(odd, singular); its tail, and it is Co., plural, for company; head and tail, and it is o, nothing. Its head is a sounding C (sea), its tail a flowing D (river Dee), and amid their depths the cod may fearless play, parent of softest

sounds

yet mute for ever.

63. Metagram

a riddle in which the change of the initial letter produces a series of words of different meanings; from

meta

, implying change, and

gramma

, a letter. Thus: