172. A YOUNG SHAVER
Happy in the possession of a Keen Kut, the newest form of safety razor, and meeting a friend whose chin bore painful traces of a less trusty blade, an undergraduate who had a turn for puzzles propounded this riddle: “What is the difference between my razor and yours?” Can you answer it?
173. DECAPITATIONS
The ship rode in an ....... bay,
Asleep ...... the master lay.
A ..... and rugged man was he
And, like a .... at home at sea.
Like swooping ... he caught his prey
Whene’er an .. came his way.
But while due . the needle kept
He in his cabin lay and slept.
The missing word in the first line has seven letters; its first letter is cut off to form the second missing word, and this process is repeated throughout the seven lines.
174. A CHARADE
When the tempest roars the loudest
Oft my first a shelter proves.
Say what fair one, though the proudest,
Spurns my next from one she loves?
When the storms of life are past
Earth provides my whole at last.