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A Century of Charades - 100 riddles from 1895
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GreenWindmill
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 		Looks good to me Rogi, call this one solved - particularly like the second part.

Just to try to put a lid on the previous charade - is the first part 'Inn' because that's somewhere with a use for 'Rye' (beer/whisky)? I don't like leaving any of these without a complete explanation of each part and I still don't have the same warm fuzzy feeling as I got from most of the others!
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 		on to XVI
Way to go, Rogi. It sounds like you live in a pretty place.

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Furnace
is right and makes sense in the context! I haven't had time to go through any other answers to XIV because my internet was down in due to some rain storm. At least that is what Time Warner claimed..

So on to XVI

  My first, a heathen God of old,
  Was fashioned in a mighty mould;
  My whole on him was brawny, vast,
  He swung a hammer, or my last.
  His worshipers have passed away;
  Like every dog he had his day;
  He and his kin have met their fate,
  And Odin's halls are desolate.
Ask not his name, nor vainly seek;
He's knocked into the middle of next week.
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		I'm 99% sure I know the answer to this one but wanted to let some other folks speak up. Don't be shy!
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Aiobhan
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 		Clearly it's Thor. Except he never swung an axe - only Mjollnir.

Either way, it's thorax.

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 		XVII
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Thorax
is right! Thanks for that answer, Aiobhan; well done.
The next one is longer and in a romantic style that I find cloying; though at first glance it seems a little racy!
The spacing is correct as typed; no indents at all here.

XVII

Thou manikin that fain wouldst ape
Of human form the godlike shape,
Fetish sure from Ashantee!
Raising beauteous arms to thee,
Maids repeat a fervent prayer
That winds may lull and skies be fair.

Thy dual parts let me proclaim;
The first the earliest fruit of shame,
The second, worn, decrepit, bent,
Was woman's guard and ornament,
Or haply, foremost of the ten,
Stood up to be assailed of men.

High perched above, thou dost bestride
Thy narrow throne in pygmy pride;
Snowy bosoms heaving high
Palpitate beneath thine eye,
Womankind for offering bring
All to which they closest cling.

What Beauty's touch has sanctified,
What Modesty would seek to hide,
What binds the mother to her child,
In sacrifice to thee are piled;
And the blushing virgin's zone
Is loosed for thee, and thee alone.
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GreenWindmill
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 		Re: XVII
rose wrote:
at first glance it seems a little racy!


It does doesn't it?!

"Earliest fruit of shame" presumably refers to Adam and Eve wearing figleaves to cover their shame after eating the forbidden fruit. No actual mention of what fruit it is in the bible though so not sure where to go from there! Struggling to pull much meaning out of the rest of the lines...
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 		Before that they didn't wear any.

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The first the earliest fruit of shame - Clothes

Was woman's guard and ornament - Pin

clothespin

All the rest that he made sound a little racy, is just women hanging sheets and personal items on a clothes line, I suppose just to glam up a mundane item.


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 		XVIII
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Clothespin (note: I realized, knowing the answer, that the foremost of ten must mean ten pin bowling!)
is right!

Knowing the answer to that one and re-reading it, that poem is clever, funny and entertaining. I'm starting to like Bellamy and think he had a sense of humor.
I wonder if more flowery poems like this one have more mundane objects as answers.

Again, no indents in the next one; sorry to say this is the last one I'll have time to put up today.

XVIII

Beneath the ground
My first is found.

My last two wear
A cross of hair.

And my complete
Is very sweet.
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 		Augh. The simplest ones are always the hardest.

I want to say "root" is the first one, but "rootbeer" doesn't make sense because "beer" doesn't have crosshairs and I'm not sure what else starts with "root" and is sweet.

I guess the first could also be something more morbid, like a grave or tomb or something...

Other things that have to do with "cross of hair (crosshair)":

sight
reticle/reticule
scope
gun?

Man I have no idea how to put these things together.

But a website I have found that is very helpful is http://www.morewords.com/ - you can search for a word or prefix or suffix and it gives you all the words beginning, ending, or containing that word, as well as a bunch of other things. It's been very helpful.

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 		Honeybuns Wink

Just kidding.

Maybe crosses tied up of horse (or human) hair. Horse hair bridle or something that crosses on each side?



Finally a definitive answer to XIV

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 		Too funny, booba!

The cross of hair thing might be related to a couple of Catholic references.
One is the practice of shaving one's hair in the shape of a cross (think, Mohawk) for various rites (children or priests) or to identify someone who was insane as under the protection of God.

The other one is the story of the cross of hair on a donkey's withers and it being a shadow from the cross Christ was crucified on.
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GreenWindmill
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 		Ok, think I've got this one thanks to some of the posts above...

Beneath the ground
My first is found.

I started off thinking 'root' as well but then moved onto animals and though of a...
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Mole


My last two wear
A cross of hair.
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Asses

(Wouldn't have gone down this line of thinking were it not for Rogi's Catholic knowledge.)

And my complete
Is very sweet.
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Molasses

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 		XIX
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Actually, the answer is carrotmulemule! April Fool's. Yes, that was lame.
The answer molasses is correct!! Well done.


And on to XIX.. a somber, but slightly odd, poem....again no indentation...

XIX


When Death came to my first, he still delayed
To smite the fairest flower his fields could show;
And so the lady lingered, and they said,
"When the leaves fall." Before she sank too low
They brought her pigeon to my next. She tried
To smile her thanks while toying with the bird.
The doctors held a council ere she died,
And spoke faint-hoping, fearing to my third.
At last the end came. As the hours dragged slow,
She pressed my whole, and said with feeble moan,
"Farewell, my treasure, whither I must go,
I go without thee: Time is there unknown."
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 		When Death came to reap ?

They brought her pigeon to my next ???

And spoke faint-hoping, fearing to tear ?

Very sad...


ETA: Think I might have it...

Very, very sad.

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 		I thought it might be Death came to call

but calender doesn't fit.
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