Legate. (Eaglet, eagle, gale, lag, gat, get, let.)

Copper. (Pope, Poe, Po, core.)

METAGRAMS.

This riddle is formed by changing the initial letter of a particular word again and again, so as to produce as many words as possible of different meanings. Our first example affords a good illustration of the process to be pursued.

Well known to all as a covering for the head;Cap.
Change my initial, a doze I mean instead.Nap.
Once more, and an opening you will see;Gap.
Exchange again, I'm found inside a tree.Sap.
Once more, I mean then to befall.Hap.
Again, I'm used by travellers, one and all.Map.
Again, in this my mother often nursed me.Lap.
Exchange again, and this my food would be.Pap.
Again, and a sharp blow you've spelled.Rap.
Once more, and a blow that's hardly seen or felt.Tap.

The following clever Metagram is from the pages of the "Modern Sphinx," a book which contains upwards of a thousand different examples of the various kinds of riddles and puzzles in existence:—

There's a word, you'll agree, commencing with BBower.
That expresses a cool pleasant shade;
But remove letter B and substitute C,Cower.
Apprehensively shrinking 'tis made;
Take away letter C, replace it by D,Dower.
It will name what's bestowed on a bride;
Now if D is erased and by G replaced,Gower.
A Welsh word, meaning crooked, is spied;
Thus far very well, now substitute L,Lower.
We are going down now you will say;
Letter L shall be gone, and M be put on,Mower.
There's a man cutting grass to make hay;
But when M shall have fled put P there instead,Power.
It will name what is mentioned of steam;
Pray just now P erase, put R in its place,Rower.
There's a man gliding down with the stream;
But now take R away, put S there, we say,Sower.
That a farmer at work then it names;
If for S you put T you surely will nameTower.
A noted place close by the Thames.

The following is a good specimen metagram:—

Of letters four, I do denote