BEHEADINGS AND CURTAILINGS.

1. Curtail a disgrace, and leave an imposture. Behead, and leave one

of Noah's sons. Curtail, and leave an exclamation denoting surprise,

joy, or grief. Behead again, and leave a vowel.

2. Curtail a color, and leave a very small part. Behead, and leave

a verb signifying "to strike." Behead again, and leave a pronoun.

Curtail, and leave a simple, personal pronoun.

3. Curtail a beautiful marine production, and leave a girl's name.

Behead, and leave an ancient coin. Curtail, and leave a conjunction.

Behead, and leave a consonant.

4. Behead a part of the body, and leave a kind of tree. Curtail, and

leave an article used in toilets. Behead, and leave a preposition.

Curtail, and leave a pronoun.

5. Curtail a sweet juice collected by bees, and leave a stone for

sharpening razors. Behead, and leave a number. Curtail, and leave a

preposition. Curtail, and leave an invocation.

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