What's in a Name; Charades, Anagrams, Rhymes (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n. To My Sweetheart. To my first a bone with you I never shall try; Are you not my sweet dearie, The lamp of my eye ? Of your lamp may my second Continue to burn, As of that on the table, The while that we turn To my great lovable whole Of immortal name; We laugh at him and with him,- A "Boz" worth of fame. chapter{Section 4The little grunter, whose roast crackling skin Was made immortal by our dear Charles Lamb, Is safe my second his my first within The while we long for the ultimate ham. My whole, annual whole, was by Bo-bo well earned; But he thought not of that as to roast pig he turned. And while that sweet incense arose to the sky He stuffed; closed his eyes; then was ready to die. On the Plains in Bygone Days. When lively first grave second met She had my whole in eye: She asked him for a scalp or two, Or else to get one try. He smiled, and helped by brave assent To decorate her rooms; Though heldly now he stalks about, She has one; 'tis her groom's! "Once upon a time," For so the story goes, My last was puffed with pride, Too tight he found his clothes. My huge and roaring first He tried to emulate; And that led him, alas! To his highly blown-up state. My whole leaps on the bank; My whole dives in the pool; Just twig his weather eye! He's no fresh water fool! One hundred and fifty Is a sum rather nifty If there's no my three-four before it. If my three-four to you The debt long will stay due; So use my first two when you score it. In old days most divine Was my whole, one from nine. Arithmetic! How I abhor it! A well fitting my whole is what all men should seek. To win one you need not be too piously meek: If good, honest, sweet tempered while here down ...