(α) When is a door not a negress?

(β) What is the difference between hearing recitation and being bored?

(γ) Why is Hall Caine like a tenpenny nail?

Any replies to the above will be most thankfully received, and paid for at our usual rates.

4.

"There was a very foolish, fond old man,

Fourscore and upward, dwelling at Liskeard,

Who said, I am not in my perfect mind;

It is just as I feared, in very sooth,

For, to deal plainly, four larks and a hen,