66.
A man with one eye two plums must have seen,
One perfectly ripe, the other quite green.
The former he took, and ate it with pleasure,
The other he left to ripen at leisure.
67. A widower who has lost two wives.
68. The grape-vine on the Marquis of Breadalbane’s estate, Killin, N.B., which bears more than 5000 bunches of grapes, of which only 500, properly thinned out, are allowed to mature, so that the fewer and smaller bunches bear finer fruit.
69. Poe, poet, poetry.
70. Theatres. The articles the and a lead on to the other four letters tres, and these form the word rest, if the t is transferred to the end.