A company of us got together in one of the rooms and ate our ice-creams there, and while we were eating them, we beheaded words. Lucy Maria must read this letter, for she’ll want to know how. When you behead a word you take off the first letter. It’s fun, when you get beheading them fast. The spelling mustn’t be changed. Dorry made some of these. I didn’t. I couldn’t think fast enough.
Behead an article of dress, and you leave a farming tool.
Shoe—hoe.
I’ll put the rest of the answers at the bottom, so as to give all of you a chance to guess what they are.
1. Behead what leads men to fight, and you leave the cause of much misery, sin, and death.
2. Behead what young ladies are said to be fond of, and you leave a young lady.
3. Behead what comes nearest the hand, and you leave what comes nearest the heart.
4. Behead something sweet, and it leaves an address to the sweet.
5. Behead part of a coach, and you leave part of yourself. Behead that, and you leave a fish.
6. Behead a rogue, and you leave a musician.