What is the difference between an alarm bell put on a window at night and half an oyster? One is shutter-bell, the other but a shell.
I am borne on the gale in the stillness of night,
A sentinel’s signal that all is not right.
I am not a swallow, yet skim o’er the wave;
I am not a doctor, yet patients I save;
When the sapling has grown to a flourishing tree,
It finds a protector henceforward in me?
Bark!
Why is a little dog’s tail like the heart of a tree? Because it’s farthest from the bark.
Why are the Germans like quinine and gentian? Because they are two tonics (Teutonics).
My first is a prop, my second’s a prop, and my whole is a prop? A foot-stool.
My first I hope you are,
My second I see you are,
My whole I know you are.
Wel-come.
My first is not, nor is my second, and there is no doubt that, until you have guessed this puzzle, you may reckon it my whole? Non-plus.