The Columbian Prize Charades
by Herbert Ingalls (9781458868909)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In armored strife my First is made When freedom calls, or foes invade; 13ut in my Second demagogues declare A thirst for slaughter which they would not share: My Whole is an authority they lack To keep the nations on the verge of wrack. My First was a poet who pondered by night; His gloomy reflections inspired him to write; My Second is gadoid, a creature marine, To be hooked in the mouth but not found in a seine: My Whole is an epithet Gremio named In the play where the shrew is conclusively tamed. The living skeleton must be my First; My Second, Adam in his garden lost: His money yet has never Jew disbursed To buy my Whole, whatever were its cost.My First o'er spaces intervening Is seen to move from time to time; A few, my Second, find the meaning Of every riddle writ in rhyme: According to a saying droll. He is my Whole who does my Whole. chapter{Section 4My First is a species of sectional cake By the baker prepared for the children's sweet sake With a glaze on its top and a currant below. A vale is my Second; not through it may flow The current of river in rainfall or snow, Nor the brooklet that babbles by blossom and brake. My Whole is in speeches delivered for show, When speakers enlarge upon things they don't know, While some of the hearers are hardly awake. chapter{Section 530 In sportsmen's boxes round my First may tinkle. But it was clean forgot by Mr. Winkle. My Second is a rugged rock uplifted. Or Iiill whereon the surging cloud has drifted. My Whole is one whose triumph is completed When in his power he holds his foe defeated. chapter{Section 631 My First is liquor found in vats,? Or, with a shade a little darker, Defines a certain sort of barker Upon the track of cats or rats. Him these, no ...

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