7. Mythological sorceress.
8. An ancient priest's dress.

224.

One grave, one gay, in numbers they go forth, And wend their way to east, west, south and north.

1. A schoolboy's delight.
2. Without forethought.
3. To be seen at night.
4. Wandering distraught.
5. Ladies like me new,
Officers too.

225.

Bad is at any time my First, you'll see,
But doubly bad when in my Last it be.

1. A useful creation, which gives light and heat. 2. A fortified city near Tunis you meet.

3. Of Bashan a king for my Third I'll take. 4. Her mother-in-law she would not forsake. 5. A mighty prophet this must be,

For thousands believe on him, as we see.

226.

Make of my First my Last, and then, 'midst loud

acclaim,

Let lady fair present it to the winner of the game.

1. A Northern sea.

2. A weeping tree.
3. Affirmation.

4. Hesitation.

5. Was fair to see.

6. A useful tree.

7. Useful to stand.

Measure for land.

227,

If, when rude Boreas blows his loudest blast, You'd calm my First, put on to it my Last.

1. First Greek Poetess.

2. First great Bacchanals.
3. First human victim.

228.

Two rival factions in a country town,

Which oft delight to knock each other down.

N

1. When Greek meets Greek,

Then comes the tug of war. 2. Venice sent her captain forth To quiet Cyprus' shore.

3 & 4. Many a one bewails the day
That saw her dear one fall;

But thou, the cause of grief to them,
Stand glorious before all.

229.

Disliked by many is my First,
My Next of bipeds not the worst ;
My Whole is reckoned very brave,
And often proof of it he gave.

1. How in my youth I cried,
When to do this I tried.

2. How very short its life—
The air with them is rife.

3. A saintly English town,
He gained a martyr's crown.

F. M

230.

See where my First ascends the sacred stairs And calls the faithful to their daily prayers.

1. Thee Scotland hailed as sovereign, when the murderer died.

2. These constellations of the north, to mariners

a guide.

3. Paradise, oh! Paradise, thy gardens men dis

pute.

4. Bride of Abydos, tell me why are now the echoes mute.

5. Wind whistling softly through the trees at eve. 6. Maid ever true, though lovers disbelieve.

7. Dig and delve, delve and dig, till you strike the ore;

Large and rich, found at last, think of care no

more.

231.

In summer time what better fare is reckoned
Than to sit down to eat my First and Second.

1. The bill is past, the die is cast.
2. His statutes win fame for his sin.
3. Greek odes old Moore has retold.

4. Writer of tales, funny as whales.
5. Emperor of Rome, seldom at home.
6. Maid romantic.-Petrarch frantic.
7. Province of France, western by chance.
8. Italian art, Hebrew in part.

9. Venerable man, find him who can.

232.

A celebrated personage, and his failures.

1. A pastoral term.

2. A Baconian term.

3. A stellar term.

4. For more than 1,000, a term.

5. A bitter term.

6. A law term.

7. An optical term.

L. M.

233.

Two Poets of the present day.

1. "I am your wife if you will marry me, If not, I'll die your maid."

2. "I do but beg a little changeling boy, To be my henchman."