Merry's Rhymes and Puzzles

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EDITED BY ROBERT MERRY.
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familiar faces, lighted
same old
jovial laughter that greeted
time.
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will see that
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Museum
that of our noble State
we have
will liere
up by pleasant
them
" Excelsior
meet
smiles,
and
in the olden
Our readers
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not buried the talents of our contributors in
but seek to bring them out into the bright day For Genius
needs constant polishing to bring out
:
like the lamp of Aladdin

and
lustre
Our
its
full effect.
object has been to instruct
by smiles
not
the dear hearts of the young girlhood and boyhood
among
pages
the necessary thorns of existence.
to
make
the sad
happy
the happy
frowns; to cheer
;
to strew flowers
In a word,
still
we try
in these
happier.
Hence, pure fun will be found as beautiful in these pages, as honey amid the flowers of Hybla
Robert Merry.
Robert Mbkkt
to his
frauds
A kindly greeting sends,

With a general assortment
of questions^
Conundrums, Charades,
Puzzles, Riddles of all shades,
And Rebuses, as aids

To intellectual and social digestion.
If the
young Merry host
Acquaintance should boast,
Or kindred,
or authorship pat,
With some
of our jokes,
We confess('tis no hoax)
To amuse other
We
folks,
have riddled the Museum "Chat/3
Now we beg you will

If
you happen
to
show,
know,
Why the Editor, painstaking soul ?

Is like the cold
storm
Which, in climates bright and warm,
Where
Come
gallinippers swarm,
shivering
down from the
pole ?
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Bible,
4.
5.
6.
man
7.
eat
Wlio prolongs his work to as great a length as pos

and still completes it in time ?
Why are young ladies like arrows

Why is a philanthropist like an old horse
How can five persons divide five, eggs, so
?
and
shall receive one,
How many
still
that each
one remain in the dish ?
soft-boiled eggs could the giant Goliah
upon an empty stomach
8.
What
9.
Two fathers have
fishes
have
their eyes nearest together
each a square of land.
One
father
divides his so as to reserve to himself one-fourth in the
form of a square
thus
Ti;e other father divides his so as to reserve to himself
one-fourth in the form of a triangle
They each have four
among
sons,
thus
and each divides the remainder
his sons in such a
way
that each son will share
equally with his brother, and in similar shape.
were the two farms divided ?
How
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What
is
that
which
but never eaten
13.
is
PUZZLES.
Off
often brought to table, often
My first is four-sixths of a step that is long,

My second is a person of state
My whole is a thing that is known to be wrong,
;
And
14.
Why
is
a strong
symptom
of hate.
are your nose and chin always at variance
my first you can not stand,

second beauteous fair command
Together I attend your will,
And am your humble servant still.
Without
15.
My
16.
17.
18.
Why ought a fisherman to be very wealthy?

Why is a man in debt like a misty morning
Who was the first that bore arms
There is a word of seven letters; the first two reman, the first three refers to woman, the first four
signifies a great man, the seven a great woman.
19.
fers to
am a word
am the name
20. I
and I
of five letters. Take away

of what adorns the estate of
my
first
many
of
Take away my first and second,

and lam the name of a place where all the world was
once congregated.
Take away my last, and I am the
name of a beautiful mineral. Take away my two last,
and I am the name of a fashionable place of resort. I
the nobility of England.
am
small in stature, but capable of doing a great deal of

London in the year 1666.
mischief, as I once did in
21. Spell eye-water four letters.

22.
23.
24.
Why is swearing like an old coat

Why is a thump like a hat
Why is an inn like a burial-ground
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27. If a fender cost six dollars,
what
will a ton of coal
come to?
28.
it
What word
will
make
29.
My
it
is
that to
which
if
you add a
syllable,
shorter?
first is a very uncomfortable state,

In cold weather it mostly abounds.
My second's an instrument formed of hard steel,

That will cause the stout foe to stagger and reel,
And when
_
30.
used,
is
symptom
of hate.
My
whole is an author of greatest renown,

Whose fame to the last day of time will go down.
What
is
the longest and yet the shortest thing in
the world; the swiftest
and yet the slowest; the most

divisible and the most extended
the least valued and
the most regretted without which nothing can be done;
which devours every thing, however small, and yet gives
life and spirits to every object, however great ?
;
My first
31.
is
found in every house,
From wintry winds
it
guards.
My
second is the highest foundÎn every pack of cards.

My whole, a Scottish chief, is praised
By
ballad, bard,
Who for
And, dying,
32.
33.
and story,
gave his
his country
fell
life,
with glory.
Why are handsome women like bread?

Why is an avaricious man like one with
a short
memory?
34.
is
What
river in Bavaria answers the question,
Who
there?
35.
Why
is
man
an even bargain?
with wooden legs like one
who
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Why
39.
What
is
a parish bell like a good story
belongs to yourself, yet
used by others
is
more than yourself?

40. In
camps about the centre
In smiling
The
meadows
silent angler
And
all
views
must trace
I appear
seen throughout the year
me
me
in the streams,
morning dreams
in their
mob
conspicuous I stand,
Proud of the lead, and ever in command.
First in the
his tail is as
41. The head of a whale is six feet long
long as his head and half his body, and his body is half
How long is the whale ?
of his whole length.
;
hundred stones are placed, in a straight line, a

42.
yard distant from each other. How many yards must a
person walk, who undertakes to pick them up, and place
them in a basket stationed one yard from the first stone ?
My first is a part of the day,

My last a conductor of light,
My whole to take measure of time,
43.
Is useful
44. I
word
by day and by
am a word of three
my first is an article
night.
syllables,
in
each of which
common
use
my
is a
second,
an ariimal of uncommon intelligence; my third, though

not an animal, is used in carrying burdens. My whole
is
a useful
45.
46.
47.
art.
There was a man who was not born,

His father was not born before him,
He, did not live, he did not die,.
And his epitaph is not o'er him.
Why is agnail, fast

Why does a miller
in the wall, like
an old
wear a white hat ?
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My
a letter commanding to wed,

your sole till it reaches your head
Nothing worth as a whole, it is plain to all men
That divided in halves, it is equal to ten
Or
first is
to
lift
My second, though
Is
It
nothing, compared to the other,
worth more as a partner than its double-faced brother;

moans and it sighs, and when joined to my first,
Pronounces the doom of the sinner accursed.
My
third,
On
the worth and position of neighbors and friends,
you
will find his whole value depends
And, when both the other two following fair,

Changes doom to desire, and a curse to a prayer.
My
though it formeth no part of a hundred,

it can justly and evenly be sundered
found in the elements everywhere present,
found in all seasons, unpleasant or pleasant,
the chief of all lands, and yet can not wait
fourth,
Shows where
'Tis
'Tis
'Tis
On
continent, hemisphere, empire, or state.
Though
ne'er in Great Britain suspected to lower,

heart
of each quarter of that mighty power \
'Tis the
always belonged to the animal race,

In the mineral kingdom they gave it a place,
&nd, being impartial, they could not deny,
It
The vegetable order
Lnd
In beast, bird, or
My
its
virtue to try
yet, since creation, it

fish, root,
never was known

branch, stem, or stone.
and barngj
and yarns*
In England, in Saxony, France, and old Wales,
And in sundry more places it always prevails.
Of quadrupedal origin still it is known
[tiona
In bipedal families oft to be shown
But the strangest of all its strange forms, and cohdi-
whole you'll find growing
Or grown
in pasture
in coats, carpets, warm blankets,
Is seen in the covering of sage politicians.
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What
is
that
54:.
When
is
a boat like a knife?
55.
What
part of
56.
Plow many black beans
57.
Why
58.
What
kin
own
son
53.
Bight
which
but never out of
is invisible,
father's
Why
60/
What
in
is
France
will
make
five white ones?
a dandy like a haunch of venison
is
59.
London
is
that child to
is
its
father
who
is
not
its
a rose-bud like a promissory note
biblical
father calling his son
name
is
there which expresses a
by name, and
his son replying
61.
Why is
an orange not like a church bell?
62.
Why
the largest city in Ireland likely to be the
is
largest city in the
world ?
and a circle complete,

upright where two semicircles meet,
rectangle triangle standing on feet,
63. Three-fourths of a cross,
An
Two
semicircles,
and a
circle complete.
64.
What
smells most in a drug shop
65.
Why
should doctors attend to window-sashes
66.
G.a.J
67.
What
is
that
one can see where

68. Spell
69.
What
supper
which every one can
it
has been divided
hard water with three

letters of
the
divide, but no
letters.
alphabet come too late
foi
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Pronounced
and written with three,

and two only in me
I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray,
I am read from both ends, and the same either way,
I am restless and wandering, steady and fixed,
And you know not one hour what I may be the next.
I melt, and I kindle beseech, and defy,
I am watery and moist, I am fiery and dry.
I am scornful and scowling, compassionate, meek
I am light, I am dark, I am strong, I am weak.
I'm piercing and clean, I an? heavy and dull
Expressive and languid, contracted and full.
I'm a globe and a mirror, a window, a door,
An index, an organ, and fifty things more.
I belong to all animals under the sun,
And to those who were long understood to have
Two
as one letter,
letters there are,
none.
My language is plain,
And
though
it
can not be heard,
I speak without even pronouncing a word.
Some
call
me
a diamond
Others talk of
my
some say I am jet
water, or
how
am
set.
I'm a borough in England, in Scotland a stream,

And an isle of the sea in the Irishman's dream.
The earth without me would no loveliness wear,
And sun, moon, and stars at my wish disappear.
Yet so frail is my tenure, so brittle my joy,
That a speck gives me pain, and a drop can destroy.
73.
to
"What vessel
is
that
which
is
always asking leave
move?
(
74. Translate the following into Latin
42, 8 rocks, e e e e e e e e
75.
How is
with a forceps
with an awl
it
;
that
& e,
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you can work with an awl, but not
while I can work with a forceps, and not
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77.
Add, was the word the master gave to Dick,

Dick scratched his head, and looking rather thick
Replied, " Hereafter it would make it stiek?'
"Dick," cried the master, " rudeness is a sin
Behold the stocks, I'll surely put you m."
" That," answered Dick, " won't alter it a feather.
Hereafter it would make it hold together"
" Dick," said the man, ".if you insult me so,
Your shoulders and my rod I'll put in Co?*
" "lis all the same," said Dick, " my worthy master,
Hereafter it would make it stick the faster?*
78.
79.
80.
"Why
is
Why is
Why is
France
a
woodman
82.
Why
is
like a stage actor
the hour of noon on the dial-plate like a
pair of spectacles
81.
like a skeleton
the best baker most in want of bread
Whether old Homer
tippled wine or beer,
Julep or cider, history
is
not clear
But plain it is the bard, though wont to roam,

But for one liquid, never had left home.
84.
Why is a coward like a mouse- trap

Why is green grass like a mouse
85.
What two
83.
not proper
86.
why
reasons
whispering in company
is
My
first is found on the ocean wave,'

In the spring, the pit, and the mine
My second below earth's surface you have,
Where seldom the sun can shine.
My whole your dinner-table must grace,
And seldom fails to obtain a place.
.
87.
Why
is
a gooseberry pie like counterfeit
money

88.
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89.
Why
does a fisherman blow his horn
90.
Why
is
there no danger of starving in a desert ?
Take half of the needle

By which sailors steer
91.
Their ship through the water,
Be
it cloudy or clear
not really break it
This of all things were worst
Do
But
your mind take
in
And
this
makes
my
it,
first.
At thanksgiving
My
or Christmas,
second you see
With care well compounded,

From grain, shrub, and tree.
My whole like some people
Who make great pretense,
Of words have a plenty,
But no great stock of
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How
is
that Methuselah
it
when he died before

93.
My
was the
oldest man,
his father?
a negative greatly in use,
first is
By which
sense.
when they mean to refuse

Fashion, or so called in France,
But, like other whims, is the servant of chance.
people begin
My
second
An
article
is
always in use
is
my
whole,
With
texture and form under fashion's control

But, alas not a thing can it see which goes by,
!
Although many have four
sights,
and
all
have one
eye.
94.
What
is*
that which, supposing
its
greatest breadth
be four inches, length nine inches, and depth threo

inches Anntains a solid foot ?
to
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95.
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My tongue is long, my
96.
And
My
breath
yet I breed no
voice
And
you hear both
yet I have no
is
strong,
strife
and near,
far
life.
waterman rows a given distance, a, and back

97.
again in h hours, and finds that he can row c miles with
the current, for d miles against it. Required, the time of
rowing down, the time of rowing up, the rate of current,
and the rate of rowing.
98.
As
Up
was beating on the
starts a hare before
far east grounds,
my
two greyhounds
The dogs, being light of foot, did fairly run,

To her fifteen rods, just twenty-one
And the distance that she started up before,
Was six-and-ninety rods, just and no more
Now, I would have you Merry boys declare
;
How far
they ran, before they caught the hare.
99. Is it possible to put twelve pieces of
rows, and have four in a

100.
row
in six
A gentleman sent a servant with a present of nine
ducks, with this direction

" To Alderman Gobble, with
The servant took out
three,
number
As
letters
all
form
ducks."
me
it
so diat iô
of the ducks.
How
neither erased nor altered a letter.
Four
ix.
and contrived
direction corresponded with the
101
money
did he do
quite complete,
who breathe do show
Reversed, you'll find I
am
the seat
Of infamy and woe.

Transposed, you'll see I'm base and
Again of Jewish race

Transposed once more, I
To hide a lovely
face.
mean 5
oft
am
seett
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103.
My first is
name
the
to an article given
For ladies and dandies to put on their linen ;

It comes from the forest, IVe heard people say,
And
is
made from
My second is a
The juice of
mouth
the skin of an animal gay.
fruit that
it is
sour,
comes from the South,

and 'twill pucker your
found in candy shops all over the town,

And, stranger to say, it is almost round.
'Tis
My whole is an article that is often seen

In the gardens and fields almost covered with green;
It is very sweet, and also pleasant to eat,
And in hot summer days affords a rich treat.
104:.
My
first is
half of
what implies good-humor
my
second makes sense of my first ; my third sounds like the

cry of a kitten; my fourth is a consonant and vowel combined ; my fifth, with the addition of the initial of my
third, would imply silence ; and my whole is what many
boys and girls prize highly.
105. I
am composed
My
"
"
"
a
of twelve letters.
a substance dug out of the earth.
6, 11, 12, 8, is a numeral.
4, 2, 3, is an ancient instrument of war.
12, 8, 1, is a vessel used in former times.
2, 8, 9, is
a vowel.
4, 7, 1, 9, is a hard substance.
10, 9, is a pronoun.
My whole is now before you.
5, is
"
"
106.
if
My
first is
you guess
it.
appropriate,
My
my
second
whole elevates the
'tis
sole
nine to one
above the
earth.
107.
Why is
108.
What do we
a conundrum like a monkey

all
do when we
first
get into bed
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111. There is one

is
word
certain letter in
112.
My
may be
first
And
and you make
it,
which
change a
in the English language
universally considered a preventive of
harm
an act of cruelty.
it
fashioned of iron or wood,
window
or door for safety is placed ;

In village or town it does more harm than good,
Leading people their health, time, and money
at
to waste.
My second's
a lady, bewitching and fair,

people will labor and strive ;
Will rise before dawn, and be wearied with care,
And pursue her with ardor as long as they live.
My whole is what ladies admire and approve,
The shopkeeper's boast the purchaser's prize ;
And
for love of her
ninepenny chintz 'tis a one-shilling glove

is something which makes people open their
'Tis a
It
eyes.
113.
At what
distance must a
body have
quire the velocity of 1,600 feet per second

114.
Of what
115.
Why
116
My
is
is
the sun in
May?
a small horse like a young musk-melon?
first
With
Its
trade
fallen to ac-
must grace a legal deed,

companion, firm and red
its
help in marriage, too, they need,

Before the blessing can be said.
My
second half a hundred
If in the shortest
You
I
soon must guess
may
is,
way you
me
spell
after this,
as well the secret
tell.
My
whole, by his celestial strains

Bears the rapt soul to worlds above
The Great
And
Creator's
tells
power proclaims,
of the Redeemer's love.
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119.
My
for defense
the articles ;
whole
is
my
second
is
meant
my third is a preposition my fourth is one of

my fifth is one of the United States. My
;
a large city in Europe.
My
120.
PUZZLES.
a boy's nickname ;
first is
;
Off
first is
And
stationed near your heart,
serves to brace the mortal frame
Of young and
forms a part,
gives a name.
Who builds a ship must it employ,
To give it strength to stem the flood,
And Adam felt no real joy
And
to fair
Till in
old
it
woman
new form by him
it
stood.
My second may
be long or short,
Or tight or loose, or wet or dry,
Of cotton, silk, or woolen wrought,
Of any texture, strength, or dye-
Be made of iron, gold, or steel,

Of love or hate, of good or ill,
May gently bind, or heavy feel,

May give support, or rudely kill;
My
whole
And what
formed by fashion, skill, and care,

few ladies from their dress can spare.
is
121. How long would a ball be falling, from the top of

a tower that was 400 feet high, to the earth?
122.
Why
123.
The
same
are chairs like
men?
foot of a ladder 60 feet long remaining in the
place, the top will just reach a
on one side of the

other side.
How
street,
wide
is
window 40
and another 30
the street
feet
feet high
high on the
124. There is a pile of cannon-balls, the ground tier of

which contains 289 balls, and the top tier one ball. Require the whole number of balls in a pile.
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What
housewife does not know

to place my first ?
When nicely done, it will not show ;
Conspicuous, it is worst.
My second all the world must do,
Either with head or hand,
127.
skillful
When, where
In different ways the same pursue.
On
water, or on land.
whole
& picture is of life,
My
Yaried with good or ill,
With bright or dull, with light or dark,
Arranged with art and skill.
128.
What
cure the
is
that
which
cold and pay
will
make you
catch cold
the doctor's bill ?
12$.
Why is a joke like a cocoa-nut
130.
When did
Esau, the hairy man, lose his whiskers 1
Why do postmasters deserve the execration of

Americans ?
131.
truie
132.
all
Just equal are my head and tail,

My middle slender as can be,
Whether I stand on head or heel,
same to you or me.

head should bo cut off,
'Tis all the
But if
The
my
matter's true, although
'tis
strange,
My
head and body, severed thus,

Immediately to nothing change
133. If a loafer,
on his upper
Kv
134:.
smoking a
lip, is it
sin
ing
cigar, sets fire to the
procur damn
ed
ation.
pa purchas salv
transgre
ers
dy Redeem
brush
a case of spontaneous combustion
ssion
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88
135.
4
MAKES
E&W^
136.
ymmmM
UNDISSfWBlED
yvnuz
187.
What
2*
sailors dread.
!!
138.
i.
rv.
Go wide o'er the world,

And everywhere seek me
In earth, sea, or air,
Thou never shalt meet
Go wide
o'er the
I always
am
In whirlwinds I revel,
Yet in zephyrs expire
I flourish in warmth,
me
world
there
Wherever thou roamest,

In earth, sea, or air
And
I perish in fire
The winter I cherish,

Yet each season I shun
Half living in harvest,
In summer, undone
1
v.
ir.
Go speak to the woodland,

And question of me
Oh ne'er shall thou find me,
I go with the ghoul
With
I hoot with the owl
forest or tree
Go, speak
to the
am
there,
ever
And
woodland,
come with the warlock
I shriek with the wizard

I ride
on the hazel
Which witches have rent
live in its whispers,
Though
lighter than air
I fly on the
seek for
VI.
my
breath
Ah, ocean and river,

Reveal but my death
Go, winnow the wave,
Tho' with winter it shiver
There there shalt thou find
'Mid ocean and river
[me,
139.
Why is
Christian
140.
I perish in thought.
So
to all
and
to each,
I bid you adieu
Yet
to all
and
to each,
I stay double with
you
the boy that disturbs a hive like a true
is
which has eyes and sees not, ears

and smells not, yet is often regarded
that
not, nose
as the ieavrideal of a
141.
come and
I go
Oft unseen and unsought
I live but in words
What
and hears
wing
Which the eagle hath bent
m.
Go, winnow the wave,
And
84
!;
human
being.
Why is the elephant his own
servant
MEBRY
142.
Which
143.
Who
144.
146.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
as
of the forest trees bears gain ?
was the heaviest of mechanics
Fm
a heavy drag
Cut
off
And
145.
my
few things more slow.
head, and give
me
a bow,
swiftly through the air I go.
Why
Why
are two heads better than one
a cart-horse always in the wrong place
is
147. I follow the plough,
Have
and yet
1 never walk,
plenty of teeth, yet neither eat nor talk,
Am strongly barred^ and yet I never close,

I scratch and break, but never deal in blows.
148.
What
is
that
which has many
leaves, but
stem?
149.
Why
is
the letter
like an incendiary
no
MERBY
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BOOK OF
PTJZZLflB.
150. Arithmetical Puzzle. This consists of six slips of

paper or card, on which are written numbers as expressed
in the following
columns
1
A
__
3
5
13
15
17
19
21
23
25
27
29
31
33
35
37
39
41
43
45
47
49
51
53
55
57
59
61
63
The
9
10
11
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
2
3
6
18
19
22
23
26
27
30
31
34
35
38
39
42
43
46
47
50
51
54
55
58
59
62
63
slips
7
10
11
14
15
9
11
7
12
13
14
15
20
21
22
23
28
29
30
12
13
14
15
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
31
36
37
38
39
44
45
46
47
52
53
54
55
60
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
56
57
58
61
62
63
59
60
61
62
63
being thus prepared, a person
is
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
to think of
any one of the numbers which they contain, and
to give
mebry's book of puzzles.

expounder of the question those
to the
number thought
of occurs.
St
which the
number, the
slips in
To discover
this
expounder has nothing to do but to add together the numbers at the top of the columns put into his hand. Their
sum will express the number thought of.
Example. Thus, suppose we think of the number 14.
We
find that this
marked B,
number
is
in three of the slips, viz.,
and D, which are therefore given to

the expounder, who, on adding together 2, 4, and 8, ob-
those
tains 14, the
The
trick
C,
number thought
may be
of.
varied in the following manner
In-
stead of giving to the expounder the slips containing the
number thought of, these may be kept back, and those in

which the number does not occur be given. In this case,
the expounder must add together, as before, the numbers
at the top of the columns,
and subtract their sum from
The remainder will be the number thought of.

