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The answer to the riddle “Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell his timber?” is—Because no one is allowed to cut when it is his own deal.

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He aspired to be praised as a wonderful shot,
But he potted the dog, and despair was his lot!

The words in italics are spelt with the same letters.

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In the doublet, as solved by Lewis Carroll, ARMY is changed into NAVY with seven links, and preserving the sequence while changing a letter every time—thus: ARMY, arms, aims, dims, dams, dame, name, nave, NAVY.