Entire I often cause great pain; beheaded I am boisterous; curtailed you see a heathen deity; transposed I describe a course.
[45]
What wicked deed is that which, read backward, gives what is generally the cause of it?
[46]
To a place where the living did all once reside,
Add fifty—be sure that ’tis on the right side;
You will then see a name which you’ll find to belong
To a songster that’s famed for melodious song.
[47]
What two consonants and one vowel can be so arranged as to spell the name of an animal, a name applied to a particular class of men, and a word expressing human ability?
[48]
Entire, I’m considered rude by some,
Behead me, and a weed I then become,
Exchange my head, and then there will be seen
An animal that boundeth on the green.