The slips containing the columns of numbers are usually marked with letters on the back, and not above the
columns, as we have expressed them. This renders the
deception more complete, as the expounder, knowing beforehand the number at the top of each column, has only
to examine the letters at the back of the slips given him,
when he performs the problem without looking at the
numbers, and thus renders the trick more extraordinary.
63.
151.
A pair of little quadrupeds,

Transpose them, and you'll find
The lords of ocean, or the aids
For disciplining mind
Or that which cheers the midnight hour,
;
Or
Now
gilds the flagstaff high
And
152.
When
your transposition power.

for the answer try.
test
is
a chair like a rich lady's dress
MEEEY^S BOOK OP PUZZLES.
153. One jp, one % four a's, two r's, two $'s, two Ts
what do they make, and who has made a fortune by them f
154.
What odd number
half clear of a fraction
will give,
on being divided,
155. I'm in the book, but not on
any
leaf;
I'm in the mouth, but not in lip or teeth

I'm in the atmosphere, but never in the air ;
I wait on every one, but never on a pair
I am with you wherever you may go
And every thing you do I'm sure to know ;
Though when you did it I should not be there,
Yet when 'twas done, you'd find me in the chair.
;
156.
What
Noah's ark
157. I
"
"
"
"
"
"
158.
the difference between Joan of
am composed
My
"
is
Arc and
4, 6, 10, is
of seventeen letters.
what we
5, 8, 14, 11, is
all do.
a great part of the body.
name
of a
1, 13, 9, 15, is
the
7, 16, 2, 10, is
a part of speech.
13, 8, 3, is the
name
6, 15, 14, is
fish.
of a fowl.
a girl's name.
17, 6, 10, 15,
is
very useful to vessels.
13, 6, 12, is a personal pronoun.
My whole is what we may all expect if we

My first is an instrument, which, though
live.
small,
has more power than any monarch on earth. It is the

lover's friend and the poet's pride ; yet has overthrown
kingdoms, ruined reputations, set folks together by the
and caused more destruction than plagues, pesti

My second, though not quite so mis
chievous, is very destructive when in improper hands, and
my whole, though employed against my first, is deemed
its friend and improver.
ears,
lence, or famine.
mebet's book of puzzles.
LEAP FROG.
159. This
a most
is
excellent pastime.
It
should be played in a
spacious place, out of
doors, if possible, and
the
more there
are en-
gaged in it, provided

they be of the same
height and agility, the
better
the sport.
is
will suppose a
at play
of
Let
We
dozen
eleven
them stand
in a
row, about six yards
apart,
with
all
their
faces in one direction,
arms folded, or their hands resting

on their thighs, their elbows in, and their heads bent forward, so that the chin of each rests on his breast, the
right foot advanced, the back a little bent, the shoulders
rounded, and the body firm. The last begins the sport
'
by taking a short run, placing his hands on the shoulders

of the nearest player, and leaping with their assistance
of course, springing with his feet at the same time
over
his head, as represented in the cut.
Having cleared the
first, he goes on to the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc., in
succession, and as speedily as possible.
When he has
gone over the last, he goes to the proper distance, and
places himself in position for
all
the players to leap over
whom
him in their turn. The

him over the second,
first
has gone over, the one
who begun
self in like
manner
he passed, follows
and when he
third, fourth, etc.
for the others to
game places himjump over him. The
and so on
until the parties are
third follows the second,

tired.
over
the
:;
mebry's book of
40
160.
His heart was
When
With
sad,
and
pttzzlJes.
his foot
was
sore,
a stranger knocked at the cottager's door

travel faint, as the night fell
down,
He had missed his way to the nearest town,

And he prayed for water to quench his thirst,
And he showed his purse as he asked for my first,
The
cotter
was moved by the
stranger's tale,
He
spread the board, and he poured the ale

" The river," he said, " flows darkly down
Betwixt your path and the lighted town,
And far from hence its stream is crossed

By the bridge on the road that you have
Gold may not buy, till your weary feet
Have
lost
traversed the river and reached the street.
;
but the wandering moon
Will be out in the sky with her lantern soon
Then cross o'er the meadow, and look to the right,
And you'll find my second by her light."
My second shone like a silver floor,
When the traveler passed from the cotter's door ;
He saw the town on its distant ridge,
Yet he sighed no more for the far-off bridge
And his wish of the night soon gained its goal,
For he found my first when he reached my whole.
The thing you ask
161.
What two
162. I 8
letters of the
alphabet
make a prophet!
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jm
163. Plant an orchard of twenty-one trees, so that there

shall
be nine straight rows, with
five trees in
each row,
the outline a regular geometrical figure, and the trees

at
unequal distances from each other.

164.
B yy
r^ for V
JJ nice
what a
fool
b.
all
MEBRY
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
165. "What part of the horse resembles
you
166.
"Why
is
a horse like the prophet Elijah
167.
Why
is
168.
Why
is it
169.
My
used
new married man
first is
whole
is
like a horse
profitable to keep fowl
a collection of water ;
of myself; my third
when speaking
41
my
is
second
a fruit
is
my
a town in Hindostan.
170. "
Thomas," said Charles, " you are good at figures, please give me & figurative answer to this question:
What ought one to do who arrives at a friend's houso
too late for dinner?"
Thomas,
1028,40.
after thinking a little,
What was his meaning ?
wrote the following
meeey's book of puzzles.
4B
171.
A teacher,
having
young
fifteen
ladies
under hei
to take a walk each day of the week.
wished them
to walk in five divisions of three ladies each
but no two ladies were to be allowed to walk together
twice during the week. How could they be arranged to
suit the above conditions ?
care,
They were
172.
My
first is
a letter, an insect, a word,
That means
My
?
next
is
to exist
letter, a
it
moves
like a bird.
small part of man,
Tis found in all climes
search where you oan.
My third is a something seen in all brawls.

My next you will find in elegant halls.
My last is the first of the last part of day,
never in play.
whole gives a light, by some men abhorred.
The blessings from which no pen can record.
Is ever in earnest, yet
My
173.
What number
100 and 164, shall
is that,
make them
which, added separately to

perfect squares?
174-.
Why
is
175.
Why
are mortgages like burglars
176.
the letter
I'm composed of
A turkey,
like death
letters four,
hen
Behead me, and I upward
Put on my head again,
cock, or
soar.
Transpose me, then a beast I am,
Both bloodthirsty and wild,

That preys on many a helpless lamb,
And oft devours a child.
177. I
am
or injure.
again^ I
am
a word of three letters, signifying to spoil
Transposed, I
a part of the
am an
human
animal.
frame.
Transposed
hebby's book of puzzles.
178.
"Why
43
a grist-mill like the court-martial which
is
cashiered Fremont ?
*
have wings, yet never fly

I have sails, yet never go
I can't keep still, if I try,
179.
Yet forever stand
to
just so.
180.
Why
181.
What
Scripture character was a stupid sheep
182.
What
animal that always has a cold chin
keep the
183.
is
a grist-mill like an orange-tree
ladies' chins
What two
altar is certainly
184.
Why
reasons
What
is it
is
why
is
used
a young lady going to the
going wrong ?
dangerous
more than two reasons

185.
warm
for
teetotaler to
for the faith that is in
him
have
the most cheerful part of an arsenal?
mekby's book of puzzles.
44
186.
When
the teeth
187.
does the tongue assume the functions of
My
first is
my
pany, and
company, my second
company.
An emblem
188.
is
without com-
third calls
My
Up
first
of stupidity,
in forests found
in air oft rises high,
Though fastened to the ground,

But by sharp means it is removed,
And managed various ways
;
By
art or skill
may be improved,
Or, perhaps,
it
makes a
blaze.
My
second is of every kind,

Is good, or bad, or gay
;
Is dull or bright, to suit all minds,
By
night as well as day.
The patient seaman keeps with care my whole,

And well it knows his secrets night and day
And though it has no tongue, nor heart, nor soul,
the story of the ship's long way.
It tells
189. There
is
a word of six
letters at either end,
make one
190.
of the most useful
members
Tell
me why
But
forty dollars to a friend,
It
is it, if
What
if five
is
that
Take ofl three

and it will
letter,
of the body.
you lend
does your kindness more
Than
191.
letters.
and add another
commend
hundred you should send
which
is less
tired the longer
it
runs
Why
is a tailor finishing your pants like a polite

192.
host serving his guests with water-fowl ?
What was a month old

weeks old now ?
193.
five
at Cain's birth, that is not
merey's book of puzzles.
194.
What
stocking
looks worse on a lady's foot than a darned
195.
Which
196.
What is
197.
45
of the girls can answer questions best?

the shape of a kiss
My first is
a busy industrious thing,
Without which no bundle your porter can bring
My
second is nothing to speak of, yet stands

For thousands and millions, in money or lands ;
My third is a question we meet every day,
Relating to things we do, think, or say
My whole is the questioner once it was you,
whew
If not, 'twas your brother, or cousin, or
It was somebody else whom your grandmother knew.
4:6
am composed
198. I
1
4 2
2 3, 3 4
3,
199.
My
"
"
u
"
200. I
of four
We
letters.
do not 4 2
3,
2.
a preposition.
second implies more than one.
third is a pronoun.
first is
fourth
some people do not pay.
whole
is
am
not consistent.
word of four
used in prayer.
letters often
Transposed, I become what every one professes.

Transposed again, I become an adjective, the qualities of which every one despises.
Transposed again, I am part of a horse.
My
201.
first is
poison, slow yet sure,
That preys on many frames
Compounded
oft of things
Many
has lost his soul,
impure,
And called by many names.
My first and second form my whole,
That's one of Satan's dens
man
Through meeting there with

202. I
am
a word of four letters
friends.
the name of a Cape.
Transposed, I am a portion of the earth's surface.

Transposed again, I am a kind of meat.
Transposed again, I become a verb signifying to
wash.
203. I prove 2
x
x2
1,
thus
then x 3
ax
(x
a = ax a
= a (x
+
a) (x
Who
2a
2
a)
will detect the fallacy
ft)
MEBSt'B BOOK OF PUZZLES.
47
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204. In
what ship, and

engage?
in
what capacity, do young
ladies like* to
205.
Ethereal thing, on unseen wing,
Through space
It
nothing
Yet
sees,
all that's
my
it
first is
wandering
nothing knows,
known and
seen
it
shows.
Brick, iron, mud, stone, reed, or wood,
My second
in all climes
has stood
A lodge, a nest, where love may

Or
rest,
a prison, gloomy, dark, unblest.
Away
on the bleak and desolate peak

the rude tempests howl and shriek,
Like a friendly eye, looking out from the sky*
My whole to the wanderer gleams on high.
Where
206.
What
kind of a ship did Solomon object to
48
207. There are two
the
sum
numbers whose product added

is 109, and the difference
of their squares
whose squares
to
of
is 24.
In every hedge my second is,

As well as every tree,
And when poor school-boys act amiss,
208.
It often is their fee.
My
likewise
first
Yet
My
total for
Composed
My
209.
my
third
titude
210.
first is
we must
my
whole
What
Add
is
a pronoun
all
is
the
213.
is fitted,
of brass or
do
my
tin.
my
is
that
second
fourth
is
is
difference
between a grandmother
it
twenty.
which the dead and living do
When winter months have passed

And summer suns shine bright,
away,
You ope the coffer where I lay,

And bring my first to light.
My second is a valiant knight,

Who wears his crest and spur,
And when he's challenged to
He does not long demur.
My
a fight,
whole, as ancient fables say,
Was
once a friend of Juno,

In dress he makes a great display
His name by this time you know.
214.
not high
a pronoun of mul-
musical.
one to nine and make
212. "What
same time
always wicked,
my first
and her infant grandchild

211.
is
ne'er committed sin,
Why
is
a bullet like a tender glance?
at the
'
215.
When innocence first had its

In my first's lovely form it
And
In
My
still
to this time,
my first it
dwelling on earth,
alighted
from the hortr of
its birth.
has greatly delighted.
second's a part of a smart lady's dress,
Yet on age
Again,
'tis
it
may also be found

when the heart feels
a garb
And my whole
216.
49
Why
distress
does with pleasure abound.
are children at play like a bird in her nest?
50
217.
My
male or female, young or old,

you are forced to doubt one
Much must we pity the false heart or cold,
'
first is
Tis very sad if
Who is so selfish as to live withomt

My second is a noble work of art,
Which
Though
brings together distant shores and lands
neither feet
it
'Tis often|furnished
My
one.
has, nor head, nor heart,

with a hundred hands.
whole in youth or age, sickness or health,
In joy or sorrow, charms to life can give;

Without it, all in vain are hoards of wealth,
By
we
unblest in solitude
it
live.
218.
What
219.
220.
Why is a dog like a tanner

Why are A B's successors seedy?
221.
What
spice are the
Hindoos fond of?

?
222. I
is
nothing good for
am composed
of four letters
the
the
initials
of the principal personages in Europe

river in Russia; transposed, I
am
of foui
name
of a
a part of the Crystal
Palace transposed again, I am not proud, although ele

vated above the heads of most people.
;
223.
My first is when
Sweeps
When
the
summer wind
rustlingly through the trees,
the jasmine spray and the eglantine
Are swayed by the whispering breeze

My second, a weapon of bloody strife,
Of steel, so cruel and cold,
Which
ruthlessly takes the soldier's
life,
The cowardly, and the bold;

My whole is a Poet, by every one known,
So wide is his renown.
224.
Why
is
the letter
like a
young spendthrift!
51
Why is memory like the peacock?

My first in the garden luxuriantly grows,
225.
226.
Delicious and sweet, as every one knows;

a noisy, vain, garrulous thing,
My second
The lord of a harem,
My
227.
whole
is still
as proud as a king
prouder, and seems to rejoice
As much
in his tail as
One man
said to another,
he does in his voice.
" Give
me
one of your
sheep, and I shall have twice as many as you." The

other replied, " No, give me one of yours, and I shall
have as many as you."
many had each ?
How
228.
Where were
229.
Where
230.
*-
Why
is
potatoes
did cherries
first
found?
come from ?
a ship under full sail like Niagara!
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52
231. O'er a mighty pasture go
Sheep in thousands,
As
to-day
we
silver white
see them, so
In the oldest grandsire's sight.

never waning old
They drink
Life from an unfailing brook
There's a shepherd to their fold,
With a silver-horned
From a gate of gold let
crook.
out,
Night by night he counts them over
Wide
the field they rove about,
Never hath he lost a rover

True the dog that helps to lead them,
One gay ram in front we see
What
the flock, and who doth lead them,

Sheep and shepherd, tell to me ?
232. I am a word of four letters.

Take off my hat, and
you have something which you do every day.
Take
off my head, and you have a preposition.
Leave off my
head and put on my hat, and you have something used
Entire, and taken backward, with my
before a door.
two middle letters transposed, I am a very convenient
thing.
I,
myself,
am
often eaten.
233.
What
234.
What animal
resembles the sea, and
why ?
235.
What
is
the most windy, and
why?
236.
What animal
237.
What
part of a ship was Cain?
animal
animal
is
like
is like
an apothecary
a stone-breaker
238. A man had a bar of lead that weighed 40 lbs., and

he divided it into four pieces in such a way as to allow
him to weigh any number of pounds from one to forty
How did he manage the matter ?
239.
What
240.
Why
241. If a
tree
stand
242.
is
a farm-yard like a hotel
woman
stands behind a tree,
Wherein does a turkey-cock
men buy
on equal shares.
worn away his share.

must each one use?
244.
how
does the
243. Three
ter,
the best key to a good dinner
is
53
What two
differ
from a lady
a grindstone, 40 inches in diame-
Each one
is
to use it until
How many
letters of the
he has
inches in diameter
alphabet do children like
best?
245.
Why
are
Cashmere shawls
like deaf persons
MERRY
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246.
Ye
mortals
BOOK OF
wonder!
! ;; ; ;
PTTZZLES4
I'm an
elf,
strange, mysterious thing;
More powerful than

Within a magic
the sprites
all
ring.
although I have no tongue

and
the soul
I sing and many a song I've sung
I speak
I speak,
thrill
Resounds, while ages roll.

a weapon, strong and keen,
am
made
All
But human
not senseless flesh*

sharp two-edges feel.
My
The
of glittering steel
souls
was born
greatest writer e'er
But, ah
For what
a thievish
elf;
I write is not, alas
Original with myself.

