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CHARADE by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON

First Line: MY FIRST AND MY SECOND, UNITED, DISPLAY
Last Line: AND HIS SUCCESSOR CAME INTO OFFICE NEXT MORNING.
Subject(s): FAMILY LIFE; HOME; MARRIAGE; RELATIVES; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;

MY @3first@1 and my @3second,@1 united, display
A word still encircled with laurel and bay;
Made complete with a @3k,@1 if you have but my @3third,@1
You without more ado will discover the word:
For my @3whole@1 let the funeral bell be toll'd,
He died in the night when the weather was cold;
He died in the night the same year he was born in,
And his successor came into office next morning.



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