You may laugh if you like, little Mabel; I know you 're exceedingly wise; But I've seen her as plain as I'm able To see unbelief in your eyes. A marvellous creature! I really Whenever she comes from her castle, Melts, and drops into the stream! The dingy gray moss on the boulder The robin and wren fly to meet her; By roadsides, in pastures and meadows, For her sake light up the shadows Even the withered bough blossoms, What fairy in all your romances T. B. Aldrich. PUZZLES PROBLEMS CHARADE. No. 10. THE CORONER'S INQUEST. "Ho for my first!" my second said, "All strangers as we are! The wind, so long right dead ahead, Now freshly blows, and fair." And tho' 't was growing dark and late, Without a sign or word. Thro' lane and road and turnpike gate They sped to gain my third! It was the dewy morning hour; The sun, which lighted up their bower, It saw my first, in wild affright, They caught my first, but not my third, And all, with hearts by sorrow stirred, (While priests prayed for his soul) Their verdict was, to wit, "Found dead, Because he lacked my whole!" My 10, 6, 1, My whole is what they are frequently ex- No. 13. I am composed of 10 letters. My 9, 2, 6, 10, 7, is the rock on which the church is founded. My 1, 5, 10, is an agricultural implement well known by the Southern negroes. My 9, 8, 3, 4, 6, 2, is what everybody ought to be, but too few are. My whole is more attractive to the smell than to the sight. No. 14. I am composed of 20 letters. My 13, 6, 3, 9, 4, catches many rogues. My 5, 14, 8, 16, oft a drudge, and oft the poet's theme. EDITH. My 1, 14, 11, 20, 15, separates many friends. My 19, 2, 17, 10, is near 8, and not far My 4, 10, 6, 16, 14, 9, 4, 20, is what this My whole is a quotation from President No. 15. J. E. M. I am composed of 43 letters. My 5, 25, 14, 27, 40, 9, 1, 30, was a famous Grecian warrior. My 17, 26, 7, 16, 39, is a city noted for the signing of a treaty. My 6, 35, 19, 32, 16, 42, 10, 16, 28, 6, 36, My 6, 15, 8, 23, 12, 34, 27, 7, 36, was the was one of the noblest heroes of the My 20, 18, 3, 6, 41, 16, 22, was present at the surrender of Lee. My 31, 38, 9, 37, 24, 6, 11, 28, 10, 21, 43, My 29, 5, 16, 24, is an explorer. C. I am a word of six letters, and when known am shunned by all. Behead me twice, and I am in a hospital. Cut off three letters, and I am an animal. Trans WAP. I am part of a circle. Another change in my various parts, and I afford you amusement; another, and I am a fish; another, and I am uncooked; and, lastly, I am a girl's name. pose me, and I make a quarrel. Trans- ILLUSTRATED REBUS.· pose me again, and I am useful in a gun; again, and I am feared by school-boys. Behead and curtail me, and I am no longer at peace. Alter my letters again, and I am a mode of conveyance; again, and I am in misery. Change me again, and CHARADES. ANSWERS. VIOLET. No. 19. SW F. S. G. To slumber in that dreamless bed [(I long) 2 (lathe) is (a king head) and (wound- 13. When you want to lose money, invest in oil. [W (hen) u double-u (ant) toll oo's (m-one-y in vest in oil).] 14. Potatoes cannot be bought for nothing. [(Pot) (8 o's) (can) (knot) (bee) B o* 4 0.] 15. Evil pursues the wicked. [(Eve) (ill) (purse) (ewes) (tea) (he) (wee kid).] * Omitted by the draughtsman. "The young Austrians love to flaunt in the air the double-headed Austrian eagle, and black and yellow, their national colors. Also one sees on the kites the emblems of different orders, that is, classes of men who are honored by the Emperor with a particular badge. Here is the Kaiser (Emperor), wearing the emblem of an order on his breast. And because Franz Josef, the Kaiser, married a Bavarian princess, the colors of Bavaria, blue and white, are adopted by many of the children. "In Europe it is the custom that many families live in the same large house; and so the children have not much freedom to romp and halloo at home. Therefore the open space and free air of the common are doubly dear to them. But the winter will soon be here, when they will have to stay in the house and be quiet, and the kites too must be laid by. Next fall the old skeleton of sticks will be clothed with new paper and new colors, and the kite will have another life. and horn. Here is his statue in the Belvedere palace garden." U.S. A. "Washington's Judgment" is not up to the mark. ANSWER TO STRANGE STAIRWAYS. First step, do (dough); second, re (ray); third, mi (me); fourth, fa (far); fifth, sol (soul); sixth, la (Lah); seventh, si (sea); eighth, do (dough). The stairways are the ascending and descending scales in music; the "folks of note" are the musical notes. M. B. C. S. |