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A Century of Charades - 100 riddles from 1895
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rose
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 		Number XI
Ladies and gentlemen: I present number XI

The student, from the Charles returning,
Upholds my first, the seat of learning.
My last disturbs the baby's sleep ;
My whole's a monster from the deep.


The spacing is correct; no indentations.

PS. Rogi: I suspect that the word "fen" was more popular 100 years ago, I can't remember ever using it in conversation, or hearing anyone else use it. Smile
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		I assume he means the Charles River but wonder why he'd use that styled reference for Boston College or Harvard.
BC was 32 years old when our book was written. So, our first part could be some reference contemporary for the day, something Harvard was already well-known for or something both were. Something related to a school that a student supports?

The 2nd part at first seems like it could be any of a huge number of things, but I'm old enough to remember my little sister shrieking in pain from an opened
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safety pin.

Plus, it's something of an older meme.

Interestingly, Wikipedia tells me that those were reinvented in 1849, but were originally used in the 14th century BC. Another "smart ancestors" enigma.

Or maybe I'm all wet. There aren't a ton 'o words that end with that and I'm not seeing anything in that list that makes sense for part 1..
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 		Alas, poor Yorick!

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Again thanks to Rogi's groundwork, something popped from a list of words that end in "pin".

Sculpin We have the freshwater ones here in the Great Lakes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpin

Upholds my first, the seat of learning. "Skull" -studied Shakespeare at school

disturbs the baby's sleep , "pin"

monster from the deep - in reality a rather small fish


Many thanks for getting X out of the way! I never would have gotten it. Now that you mention it I think Sherlock had a line "across the heath and fen" or something like that.
Now I can throw out my long list of words that end in "moist".......

Edit to correct my typo, thanks rose.

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 		XII
I checked the key and I think the answer is correct only spelled
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sculpin

also, Boston college crew teams use sculls on the Charles River. It is so easy when you know the answer!!


I liked that one, and learned about something I had no idea existed.

Here's the next one, and I have no clue what it is about:

XII

Just round the corner of the street
Your roving eyes my first will meet:
I think you know the little square,
And recognize a number there.

The sage of Athens wisely said,
"Count no man blessed until he's dead."
Behold Lesseps, his nation's pride,
With honors heaped on every side
Does Honor on his age attend?
Alas! my second is his end.

The wretch who long has sought in vain
Relief from torturing fangs of pain,
No more my whole with horror sees,
But hails 'short pang that brings long ease.'
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 		No more my whole with horror sees,
But hails 'short pang that brings long ease.'

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A burp, which relieves "Heartburn"

Hart Square (somewhere)
Count de Lesseps was set ablaze.
And no, I have nothing to back this up. Gotta run....


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rose
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 		That isn't correct.

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the answer has fewer letters than the one guess.

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 		Both the Suez and the Panama are much to far.

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And recognize a number there.- four

Alas! my second is his end.- lesSEPS

But hails 'short pang that brings long ease.- Used to pull that painful tooth

forceps

http://www.billcasselman.com/dental_forceps_early_eighteen_hundreds.jpg


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 		and next...
That is correct!

Here's XIII

My first is found where Glory leads,
  The coward fears and fools despise;
In common walks my next precedes,
  It aids the fallen wretch to rise.
My third was once a robber count,
  His castle stood the Rhine beside;
My whole some ladies learn to mount
 But no one ever cares to ride. 
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 		Well, German for Count is Graf, as in Graf Zeppelin

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So maybe telegraph

But the first two don't fit...that I can see.

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 		I'd have been on that last one, forever. Good job, Booba.

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Cryptograph

could work for this one but the whole doesn't work as well as it should, I think.
It had/s to be some pastime popular with the ladies or item used by them.
The "resistance" or "opposition" meanings of "mount" could be what he's hinting at, but I can't fit any "*graph" words to those.
The "last" (graph) just sounds right, somehow.
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 		Or.. mount in a frame!

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The coward fears - foe (because it fits)

In common walks my next precedes, - your big toe (cute)

Graf- as above

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rose
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 		XIV
Momma don't take my Kodachrome away! That answer is correct. This next one is short and sweet; but, again, I have no clue what it is about.

here is number XIV

When to my second men confide
   My third that they have hoarded,
It is my first, and if they bide
  My whole will be rewarded.
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 		I hate the short ones.
Best i can do is: "to hoard" is a "sin" for the first, but from the long list of words that begin with sin, the best I can do is:

sin-you-us
and
sin-you-ate
which don't make much
sin-suh

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 		The first three could fit - but not the rest.
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 		First: sin, penance, confession?

Second: priest, father, god

Third: gold, money, wealth, sin (or greed)

Whole: forgiveness, heaven, absolution

I feel like it has to be in the same vein. I will think on this.

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is it atonement?

When to my second men confide - me
My third that they have hoarded, - ment/mint = money?
It is my first - atone/confession
My whole will be rewarded. - atonement/amends/redemption

That is probably my best guess.

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