Why is a fish-monger not likely to be generous?
Take away my first five, and I am a tree. Take away my last five, and I am a vegetable. Without my last three, I am an ornament. Cut off my first and my last three, and I am a titled gentleman. From his name cut off the last letter, and an organ of sense will remain. Remove from this the last, and two parts of your head will be left.
Divide me into halves, and you find a fruit and an instrument of correction. Entire, I can be obtained of any druggist.
Why was Elizabeth of England a more marvelous sovereign than Napoleon?