is solved by Hatred, hat red, dearth, thread.

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If I write with my first in my second
My whole you can never find out;
Add a letter, and all will be reckoned
A patron of water devout.

is solved by Within, Swithin.

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After officers’ mess, when cigars were well alight, the old conundrum was propounded, “What is most like a cornet of horse?” A sharp sub. was ready with the reply, “A hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by this variant which occurred to a married captain, “a corset of horn”; and yet another reading was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How much did you say the ‘horse ate of corn’?”

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