DUTCH PUZZLE.
74. Add 2 strokes to | | | | and make nothing.
75. What bird most resembles a peddler?
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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.
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