[CHARADE.]
My first is as bad as my second,
My second's as bad as can be;
My whole is the most famous sailor
That ever sailed over the sea.
When Johnnie's father asked him how he liked the new horse, he replied. "Oh, papa, he's real tame in front, but awful wild behind!" (He didn't see the boys behind the fence.)
VANITY.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] We shall use the familiar Latin names, giving the Greek forms in parenthesis when they first occur.