7. Behead an old-fashioned occupation, and you leave what prevents many a parting.
8. Behead a part of ladies’ apparel, and you leave what is higher than the king.
9. Behead what always comes hard, and you leave what makes things go easy.
10. Behead a weapon, and you leave a fruit. Behead that, and you leave part of the body.
1. Drum, rum.
2. Glass, lass.
3. Glove, love.
4. Molasses, O Lasses!
5. Wheel, heel, eel.
6. Sharper, harper.
7. Spin, pin.
8. Lace, ace.
9. Toil, oil.
10. Spear, pear, ear.
Sometimes they make them in rhyme.
Behead what is born in the fire,
And lives but a moment or so,—
For it can’t live long you know,—
And you leave what all admire.
Where grass so green doth grow,
And trees in many a row.
Behead this last, and you leave in its place
What once preserved the human race.
Spark, park, ark.
Behead a musical term so sweet,
And you leave what runs without any feet.
Behead again, and, sad to tell,
You leave what is sick and never gets well.
To what is left add the letter D,
And you have a lawyer of high degree.
Trill, rill, ill, “LL D.”