DECAPITATIONS.
[1]. Behead a noble vessel, and leave a rude one.
[2]. Behead that which may save life, and leave that which destroys it.
[3]. Behead every thing, and leave nothing.
[4]. Behead a weapon, and leave a fruit.
[5]. Behead a gymnastic feat, and leave that which accomplished it.
[6]. Behead an uncomfortable situation, and leave what promoted it.
[7]. Behead an uncultivated idea, and leave those who entertain it.
[8]. Behead a celebrated British admiral, and leave a British commander-in-chief and viscount.
[9]. Behead a primate of Scotland, and leave a consul of the U. S. A. to Tunis in 1797.
[10]. Behead an Irish author who wrote a work on Beauty, and leave an able and intrepid English admiral.
[11]. Behead an eminent Scotch physician and mathematician, and leave a learned German professor of Rhetoric.
[12]. Behead a country, and leave a sensation.
[13]. Behead a weapon, and leave a part of speech.
[14]. Behead a destructive deed, and leave one of mirth.
[15]. Behead a man, and leave a beverage.
[16]. Behead a twist, and leave a beverage.
[17]. Behead a wart, and leave a small horse.
[18]. Behead a perfume, and leave a coin.
[19]. Behead a ribbon, and leave an animal.
[20]. Behead an iron hod, and leave an important character in one of Dickens’s works.
[21]. Behead a drove, and leave a means of fastening.
[22]. Behead a tool, and leave a reptile.
[23]. Behead a reptile, and leave a tool.
[24]. Behead mildew, and leave a sunbeam.
[25]. Behead a viaduct, and leave the upper part of a slope.
[26]. Behead a number, and leave a heart.
[27]. Behead a heart, and leave a metal.
[28]. Behead a kitchen utensil, and leave a tenement.
[29]. Behead a scion of the forest king,
And straight behold a very barber-ous thing.
[30]. Behead a youthful damsel, and you’ll find
A mate, perchance, more suited to your mind.
[31]. Behead a thing in every kitchen seen,
And what is left will puzzle you, I ween.
[32]. Behead an object gaunt, which Superstition dreads,
And lo! for all your pains, a hundred thousand heads.
[33]. Behead what tear-drops did in Beauty’s eyes,
And leave what Beauty did to cause their rise.
[34]. Behead a well-known animal, and see
Another better known than even he.
[35]. Behead an instrument of pleasant tone,
And leave another one to minstrels known.
[36]. Behead a bird, one common as can be,
And leave one which we not as often see.
[37]. And when ye’ve done all this, like clever elves,
Forever still behead, but leave yourselves.
[38]. Behead a lady, and leave a lady.
[39]. Behead a bird, and leave a vessel.
[40]. Behead a seed, and leave a grain.
[41]. Behead what some men love, and leave what most men love.
[42]. Behead a stream, and leave a bird.
[43]. Behead a part of a chain, and leave a fluid.
[44]. Behead a vessel, and leave a part of the body.
[45]. Behead a grain, and leave a luxury.
[46]. Behead a band, and leave a catching apparatus.
[47]. Behead an article used in sewing, and leave a stream.
[48]. Behead a fruit, and leave a part of the body.
[49]. Behead an article of furniture, and leave a fastening.
[50]. Behead an instrument of punishment, and leave a part of the human body.
[51]. Behead an animal, and leave an organ of man.
[52]. Behead a kind of grain, and leave a sensation.
[53]. Behead a hard substance, and leave a soft one.
[54]. Behead and curtail a bird, and leave a pressure.
[55]. Behead and curtail a culinary utensil, and leave a tax.
[56]. Behead and curtail one part of the body, and leave another.
[57]. Behead and curtail a vine, and leave a pronoun.
[58]. Behead and curtail a fruit, and leave a blow.
[59]. Behead and curtail an important part of every kitchen, and leave an animal.
[60]. Divide a song, and leave an article and a pronoun.
[61]. Divide a surprising place, and leave a verb, and a shrub.
[62]. Divide an animal, and leave a verb, a pronoun, and an insect.
[63]. Divide a musical instrument, and leave a sack, and tube.
[64]. Divide a game, and leave a combat, and a passage.
[65]. Divide an insect, and leave a color, and a vessel.
[66]. Divide an ornament, and leave a pair, and an obstacle.
[67]. Divide a contract, and leave an obstruction, and a profit.
[68]. Divide a flower, and leave animals, and a feature.