyes of a goddess gave name ; 
 
 My Second is beautiful after the rain : 
 My Whole is a curve in a stream where the same 
 
 Direction it came from it turns to again. 
 
93 
 
 My First on winter's darksome eve 
 
 Is gathering deep and chill ; 
 Within my leafless Second grieve 
 
 The winds with voices shrill : 
 My Whole its colored flame shall weave 
 
 To charm and cheer us still. 
 
94 
 
 My First is in the field of maize ; 
 
 My Second is a product of the loom : 
 Within my Whole one insect stays 
 
 To lure another to its doom. 
 
95 
 
 My First is opened in the fall 
 To loose its inmates three ; 
 
 They separate along the wall, 
 Or on the leafy lea. 
 
 My Second is a running knot ; 
 
 Were it not tied, a gun, 
 Exploding near the pasture lot, 
 
 Might cause the horse to run. 
 
 My Whole, in Araby the Blest, 
 Is garment for a man ; 
 
 The lady wears it, in the west. 
 But with a different plan. 
 
96 
 
 My First is a crew or a troop or a band ; 
 
 My Second is wrought from the trunk of a tree 
 My Whole is, at signal, withdrawn from the lane 
 
 Ere the steamship is steered to the sea. 
 
97 
 
 In proverb my First is for stillness renowned ; 
 My Second is formed for reception of sound : 
 My Whole is an herb that in Europe is found. 
 
98 
 
 My First is a word 
 That Cassius averred 
 He had formerly heard 
 When Caesar himself was affrighted. 
 
 In horses and hounds 
 My Second abounds ; 
 It is seen at the grounds 
 Where the bicycling men have alighted. 
 
 In the church is the bride, 
 With her love at her side ; 
 She has smiled, she has sighed, 
 And her faith as my Whole has been plighted. 
 
99 
 
 Mazeppa was fast-bound upon my First 
 To speed along the track of desolation ; 
 
 He heard my Second from his foes, and cursed : 
 My Whole is an unseemly cachinnation. 
 
100- 
 
 My First is a resplendent sphere 
 That strikes its victim queerly ; 
 
 My Second, at the hand or the ear, 
 Is loved of women dearly : 
 
 My Whole on ColUns' novel here 
 Has been imprinted clearly. 
 
101 
 
 My First is a vessel created for light ; 
 My Second is dark as the darkness of night : 
 My Whole is a pigment by artisans used, 
 And with it a canvas is sometimes suffused. 
 
, 102 
 
 My First conserves, for later times, 
 
 And for domestic uses, 
 The fruits of near or distant climes. 
 
 In sugar and in juices. 
 
 My Second goes, with buzz, buzz, buzz. 
 Against the cottage ceilings ; 
 
 Although no downright harm it does, 
 It irritates one's feelings. 
 
 My Whole is something that may pique 
 
 By reason of its rareness ; 
 But they who practise it will speak 
 
 With honesty and fairness. 
 
103 
 
 My First has a part in **The Shaughran ;" 
 
 My Second is seen at Luray : 
 My Whole is the name of a mirror 
 
 That gives one a comic dismay. 
 
104 
 
 My First, when blows the autumn gale, 
 May show the wind's direction ; 
 
 My Second with a wooden pail 
 Has eminent connection : 
 
 My Whole keeps bad men out of jail ; — 
 This is a sad reflection. 
 
105 
 
 Sir Walter Scott wrote verse and prose, 
 
 And in my First surpassed ; 
 Turn where we may, his genius glows, 
 
 Delightful to the last. 
 
 The plot of one most skilful tale 
 
 Is near my Second laid ; 
 With magic power that shall not fail 
 
 St. Ronan's is portrayed. 
 
 My Whole, though base and bad of heart, 
 
 Upon the stately scene 
 Played with such skill the courtier's part 
 
 He wedded with a queen. 
 
106 
 
 My First is a fish of a delicate taste ; 
 
 My Second is part af a scale ; 
 My Third is acquired on the sun-smitten waste, 
 
 Or during a summery sail. 
 
 My Whole has a name like the voice of a duck, 
 
 His progress is that of a snail ; 
 He is often exposed, he is sometimes in luck. 
 
 But fully deserving to fail. 
 
107 
 
 Without my First we would not walk ; 
 
 My Second mentions what we did with food : 
 My Whole is he whose diplomatic talk 
 
 The Pope's position has reviewed. 
 
108 
 
 My First is a copious body of water 
 
 That, rounding my Second, unceasingly rolls : 
 O'er my First to my Whole has the pleasure-boat 
 brought her 
 
 Company glad from the Islands of Shoals. 
 
109 
 
 My First, a certain stream, is famous 
 
 In history and song ; 
 And on the beach my Second 
 
 Will be remembered long. 
 
 My Whole, in epithet, is fitly 
 
 Ascription to the strong ; 
 Some men work mightily for goodness, 
 
 But others for the wrong. 
 
110 
 
 My First is a place where Leonidas stood ; 
 
 My Second is left at the larboard : 
 My Whole is a scheme for protection, and good 
 
 When the steamship in Naples is harbored. 
 
Ill 
 
 My First is much the sweetest thing in life ; 
 
 My Second is a gnarled and queer creation : 
 My Whole the maiden or the wife 
 
 Constructs with complication. 
 
112 
 
 My First is a primitive color ; 
 
 My Second, a fillet or band : 
 My Whole is formality duller 
 
 Than the people can well understand. 
 
113 
 
 Behold my First upon the frightened cat ; 
 
 Half with my Second helps the foot-ball game : 
 Within the theatre we lately sat, — 
 
 My Whole was mentioned there by name. 
 
114 
 
 My First was in England a favorite wine ; 
 
 To my Second Othello despairingly came : 
 In the hands of a certain old poet divine 
 
 My Whole was uplifted to musical fame. 
 
115 
 
 My First is a thing for the feet ; 
 
 My Second was long at the head : 
 My Whole has with stripes been repeatedly beat, 
 
 And then put to bed. 
 
116 
 
 My First is a fictitious vaunt ; 
 
 The Pilgrims struck my Second here : 
 My Whole is a peculiar plant 
 
 That to its countryman is dear. 
 
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