2. She breathed it softly through her lips,
Then wiped away a tear,

And sighed, for it might be for months,
Or might be for a year.

3. I'm sorry that, like Jonah, I

Have brought you such bad weather; It stops your seeing these to day, And spoils both lace and feather. 4. We're found, I think, in every land, In foreign and in distant clime: A poor man's purse one of us filled, On board a ship, once on a time.

5. One musical note proclaims he's away,
Good sportsmen do not tarry,

But hurry away upon hearing the sound,
Proclaiming the flight of the quarry.

6. An ancient name of a city fair,

A lofty wall doth it encircle round; Here domes and spires rise light in air, And beauty too is often found.

7. A member of a noisy throng,

Who their time away

pass

By dancing, and with wine and song
Turning dull night to day.

R. C.

95.

The battle of Oxford.

1. Petruchio and Rarey knew this art without denial.

2. These letters twain contain the name of a

Gascon village small.

3. Sad fate is hers, and yet perchance she's saved from greater trial.

4. Who would my next's profession choose, barred from acquaintance all?

G. G. M.

96.

When the billows roll on ocean green,
To find my First may be reckoned;
Oh! shudder not if his skin be seen

To be stained with the dye of my Second.
For his fate is fearful, O! pray for his soul,
If by accident he shall meet my whole.

1. Schoolboy's delight.
2. Policeman's delight.
3. Jockey's delight.

97.

My First once laid, upon a bed
Made of my next, his weary head;
Ah! luckless child, didst thou not see
Amidst the leaves a slumb'ring bee.

1. A Thane of renown.

2. An Italian town.

3. A poem of late.

4. In a slippery state.

5, Commonest flower in park or bower,

98.

It's not well for your health if my Second you do
Too soon after eating your food;

And if you've a fancy to purchase my First,
Pray mind and take care that it's good.

1. Any heroine.

2. Spenser's heroine.

3. A black eyed heroine.

4. Dialect of a Greek heroine.

5. Heroine in the Odyssey.

In the Last my First are selling,
Where the fishmongers abound;
And my Second very telling,
Not far off the strand are found.

1. Going, going, gone.
2. Shakespearian lapwing.
3. Ananias and Sapphira.
4. Anything but white.
5. Poet of Purgatory.

6. Philosopher with scolding wife.

2. A prophet, none know when he lived, Nor yet from whence he came,

In fact he left behind him

Little else besides a name.

3. There seems no limit to the themes Oft chosen for my Third;

A frog expiring on a log!

Was not this theme absurd?

4. Things that are given to find out a result, So Johnson says, if you will him consult.

5. These you will find in foreign clime,

Far from the haunts of want and crime.

6. A mountain known to those well-versed in classic lore,

And town for which a Russian map your eyes

you must cast o'er.

7. This chief upon his floating isle
Has quite despotic power;
But when his term of rule is o'er,
Then comes the reckoning hour.

8. A highland word, and also one
You find in Irish brogue,
As Paddy tells you how he felt

When knocked down by a rogue.