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The charade—
My whole, industrious, wends his way
His daily task to meet;
Behead, transpose a, lo! a sound
Of music soft and sweet;
Behead again, I make my way
With swiftness past belief;
Again, and where the fields are gay
My bounty brings relief.
is solved by Artisan, strain, train, rain.
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The lines by an old Oxbridge don—
“’Tis an absurdity to say
Women should try for a B.A.
To College honours forward looking;
They’d best confine themselves to cooking!”
can be happily met by this retort in the same words, recast by a Girton girl—
“Women should try for a B.A.,
To College honours forward looking;
’Tis an absurdity to say
They’d best confine themselves to cooking!”