1. Behead a noble vessel, and leave a rude one.

2. Behead that which may save life, and leave that which destroys it.

3. Behead every thing, and leave nothing.

4. Behead a weapon, and leave a fruit.

5. Behead a gymnastic feat, and leave that which accomplished it.

6. Behead an uncomfortable situation, and leave what promoted it.

7. Behead an uncultivated idea, and leave those who entertain it.

8. Behead a celebrated British admiral, and leave a British commander-in-chief and viscount.

9. Behead a primate of Scotland, and leave a consul of the U. S. A. to Tunis in 1797.

10. Behead an Irish author who wrote a work on Beauty, and leave an able and intrepid English admiral.

11. Behead an eminent Scotch physician and mathematician, and leave a learned German professor of Rhetoric.

12. Behead a country, and leave a sensation.

13. Behead a weapon, and leave a part of speech.

14. Behead a destructive deed, and leave one of mirth.

15. Behead a man, and leave a beverage.

16. Behead a twist, and leave a beverage.

17. Behead a wart, and leave a small horse.

18. Behead a perfume, and leave a coin.

19. Behead a ribbon, and leave an animal.

20. Behead an iron hod, and leave an important character in one of Dickens’s works.

21. Behead a drove, and leave a means of fastening.

22. Behead a tool, and leave a reptile.

23. Behead a reptile, and leave a tool.

24. Behead mildew, and leave a sunbeam.

25. Behead a viaduct, and leave the upper part of a slope.

26. Behead a number, and leave a heart.

27. Behead a heart, and leave a metal.

28. Behead a kitchen utensil, and leave a tenement.

29. Behead a scion of the forest king,
And straight behold a very barber-ous thing.

30. Behead a youthful damsel, and you’ll find
A mate, perchance, more suited to your mind.

31. Behead a thing in every kitchen seen,
And what is left will puzzle you, I ween.

32. Behead an object gaunt, which Superstition dreads,
And lo! for all your pains, a hundred thousand heads.

33. Behead what tear-drops did in Beauty’s eyes,
And leave what Beauty did to cause their rise.

34. Behead a well-known animal, and see
Another better known than even he.

35. Behead an instrument of pleasant tone,
And leave another one to minstrels known.

36. Behead a bird, one common as can be,
And leave one which we not as often see.

37. And when ye’ve done all this, like clever elves,
Forever still behead, but leave yourselves.

38. Behead a lady, and leave a lady.

39. Behead a bird, and leave a vessel.

40. Behead a seed, and leave a grain.

41. Behead what some men love, and leave what most men love.

42. Behead a stream, and leave a bird.

43. Behead a part of a chain, and leave a fluid.

44. Behead a vessel, and leave a part of the body.

45. Behead a grain, and leave a luxury.

46. Behead a band, and leave a catching apparatus.

47. Behead an article used in sewing, and leave a stream.

48. Behead a fruit, and leave a part of the body.

49. Behead an article of furniture, and leave a fastening.

50. Behead an instrument of punishment, and leave a part of the human body.

51. Behead an animal, and leave an organ of man.

52. Behead a kind of grain, and leave a sensation.

53. Behead a hard substance, and leave a soft one.

54. Behead and curtail a bird, and leave a pressure.

55. Behead and curtail a culinary utensil, and leave a tax.

56. Behead and curtail one part of the body, and leave another.

57. Behead and curtail a vine, and leave a pronoun.

58. Behead and curtail a fruit, and leave a blow.

59. Behead and curtail an important part of every kitchen, and leave an animal.

60. Divide a song, and leave an article and a pronoun.

61. Divide a surprising place, and leave a verb, and a shrub.

62. Divide an animal, and leave a verb, a pronoun, and an insect.

63. Divide a musical instrument, and leave a sack, and tube.

64. Divide a game, and leave a combat, and a passage.

65. Divide an insect, and leave a color, and a vessel.

66. Divide an ornament, and leave a pair, and an obstacle.

67. Divide a contract, and leave an obstruction, and a profit.

68. Divide a flower, and leave animals, and a feature.