242.
The troop arranged for battle
Without my first would fly;
And whether good or bad,
Without it you would die.
Go seek the earth and ocean,
For smallest things you guess;
Yes, bring the atom from the air,
And still my second’s less.
The traitor, when condemn’d to die,
May calm his cares and pray;
Yet when the axe sounds "dust to dust,"
My whole he’s borne away.
243. Change my head eight different times, and make (1) a plant, (2) a necessity, (3) a reward, (4) to nourish, (5) an exploit, (6) to notice, (7) a pipe, (8) a produce.
A RIVER ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.
244. Father plugs an abbreviation.
245.
I am composed of letters five,
The part of speech is adjective,
From either way I spell the same;
Pray tell me then what is my name.
246. Entire, I am capital; curtail me, I am still capital; behead and transpose, I am anything but capital.
247. A liquor, a word signifying father; another word for father, a coin, and a liquid measure. The initial and final letters are the same, and spell a title.
248. Take a syllable of two letters from a girl’s name and leave a musical instrument.