I often take a cooling bath
But, like the Ethiop's skin,
When
I have bathed, I'm blacker
still
Than when I did begin

Most kind am I; I glad the heart
Of many a wretched wight,
And many a sufferer is by me
Transported with delight.
Most
cruel I
With
I've pierced the soul
cutting,
burning darts
I've dashed the fondest hopes to earth)
I've crushed the lightest hearts.
Yet wise and powerful
A very slave
am
as I
am,
I;
I'm forced the mandates to obey

Of both the low and high.
Now,
witty brains,
tell
who
this
is.
Who blesses and who curses

Who has no hands, yet still who is
The
writer of these verses.
! ;
merry's 00 OF pxrzzLEs.
W\j
247.
248. TV
liy is
an Indian like a
flirt
an Indian like a scholar
How much
249.
balloon,
seams
is
55
silk is required to make a spherical

16 inches in diameter, without allowing for
250. All children love to go to sea, and

251. That gentle picture dost thou
Itself, its
know,
hues, and splendor gaining
Some change each moment can

Itself as perfect still
It lies
why?
bestow,
remaining
within the smallest space,
The smallest framework forms its girth,

yet that picture can embrace
The mightiest objects known on earth
And
Canst thou
to
me
that crystal
(No gem can with

"Which gives
Absorbed
all light,
is all
name
worth compare)
and knows no flame
its
creation there
That ring can in itself inclose

The loveliest hues that light the heaven,
Yet from its light more lovely goes
Than all which to it can be given I
MEEEY
56
252.
253.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
From 6 take nine, from

From 40 take 50, and 6
Why
9 take 10
remain.
marriage like truth?
is
254. Bequired to divide 45 in four parts, so that the

first
part with two added, the second with two subtracted,

by two, the fourth multiplied by two,
the third divided
shall equal each other.
255.
Where was Major Andre going when he was
captured 2
is a mansion, vast and fair,
That doth on unseen pillars rest
No wanderer leaves the portals there,
Yet each how brief a guest
The craft by which that mansion rose,
No thought can picture to the soul
Tis lighted by a lamp which throws
Its stately shimmer through the whole.
256. There
As
crystal clear,
The
single
it
rears aloof
gem which forms
its roof,
And
never hath the eye surveyed

The master who that mansion made.
257.
Why
is
a sculptor like a
man who
" splits his
sides with laughter ?"
258.
Why
conflagration
259.
used
My
were the Scribes and Pharisees like a great

?
first is
a collection of water,
when speaking
whole
260.
261.
is
of myself,
my
my
second
third is a fruit,
is
my
a town in Hindostan.
XUE,XDB,
X, 2
X U E 2 me.
Why
was Daniel
like
Nebuchadnezzar's image
meeky's book
ojf
puzzles.
67
SEE-SAV.
Several things are necessary to
make
tins sport
First, a strong bar on which to

and pleasant.
Secondly, a strong,
balance your board or plank.
straight-grained board or plank, which will not crack
Thirdly, an equal weight at each end, or
nor twist.
nearly so. Fourthly, a clear head, and a steady hand,
or foot, to keep up an even motion. With these all right 5
you will go up and down as easily and smoothly as men
safe
of business do, or political parties
but, hallo
there, boj^s,
John has tumbled off, and you will have a smash at the
other end, which will leave John's partner in doubt
whether he is up or down.
263.
What
island in the Pacific
264.
What
is
there at the
ungrammatical in
265.
Why is
this sport
is
always at this sport?
same time philosophical and

?
an elephant like a lady's

3*
veil
; ; ;;;;;; ;
68
was before the world begun,

Before the earth, before the sun
Before the moon was made, to light
266. I
With
Em
beams the
brighter
starry night
bottom of the sea,

And I am in immensity;
The daily motion of the earth
Dispels me, and to me gives birth
at the
You can not see me if you try,

Although I'm oft before your eye
Such is my whole. But, for one part,
You'll find in taste I'm rather tart
Now
become
the abode of
men
And now, for groveling beasts, a pen

I am a man who lives by drinking
Anon
keep a weight from sinking
To take me, folks go far and near

I am what children like to hear
I am a shining star on
And now, its pathway
high
through the sky;
My strength o'erpowers both iron and steel J
Yet oft I'm left behind the wheel
I'm made to represent a head ;
found in every loaf of bread ;
Such are the many forms I take,
You can not count all I can make
Yet, after all, so strange am I,
Soon as you know me, then I die.
Am
267.
sum
Henry
is
four feet high and William
of their heights multiplied by five
father's age, plus fifteen.
268.
My
first is
my
whole
is
the
name
my
third
old was their father?
of a river,
is
The
is five.
equal to their
my
second
what we are too apt

the name of an ancient city.
pleasant beverage,
and
How
is
is
to do,
MEfiSf
Soofe of Muzzles.
59
DEAF AND DUMB ALPHABET.
SINGLE HANDED ALPHABET.
269. The deaf and dumb converse with each other, and
with their teachers, by signs made with their hands.
There are two ways of making the letters with the
fingers; in one, both hands are used; in the other,
only one. Above, you see how the letters are made with
oue hand.
8Y0,
When
are the letters like the keys of a piano
MEEET
60
Up
271.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
and down two buckets ply
A single well within

"While the one comes
One
full
on high,
the deeps must win.
Full or empty, never ending,

Rising now, and now descending,
Always while you quaff from

That one
From
that well the waters living
Never both together
Come from my
272.
is
this,
lost in the abyss,
first
giving.
ay, come
the battle
dawn
nigh,
And
the screaming trump and thundering drum are calling thee to die
Fight as thy father fought, fall as thy father fell
Thy task is taught," thy shroud is wrought, so forward,
and farewell
my
Toll ye,
And
second, toll
sing thej
night
hymn
And
Go,
To
light,
upon his breast,

and the tear be shed so take
his head, the cross
Let the prayer be
him
high the flambeau's
,-
The wreath upon
said,
to his rest.
my
Call ye
Fill
of a parted soul beneath the silent
whole
ay,
call the lord of lute
him greet the sable
let
day
call
him by
his
name
no
and
pall with a noble
lay,
song
to-
hand may crave

fame on the turf of a
fitter
light the flame of a soldier's

soldier's grave.
273.
man's
274.
Once
life
the truth
in a minute, twice in a
moment, once
in a
man
said
"I
lie."
Did he
lie,
or did he
tell
meeet's book of puzzles.
61
J Am
275. Why is the butcher's dog in the parlor like your

mother receiving strange company ?
276.
Why
the house
277.
should a hound never be admitted into
Why
is
your favorite puppy like a doll?
278. How can a person live eighty years, and see only
twenty birthdays?
!!
62
279.
bottles,
280.
What
is the difference between twenty four quart

and four and twenty quart bottles?
How
will
you arrange four
9's so as to
make one
hundred ?
281.
Amid
the serpent race is one

That earth did never bear;
In speed and fury there be none
That can with it compare.
With fearful hissits prey to grasp
It darts its dazzling course,
And
locks in one destroying clasp
The horseman and the
horse.
It loves the loftiest heights to
No
bolt its prey secures
In vain
For
As
its
mail
may
haunt
valor vaunt,
steel its fury lures
slightest straw whirled
by the wind,
snaps the starkest tree ;

It can the might of metal grind,
How hard soe'er it be
Yet ne'er but once the monster tries
The prey it threats to gain
It
In
its
own wrath consumed
And
282.
boots.
while
it
A went to a shoemaker,
At
it
dies,
slays is slain.
B, and ordered a pair of
the time appointed for their completion,
A gave B a 20
dollar note, which, not being able to change, he went to
B gave A three of the
0, who gave him four $5 notes.
notes, and kept one.
The next day C came to B and told
him his $20 note was a counterfeit. B gave
four $5
notes, three of which he borrowed from D.
How much
called for his boots.
did
lose
The
price
by the operation ?
was $5.
MESBY'S BOOK OB PUZZLES.

1
283.
284.
285.
286.
When
When
a boy
he
is
falls,
what does he
fall
against?
caught stealing, what does he catch ?
How many feet ought a thief to have?

Why is Tom Tumbledown like Adam when he
the apple $
68
saw
64
287.
A friend asserted
forty horses only
to me a day or two since, that

had eighty-four legs.
How did it
come ?
A RIDDLE WITHIN A RIDDLE.
288.
Moce ye
Ti
si
inugeison nose hist dilerd suesg
ton cufidlift ouy liwl socfens,
Thaw si hatt burmen hiwhc fi ouy ivdedi,

Ouy hent liwl hington veale no theire dies ?
289.
Our
family
Egypt.
often
but not much more than one

Jacob when he went to live in
is large,
third as large as that of
But, like the family of that ancient patriarch, we

migrate to other countries.
"We do not keep
whether at home or abroad we are scattered

at once masters, servants, and
slaves to forty-four millions of people.
Not a book is
printed without our aid and, what is stranger still, we are
all found at the same time in every book in every library
and country where the English language is spoken ; and
on almost every page. Sometimes, though rarely, two
together,
about in every direction,
of us stand side
by
side.
It is still
more rare
for us all
appear together arranged in the same order. Nothing

is more common with people than to place us in rows or
platoons; but whether in militia, army, or navy for some
of us are employed in all these we are seldom arranged
twice alike.
Sometimes one of us stands first; someto
times another. Sometimes a row or platoon consists of

only two or three of us ; at others of many more and
;
occasionally of twelve, fifteen, or twenty
and, strangest
we can be so placed as to make out about

50,000 rows, no two of which will be exactly alike. Must
to relate of all,
we
is
not, then, be a useful family

our family name ?
290.
six, so as to
make
nine.
Add
five
And
what, think you,
more marks
to these
MERRY
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
"What
291.
tree
that,
is
which has
twelve branch-
es,
thirty
leaves on each
and
branch,
each leaf white

on one side,
and black on
the other
l.
292.
is
What
the sociable tree?
& And
4.
6.
And
And
the tree which
And
2.
is
the busiest tree ?
The languishing
9.
And
tree
The most yielding
&
the tree where ships
7.
the dancing tree?
nearest the sea
tree
may
be ?
The
least selfish tree
the tree that bears a curse ?

chronologist tree ? H- The fisherman's tree
.
10,
The
12,
And
13
What's the
15-
And
16
The layman's
18
And the tree that makes one sad?

What the tree that in death will benight you ?
And the tree that your wants will supply ?
And the tree that to travel invites you ?
And the tree that forbids you to die ?
What tree do the hunters resound to the skies?
What brightens your house, and your mansion sus
19.
20.
21
22.
23,
24
26.
traitor's tree
the tree that
tains
26.
the tree like an Irish nurse?
is
tree?
14
And
warmest clad
17.
the tell-tale tree?

?
The housewife's
tree
What tree urged the Grecians in vengeance to rise

And fight for the victims by tyranny slain ? [you ?
The tree that will fight ? 27 And the tree that obeys
MERRY
28.
29.
And
And
B00j OF PtT22LlSS.
the tree that never stands

the tree that got up?
still ?
80.
And
the tree that
was lazy?
81.
And
the tree neither
82.
The
tree to be kissed?
84.
And what guides the ships to go forth ?

86. And the
The unhealthiest tree?
85
up nor down
And
83.
hill?
the dandiest tree?

tree of the
people?
87.
88.
40.
41.
43
44.
And
whose wood faces the north?

The emulous tree? 89. The industrious tree?
And the tree that warms mutton when cold?
The reddish-brown tree? 42. The reddish-blue tree?
And what each must become ere he's old ?
The tree in a bottle? 45. And the tree in a fog?
46.
And
47.
The
48.
And what
49.
5i
52
63.
54-
'
the tree
the tree that gives the bones pain

terrible tree
when schoolmasters
flog ?
mother and child have the name ?

The treacherous tree ? 60 The contemptible tree
And that to which wives are inclined ?
The tree that causes each townsman to flee ?
And what round fair ankles they bind ?
55 And the tree that
The tree that's entire?
-
is
split?
66.
67.
The
The
when ill ?
when we meet ?
tree half given to doctors

tree
we
offer to friends
68.
And
69
The
61
And
62.
The
68.
And in England we all

The Egyptian plague tree ?
the tree
we may
tree that's
use as a quill
immortal ?
60.
The
trees that are not?
the trees that must pass through the
fire ?
be forgot.
must admire ?
tree that in Latin can ne'er
64.
And
the tree that
dear?
is
65
And what round
66
The
67.
And
doth intwine?
must ever be near ?
the tree that by cockneys is turned into wine?
itself
tree that in billiards
merry's book of pttzzles.
293.
Which
to live in
294.
of the planets
would the
67
tortoise like best
Why
is
a picture surrounded by books like a
happy man ?
295.
Mother sent Mary
for
an evergreen.
The
gar-
dener brought a holly. Mary pointed to the sky, and the

gardener brought what she wanted.
What did Mary
mean ?
296.
When
the day breaks, what becomes of the frag-
ments ?
'297. Novus vir bonus vir ivit ad caudam
saam vestem homines mortuos.
298.
EE
299.
What
300.
Add
vel habere
Marriage be.
bird
is
that
which has no wings ?
something to 9 to make
it less.
68
301.
Why is Satan
on a shed
like a
bankrupt ?
summer
302. How is it that trees put on their

without opening their trunks ?
303.
Of
three words
make
insertion of a
by the
one,
dresses,
single letter.
304.
Of a word of one
syllables,
305.
make
syllable,
by the addition of a single
Ages
ago,
a word of three
letter.
when Greece was young,
And Homer,
blind and wandering, sung

Where'er he roamed, through street or field,
My first the noble bard upheld ;
Look
to the
You'll see
Go
it
new moon
for
my
next,
there, but if perplexed,
ask the huntsman, he can show
My name he gives it many a blow

My whole, as you will quickly see,
Is a large
Which
town
in Tuscany,
ladies soon will recognize
A favorite head-dress
306.
Why
307. Mr.
supplies.
an elephant like a chair ?
is
wood being
mills for his
it
at the
of king of terrors, 10
quakers, and who, which and what.
They
to Dr. Hay
odor for Dr. Juvenile Humanity, who
preservers, and little devil behold scarlet his assistance
but, B 4 he arrived, the not legally good changed color,
[
and
i
taker
~j-
308.
ct lor.
Given the
number
309.
was
street
and the hour,
to find at
once the
city, to find at
once the
of children in the street.
Given the section of the
number of loafers and vagabonds' that
infest
it.
MEEEY
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
69
CHRISTMAS TREE.
a very curious and interesting kind of a

loaded with every variety of strange
It has no roots,
on
tables,
bare
floors, or carpets.
fruit,
but is most wonderful for its yielding powers, though it
bears only once a year, and that always on Christmas
310. This
tree.
is
It is found,
The last one that I saw was at Uncle Hiram HatchCousin Hannah thus describes it
u At last, when none of us expected it, he (Uncle H.)
threw open the folding doCrs, and let us into the little
parlor.
There was displayed the Christmas tree, in all
Every little twig bore some present; dolls
its glory.
Eve.
et's.
70
and
furniture,
doll
pins,
bracelets,
ear-rings,
slippers,
watch-guards and purses, ships, windmills, and beautiful

books, besides all sorts of fruits and bon-bons, and all
blazing with light from the numberless candles that
seemed
to
grow out of the branches."
tree that, without life or root,
Without a blossom, bud, or flower,

Bears various and most precious fruit,
That comes and goes in one short hour.
My
first is an adjective, short and dry,

"Which an absence of moisture seems to imply,
Or, in reference to mind, that kind of wit,
Which is slack on the rein, and sharp on the bit
311.
My
second
a sort of hole, or den,
is
Unfit for the resort of timid men,
Whence once
the righteous came safely out,

While the wicked were wholly put to rout.
My
whole
classic fame,
me
know
312.
What
poet do miners value most?
313.
What
poet
Which
make a lion
314.
to
an author of
is
If you
Why
315.
speak
the man, please tell
is
name.
least distinguished for brevity
of the English poets

feel at
were
"
his
would be most
likely
home ?
the
never
Amalekites
allowed
to
316.
Which
317.
What
suitable
318.
of the reptiles
is
a mathematician?
Scripture character would have
husband
What two
for a tall laundress
syllables of the marriage
most interesting to the
priest
made a
ceremony are
71
liPi^
hi r K 5 *
'&J-
îZCS^
319. "What part of a house measures about
320
When
321
Why are ladies
ished house
322.
323.
824.
is
two quarts!
a door not a door?

sitting
on the stoop,
like
an unfin-
What
stone opens and shuts at your convenience!

see how me
Down will I love
And you love you
Up and you if
Read
Why is a thing purchased like
a shoe?
72
325. Why is a man who makes a wager of a cent, like
recovering from illness ?
person
a
326.
Why is
unpaid
an,
bill
like the moisture in the
morning?
327.
Why is
a sanguinary epistle like a surgeon
lamp of day,
night with paler ray
328. Ere from the east arose the
Or Cynthia
gilt the
Ere earth was form'd, or ocean knew its place,

Long, long anterior to the human race
In chaos I was found,
I did exist.
When awful darkness shed its gloom around.
In heaven I dwell, in those bright realms above,
And in the radiant ranks of angels move.
But when th' Almighty, by his powerful call,
Made out of nothing this stupendous ball,
I did appear, and still upon this earth
daily seen, and every day have birth.
With Adam I in Paradise was seen,
When the vile serpent tempted Eve to sin
And, since the fall, I with the human race
Partake their shame and manifest disgrace.
In the dark caverns of old ocean drear
I ever was, and ever shall appear.
In every battle firmly I have stood,
[blood.
When plains seem lav'd, whole oceans dy'd with
It now remains with you
But, hold no more
Am
To
329.
330.
331
find
me
out and bring
me
forth to view.
Why is a lost child like you

Why is Fremont equal to eight honest politicians?
How did Jonah feel when the whale swallowed
?
him?
332.
Why
were the Hebrews called sheep?
MEEBY
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
73
333.
Why is
334.
Under what
335.
Under what shade can you dance best?
Why
336.
ladies
is
dangerous
it
tree is
a dashing
to flirt in a hay-field
it
most proper
young buck a
to
make love?
favorite with the
am constantly in the midst of money. 2. I

continually putting people in possession of property.
337. 1. I
am
3.
I increase the
way.
for I
4.
number
am no
of most things that
come
in
my
needlewomen,
Yet whenever 1
friend to the distressed
render needles unnecessary.
undertake a dress, I infallibly

4
make
5.
it sit.
6.
am quar-
meeky's book
74
of' puzzles.
word and a blow is my maxim. 7. In fact,

a word becomes a weapon. 8. And merriment
relsorne, for a
with
me
becomes slaughter.
9.
men
drink converts
It is
commonly remarked
that
but I transform wine
into swine,
the same animals.

10. Deprived of me, certain
railway speculations come out in their true character
11. A team can draw a wagon well without me, still,
itself into
when
am
in front, the
speed
wonderfully increased.
is
Marvelous products may be obtained from peat, but

when I am extracted from earth, pure oil alone remains,
13. Let me go before, and a story is sure to be stale.
14. And if I am left out, it will be political.
15. I am
12.
strongly attached to pluralities.
16.
With
free trade, I turn corn itself into contempt.
respect to
17. I
the midst of Russia and Prussia, and abundant

the Swiss.
18.
Were
when
finished with
I take
my
in
withdrawn from that unhappy
country, Spain, nothing would be

ter sport,
am
among
left
but
grief.
departure, the evening
what remains.
At
20.
19. Afis
often
am
always
bent, though I
a soiree I
good time. 21. In person I am much

was formerly more upright. 22. As to my education, I
was always head of the school. 23. Though invariably
in
at the
bottom of
my
class.
24.
With me age
looks wise,
But a gentleman is better without me, as accompanied by me he appears feminine.

26. On the contrary,
25.
a lady ought not to part with me, for if she loses me she
seems masculine.
27. I am an unwelcome visitor, for
with me sorrow begins and happiness ends. 28. Sadness
commences, and, 29. Bliss terminates. 30. Yet it is in
my
power
to transform cares into
what
is
delightful.
338. Nebuchadnezzar's lions were very undevout when

Daniel was with them 3 and very poetical with his enemies. Please explain.
339.
Why
is
a hunter like an omnibus pickpocket?
SEEY
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
340. Figures, they say, won't

Is
something either
my
I find that, in
One
lie
Or
still
leaves
me
three.
two, by the same score,

four.
much used
a measure
first is
but here
family,
Leaves a remainder of just
My
false or queer.
taken from two
And two from

341.
in the East,
a close-covered vehicle drawn by one beast
My
second
Two
My
is
a prefix
a small preposition
a paid politician
thirds of a tavern
whole, though part of a vessel, has stood

prairie, or 'neath the great wood.
Alone on the
And
The
and mean,
proud palaces squatting between.
often is found, poor, wretched,

city's
75
meery's book of puzzles.
76
BLACK-EYED MARY'S ALGEBRAICAL PROBLEM.
Take two numbers, such that the square of the

plus the square of the second, shall equal 8; while
the first, plus the product of the first and second,
342.
first,
shall equal 6.
N B. If
any choose
be no trifling puzzle.
work
to
See
this out algebraically, it will
Merry's Museum
be found to
for 1856.
343. What's that the poor's most precious friend,
Nor less by kings respected

Contrived to pierce, contrived to rend,
And to the sword connected.
It
draws no blood, and yet doth wound
Makes
but ne'er with spoil

It prints, as earth it wanders round,
blessing on the soil.
The eldest cities it hath built,
rich,
Bade mightiest kingdom

Ne'er
Weal
345.
rise
it
nor roused to guilt
to the states that prize it
When
344.
guests
fired to war,
is
political
candidate
like
Samson's
What
is
the most suitable dance to wind off a
frolic?
346. Revolving round a disk I go
One restless journey o'er and over;

The smallest field my wanderings know,
Thy hand the space could cover
Yet many a thousand miles are passed
In circling round that field so narrow
My
speed outstrips the swiftest blast,
The
347.
Why
strongest,
bowman's arrow.
are buckwheat cakes like the caterpillar?
MERRY
348.
What
Why
350.
What
shadow
351.
it?
do
girls
is
blow bubbles better than boys?
the difference between a boy and hi*
Why is
352. I
a soap-bubble like
have no
life,
I bear,
A part
Adam?
yet, as I fly,
A thing of beauty
to the eye,
my glittering shape beneath,

of my Creator's breath
With ever-changing shade and hue

I rise
77
relation does the soap-bubble bear to the
boy who makes

349.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
and vanish from the view,
And, though a phantom deemed, I

In portions, water, earth, and air.
share,
78
I go, but never
353.
stir,
I count, but never write,
I measure and divide, and,
You'll iind
my
measures
sir,
right.
I run, but never walk,

I strike, but never wound,
In
354.
When
thing he does
you much, but never
tell
my
boy
talk,
diurnal round.
falls into
the water, what
the
is
first
<
355. How would the proposed removal of the Pope to

Jerusalem be a false move for the Papacy, and a true
one for the Papal States ?
356.
357.
358.
Why is a coachman a generous man?

Why is a dog like a clock-maker's safe?
Why is the cook more noisy than a gong
359. Describe a partisan,
and answer a question
in the
same words.
360.
A word of one syllable call to your mind,

The
letters of which will, if rightly combined,

Provide you with two kinds of fuel ay, more,
warm piece of clothing and fasten your door.
361. Let
At
two
Koman
the right
fives at extremities meet.
hand of
these,
add two
circles
com-
plete;
Then five times one hundred place at the right hand,
And
a nice winters comfort they
make
as they
stand.
362.
What number
is
that which can be divided
2, 3, 4, 5,
and
and by
without a remainder?
363.
7,
How
6,
leaving, in each case, a remainder of
long ago were trunks
first
used?
by
I,
me&ry's book of puzzles.
864
I'm black or whit^ 1

brown or gray?
I'm tall or flat, Fm grave or gay,
As soft as wool, or siii Fas tin,
A nest for wits to nestle in.

I hold great intellects, yet oft
Am
bothered with the weak and
goft,
And
sometimes crusty, hard, and thick

They fill me with we' burned brick.
Fashion controls me, yet I wear
Some aspects to make fashion stare.

Though always for one place designed,
I change as often as the wind.
79
;;
;;
MEEEY SB00JS:0FPtJ2^LES*
y
80
I'm dumb, and
yet, in spite of that,
than half of every " Chat,"

I'm mild yet none can hate (don't doubt me)
Nor raise a fighting-cock without me.
Make more
365. In every
home
I stand confessed,
A friend of quiet, peace,

Take
My
off
my
and
streamers
black, brown, or red
rise,
my
Cut now again, and take
You
leave
rest
head, and on your head
my
neck
off,
substance not a speck
of,
But, with ethereal lightness gay,

I pass in idle breath away.
366.
What
367. In
368.
relation is the door-mat to the scraper?
what do grave and gay people
What
sea
differ at
would make the best sleeping-room?
Grab and Clinch,

They take an ell when you offer an inch
But I can do a smarter thing
369. "lis said of lawyers
Give
me
an
ell,
If for advice
When you
If
I will
are
it
ring
me
to
I call. for the fee
ill,
to
wend,
think you've reached the very end,
come and give
Tou
it
such a turn,
find there's something yet to learn;
If to the inn
I chuck
you
you seek for rest,

in a box or chest
The beggar's rags
He
make
you come
any road you chance
Tou
church?
make
so proud,
of his garments boasts aloud
The aged and infirm with me

Lose caution and timidity
For, young or old, to every one
I furnish, if not muscle, bone.
;;
; ;
merry's boos: Of MUZZLES.
370.
Why
is
a spotted dog most reliable
what does a dog
371. In
<*reatment of a horse
372.
One
from a groom
is
known
all earth's
Without me
Or
of a gallant vagrant band,
My name
In
differ
in every land ;
changes I am there
none may war declare,
treat of peace, or try their parts
On manufacture, tillage, arts

By me a patient saint of old
Was changed into a warrior bold
;
made
old Abner's father near
His wife was deaf, I made her hear;

His house I put upon his back
His jaw an iron bond I make
Bad spirit by my presence claims
To be the end of human aims
And a young bear is seen to be
;
A coveted jewel of the

4*
sea.
81
in his
82
373. Problem.
To make a
restless child quiet
and con*
tented.
374. Problem.
and
trious,
Why
375.
To teach
a child to be honest, indus-
useful.
is
Merry's
Museum
like a note falling
due ?
876. I consist of eleven letters.
My 9th, 7th,
and 1st, is where infants often repose;

" 3d, 10th, and 7th, is a foreign plant much used
^
::
by us;
and 11th, is to treat by

word of mouth
" 6th, 4th, 7th, and 8th, is a delicious fruit;
" 2d, 7th, and 3d, to do which affords great satis1st, 7th, 5th, 9th, 4th,
faction
"
4th, 7th,
and
an essential part of the
5th, is
head
" 3d, 10, 7th, and 8th, is often used for joy or
sorrow
" whole is the name of a distinguished writer
Museum.
for Merry's
Why
377.
378. I
W.
i,
6,
is
Merry's
Museum
like a
good wife ?
am composed
of twelve letters.
with 10, 5, 2, 9, which a 12, 8, 1, 7,
10, not to have, and which a 3, 8, 1, 12,
2, all 6, 2, 10,
6, 11, 4,
9, 11, 4, 2,
1.
5,
12,
i.
6, 11, 9, 2, 6.
379.
Why
380.
What was
the "difference
881.
What
does a bride wear on her finger?
382.
Why is
is
Merry's
Museum
like a
good mother ?
can you show

Between the Prodigal in his woe,
And Lazarus, in his low estate,
Feeding on crumbs at Dives' gate?
fish
Merry's
Museum
like a printing-office
5,
5,
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
lc
The
rose shall cease to blow,
The second puzzle
is
way
The eagle turn a dove,

The stream shall cease to flow,
Ere I will cease to love.
The sun pliall cease to shine,
The world shall cease to move,
The stars their light resign,
Ere I will cease to love.
solved in this
2. Short shoes and^ long corns to

the enemies of freedom.
3.
The rope-maker.
The
Because they can not he got

without a bow (beau).
4.
off
5.
Because he stops at the sound
different colors represent th*

several sons' portions.
10.
The
6.
One takes the dish with the
One, after which his stomach

Qot empty.
7.
We
What men unto our wants deny

And so springs he.
is
1 1.
8.
The
9.
The
tiger couches in the wood,

waits to shed the traveler's
blood ;
So couch we.
spring upon him to supply
And
of wo.
Work, work, work
My
smallest.
labor never flags

And what are its wages ?
bed
of straw,
crust of bread and rags,
That shattered roofthis naked
first
solved in this
geometrical puzzle
way
is
floor,
table a broken chair,

wall so blank, my shadow
thank
For sometimes falling there
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
And a
A woman
sat in
unwomanly
rags,
Plying her needle and thread-
ANSWERS
86
Stitch
stich
stitch
TO PUZZLES.
This song is well sung, I make
you a vow,
"And he is a knave that aileth
La poverty, hunger, and dirt,

And still with a voice of dolorous
now.
pitch.
She sang the " Song of the Shirt."

12.
A pack of
Nose, nose, and who gave thee

that jolly red nose ?
Cinnamon and ginger, nutnieg
cards.
and
13. Striking.
And
words
Because
between them
14.
are
Footman.
16.
Because his
me my jolly
red
nose.
passing
27.
15.
cloves,
they gave
To
ashes.
28. Short.
17. Because he
dues (dews).
is all
is
net
profit.
29. Shakespeare.
surrounded with
30. Time.
3J. Wallace.
18.
Adam.
32. Because they are often toasted.
19. Heroine.
33.
20. Spark.
21. Tear.
Because
it is
23.
Because
it is felt.
24.
Because
it
35.
is
a resting-place
There's a grim hearse horse,

In a jolly round trot,
To the churchyard a poor man
going, I wot.
The road it
Because he has
nothing
to
Full five hundred years I've hung,

In my old grey turret high,
And many a different theme I've
sung,
As the hours went winging by.
I've pealed the chimes of a wedding morn
Ere night I've sadly tolled to
say
That the maid was coming love
36
is
is
rough,
And the hearse has no springs,

And hark to the dirge the sad
lorn,
driver sings
And
" Rattle his bones over the stones,

He's only a pauper,
body owns."
whom
no-
37.
here I end
degree,
all the long day she sits in a
For
tree,
comes,
away
she,
To whit-to-whoo.
To whom drinkest thou
Noodles, to you.
lay.
spirit
wings
Of all the birds that e'er I did see,

The owl is the strangest in every
And when the night
my
The joyful can sing on

Each morn
flies
always for get-
boot.
for the traveler.
26
is
34. I, ser.
a bad habit.
22.
26.
Because he
ting.
his lofty height,
In rapt'rous
notes
he sweetly
sings,
And
hails
approaching
th'
light;
But I from grief no solace know,
No portal from the night,
All joys to me insipid grow,
Afford me no delight.
Sir
38.
Because it
is
often tolled (told)
;"
;!
ANSWEBS TO PUZZLES,
Shall behold
Your name.
89.
fair
The
40.
letter
M.
must walk two yards, one in going

and another in return-
the chief
mercy's
flag,
ensign,
wave
Then, freed from Death's terrors

and hostile alarms,
When we hear the last trump,
we'll stand to our arms.
41. Forty- eight feet.
42. In solving this question it is

clear that to pick up the first stone
and put it into the basket, the person
87
Doctor Long expects Dr. Short

misunderstanding between them.
49.
to explain the
for the stone
it
that for the second stone
he must walk four yards, and so on
increasing by two as far as the hundredth, when he must walk two hundred yards, so that the sum total will
be the product of 202 multiplied by
If any one does
50, or 10,000 yards.
not see why we multiply 202 by 50
in getting the answer, we refer him
ing with
to his arithmetic.
50.
To you who
live single, if this at

trouble you,
My first comes in kindness, commanding to double you.
And again, it will double you, if,
like a clown,
all
lift high your sole, and bend

your head down
Or, cut it in twain, two Vs will
You
appear,
counting five, both make
ten it is clear.
My second, alas comes shrouded
in gloom,
It is O, which makes wo, the
sinner's sad doom.
And
43. Hour-glass.
44.
45.
Pen-man-ship.
There was a
man who was
born,
His father
fore
*
was Nott born

him
Nott
be-
He did Nott live, he did Nott die,

And his epitaph is Nott o'er
him.
Now
see
what a change comes
over the scene,

If
my third, which is
O, be added
woo and what bacheheart does not beat,

To woo a sweet damsel, to keep
Now
'tis
lor's
46.
Because
it is
47,
To keep
his
in firm (infirm).
warm
18.
head warm.
the muffled drum sounds

the last march of the brave,
soldier retreats to his quarters, the grave,
Under Death, whom he owns hi3
Hark
The
Commander-in-chief,
No more he'll turn out with the
ready
his feet
To cheer by her smiles his lone

hours and thus
Escape, by good fortune, the
relief
But
in spite of Death's terrors

or cannon's alarms,
When he hears the last trump
he'll stand to his arms
Farewell!" brother soldiers, in
peace may you rest,
And light lie the turf on each
veteran breast,
Until that review when the souls
of the brave
!
bachelor's curse
fourth and
my
My
go on to tell,
Is nought more or
last, as
less
I'll
than a
capital L.
Now bQing"fifty, will even divide
One Hundred, or teachers and
books have
all lied.
examine with care, and

plain you will see
That to unlock a secret, an L is
the key
For woo, with L added, is chang-
Now
ed into wool,
Whether worn on a sheep, or an

African's skull.
ANSWERS
88
Whether made
TO PUZZLES.
into clothing, for
bed or for body,

For " sage politician" or some
other noddy.
It is used, the world over, in
commerce and trade
But
its last use, I
trow, was to
make a charade.
Not a rose that blooms,
Not a ring that assumes
The rainbow's beautiful
front,
66 J'ai grand appetit. Allonssouper.
70.
Those that come after T.
'Twas at night, when the bell had

tolled twelve,
And
't.
That around ye roll,

The systems ye can not discern,
Are warmed by my rays,
And partake of the soul

And the spirit that in me burn.
And nothing throws back with such
my
many
68. Ice.
But's indebted to me,

plainly see,
For the scent or splendor on
The moon and the stars
splendor
65 Because they have so

panes (pains).
69
As ye
rays,
As the sea's mighty mirror

summer days.
64 The nose
67. Water.
SONG OB THE SUN.
61.
poor Susan was laid on

her pillow,
In her ear whispered some fleeting elf
"Your
love is
now
tossed on
the billow"
Far, far at sea.
was
dark as she woke out of
All
breatn
Not an object her fears could
discover
in mid-
All
was
52. And like the temple of this

body, the cloud-capped towers, the
gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples,
the great globe itself shall fall, and,
still as the portals of

death,
Save fancy, which painted her
lover
Far, far at sea.
So she whispered a prayer, closed
this insubstantial vision faded,

leave not a rack behind.
But the phantom still haunted
her eyes,
like
her pillow,
53. Letter
64.
When
I.
it is
While in terror she echoed his

cries,
a cutter
As
struggling he sunk on the

billow
Far, far at sea.
65. Letter N.
66. Five
when
peeled.
'tis holy ground s

Countless dead hark, hark around
Angel guards their watches keep,
While frail mortals sink to sleep :
And the moon, with feeble rays,
Gilds the stream that bubbling
71. Lightly tread

67.
He
is
a bit of a buck.
58. His daughter.

69. It
60.
matures by falling dew*
Ben-ha-dad.
Because it is never peeled (pealed) but once.

61..
62. Because it is every year doubling 'Dublin).
6&
Tobacco.
plays,
And murmurs,
as soft
Music meet for
lovers' woes.
72.
it flows,
Eye.
73. Canister.
74. Forte tu, atrox
Sexto Fortinato.
tenes,
forti
;
;
AUSWEftS tO PUZZLES.
The forceps pmches, the awl
75
89
Sing we in harmony Apollo's praise.

sentiment
generous
every
Here
punches.
76. At the peaceful midnight hour,
Every sense and every power
Chained lies in downy sleep
Then our careful watch we keep,
While the wolf, in nightly prowl,
Bays the moon with hideous howl
Music inspiring our mutual joy,

Each social bumper giving and par-
Closed are bars, a vain resistance

Shrieks are raised, but no assist-
Because of the sand which

(sandwiches) under your feet.
ance
Locks, bolts, and

asunder,
to rifle, rob,
77. Ad-here.
78.
89.
bars soon
is
91.
Mag-pie.
92.
His father was translated.
and plunder.
94.
95.
is
his axe (acts).
80. XII., that is, a cross

(across two eyes).
81.
two
Because he kneads (needs)
i's
it
shoe.
On by
!
83.
the spur of valor goaded,
primed and rifles loaded,

Courage strikes on hearts of
Pistols
steel.
While each star through the

dark gloom of night,
Lends a clear and cheering light,
Who a doubt or fear can feel ?
Now through woods like serpents
most.
82.
creeping,
The
letter
Then on our prey like
R.
Calvert to the onset leads us.

Let the weary traveler dread
house,
a mouse- trap as you see,

For that will puzzle any mouse,
And pusillanimous is he.
Is like
84. Green grass is like a mouse, because the cattle eat it (cat '11 eat it).
85. It is not aloud (allowed).

Private earing (privateering)
is
lions leap-
ing,
The coward skulking round a
us.
Struck with terror and amaze

While our swords in lightning
pouring,
Thunder to our rifles roaring.
96.
A bell.
cbd
unlawful.
97.
TTq hours. to go
down.
86. Salt-cellar.
2a
87.
rent).
is
93. But-ton.
In-Mre. Co-here.
known by
coming.
is
fly
Because only the bony pai i
He
you know he
let
left.
79.
To
90.
Silence or you'll meet your fate

Your keys, jewels, money, plate.
Then
taking,
Song and good cheer our time employ.
Because
it is
88. Glorious Apollo
not currant (cur-
from on high be-
held us
Wand'ring
to find
a temple for his
praise
iT
average rate of rowing
c+b
d^+5 h0UrS
cb
t0
-^ time up.
db
Sent Polyhymnia hither to shield us

While we ourselves such a temple
r^ time down
might raise.
Thus then, Guards, hands and hearts
2a
joining,
S UP
r- miles per hour.
'
A tf S W E ft S TO PtTZZLES.
90
The hounds gain 6 rods in every

They must therefore run as
-98
21
many times 2 1 rods as 6

Therefore 96 -^ 6=16.
I'll
ing garland,
$
m
2
m m
100.
He wrote
before
it,
m m
@
Z
making
it six.
and
Klies
roses,
And
To
99.
weave a gay and fresh bloom-
With
will go into 96.

21=336 rods.
sweet, blooming posies,

give to the lad my heart tells
me
I love.
May
the brow of the brave never

want a wreath of laurel.
110. May the trees of liberty flourish round the globe, and every man
partake of, its fruit.

May the wings
of love never lose a feather
101. Live, evil, vile, Levi, veil.

111. Prescription proscription
102.
When
the rosy dawn awaking

Paints with gold the verdant
lawn
Flies,
on the wings of time dis-
porting,
Sip the sweets
and taste the

dawn.
Warbling birds the day proclaiming,
Singing sweet the lively strain;
They forsake their leafy dwell-
112. Bar-gain
117.
eyes.
was
118.
106. Pat-ten.
107
full of
Because it
nonsense
10& Make an
is
far fetched
spirit
and
mounts on fancy's
wing,
Anointing me a merry king.
While I live, I'll lave my pipe.
When I'm dead and gone away.
Let my drinking partner say
A morth he reigned, but that
Museum.
before you."
go.
Wave, thou royal purple stream,

Gilded by the solar beam
My
103 Musk-melon, if your second

turned inside out; thus, lem-on.
Now
makes a man
In my goblet sparkling rise,

Cheer my heart, and glad mine
Nature,all her children viewing,

Kindly bounteous cares for all.
"
X 16 =
116. Hand-el.
fall.
105.
50*
114. Tanner.
115. Because it
To secure the golden grain.

See ; content the humble gleaner
Picks the scattered ears that
104. Merry's
= 50.
40,000
ing*
is
113. 1,600 -r 32
ripe.
No gems which plumed
fortune
wears,
No drop that hangs from beauty's ears,
Nor the bright
stars which
night's blue vault adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the
impression.
109 Sweet are the roses that bloom
by yon fountain,
And
sweet are the cowslips that

spangle the grove,
And sweet is the breeze that
blows o'er the mountains
But sweeter by far is the lad
that 1 love.
;
vernal morn,
Shine with such lustre as the
tear that breaks
For other's woe down
manly
virtue's
cheeks.
119. Frankfort-on-the-Maine.
120. Rib-band.
ANSWERS
121.400-t-16=25.
five
1/25
TO PUZZLES.
= 5-
and early to rise,

Makes a man healthy,
Wealthy, and wise.
135. Early to bed,
seconds.
122.
Because they have arms and
Music awa"kes
voice of undissembled
136.
legs.
123.
91
The native
^ 51.96152
Ci/60i V 60 - 402 = 44.72136
302
96.68288.
And thick around

hymns arise.
Am,
the woodland
Roused by the cock, the soon-clad

124. 1,785.
shepherd
Leaves his mossy cottage, where
with peace
He dwells, and from the crowded
125. 'Tis god to tread the church-
yard's walks,
And mark the graves on either side;
folds in
Or where the rough old sexton talks

With sheer contempt of human
pride
To contemplate the scattered bones

That meet the eye so often there
To read the inscription on the stones,
;
Order drives his

verdure of
The morn.
we
138.
W.
139.
He
think what fleeting things
the
137. Friday.
'Tis good at twilight's sober hour,

To sit on some neglected tomb,
And dwell on death's all-startling
And
flock, to taste
are.
power,
And muse upon'our certain doom.

Because these thoughts are sure to
win
The spirit more or
126.
less
from
Aching teeth are bad tenants.
140.
A portrait.
141.
He
142.
The oak (a-corn).
144.
own
trunk.
Harrow.
A draft.
till it is
146. Because the cart is before the

horse.
cracked.
When
his
brother
131. Because they blackenihe face
of Washington.
The
Harrow.
148.
A book.
149. Because it
makes
ire fire.
150. (Arithmetical Puzzle.)
figure 8.
133. Certainly
147.
Jacob
shaved him.
132.
carries his
145. They are four- sighted (foresighted).
129. It is good for nothing
130.
an earnest bee-leaver.
143. Ful-ton.
sin.
127. Patch-work.
128.
is
Webster
151. Rats
says
" spontaneous is applicable to animals destitute of reason."
living sinner's transgres134

sion procured damnation.
A dying Redeemer's passion purchased salvation.
12,
tarsarts stars.
When
it is sat-in.
153. Sarsaparilla.
154.
XI
divided
Dr. Townsend
gives six.
DC
divided in the same way, gives four.

155.
The
letter O.
ANSWERS TO
92
156.
The one was Maid of Orleans,

was made of chittim wood.
PtTZZLllS
175.
They secure (seek your) money
the other
176. Fowl, owl, wolf.
157. Sunshine "and shadow.

177.
1
Mar, ram, arm.
158. Pen-knife.
178. It breaks the kernel (colonel)
159. (Leap Frog.)

179. Windmill.
160. Bed-ford.
Always
180.
161.
CR
in flour.
(Seer).
162. I ate nothing
181.
Adullam
182.
The chin-chilla
(a dull lamb).
Monday
(chilly).
163.
183. She is miss-taken
and miss-
led.
1^4. Because three scruples
make
dram
185.
The ball-room.
186.
When
187.
Co-nun-dram
it
back-bites.
188. Log-book.
189.
164.
for
you
Be
see
not too wise, nor over nice,
what a
fool
you
be.
165.
The shoe U.
166.
He
is
fed from aloft.
167.
He
is
bride-led.
168.
peck.
For every grain they give a
169. Pondicherry.
170.
One ought
to wait fer tea.
171.
MON. TUBS. WED. THTJB. FBI. SAT.
abclad a k n a e laho a f plaim
be
b 1 o bfm b i p b dn bg k
d e f
gb. i cmp c f i c g njc d k c h l|c e o
Hannah
hand
190. It is but D sent, as you see,

If you 500 send,
But truly XL lent 'twill be,
When you the 40 lend.
191.
Awheel.
192.
He presses them with a
193.
The moon.
194.
One that needs darning.
195.
Ann,
goose
sir.
196. Elliptical
a-lip-tickle.
BXTtr.
Sim fko dhm d olemn eikldlp

nop i 1 n egp hkplf g 1 gmojh f n
l
197. B-o-y.
198.
(eat-meat-at-tea)
Mate
199. In-co-he-rent.
172. Bible.
200.
Amen, name, mean, man&
173. 125.
201. Grog-shop.
174. Because without
He, or it makes life a lie.
it life
is
a
202. Vela, vale, veal, lav.
ANSWERS
203.
Not
233.
I.
205
Light-house.
206
Sureti-ship.
and
TO PUZZLES.
204. In court-ship, as warry-ners.
207. 5
The
93
tiller.
234. The lion, because he roaics,

and has a flowing mane (main).
Leviathan, because he swallows up the rivers.
,
235.
The bull, because he bellows

The whale, because he blows.
236.
The
7.
208. Candle-stick.
because he brays.
horse, because a
ass,
Dr. Pott's
209. Me-lo-di-ous.
Pott he carries.
210. The one is careless and happy
the other is hairless and cappy.
211.
IX cross the 2, it makes XX.
237. The
and crows.
rooster, because
he picks
238. 1, 3, 9, 27, are the weights

of the several pieces.
212. Lie.
213. Pea-cock.
214. Because
239.
pierces hearts.
it
A tur-key.
240. It is generally patronized

gobblers.
by
215. Child-hood.
241. In the ground.
216. In earnest (in her nest).

242.
217. Friend-ship.
218.
Cayenne (K. N.).
219.
He
220.
They are C D.
221.
is
Good
known by
his bark.
for nothing
222. Neva, nave, vane.
223. Shake-speare.
224. Because
makes Pa-pay.
it
225. It has eyes behind
228.
and
flourishes his fan behind
243. 1st, 7.36.

08.
244. C-and-y
2d, 9.56.
candy.
245. Because we
them here (hear).
246.
3d, 23.
can not make
A steel pen.
The weapon's a
steel
pen, I think,
Unless I've made a blunder

When Hatchet dips it in the ink,
I'd like to stand from under.
" Old lady" quotha! think of that
My goodness heart-alive
I tell you, Mr. Hatchetflat
I'm scarcely sixty-five.
226. Pea-cock.
227. 7
He
him.
5.
In the ground.
247.
He has many
cast-off
bows
(beaux).
229
From
the tree.
248.
230. Because she shows her flow-
He
is
a wellre(a)d man.
249. 804,247,552 square inches
ing sheets.
231.
Moon and
stars.
250. Because c-and-y spell
282.
Meat
atmatteam),
251. Theeyei
(eat
candy
ANSWEES
9
252. S I
XL
IX
X
IX
TO PUZZLES.
is
253. Because
^certainty).
is
it
254. 8, 12, 20,
He
275.
L
a certain
a ma'
is
stiff.
276. He chases the deer i dear) and

never chased (chaste).
tie
277. Because he
is
a pup-pet.
He must be born on
278.
5.
the 29th
of February.
255..
To the gallows
256.
The earth and firmament.
279. 56 quarts difference.
280. 99|
257. Because he
busts (bursts).
makes
faces
and
281. Lightning.
258. Because they " devoured widows' houses."
282.
$15, and boots.
2837 Against his
259. I o^d i-cherry.

260. Cross you are, cross you be,
Cross, too cross, you are -for
284.
285.
16J
286.
He
me.
261. Because the lions could not
eat him.
262. (See-saw.)
will.
whipping.
= a rod.
about to
is
287. Forty horses
fall.
have
80 fore
legs.
263. Hi-lo.
264. It places the present

before the past (saw).
288. Come, ye ingenious ones, this

riddle guess,
It is not difficult, you will
(see)
confess.
265. Because there
is
What
a b in both.
if
266.
Obscurity, in which may be

city, sty, sot, buoy, tour,
orb, orbit, rust, rut, bust,
You
found sour,
story,
crust.
He was 30
years
that
number which,
on
divide,
then will nothing leave
either side ?
The number -289.
267.
is
you
The alphabet.
old.
NINE.
290.
268. Exe-te-r.
291.
269. (Deaf
and dumb alphabet.
270.
When
271
Day and
The
white.
they are fingered.

292.
night.
272. Camp-belL
273.
The year, 12 months, 30 days,

night and morning, black and
letter
M.
274. If he told the truth, he lied;

if he lied, he told the truth.
He lied. If he did lie, he
would not say so
The Tea
1.
tree.
2.
Hop
3.
Beech.
4.
Bee.
vine,
5.
India-rubber.
6.
Bay*
7.
Pine.
10. Date,
11. Bass.
12. Honeysuckle.
13. Judas.
14. Peach.
15. Fir.
16. Bon Chretien.
17. Broom.
8.
Yew(Y<m,notI).
18. Cypress.
9.
Fig.
19. Nightshade.
ANSWER'S TO PUZZLES.,
maid
20. Breadfruit.
Orange
21.
0-live).
24 Lime.
25. L nden.
26. Box.
49. Slippery elm.

50. Medlar.
Wll-o!
52 Man -go
58 Sandal.
28. Aspen.
29
Hose
54. Holly.
30.
31.
32.
33.
Sloe.
55. Clove.
Plane.
56. Coffee
Tulip.
fee).
57. Palm.
Spruce.
34. Tiller- tree or 58. Aspen
elm (helm).
pen).
Sycamore.
35.
59.
36. Poplar.
(cof-
38. Ivy.
39.
40.
Arbor
Vitse
(tree of life.
fire.
310. (Christmas tree.)
311. Dry-den.
ball."
61. The ashes.

Scrub oak.
Burning bush 62 Laurel.
312.
42. Lilac.
43. Elder.
44. Cork.
45. Smoke tree, or
64. Silver.
65. Woodbine.
66. Mace.
314.
316.
fir
ma' meant.
296.
They are dissolved in
297.
Newman Goodman went
298. Too (2) great ease before

riage, too little ease after it.
A jail
300.
IX SIX.
The
last
319.
The
stoop.
two (money).
320.
When
321.
They are without
it is
a-jar.
to
.
mar-
doors,
322. A-gate.
Bead down and up,
And you
will see
love you,
If you love me.
How
imp over a
They leave them
803.
IO
shed. (Im-
out.
324. It
325.
is sold.
He
is
little better,
326. It is due
W,
it
makes Iowa.
T,
A-re-a.
Are
318.
bird.
302.
was A-gag
The adder.
317. A-hi-tub.
323.
299.
Insert
Dry-den.
light.
have his coat mended.
301. He is an
poverished.)
315. Their king
294. It js in a good frame of mind.
tailor to
Cole-ridge.
67. Vine.
293. Herschell (her shell).
295. 'Twas the
313. Long-fellow.
63. Locust.
$04.
tree.
up a brawl, or an alarm
309. Get
of
41. Hazel.
flie
climb a
308. Beat a base drum, or grind a

hand-organ.
(as
Southernwood 60. Tallow, snow
37.
51.
Dogwood.
27
can
307. Mr. Dashwood, being at the

point of death, sent for his friends
hey sent for Dr
and relatives.
Childs who inclosed a few lines to
Dr. liarnes and imp-lo-red his assisBut before he arrived, the
tance.
invalid died, and the undertaker wag
sent for.
48 Damson.
Hound.
23.
Birch.
47
Leg-horn.
308. Because it
48 Bon^set.
range).
22. Olive
305.
the
o'
mist.
(0-
-95
"
Iota.
327. It is a letter of blood.

328.
The
329.
He
letter
gives
it
A.
up
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
96
230. They are the candid 8 (candidate) of their party.
Down
331.
in the mouth.
863. In the Eastern wars,

elephants were employed.
Hathatehatch.
364.
from A-ram.
333. There are more rakes than
beaux there.
334. Under a pear (pair) tree.
335. Under a hop-vine.
336. Because he is a deer.
337. The letterS.
338. First, they were not inclined
to prey, and afDerwards they were
332. Descended
365. Chair.
366.
A step farther.
367.
The one close their eyes,

The other eye their clothes
368. A-dri-atic.
The
369.
Of
He rifles the deer (dear).

One child from two parents
340.
makes
He
370.
Two
make 4.
It
brags.
bold.
bone.
always on the spot
"
"
"
"
The shade on the dial.

347. They are the grub that makes
846.
the butter
fly.
is
his heir (air).
853.
A soap-bubble.
A clock.
354.
He
it
the
355. It would
make
would make
lie.
Italy.
356. He carries his reins (heart) in

his hand.
357. He may keep a watch, but he

can't tell the time of day.
358. The gong makes a din,
The cook makes a dinner.

869. One-sided,
Once
sir.
I did, sir.
oakcoal
60. Cloak
361. Wood.
362. 301.
876.
lock.
cot
near.
hear.
coat.
gin
gain.
cub
Cuba.
is
always expected with
The " lap" is the
place where infanta

repose,
u tea" is a plant that we use
And
To
" Parley"
by word, I suppose,
a fruit we all choose.
" to eat," I'm afraid, beyond measure,
And part of the head is the " ear,"
's
to treat
And " pear" is

Many youth like
Or
it
to Joab.
-
interest.
And what
gets wet.
her
373. Give him Merry's Museum.

374. Let him subscribe for Merry's
Museum, and always pay in advance.
375. It
They are more airy.

350. The boy can see his shadow,
The shadow can't see him.
849.
851. It has breathed into

breath of life.
letter A.'
changed Job
A reel.
It
bin.
"
"
"
made Ner
343.
is
bend.
>'
one
bell.
bill.
in
raga
old
The
372.
and 2
The ploughshare.
344. When he " gives it up."
342. 2
352.
"
end
The groom curries him

The dog bites him,
The groom bits him.
children from two pa-
Tents
341. Cab-in.
348. It
makes
ill,
371. The dog worries him.
3.
346.
letter B.
ell, it
"
"
"
"
"
"
roven-ous.
339.
whes
is
more common
than,
when we
feel pleasure,
grief, to give vent to
" Peter Parley"

a writer,
's
a " tear."
distinguished I'm sure as
And welcom'd by all with a smile

And surely no book is a greater exciter
Than this, which goes many a mile.
377. It is cheap at any price.
378 Merry's Museum.
379. It instructs and amuses chil;
__
dren.
380.
The one suffered wantonly

The other from want only.
381. Her-ring.
382. Because it contains valuable
.
articles, wood-cuts, etc.
ROBERT MERRY'S
SECOND
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
EDITED BY ROBERT MERRY.
NEW YORE:
THOMAS O'KANE, PUBLISHER,
130
NASSAU STREET.
PREFACE.
In presenting to the public

I
must present
my
this
New
thanks for the
Book of
many kind
Puzzi.es,
expressions
received in regard to those already published.
been compiled during
my
season, for the benefit of the
Museum, and
contains, in a
leisure
moments
etc.,
presented with the hope that
of interesting the
young
the past
compact form, many of the
peared in the Museum, together with

is
has
numerous readers of Merry's
Puzzles, Enigmas, Hieroglyphics,
and
of
It
folks
it
which have ap-
many new
may be
the
around their own
ones
means
fireside
homes, rather than seek amusement elsewhere.
ROBERT MERRY.
ROBERT MERRY'S
SECOND
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
ROBERT MERRY'S
My first
3.
my
whole
4c.
My
second
is
second often does ;
found in every country of the globe my

what we all should be ; my whole is the same
first is
my first.
as
5.
The XLlSTt
104i5lty
6.
food
7. Entire,
am
tion
FX
of a 100150500
am
;
a period of time
X500er
replace
behead me, I
am
again behead me, and I
am an emblem
a powerful liquid
;
l^F H
l?ab50.
Entire, I
article of
my
sound) what
is (in
a turning-point.
is
my
am
an
used for food.
; behead me, and

me, and I am a preposi-
of beauty
curtail
am
head, and I
a useful
article.
KUTL
PEAil
9.
"Why was Noah saved without a Pope ?
10. What is the only word in the English language that

can be written without pen, pencil, chalk, or any other
pigment ?
11. I
1,
am composed
title
2,
a metal
In
of 9 letters.
;
3,
a weight
4,
me may
a coin ;
7, neat ;
Merry cousins ; 6, part of a wheel ;

verb; 9 and 10, two prepositions. My whole
the
in
be found
5, one of
8, an adis
a place
New York State.

12. Entire^ I
am
prevent.
curtail me, and I am an in

behead and transpose, and I am to
a country
habitant of the same
BOOS: OF PtTZZLES.
13.
My first is
seen in pillared halls,
Where
kings and princes dwell

'Tis found in every woodland vale,
In every sunny
Upon
dell.
the yellow sandy beach,
The ocean billows
My
next
you'll find
roar,
it
in the foam,
Rippling upon the shore.
: ;
ROBERT MERRY'S
"Within the dark and gloomy cave,
Hid from
the sun's bright glare.
Precious jewels line the walls,
And my
always there.
is found in France,
But never seen in Spain
It has always been in England's clime,
In every monarch's reign.
My whole from Jupiter's court on high,
Descends to cheer the earth
Without his presence there would be
Of happiness a dearth.
My
14:.
third
is
fourth and last
am composed
of 14 letters
My 1, 4, 3, 1, 9, 6 is a handsome kind
My 2, 5, 11 is a conjunction.
My 8, 7, 5, 9 is a number.
My 10, 3, 12, 13 is to kill.
My whole is a celebrated day.
15. 1
YY
OWN
am
16. Entire, I
17.
and
am
c
- it.
a sentence; behead me, and I
fortress; curtailed, I
pose,
am
to strive violently;
inexperienced.
Behead a
of cloth.
slipping,
and leave the
slip.
18.
uLjU
no^
am
trans-
book of puzzles.
19.
fox, 90 rods due south of a greyhound, is pur
sued by the hound at the rate of 5 rods to 4 of the fox,
the fox running a due east course.
How far will the
hound run to overtake the fox ?
20.
What kind of morals
are most easily put on
Pray what
22. I
is
name ?
a species of animal
form a kind of rule

;
is its
am composed of four syllables, and am very popnow my first and second form a Latin verb my
ular just
row
off?
My first is a female,
My second the same,
My whole is much dreaded
21.
third
and
and
my
third
my
and
my
first,
second, and third
fourth, reversed,
fourth, without
lectual.
1*
is
my
thin
and nar-
final, is intel-
10
23.
gars
Why
are unprotected hearth-fires like insolent beg-
24. I
am composed
of 14 letters.
My 13, 11, 7, 3, 1, 12 is a dream.

My 8, 14, 10, 9 is a net.
My 1, 6, 8, 4, 13, 14, 2, 5 is a balance,
My whole is a celebrated man.
am a noun behead and transpose, and 1
my head, curtail me, and I am necessary to the accomplishment of any great object curtail me
again, transpose, and I am sometimes used as a seat
25. Entire, I
am
lean
replace
26.
27.
RNO
"Why
are most of the heroes and heroines in novels
like the letter
28.
29.
What
poet
is
like a sly piece of
bacon ?
I cheer the pilgrim's lonely way,
As
he on from day to day

am found
students do on college ground
toils
Curtail me, and I then
What
Curtail once more, and
You'll find I
30.
What
am an
kind of a diary
by inspection
interjection.
is
productive of mischief?
B00& OF PTTZZLE8.
11
am a murmur; curtail me, and I signify

produce omit my first and last, and I am a disturbance; and without my first two I am a bird.
31. Entire, I
to
32.
My first speeds proudly through our land

My next is what my first doth do
My whole is one of that noble band
Who signed the freedom of our land,
And
struggled bravely through.
nto the most foolish
My
34.
took
way
Transpose a wrong
33.
35.
manner
second, which,
my first
after using
Behead an animal,
of treating another's regard

of doing
it.
by the way,
my
whole
hope you have,
at dinner.
transpose, and find a flower.
ROBERT MEEBY
12
^s^^
^pP!
ED
37. I am a word of five letters in my normal condition
have a tendency to heal. Transposed. I still have a tendency to heel, and have been known to take to them when
;
opportunity offered.
posed, I
am good
article
much
posed,
is
to
Less one
used as
again trans-
preserve.
will intoxicate.
I bathe
fifth,
Four fifths transposed, form an

an ornament the same again trans-
to eat.
Three
fifths,
properly arranged,
Three fifths, in right order, make a prayer.
ME
39.
When
40.
Did Jonah cry when
did Job call nicknames
the whale swallowed
transpose,
42. Curtail a coin,
and transpose
"When
is
roast beef
him?
and leave a fastening.
41. Curtail a ruler
43.
it
into a country.
most valuable ?
i)
BOOK OF PVZZLJLS.
13
Fair Bessy promised to bestow

My first upon her lover.
44.
And much
hope that no dark clouds
Around the
pair
Sweet Bessy's age
Of gold
On
she has
may
is
hover.
just eighteen,
my
second ;
bearing off the lovely prize
How many
beaus had reckon'd
And now my riddle I'll conclude^

And hope you'll not me quiz,
For what I say is very true
My whole fair Bessy is.
Robert Merry's
45.
What
that
is
which every one
likes to have,
get rid of as soon as possible after he gets

46.
my
My
third
first is
is
and I'm a
to
found on a ship my second is a vowel

my whole is the name of an animal.
title
47. Entire, I'm a man's
Turkish coin
and
it ?
me
behead
name
again,
behead me, and I'm a

and I'm too close again,
;
prefix.
48.
5zr^
a y
49.
my
My
whole
53. I
second
is
is
a useful appendage to
am composed
My
My
My
my
first,
to abridge.
4, 9,
12
is
of 21 letters.
Greek preposition.
7, 5, 8, 14 a vessel used in the Scotch sea.

17, 13, 21 is entity.
18, 19, 3, 10 is a bed formed by birds.
My
My 1, 11, 15 is to dip.
My 20, 6, 2, 16 is to tarnish.
My whole is want of symmetry.
and
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
51.
from
A
it,
15
squirrel, finding nine ears of corn in a box, toot
daily, three ears
how many days was he
in re-
moving the corn from the box ?

52. My first is found in an oyster ; my second is possessed by the nobility every house contains my third ; my
whole no one applies to himself.
;
53.
"What word
is that,
of three letters, which, read back-
ward, indicates the quality of

54:.
my
many who
participate in
most generally find

kind
My second, an adverb of humble degree,
Combined with my first names a beautiful
In
An
first,
relations
interest of a peculiar
tree.
it \
16
IfcOBifiRT
MEEEt^
TOWNS IN NEW YORK*

55.
A color and
56.
An
element and a game.
57. Part of a
58.
59.
60.
An
a mineral.
gun and a
liquor.
animal.
A color and part of a house.

A hole and a heap.
SHRUBS, FLOWERS, ETC.
62.
A vehicle, and where it takes you.

A traitor, and the place where he died.
63.
To
64:.
Take a
61.
mode
hurt, a nickname,
(1) life
of using
it
and an engine of war.
preserver
(3)
(2)
decapitate
it
and show
again transpose and show
how
it
show what is used with

it
(5) transpose and give a Greek letter
(6) transpose
the original word and make a famous rock (7) transpose
and make a locomotive power (8) transpose and make it
dull
(9) transpose and it will utter a war-cry to dogs
(10) transpose it now into a girl's name; (11) curtail it
and express a concurrence; (12) again curtail, and see
what you may call yourself.
has been used
(4)
transpose and
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
66
Twas night
a stormy, tempestuous night,

All wakeful and anxious the crew,
As they watched my first in its wild, mad flight,
"While over the waves
And now,
it
flew.
midst of these wild alarms,

My second is dashed on the shore,
Till Ocean opens her treacherous arms,
in the
And gathers it home once more.

Let us turn from these dreary scenes away,
So solemn and filled with gloom,
And in meadows or pleasant gardens stray,
Where in beauty my whole doth bloom.
17
&OBERT MEkRY
18
67. I
am composed
My
My
My
My
My
1, 9,
3, 9,
4, 5,
of 12 letters
an animal.
10, 11 is a grain.
7 is part of a barn.
11
is
a stone.
12, 2, 6, 8
is
whole
body
is
politic.
68. Behead an article of apparel, and leave one

sometimes wears it.
S^TTHEIR
70.
too a
Not theory
wh
o^'
glides not towards rule of action twice
Roman com indefinite
ideas use of the needle
article original sinner revolves
pronoun boy's nickname theatrical
performance.
71. If you should
would you get ?
lose
your nose, what kind of one
;;
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
72.
Find a word of
people laugh at
six letters,
something that many
subtract one letter, and leave what
worship.
CHARADE.
A preposition my first
73.
My second's a number
My third a brisk motion
That drives away slumber
whole is a service
For which dearly we pay
My
At
least, 'tis
In hotel
charged so
they say.
bills
DUTCH PUZZLE.
74.
Add
75.
What
2 strokes to
II
19
and make nothing,
bird most resembles a peddler?
many
EOBKR T M
20
R RY
76.
77.
My 1st is in pie, but not in cake.

My 2d is in hoe, but not in rake.
My 3d is in house, but not in barn.
My 4tL is in wool, but not in yarn
My 5th is in take, bat not in give.
My 6th is in strainer, but not in sieve.
My 7th is in rye, but not in wheat.
And my whole
78.
79.
80.
81.
82.
is
sometimes good
to eat
Why is a weathercock like ambition?

Why is a Turk like a violin belonging to
Why is a used up horse like a bad play?
Why is a sick Jew like a diamond ring?
Why is a printer like a postman?
an inn
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
83. Entire I
a surname
am
now
a bird
cut off
transpose,
and I
my
21
and I shall be
he something sin-
tail,
shall
gular.
84.
keep
Why
are fowls the most economical things farmers
Why
is
85.
battle
a cricket on the hearth like a soldier in
Entire, I
86.
And
am
Beheaded
Where
87.
Why
of bloody mien,
spread destruction
all
around
cheerfully I'm seen

pleasure's votaries are found.
should a brigadier-general, with his troops, be
able to cross any river ?

88. Join a verb
and conjunction, and make a noun.
89. Join a conjunction
90. Join a
noun and
and a noun, and form an adverb.
adjective,
and make a verb
ROBERT MERRY
22
91. I
am
word of three
syllables
my
first
member
is
one of the family of fruits my second component part is

an article in very common use, at once a receptacle for
the most valuable and the most useless things my last
member is an interjection. Entire, I am a substance em;
ployed in writing and drawing.

92.
ERE
TJST
SCRIPTURAL ENIGMA.
93.
"Who cowardly a prince did
94.
Who
95.
Whose
96.
What
Persian queen preserved the Jews?
97.
What
Jewish king a leper died
98.
Whose wicked mother
99.
built a city on a hill
son profane his
The
initial letters,
A famous
Jew
life
kill?
did lose
" Treason" cried ?

joined aright,
will bring to light.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
23
V0WiK0yK
HOW TO MAKE ANAGRAMS.

"Now
that's too
her pencil
bad!" exclaimed
down quickly on
little
Bess, striking
the slate, which had for five
minutes been shaded by her brown curls, as she bent earnestly over it.
" I do say it's too bad."
" What is too bad, Bess ?" asked her oldest sister,
Mary,
who, apparently occupied with her history, had been
stealing occasional glances at the animated face over the
slate,
and watching with pleasing interest the busy fingers

down letters, and tripping back and forth among
putting
them with her

I
pencil-point.
"What is too bad, Bess?
thought something was pleasing you very much."
ROBERT
24
Oh did you ? "Well, I was just ready to have such a

good one these anagrams, you know. I surely thought I
had extra axes, and just because of an r it's all spoiled I"
" What were you going to make your extra axes out
of?" asked Mary, with a curious smile.
" Now, donH make fun of me, please. Artaxerxes was
"
my
word."
"Well, I should think that would just make it," said

Mary, thoughtfully. " Are you sure it will not ?"
"Don't you see that rf" asked Bess, holding up hei
slate and giving a bayonet thrust to the offending letter.
" Yes
but what has that r, all alone by itself, to do
;
with it ?"
" Why,
it's
my proof. You see
and rub out each
I write
letter of it as I use it in
down
my word,
my
picking out
words, so if none are left, my anagram is complete."

" So you found an extra y, instead of an extra axe, in
new
your way?
Well, that is rather trying; but then there

more words, and it isn't much work to get
are plenty of
You have a capital way. Besides, that

them out.
wouldn't have been so very good a one.
You know
' Aunt
Sue' says the word and the sentence should bear
some relation to each other. Now, if Artaxerxes had
been a famous wood-cutter instead of a Persian king, it
might have been too bad."
"But wasn't he a warrior, too and mightn't they be
battle-axes ?"
Mary admitted
went on
the force of this, with a smile, as she
to say
"When we
more
stars,'
no
see such anagrams as astronomers

and parishioners I hire parsons,' there
'
'
is
certain sense of fitness that produces all the pleasure I
can find in an anagram."

"I
mean
know
they're better
anything,
but, then, not half of
/never could make such
them do
ones,"
"
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
"I should
just right.
try, if
made them
out at
You must remember
to get them, as well as to

satisfaction of feeling paid
25
it
have them
some patience
You want the
all, to
takes
make them.
when you're through."
" Patience
I should think it did !" said Bess, laughing and repeating, " Oh, Sam, cut my pen !" in a very
" If that didn't take the patience of
comical manner.
Job
And what did it mean, after all ? I'm sure Web!
ster don't
know!
I think they ought to be fair, at
least!"
.
" So do I," said Mary, laughing at Bessie's earnestness.
"
try the word homestead, Bess, and see what you
Now
can make of that."

" Why. is it one ?"
" I'm not quite sure I was running it over in my mind
to day but I had no slate to prove my canceling correct"
;
"
What
did you think
it
made ?"
" Do-eat-hams."
" Oh, so it will," said Bess, hastily putting down the

" and you know they do eat hams at homesteads !"
letters
Then Bess began drawing the
tip of her forefinger slowly

through each letter, repeating slowly, u do e-a-t-h
If that e was
There, now, that's worse than Artaxerxes
only an a /"
Mary looked on the slate a moment, and then said,
!
!"
pleasantly, " But you see it isn't
"
easy you do take things,
How
would be
so good,
"That's the
Mary, gently
best
and
it
way
comes
Mary
Now,
that
so near !"
to take things, isn't it,
lifting Bessie's face
by the
Bess?" said
little fat
chin,
Ana-
and looking into her large blue eyes lovingly.

grams, you see, may teach us a lesson."
.
" Almost anagrams,

let's
try
you
something else.
it down."
should say," said Bess.

Shall
" Yes, put
we
try
'
Aunt
" Well,
Sue?'
"
ROBERT MERRY'S
26
" I can get
let
mean anything
me see yes,
like
'
Aunt
use-a-nut
but that don't
;'
Sue.'
" Oh, yes, that will do as well as your ' battle-axes.'

You know, she keeps nuts' for the 20,000 to crack in her
drawer J "
" Oh, that's it!let me send it."
u Very weii aT1(j if i get time, we will try and have
'
<
two or three more ready by the next number, and every

one with a meaning."
When Bess gave Mary her good-night kiss, she said to
herself, "Hike to get out puzzles; but I'd rather have
Mary's patience than all the anagrams in the world. 1
wonder if I should try very hard, if I ever could be like
her
!"
ANAGRAMS.
100.
Tom
101.
103.
Main race.
Amy's purple
Lo a slop.
104.
102.
can pet
111. Ira, run, go get
lions.
112. Cid
it.
common toad
113. Care on
net.
lip.
114. Sal I run.
is
hark
115.
harm the Chat.

Hen, I am he.
Mid nice rains.
A lion
capture
it
105. I
116. Bind sure.
106.
117. Priest tied guitar.

118.
Accord
108. I sent one part.
119.
Mend
it
109. Tore a limb.
120.
I can
110. Test Mars.
121. Is
107.
122.
if
it
Fi rwods locdu fiatsys het rhtea,

Eht threa gimth nidf sles earc
TJtb oswrd eilk
Dan
rumsem
veale tub
typem
I try not.
in a tree.
anger
sit so.
no.
isbdr padret,
rai.
A itleti dsainad yrtul isda

N"ac peeder yoj tarpim,
Naht
shots fo dowrs
Tbu venre
chwih chear teh dahe
chout het ahetr.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
THE PUZZLE
TO GET FROM THE ENTRANCE, A, TO THE CENTRE,

WITHOUT CROSSING ANY OF THE WHTTR LINES.
IS,
IS*
ROBERT MERRY
123.
124. Transpose a Persian
monarch
into a part of the
human frame
125. Transpose an article of food into a verb signifying
to abate.
126.
To what port was Henry VIII. bound when he
sought a divorce from his wife ?

127.
He
who came
was
to
Express a
truth taught in Scripture by the above, tilling the two
blanks with the same word taken
first
forward, and in the
second blank backward.

128.
129.
Why would it be sure to be better

My whole, I lightly swim
The smooth
Or down
lake's sparkling brim,
the river skim.
Transpose me,
all
The wide world's
around
endless bound,
In every clime I'm found.
jsillL
BOOK OF
180.
My
29
you hear its sullen roar

wandering by the ocean's shore
first,
When
My
FtTZZLES.
second
in
the gambler's art
Hath played no mean
or paltry part,
But, fired with sordid thirst to win,

It often aids
him
My
something that
whole
Upon
Yet
I
the face of
if
am
is
in his sin.
all
is
you take from me my

title commonplace.
face,
131. If the earth were annihilated,
pleasant pas ime to

?
132.
show
My
found
around,
first
make
it
again
why would
it
be a
describes a person, add An adjective and
that person's condition.
ROBERT MERRY'S
30
133. "What is
it
you must keep
giving
after
it
to
another ?
134:.
How
would you express
in
one word having met
a doctor of medicine?
135.
the one
136.
What
Why
as a regular
137.
is
that
which makes every person sick except
who swallows
is
it ?
who never
a person
lays a
wager
What
is
138. If I shoot at three pigeons on a tree,
139.
will
and
kill one,
remain ?
My first means more than one? my second means

my third is highly popular now (with boys
a solitary one
more than with
their parents.
A.
S.),
and
my whole you
are to guess.
140.
bad
the difference between a sun-bonnet and
a Sunday bonnet
how many
as
gambler ?
-s
AA TgEooNdT
I
5a50ue500.stoo500
&_
but
1000
- sfc 3*^
141. Transpose an animal into a bird.

142. Transpose part of our flag into spirits.
book: of puzzles.
143. In a
last
word
of eight letters, the first three
name
three (transposed)
same animal.
the
maining two (transposed), with the

er animal.
144. I
31
What
is
the
am composed
last letter,
and
The
name
ftie
re-
anoth-
word ?
of 12 letters
My 11, T, 2, 6, 1 is a place of trade.

My 9, 12, 3 is a locality where a certain individual
passed the night.
My 5, 4, 10,
My whole is
145. "What
beast
town
8 is a useful animal.
a well-known personage.
in Asia
is
fit
residence for a wild
146.
When
does the weather show a good disposition
ROBERT MERRY'S
82
147.
Behead a crime and leave common
148.
A raised floor and a letter of the alphabet.
149.
An
sense.
FLOWERS.
made by
article
farmers, and an article
made
by mechanics.
150.
An
animal, and what he possesses, unless he has
been very unfortunate.

151.
152.
My second will be
my
energetic as
better as
my first, if careful
and
whole.
153.
"Why is a drummer the greatest person of the times?
154.
When
155.
My
my
is
a sewing-machine a very great comfort?
first is
a preposition
Saxon, means a
third, in
my
meadow
second an animal
;
my
whole we
all
should be.
A,
B, and C traveling with their

which they must cross. The only
boat they can have will carry but two persons at once.
How can they all get to the opposite side, no lady being
left without her husband in company with the other gentlemen ?
156. Three
wives,
come
men
to a river
157. Straight as an arrow, swift as the lightning, and

bright as a sunbeam, I take
parts of the earth.
my
flight to the uttermost
Book OF PtTZZlES.
158.
cise
My first is
my
a color
my
33
second an agreeable exer-
third an article of clothing
and
my whole
ebrated character.
159.
What two
female names express a chemist
2*
cel-
ROBERT MERRY'S
34
160.
Pm
pretty,
But
if often
I'm useful in various ways,

you kiss me, 'twill shorten your days
I part with one letter, and then I appear
What young men are fond of all days in the year;
I part with two letters, and then without doubt,
I'm just what you are if you can't find me out.
[Fill the
Uanks in each with
the samie
word, differently
accented.)
to Fingal's cave woulda stranger.
161.
The
162.
Men
163.
To
164.
As an excuse
travelers fainting a
often a writer annoyance.
sometimes
select
in
to
for illiberality, persons
sometimes-
to the
165.
AND FIXED STARS ENIGMATICALLY
OOMETS, CONSTELLATIONS,
EXPRESSED.
166. Obstinacy
167.
and
A nickname,
deceit.
an
epistle,
168. Swifter, a forest, and an

169.
and a
affix.
A precious stone.
170. Past tense of a regular verb,
171.
laborer.
A prophetess and a color.
and a
security.
800& 0# PUZZLES.
being transposed into

different words: two nouns, two adjectives, and a
172.
five
35
Find
five letters capable of
verb.
173. Three circles have their centers upon the
same
has twice the area of the second, and

The third, of which the diamis externally tangent to it.
Reter is one foot, circumscribes the first and second.
quired the radius of the greatest circle which can be in-
right line.
The
first
scribed within one of the
two equal curvilinear
triangles
thus formed.
174.
"When does the weather resemble a lawyer ?
ROBERT Meery
36
175. My first, in sound, is a bird's nickname my second

and third are pronouns; my fourth is three-quarters of
what fashionable ladies like to do my whole is an adjec;
tive that has been sadly perverted.
176.
and
my
My first is
whole
a verb,
is to
my
second a nickname or verb,
circulate.
177.
vuce
U BUc
178.
to
Why is
a passenger by the 12.50 train very likely
be too late ?
179.
Nine
less ten,
"With
Is
fifty
180.
What two
181.
Behead an animal,
animal.
twice told,
what many feel

"When they 'are growing
letters
old.
give a word meaning to debate

transpose,
and leave another
Book of puzzles.
182.
What
does the boy, in his
first
37
surprise, say to his
water-wheel ?
183.
What
184. In
185.
the political character of a water-wheel?
what coin
What
186. I
is
am
is
is its
financial value estimated
the water-wheel paradox
a word of four letters
in
me may
be found,
1 a verb, 2 an animal, 3 a viscid liquid, 4 a science, 5 a

conjunction, 6 a preposition.
&0BERT MERRY'S
38
PLANTS, FLOWERS, ETC.

187. Part of every animal and part of every vegetable.
188.
189.
190.
191.
A beast of burden and a poison.

A sweet substance and a cluster.
A weapon and part of the body.
A household article and what often forms part of
192.
w Jtmd
93.
Dear friends, your notice now I crave,

For I'm a king, a queen, a slave
Each human being claims my name,
And rightly, too, so where's the blame?
Although I'm never more than one,
Just cross me once, you'll find I'm some !
Whate'er my state of toil or rest,
I always love myself the best.
I
may
be greater, never
less,
So now, young Merrys, please
to guess.
it,
89
BOOK OF PTT2ZLES.
194.
My
preposition,
and
my
my
whole
195. a
I
196.
first
a kind of tippet,
third
is
is
what
exact,
my
my
first
my
fourth
second
is
was named
"a
Latin
a conjunction,
after.
My first (in sound), second, and whole are birds.

My first, second, and whole are plants.
Both
the scale.
is
my
first
Entire, I
and second (in sound) are found in

a term of praise.
am
197. Transpose a coin into
some bonds of union.
198. Transpose a bird into an animal.

199. Transpose another animal into a bird.
what we often see on a creek into what

warm summer days) in a creek.
200. Transpose
we
often see (on
ROBERT MERRY'S
40
201. Transpose part of our flag into
spirits*
202. Transpose an animal into a vegetable.
a country into a
203. Transpose the inhabitants of

covered vehicle.
204. Transpose a part of day into a stick.

2C5.
G^jI
My second
206.
is
the same as
is
a shrub.
is
207.
first is a bird
" daddy-long-legs."
My
208. I
am
my second
a beautiful tree
into another tree
my
first,
and
an insect
curtail
my
whole
my
whole
and transpose ine
transpose the latter into a useful article
replace the last letter, behead and transpose, and you have
a boundary line. Curtail the entire word twice, and yon

have a picture take the second and third letters away
from the entire word, transpose the remainder, and you
have another tree.
;
Behead a hod, and leave a kind of
209.
am something funny ; beheaded, an enbeheaded again, I am a fragment.
210. Entire, I
trance
211.
cloth.
ElOlOOOlOOOlOOOUNllOOATXISr.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
212.
Deep
in the
wood
of spreading oaks,
Beneath the tangled boughs,

Where Nature dwells untouched by man*
My first in luxury grows.
next in gorgeous robes arrayed,
queen of all her kind,
Where Nature's touch is most displayed
My
Is
In beauty undefined
whole a lovely garden treasure,
Emblem of love, of joy, and pleasure.
My
213.
Why
is
the hottest country the best?
41
KOBEET MEREy's
i9,
With
the letters
214.
/ met a gunner
215. Bob,
216. Tie
I came not
/ mob
218.
219.
My
his
game.
to apply the -
that he did
was so
217.
my
of the words in italics form the original

words to fill the blanks
me an
seven cats owing to
my
mind
his
has often to
first is
body
map.
my
of water,
evil turn.
second a relative,
whole a time.
220.
Which
are the most entertaining of bats
221.
222.
my
head several times, and make (1) a

nickname, (4) to harden, (5) to
a mate, (7) an implement, (8) a fish, (9) to form
Change
color, (2) a regard, (3) a
excite, (6)
in mass, (10) a part of a coil, (11) to catch.
223. I
am composed
of 8 letters
My 7, 4, 6 is a tumor.
My 5, 3, 1, 8 is a fluid.
My 2, 6 is a pronoun.
My whole is sometimes
[man.
worn by a lady or
gentle-
43
book: of puzzles.
sigits
of the zodiac illustrated so as to be easily learned.
Taurus the Bull, is a

John Bull, reading
Ram, is a man
ramming down
Aries the
fat
twins.
a paper.
a gun.
Leo,
Cancer the Crab, i9 a boy

with a crab biting
is
a Pope
who lived
in Italy, by that
Virgo the Virgin, is a single

woman feeding a
parrot.
name.
his toe.
woman weighing
Scorpio the Scorpion, is a

fierce woman beating
fish.
her husband.
Libra the Scales,
Gemini the Twins, are the

famous Siamese
is
an old
Caprtcornus the Goal,
is
merry boy mounted

on a goat.
Aquarius the Water-hearer,

is a boatman on a
"river.
Sagittarius the Archer,
fat
Miss shooting
at a target.
Pisces the Fish,
is
two
fish
dealers blowing their
horns.
224.
BOBEET MERRY'S
The red-lipped morn rose fresh and everywhere

The sunbeams welcome found, save one,
Which fluttered through the close-barred windows
where
The gambling wretches, who the daylight shun,
With red wine flushed, and eyes bloodshot and
;
red,
Wearied my first. Again, and yet again,

They the uncertain tide of fortune fed
With gold ill-gotten, other p-old to gain.
Oh, what a ruin here
of God's most noble
I
work,
Of
life's
reat end, and of the deathless soul
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
45
~
A
My
second here
Where
**H
we
see
passions rule
In vain ray third
is
it_
*****
**
Ah, dangers lurk
not principles control
raised
a warning voice
Their hearts are hardened, and they will not hear.
46
my whole, or point to joys

but provoke the ribald jest or sneer
Let us be thankful that the sunlight glad
Useless to give
Which
Brings to our hearts but gladsomeness and praise

Ne'er be the daylight in our haunts forbade
Ne'er let us fear the noontide's searching gaze!
My
225.
fasten
226.
my
"Why
is
second
is
to
a wizard.
that miserly people have never quar-
it
is
my
to strive violently;
first is
whole
"
reled
227.
what
it
Behead a
beautiful product of nature and leavd
often falls into.
228. a.
European
sea.
A seaport of Russia.
A celebrated mountain.
d. A town in Tipperary, Ireland.
5.
g.
The
initials
form an
object
of
and
interest,
the finalt
its receptacle.
229.
My
first is
a fluid,
my
second a
solid,
my
whole
plant.
230.
Change
amateur
(5)
(2) to
my
head several times, and make (1) an

(4) a leader
(3) to hang about
hide
a pirate.
231. Curtail a man's name and leave a girl's name

behead, and transpose, and leave another man's name.
232.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
138
When
eyes and limbs are wrapt in sleep,
Within
My
With
My
one's comfortable bed,
first o'er
both will nightly creep,
thirsty fangs
and noiseless tread.
second prowls in every clime,

echoes not the human tread,
Where
And
thick the mountain forests twine

Their sunless branches overhead.
And when through groves of oak and birch?
The backwoods men and maids pursue
iS
For blackberries their jovial search,

How often have the startled crew
Fled with my whole from sounds they reckoned
Were
My
234.
like the hoarse voice of
first is
my
nickname,
boy's name,
whole
my
my
second
second
is
girl's
a science.
is
235. Transpose the inhabitants of a country into am
animal.
236.
237.
My
0.
(Good advice.)
my
whole has two of
238. Express with
five
first,
and
is
my
letters a sentence
second.
containing
four words and twelve letters.
ICE
239.
a horrid
took
bt his wife stoo500
lOOOan de provocation ed but she

THEINSTE5IIOLN for he JUcouldRE her came
e
she
500E1000O.50ISHE500
*
I m
with a
a time
bearing
100U500GE50.
210.
XA
100.
241. Enigmatical List of Animals.
A whip.
ers,
e.
c.
An
ore,
stamp,
f.
d.
To
-a.
weight.
5,
machine used by housekeep-
intimidate*
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
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
The
still
traitor,
May
my
second's
less.
when condemn'd
calm
to die,
and pray
Yet when the axe sounds "dust
My whole he's borne away.
243.
Change
my
his cares
head eight
to dust,"
different times,
and make
a plant, (2) a necessity, (3) a reward, (4) to nourish, (5)

an exploit, (6) to notice, (7) a pipe, (8) a produce.
(1)
EOBEET MERRY
so
A RIVER ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.

Father plugs an abbreviation.
244:.
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
behead and transpose, I
A liquor, a word
247.
am
curtail me, I am still capital

anything but capital.
signifying father; another
and a liquid measure. The

are the same, and spell a title.
for father, a coin,

final letters
248. Take a syllable of two letters from a

and leave a musical instrument.
word
initial
girl's
and
name
249.
250.
"When are
251.
Why
is
When
does a temperance lecturer say a
politicians particularly sweet?
my
inkstand like the leaning tower of
Pisa?
252.
lesson
grammar
Hanks with
253. By amachinemany
{Fill the
254.
Marks
of an
the
same word
reversed.)
can bemadefromone
are often found in
-.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
51
My first is an abbreviated name for a young lady;

second comes from the large end of a dog, runs up a
my whole is required of all
tree, and floats on the sea
255.
my
persons in time of war, before they leave for a foreign

land.
256. "When
257. I
am
a fish a rod
is
as black as black can be,
Yet by a curious fantasy,

See
my
when time has
tracings,
fled,
You'll find them black, though often red.

258.
What
yet does
that which
no injury ?
is
itself
259.
Why
260.
What
strikes itself frequently,
are different trees like different dogs
and
the difference between a chemist and an
is
alchemist ?
261.
Why
262.
Why is
263.
gl asses
a tree like a French dancing-master?
is
Why
are
mouse
like grass
some kinds of pigeons
like drinking-
264. If a bushel of potatoes comes to $1,
horse
come
what
will a
to?
265.
What
266.
Why is
is
that
which burns
to
keep a secret?
a tallow-chandler one of the most sinful
and unfortunate of men?

267.
Why
does a
public morals
268.
269.
Why
How
man
in
paving the
streets correct the
is
an obstinate
man
like a mastiff?
does the wood-cutter invite the tree to fall?
! !
'
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
58
270.
Up Stir the
And spread
!
For
rough logs
to
a ruddier glow
forth the gladsome cheer!
the night hangs dark on the plain below,
And
the swift-winged storm
my
(Full oft
When
Shelters
near!"
loud storms burst,
some wanderer from
"Let the white
How
is
first,
their worst
!)
and wide!
sail flutter free
our smooth prow cuts the laughing foam
may we
Faster, yet faster, oh,
glide
For we're going home, boys! going home!"

(May the good God's hand
Keep that gallant band
From my second's wrath, and guide to land!)
" Let the song be heard, the dance, and mirth
Glad be each heart, each step be light
Away with care and the woes of earth!
Gay be the festal hall to-night !"
(So the revelers sang,
And
While
the goblets rang,
my
third kept chime with a glimmering
clang
"To
!)
to the strife!
the strife!
'tis
the trumpet
calls!
The foeman comes

On,
soldiers,
on
To arms, ye brave
He
wins,
who
falls,
A lasting fame and a patriot's grave !"

(May God's own might,
In the hour of fight,
Help those who
strive
for
my
whole and the
right!)
271.
..
Why
do trees often change their places?
272 Can a leopard change
his spots
;;
ROBERT MERRY'S
54
273.
274.
White
as driven
snow are we
Black as ink or ebony ;

Red and yellow, gray and blue,
G-olden, pink, and purple, too.
Glittering like a spangled dress,
Every color we possess
Few and many, large and small,
Sometimes not beheld at all.
Thick and thin, and high and low,
Moving fast and moving slow
Fell destruction send we forth,
East and west, and south and north.
Fire and flame we fling around
With a fearful mighty sound;
Yegetation soon would fade
Did we but withdraw our aid
Dearth and famine would prevail
Death would reign o'er hill and dale
Never, two alike you'll see
Puzzled reader, what are we?
Add
a letter to an animal, and
make
a building.
275. Transpose a tree into a boy's nickname.
276. Transpose an animal into a famous battle.
277. Transpose a tree into a verb.

278. Transpose an insect into part of a book.
279. Transpose a
280. I
game
am composed
My
of 11 letters:
1, 4, 5, 2, 8,
we
are
of cards into a dress.
is
a Scripture
name with which
all familiar.
My 3, 7, 5, 6 is an article of food.
My 8, 10, 11 is a nickname.
My whole is a Scripture name.
BOOS OF
Why
281.
footed
282.
man
in
snow shoes
like a
man
bare-
How is it
faster than
283.
is
55
Ptf2LE9.
that a man with long legs can not travel

one with short legs ?
I'm worn by many a lady fair,

In ironing I need much care ;
Behead, and I'm a purling stream,
"Where
Behead
And
many
a poet loves to dream
again, oh
mortal
frail,
I will cause thy cheek to pale.
SOBEET MEREY'-S
&6
CHARADE.
284.
you a journey ever
If
take,
No
matter when or where,

My first you'll always have to pay,
Before you can get there.
My second you will seldom see,
If London through you go
But
..
still 'tis
Few
what I hope you are

know.
better things I
my whole till next we meet,

When well-known names I hope
I say
285. I
am composed
My 1,
2, 3, 4,
of 9 letters
5 has done
to greet.
more damage than my
6, 7, 8, 9.
My whole
is,
at present, deplorable.
286.
To remove the
shears from the ring
the
end of the
string being firmly fastened to a nail in the wall, or
some
other object, which can not be put through the handles

(Easily performed,
of the shears.
287. Entire, I
tile; curtail,
am
an
am an
am a
and I
article.
when you know how.)
and I am a repconjunction; curtail again, and
insect; behead,
BOOK
OIF
PtJZZLES.
WNuWi.o
288. In northern regions cold and wild,
My
first
you
In grandeur
And
My
mountain child,
from its bed of snow,
see, a
rise
smile on the iron-bound coast below.
second
With
is
loved by the school-boy bright,
cheek and eye of light,

he will truant play,
leave master and lessons far away.
In sunny lands, where the fire-flies glow,
And fragrant breezes softly blow,
My whole you may find so fresh and fair,
And
And
his rosy
to gain it oft
And who would
not wish in that treat to share I
289. Express with four letters a sentence

four words
and fourteen
containing
letters.
290. Transpose a dependent into a large party
3*
;;
ROBERT MERRY'S
58
291.
I'm found in every mountain,

In every running vale,
Though never in the breezes found,
I'm found in every gale.
You'll find
me
But never
in the dark,
in the light
You'll always find
But never in the
me
in the day,
night.
About your form, dear
little
one,
You'll vainly look for me,
And
yet in head, and hand, and arm

I'm always sure to be.
I'm not in nose, or eye, or lips,

Yet I'm in every feature,
In boys and girls I'm never found,
Yet I'm in every creature.
I'm found in Merry's Magazine

In Uncle Merry's face
And everywhere Aunt Sue appears,
I claim an honest place.
292.
Behead a noun and leave a piece of furniture;
behead again and transpose, and you will find a character

spoken of in the Bible; curtail me and leave the nick-
name
of a distinguished person.
293. Transpose
some animals
into part of an imple-
ment.
294. Transpose something bright into bulky.
295. Transpose a measure into a carriage.
296. Transpose a prop into a source of amusement*
297. Transpose a sudden roll into a clown.
'BOOK or PITZZLES.
298.
the cat
59
Transpose what a bear might give a

would consider it.
cat into
what
CHARADE.
My first gave us early support;

My next a virtuous lass
299.
To the
fields, if at
eve you resort,
My whole you will probably pass.

300.
eye,
Entire, I belong to the
and I belong
human
race
to a horse
curtail again,
and I
again, and I become
curtail again,
am
;.
United States; remove one

me, and I belong to the
curtail
and I am the
best
invisible.
known
child's best friend
to the printer,
curtail
60
ENIGMA.
301.
Though for years I had lived, I was unknown to fame,

Till I rescued a slave, and I gave him my name.
Though then Abolitionist still I enthrall,
And
unless I imprison
'Tis strange I
of no use at
all.
should be both a boon and a blow,
But when you discern me,
this fact
you
will
know.
Doctors' stuff I convey and small matters unfold,
Tet rare gems I preserve and great nuggets of
gold.
In form I am round or three-cornered or square,

And at once I am known as both common and rare.
If you wish to be safe when you look at a show,
You must pay for, and take me, and sit in a row.
Clothed in crimson, and purple, and black I am
seen,
Yet
I
I
in gardens in winter I'm constantly green.
am valued and dear, though 'tis equally clear,

am scorned and am hated when placed on the ear*
Both of light goods and heavy I carry the trade,

Yet in gold I'm oft clothed and in jewels arrayed.
If bad passion disturb, or should ill-will excite,
I become the forerunner of many a fight.
Yet stranger than all these remarkable things,
I'm a gift oft bestowed by princes and kings.
As I find
my qualities and peculiarities

more minutely in plain prose.
I am either animal, vegetable, or mineral, and though sometimes no bigger than a bright copper penny or a silver sixpence, yet I am at times as
large as a room indeed, I am a, room, and can contain several people and
then, too, I am made narrow, and can only contain one horse
In summer and winter I flourish as a vegetable, and am often cut, but never
served at table. I am most valued at the end of the year, when I am
often given and often taken. Though unlearned, I have given name to a
science a very sinking quality you will acknowledge, when you know me.
If you discover me, you deserve me as a reward.
If you are dull of comprehension, you deserve me as a punishment ! May you have your deserts
N.B.
it
impossible to display all
in verse, I will endeavor to describe myself
BOOK 0*
302.
61
PtfZZLES.
My
first you are when over the ground

You lightly trip to the river's bank,
Where my second may always be found
Beware
And
whole,
fatal, too, to
Who
303. I
my
cold and dank.
many
will not its
am composed
'tis
a one
danger carefully shun.
of 13 letters
My 9, 10, 7, 1 was a good man.

My 4, 5, 13, 2, 8 is an unhappy wretch.
My 11, 12, 3. 6 is an adjective.
My whole is an extraordinary tale.
ROBERT KERRY'S
62
CHARADE.
304.
My first in
well
cities is
And by me many
know
live,
Obtain their freedom in the town,
And
then a vote can give

we can never see,
ly second
Whether on
the land or sea;
My whole the
When he
805.
Why may
articles in
806.
market
sailor often braves,
plows the briny waves.
muslin and flour be considered
safe
Of what trade
are
we when we walk
in the
snow?
Takeaway the bees from something we

and make it read and speak.
807.
eat,
308.
An
animal before a mountain, with the right kind
of article, makes a
09.
810
frequently
tree.
Transpose some animals into a salutation.
Why strains my first his wearied
sight,
Across the silent main,

And loiters on the lonely beacn ?
He
looks, alas
Eor the
chilly
in vain.
hand of Death has passed
My second's stately side,
BOOK OP
And
its gallant
PTTZZLES.
63
crew are sunk beneath
The ocean's briny
tide.
^^-_^vs:-X:
Though time may pass with
And
Yet
My whole
And
Entire, I
311.
my
place
head,
silent step,
years go quickly by,

its
shall feed the vital flame
power
am
shall never die.
a companion; beheaded, a verb; reme, and I am found in nearly
curtail
every house; curtail again, I
am
a nickname; reversed,
a verb.
312.
nouns
My first is "for;" my second and fourth

my third is an article my whole is a god.
;
are pro-
ROBERT MERRY'S
64
313. I
am composed
of 15 letters:
My 9, 7, 8 is what wicked children often do.

My 14, 7, 3, 8 affords amusement to boys.
My 7, 13 is a preposition.
My 11, 2, 3, 4 is often pleasant in summer.
My 5, 1, 6, 12 is a girl's name.
My 15, 12, 10 is often taken from trees.
My whole is the name of one of our generals.
ENIGMA.
314. I
am
not found on any ground,
But always in the air

Though charged each cloud with thunder
loud,
can not find me there.

Now, if from France you choose to dance
You
Tour way
I there
In
am
hail,
Spam,
and near the queen,
in mist, and rain.
just into
seen,
FRUITS, FLOWERS,
AND PLANTS.
316.
A boy's nickname and a fruit.

A bird and a branch.
317.
Add what we
318.
The nicknames
319.
To
315.
all
love to what
of
we
all
have.
two popular persons.
deplore.
320. Curtail one of the fair sex, and leave one of the
unfair sex.
BOOK
321.
My first,
Full
Off
PUZZLES.
in distant lands
many
a temple stands.
Once builded by his hands;

The marble from the mine,
His hand hath caused to slime
In beauty half divine
My next in tropic lands
;
Grows where the roving bands
Roam
o'er the desert sands
65
H6beW
66
MBfca***
My whole went forththe world,

From chaos
Along
its
rudely hurled,
orbit whiiled.
322.
Take a letter from a piece oi kitchen
and make something furious.
furniture,
323.
Divide a sensibility, and leave a reward and a
324.
Divide a measure, and leave something
and
fish.
much worn
to desire.
325.
<
Divide something enormous, and leave a plant and
to rave.
326.
Curtail
an unenviable state of mind
to
be
in,
and
leave a path.
27.
Why
is
a hog just
purchased like 120 pounds
ef steel
NAMES OF PLACES.
28.
word
The name of a race of men, a vowel, and a Greek
signifying a city,
829.
330.
A state of equality
A letter on a title.
Behead part of a
331.
and leave tranquility.
and a verb.
vesse.,
and leave a
fish
curtail,
BOOK
PUZ2LiL
02*
67
332.
My first is a domestic animal.

My second is a very useful article.
My third in sound is a Hebrew measure of liquids.
My whole is a list of names or things.
333.
Hesolve what
household
My
334.
first
asks a question;
adverb,
and
My
335.
my
third
as
my
made Jackson
a President into a
article.
is
my
third
whole
first
is
my
a nickname;
is
my
is
is
an
a verb;
my
my
in
sound,
fourth
is
my
second
whole
my
is
is
seen in a hat;
fourth
the given
is
the
same
name of
Writer.
336.
am composed
of 10 letters
My 7, 5, 10 is a medicine.
My 6, 9, 1 is an adverb.
My 4, 2, 8, 3 may always be
My whole is a city.
seen on Broadway.
837.
Transpose a tree into a hollow
338.
D written
339.
XA100T.
oft*
an
a flower.
often used for a signal
second, and
second,
article;
for air,
vessel.
hinge learn a channel.
the
ROBEET MEBRy's
68
Explain
340. I
the sentences in italics in the following puzzle
knew
a man, not
many
years gone by,

Who had a Hock of timber in each eye,
Without impairing, in the least, his sight,
Or
filling those
who saw him
with affright
And what was more
amazing, free to roam,

Fur^covered thousands made his head their home;
Two heavy buildings also rested there,
By them
unnoticed, and no less his care.

upon his meals he often had,
And saw with joy it made another glad.
curse
all, for every house he let,

a score of insects did beset.
At length he did become a seasoned dish,
To grace a throne, which suited well his wish ;
And all this while an arrow, mind, was in him,
Which to the things he loved did firmly pin him
Strangest of
A half
341.
My first's a maiden's Scripture

My second's less than me,
My whole ah so unmerciful
name,
I hope I ne'er shall be.
Change my head several times, and make OH the

cause for some things, (2) to debate, (3) a foundation, \i)
that which often covers it, (5 and 6) two different noises,
342.
and
(7)
part of the soil of America.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
343.
My first
69
half of what you do

yon are wildly dreaming;
My second our two horses drew
One day when Jack was teaming.
My whole the wolves eat when they can,
is
When
'Tis said
they love
me
dearly;
And when
I'm stripped to cover man,

I run about quite barely.
344.
What
beverage will surely change our pain
'i
ANAGRAMS.
Fill the blanks with the words in italics, transposed.
345.
Pray, Simon, that I may be cured
346.
certain
used green soap.
347. Gleon paints not in

348.
349.
Dire
or
loss is often sustained
by
can stand carbon pretty well.
350. Prejudice runs even through
351. Transpose a taker into a keeper.
ROBEET MESBYS
70
352.
Curtail a coin and
353.
Entire, I
am
eave a bird.
a mixture; transposed, I
am
false;
behead me, I am a tree replace my head, curtail and reverse me, I am a nickname; take out my third letter and
reverse me, I am part of the body replace the third letter,
behead and transpose, I am a verb.
;
354.
Why is
355.
Transpose an
356.
What
a very large
a:
my
man
into
always sober ?
what they
use.
flowers are always* under a person's nose?
357.
Entire I am a dog; behead and transpose, and I
used in almost every house,
358.
A planet and
359.
Two
360.
A certain man's instrument of torture.
girls'
a plant.
names.
am
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
361.
If you pull a rabbit's ears,
362.
How
does
what
71
will he say ?
appear that rabbit's ears are just long
it
enough.
363.
364.
Why is a rabbit like a tailor ?

Why is a rabbit not required to take the temperance
pledge ?
JL
365.
Me! men?
LATIN INJUNCTION,
Tom
or I?
72
366. I
am composed
My
3, 6, 11,
My
8, 1, 9,
of 12 letters
is
a jpuss-animalous noise.
5 can
make one very comfortable
some seasons of the
at
year.
My 4, 10, 12, 7 is a pronoun.

My whole is the name of a humorous writer.
367. I
am composed
of 19 letters
My 6, 7, 5 is an animal.
My 8, 19, 2 is a boy's nickname.
My 13, 14, 5 is an eatable.
My 18, 1, 4, 9 is government.
My 15, 17, 11, 12 are very painful.
My 16, 10, 1, 3, 17, 4, 9, 2, 11 is ferocious.
My whole is what we all wish for.
368. I
am composed
of 14 letters
My 1, 5, 7, 14 is a companion.
My 4, 8 is an interjection.
My 10, 11, 13, 12, 2, 11, 3 is a scoundrel.
My 6, 11, 9 is in very common use the kitchen.
My whole is a village on the Hudson.
iii
369.
My
first
is
an article of clothing
second combined form a trade
my
whole
is
the
name
my third
of a cape.
is
my
first
and
a conjunction;
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
76
370.
What
species of cat has
371.
What
species of cat
372.
What kind Of cat is most valued in Sunday-school ?
373.
Which
most
is
more than one
most
of the cats does a
to
tail?
be avoided ?
young man show the
affection for?
374.
With a hairy animal and an instrument
for the
hair, construct a burial-place.
am composed of 19 letters: my 3, 7, 5 13, 8,

1215,
14, 10, 217, 11, 19, 51, 7, 17, 16, 7, 2
18,
184,
15, 11, 9, 18 and 4, 7, 8, 17, 18, 13 are
6> 2, 7,
375. I
birds
my
whole
is
the
name
4
of a bird.
74
Entire, I
376.
my
am
am
useful to the
student;
deprived of
behind time; transposed, a bird in

the West deprived of my first two letters, I am what you
all have done; transposed, what you all do; again transposed, a beverage; my whole, deprived of the first three
first letter,
a Latin pronoun in the accusative ease. This

My whole, deprived
last reversed is a Latin conjunction.
of the first four letters, is a Latin preposition; my whole
letters, is
transposed
without
my
posed, I
am
am very little
used in building houses; transused in cooking; again transposed, I am used by
is
a crime
again transposed, I
last letter, I
am
shoemakers.
As an
enigma, I
My 1,
My 3,
My 5,
My 1,
My 3,
My 1,
377.
What
am composed
body of water.
5,
3 is a
2,
5 is a liquor.
3, 1,
5, 3,
is
3, 2,
of five letters
4 is a point of the compass.

4 is a place to rest.
a preposition.
5 occurs every day.
stream of water contains, (1) a chart, (2) an
animal, (3) a toy, (4) two kitchen utensils, (5) three nicknames, (6) an article of clothing, (7) two articles of furniture, (8) a river, (9) a bird, (10) a ditch, (11) a preposition, (12)
troops.
to strike, (13)
quick,
(14)
a resting-place for
BOOK OS PUZZLES.
75
378.
How near does a boy straddling a rail come to the
President of the United States ?
379.
When is
380.
When
381.
Why is a boy
an Indian
like a railroad
engine
are children in danger of forming bad habits
crying to be helped over a
rail
like a lawyer ?
382.
am in the men, but not in the boys.

am in the playthings, but not in the toys.
I am in the north, but not in the south.
I am in the nose, but not in the mouth.
I am in the minister, but not in his hat.
I am in the kitten, but not in the cat.
I am in the barn, but not in the floor.
I am in the window, but not in the door,
I am in the county, but not in the state,
I
am in the
pencil,
but not in the
slate.
fence
76'
383.
How
from the
384. If
man
that ever died
United States
a tough beef-steak could speak,
name would
385.
far is the President of the
first
pronounce
it
Why is
what
poet's
a side-saddle like a four-quart measure
386. "What is that without which a wagon can not be

made, and can not go, and yet is of no use to it ?
387. "What does a frigate weigh'
388.
"Why do pioneers march
when ready
at the
for sea
head of the
regi-
ment?
389.
Why is
"i" the happiest of the vowels?
390. Supposing
two ships of war, the San Jacinto and
Ironsides, to be 2,417 yards apart, at an
unknown distance
from a fort having a base of 666| yards. The angle from

the San Jacinto to the nearest corner of the fort is 71 1,
to the center of the fort 62| the angle from the Iron;
sides to the nearest corner of the fort is 56|, to the center
of the fort 49i. -Required the distance from each ship

to the corner
^Bd
center of the fort
also
the distance
from a point equidistant between the ships and the center

of the fort.
391. With what three letters can you express a sentence comprising ten letters?
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
though originally an animal, now-a-days

by steam though commonly used for eating,
now much used to punch holes with though hitherto
392.
My first,
often goes
is
77
considered rather sheepish than otherwise, in these times

second lies before you; waits to do
goes to war.
your bidding ; is both black and white at the same time
My
san draw tears or provoke laughter
carry messages and
;
;
ROBEfcE merey's
78
Entire, I imply a disturbed state of

convey instruction.
mind, "which, has extended itself to the body, leading a
looker-on to indulge great expectations that something is
going to happen.
CHARADE.
On
393.
this
green grassy ball of a structure called

earth,
I have dwelt unregarded for innumerable years,
And
none more attached to the land of their birth,

More deep in its pleasures, its grief and its fears
waves of the ocean and sea,

Or rest on the bank of some flowery glade.
Or join the fairies who dance on the lea,
Or play in the checkers of sunshine and shade,
But still I'm intent in my "welfare I trust,
And not to vain empty frivolity given.
When I come to the end of all time, as I must,
I'm safe in the hope of dwelling in heaven.
I sport 'mid the
Add
a letter to a pronoun, and make a preposition

and make a noun add another at either end, and
make a verb another, and make another noun.
394.
another,
395.
Add
396.
Add
a flower.
a letter to a man, and
make
a pearl.
a letter to a Scripture character, and
make
book o
rtrfcziBs.
79
ROBERT MERRY*S
80
397.
A and B set out from the
direction;
same
place, in tlie
same
travels uniformly 18 miles per day, and,
and goes as far as B has traveled during

he then turns again, and, pursuing his journey, overtakes B 22J days after the time they first set
out.
Required the rate at which B uniformly traveled.
after 9 days, turns
those 9 days
398.
To a word of consent join the first half of fright,

Next subjoin what you never beheld in the night;
Now,
these rightly connected,
What numbers have

399.
My
first it is
we
quickly obtain
seen, but will ne'er see again,
a curious thing,
Of Nature's own produce,

And many who have lost a limb
Have found it of great use.
By my
second's wondrous
Ships are
made with
power
ease,
against both wind and tide

Across the boundless seas.
To stem
My
whole is very often found

Together with my first,
And comes in very handy
"When you would quench your
400.
Add
a letter to a crime, and
make
thirst.
meditation.
fiOOK 0$ PTT22LES.
4:01.
How
402.
Which
is it
that a
81
hen knows no night ?

democrats does a hen show most,
class of
regard for ?
403.
Why is
404.
Add
405.
What
a large fresh egg like a virtuous. deed?
make
a letter to a heart, and

is flatter
a number.
than a flat?
406. I802500A.
407. Entire, 1
am
gidered very healthy
then transposed, I
a kind of rock
;
am
beheaded, I
again beheaded, I
a
meadow.
4*
am
am
con
a beverage
; ;;
;;
ROBERT MEBRY'S
82
ENIGMA.
lis found in our
408.
troubles,
mixed with our
'tis
pleasures,
'Tis laid
up above with our heavenly treasures

'tis muttered in
"'Tis whispered in heaven, and

hell,"
And
it findeth a place in each sybilline spell

In Paradise nestled, 'mid Eden's fair flowers,
It has sported with Eve in rose-perfumed bowers
'Tis muttered in curses, yet breathed in our
prayers
From
the path of our duty
Deep, deep in our
it
tempts us in snares.
hearts
you
will
find
it
en-
graved;
Though
'Tis
in misery sunk, yet from sin it is saved.

found in the stream that flows on to the ocean
Though
in bustle forever, 'tis ne'er in commotion.

wafted afar o'er the land in each breath
In the grave 'tis decaying you'll find it in death.
It is floating away on the broad stream of time,
'Tis
Yet
it
findeth a place in eternity's clime.
In the legends of nations it holdeth a place

There's no charm without it to the beautiful face.
In thunder you'll hear it, if closely you listen
In moonbeam and sunbeam forever 'twill glisten.
In the dew-drop it sparkles; 'tis found in the
forest
It whispers in peace
409.
third
is
My
first
is
a drink;
when our need
my
second
the cry of an animal; and
my
is
is
the sorest.
feminine;
whole
is
my
a city in
Scripture,
410.
Behead something
soothing.
irritating,
and leave something
BOOK OP PUZZLES.
My
411.
first is
83
not so often doled
To beggar sad and urchin bold,

As when the full amount in gold
Was
My
paid for paper one might hold,
second
is
a rank extolled
As beings of superior mold,

With virtues rare and manifold,
When
they by toadies are cajoled
A rank not made through ballots polled

By freemen
My whole,
legally enrolled.
a fragrant plant,
In parcels small
Who in their early life

.
is
sold
to grannies old,
were told
cure a cold,"
" 'Twill check a fever
84
MERRY'S
ftOBEftT
Take the
syllable (which
sometimes used
from a warlike instrument, then transpose the remainder, and leave some
412.
first
is
as an interjection to express contempt)

-
ends.
am found in Brooklyn; with my first

changed, I am a very strong and pretty kind
of crockery-ware ; when entire, my first is a kind of
413. Entire, I
two
letters
mountain
414.
my
second
My first is
415.
My
found
annoying,
cumstances), alarming
my
is
my
all
my second (under
whole
a nickname;
first is
third, a conjunction
over the world.
and
my
is
certain cir
something
my
frightful.
second, a pronoun;
whole, a
fish.
416. Transpose a ruler into a river.

417.
Why is
silver currency like Caesar's
army by
Eubicon ?
418.
What
419.
10050055K
420.
Behead an animal,
boat
is
found in every ocean?
transpose,
and leave a
coin.
the
BOOK OT PUZZLES.
85
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
W
hAlIR over each eye (i) n

1.
18. A chin well
gander or a bound will p over t and charming feature.
hound.
(Where
overice
beef
v
19. 250 rods.
reaching and error abound, will poverty and vice be found.)
rounded
is
20. Bal-morals.
A little
patients over a parent

on g spree vents great miss under
2.
wr
stand in-g-s between men. (A little

patience over apparent wrongs, prevents great misunderstandings be-
tween men.)
3.
Crisis.
4.
Mankind.
5.
The
21. Malady.
22. Regimentals.
they
23. Because
of-fenders.
24.
are
destitute
"A celebrated man."
25. Plane, lean, plan, lap.
excellent effects of a mild

less h) tender civility are
and (hand
26. Fin e words r no t all wais t he

(Fine
ark s of a k in d heart.
words are not always the marks of a
kind heart.)
unquestionable.
6.
Trice, rice, ice.
7.
Pink, ink,
8.
Think twice before you speak
in, pin.
27.
once.
9.
He had no need
of a Hierarch
(higher ark)
10.
They
are always in love.
28.
Cunningham.
29.
Hope, hop, ho!
30. Incendiary.
" Written."
31.
Scowl, grow, row, owl.
11. Princeton,
Prince, tin, ton,

oent, Nip, tire, nice, not, in, to.
12.
33. Trifling, flirting.
Araby.
34.
13. Love,
Napkin.
35. Horse, rose.
14. Valentine's Day.

15.
Wise in one's own
16.
Award, ward, war, raw.
17* Elapse, lapse.
32. Carroll.
conceit.
36. T hay
hoe ark wick limb
maid 2 DO ill S hood beak on T in
ULE watch ED. (They who are
quickly made to do ill, should be
continually watched.)
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
88
37. Salve, slave, lave, veal, vase,

save, ale, Ave.
64. Meat,
team, tame,
eat, ate, tea, Eta, Etarn,
'
at' em,
meta, met, me.
38. Curtail in g x pence swill lad

65. Hew hop lace S C on F I dents
Co me. (Curtailing expenses will in awl purse on swill short L C on
y
add income.)
P I D E in no body. (He who
in
39.
When
40.
He thought he was
blubber,
places confidence in all persons will

shortly confide in nobody.)
he said "Bildad."
going
to
66. Snow-drop.
but he didn't.
41. Pasha, hasp.
67.
Commonwealth.
42. Kupee, Peru.
68.
Brogue, rogue.
43.
When it is
44.
Hand-some.
69. A people intent on being overruled by a king, need not complain

if monarchs arrogate their ability to
over-rule opinions.
very rare.
45.
A good appetite.
46.
Mastodon.
70. Practice flows from principle,

for as a
thinks, so he will act.
man
47. Casper, asper, sper, per.

48.
When
there
is
a will there
is
71.
The
72.
Monkey, money.
first
that turned up.
a way.
73. At-ten-dance.
49. Curtail.
74.
NIX.
75.
A hawk.
76.
My
50. Disproportionableness.
51.
me ear
Nine
he took
his
own
of corn out each day.
52.
YOU.
63.
War, raw.
>4.
Willow.
ears
and
son, hear the instruction
of thy father.
77. P-o-u-l-t-r-y.
78.
Because
it is
often vain (vane)
to aspire (a spire).
55. Black Bock.
79.
He
66. Waterloo.
80.
He
is
is
an
infidel (inn fiddle).
not likely to have a
good run.
57. Lockport.
81.
He
is
82.
He
distributes letters.
83.
Dodo.
84.
They
a Jew
ill
(Jewel)
58. Buffalo.
69. Whitehall.
60: Pitcairn.
61. Caraway.
62.
Judas
63.
Marjoram.
tree.
are sure to bring
full crops.
85.
He
faces the fire.
86- Slaughter, laughter.
him
AffSWEES TO PTTZZLES.
Because there
87.
is
a bridge in
116. Burnside.
every brigade.
117. Prestidigitateur.
Donor.
88.
118. Contradictory*
89. Astray.
.
90.
Impeach.
91.
Plumbago.
92. Peace
justice.
to be
119. Indeterminate.
120. Ossification.
sure requires
96.
2 Samuel xviii. 14.

Omri Kings xvi. 24.
Shelomith Levit. xxiv. 11.
Hadaosoh Esther
97.
Uzziah 2 Chron.
98.
Ahaziah's mother
93.
94.
95.
121. Resignation.
words could
122. If
Joab
The heart might
like
birds, depart,
And
empty
air.
A little said, an d truly said,
2 Chron.
Can deeper joy impart,

Than hosts of words which
100. Contemplation.
Supplementary.
leave but
xxvi. 21.
reach the head,
But never touch the heart
99. Joshua.
102.
summer
But words,
sxiii. 13.
American.
feel less
care;
viii. 7.
101.
satisfy the
heart,
123. "Watch o\er your heart to

keep out all vice.
124. Darius, radius.
125. Sausage, assuage.
02. Apollos.
104.
Korah.
105.
Hiram Hatchet.
126. He was bound

(Have Anna).
127.
to
Havanna
He was reviled who came
deliver,
106.
Nehemiah."*
128. It
would be reformed.
107. Incendiarism.
129. Canoe, ocean.

108. Presentation.
130. Surface.
109. Baltimore.
131. It
would be recreatio
110. Smartest.
132. Miserable.
111. Regurgitation.
133.
Your word.
112. Disaccommodation.
134. Met-a-physician.
113. Porcelain.
135. Flattery.
114. Insular.
136.
He
115. Recapitulation.
137.
A day's difference.
is
no
better.
to
AtfSWE&S
90
138. Only the dead one

others would fly away.
the
tfO
tfz2LEg*
159.
Ann
Eliza (analyzer).
160. Glass.
139.
Conundrum.
140.
A good
161. Entrance;
intention, but un-
dervalued and misunderstood.
162. Desert.
141. Wolf, fowl.
163. Subjects.
142. Stripes, sprites.
164. Object.
143. Cataract.
144.
165. Piece of mind being secured

mile at miss fortunes.
(Peace of mind being secured, we
may smile at misfortunes.)
we maze
"Honest Old Abe."
145.
Aden.
146.
When
I'ts
mild
(it
smiled.)
166. Wilful lie (Wilforley*).
147. Treason, reason.
H. Coleman.
167. Willie
148. Daisy.
168. Fleta Forrester.
149. Buttercup.
150.
169. Jasper.
Hound-tongue.
151. Mode sty i s one oft he

chief or name nt sof youth.
(Modes y i s one of the chief ornaments of youth.)
170.
Had anchor (H. A.Danker).
171. Sibyl Grey.
152.
Husbandman.
Because Time beats all

men, and a drummer beats time,
153.
When
154.
lace (solace).
it
is
used to sow
(1)
173. The required radius,

1.922257 inches.
174.
cross
the river together, Mr.

brings the boat back.
(2) Mrs. B. and Mrs. C.
cross, Mrs. A. returns.
cross,
(3) Mr. B. and Mr.
1 77.
Mr. and Mrs. B. return.

Mr. A. and Mr. B. cross,
returns.
Mrs.
(5) Mrs. C. and Mr. B. go
over, and Mr.
for his wife.
.
A. returns
157. Light.
158.
When
raigning)
it is
feet
a raining
(ar-
176. Issue.
Mr. and Mrs. A.
(4)
Slate, tales, least, stale, steal.
175. Political.
155. Forbearing.
156.
172
Red- riding-hood.
Be not too wise nor over nice

For if you be, you little see,
How like an idiot you be.
178. It will
catches
'
be ten to ono
it.
179. 111.
180.
B and
Y (bandy.)
181. Zebra, bear.

182.
What
a wheel!
183. Revolutionary.
184.
In
mills.
if
he
ANSWERS
TO PUZZLES.
185. While it can not move without a head of water, it never gets
ahead of the water, and yet is always
213. Because it bears the palm.

214. Enumerating.
moving.
215. Embrocation.
186. Star, sat, rat, tar, art, as, at.
216. Yirulent.
187. Blood-root.
.
188. Ox-bane.
219. Season.
190. Arrow-head.
220. Acrobats
191. Bed-straw.
192. Patience and perseverance

will perform wonders.
I,
crossed makes X
etc.
a.
Rock
pigeon.
221. First be sure you are rigl$,

then go ahead.
222. Lake, sake, Jake, bake,
b.
Rose
mallow.
wah %
make, rake, hake, cake, fake, tak

223.
194. Boa-constrictor.
195.
217. Combativeness.
218. Midshipman.
189. Candy-tuft.
193.
91
Amethyst.
224. Direction (die- wreck-shun).
225. Warlock.
196. Selah
226.
197. Stiver, rivets.
They have always
agreed.
227. Flake, lake.
198. Kito, tike.
228. Book-Case.
Baltic, Odessa,
Olympus, Killanaule.
199. Wolf, fowl.
229. Liquorice.
200. Scows, cows.
230. Lover, cover, hover,

rover.
201. Stripes, sprites.
mover,
202. Ape, pea.

231. Oliver, Olive,
Levi
203. Danes, sedan.

232.
204.
Dawn, wand.
205. All
206.
is
not gold that
Pawpaw.
Time and
tide wait for
glitters.
233. Bug-bear.
234. Philosophy.
207. Crane-fly.
235. Turks, sturk.
208. Maple.
236.
209
Trug, rug.
210. Sport.
211.
Excommunication.
Owe
nothing.
237. Arm-chair.
238
R U A TT.
(Are you a tease f,
239. Once upon a time a horrid,

overbearing man undertook
to beat his wife upon a very small
cross,
212. Moss-rose.
no
man.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
92
provocation indeed but she understood and overcame his evil intention, for before he could injure her,
she demolished hi in in a little time
with a cudgel
;
240 Tennessee (10
A C).
241. Ounce, cat, pig, horse, seal,
cow.
261
It
has
many boughs
262. Because the cat

263.
They
264.
A bushel of
'ill
(bows).
eat
it.
are tumblers.
corn.
265. Sealing-wax.
266. Because his works are wickand all his wicked works come
ed,
242 Heah-iess.
to light.
243. Weed, need, meed, feed, deed,

heed, reed, seed.
267.
He
is
a-mending the public
ways.
244. Patapsco.
268. Because
he
Fa
it.
245. Level.
269.
246.
axes
is
dog-matical.
Fund.
270 Independence.
Mum, Abba, Dad, Anna,

Minim Madam
247
(Inn,
deep,
pendants.)
271. Because
spring.
248. Eebecca, rebec.

249. C low shoe r heart against
vice, butt open the door to wall
root h.
(Close your heart against
awl
t
all
vice,
but open the door to
all
they leave
every
272. Yes, when he is tired of one

place he can go to another.
273. Clouds.
truth.)
When
250.
they are candidates
(candied dates)
251. Because it is ink-lined (inclined)
.
252.
When
he declines a drink.
274. Sable, stable.
275.
Elm, Lem.
276.
Lama, Alma.
277. Ash, has.
253. Loops, spool.
278. Flea, leaf.
254. Animal, lamina.
279. Brag, garb.
255.
Em-bark.
256.
When it is
280. Jehoshaphat.
a perch.
281. Because
he
has- no shoes on.
257. (Often read) ink.
258.
A clock.
259.
Each has
282. Long or short, he only gets

ahead one foot at a time.
his
own
bark.
260 One is an analyzer (Ann Eliza)

the other a charlatan (Charlotte
Ann).
283. Frill,
rill, ill.
284. Fare-well.
285. Kebellion.
AKSWBE8
TO PUZZLES.
93
302. Quicksand.
303.
Les Miserables.
804.
Trade Winds.
305. One may be barred

other bolted.
and the
306. Printers.
307. Bread
utter.
and butter
read
and
308. Oatalpa.
309.
To remove the shears. Take the

end of the string; put it
through the right handle, and
carry the loop around to #, as
loop
shown by the dotted
Lamas, salam.
310. Friend-ship.
311. Mate, ate, mat,
ma, am.
312. Prometheus.
line here
Let the loop be carried

given.
still further toward b, until it has
passed entirely around the whole
shoars, and you can then remove
them, as they will slip out through
313. Nathaniel P. Banks.
the handles.
316. Larkspur.
814.
The
letter
I.
315. Bilberry.
287.
Wasp.
317.
Heartsease
288.
Pine apple.
318.
Sumac.
289. I
OU
(I owe
you nothing).
290. Eleve, levee.
291.
The
letter
A.
319.
Rue.
320.
Lady,
lad.
321. Mandate.
292. Stable, table, Able, Abe.
322. Range, rage,
293. Hares, share.
323. Feeling.
294. Glare, largo.
324. Furlong.
295. Yard, dray.
325. Flagrant.
296. Stake, skate.
326.
297. Lurch, churl.
327. It is a pig-got.
298.
One hug enough.
299. Milk-maid.
300. Maine.
801.
Box.
Apathy.
328. Indianapolif.
329. Paris.
330.
London.
331. Keel, eel,
EE
(ease).
ANSWEES TO PUZZLES.
94
332. Cat-a-logue.
360. Aaron's rod.
333. Votes, stoves.
361. Nothing.
He does not want them made
3o4. Polyanthus,
362.
shorter.
335. Isabella.
Washington.
336.
363.
He is
He
fond of cabbage.
never drinks.
837.
Gum, mug.
364.
338.
Depend not on fortune, but
365.
Memento
366.
Orpheus C. Kerr.
367.
Uncle Robert's Picture.
conduct.
339. Tenacity.
Beam, hairs
temples
a cur sup on his meals, tenants, eggs
340.
salted (exalted), a
(hares),
narrow mind.
341. Ruthless.
342 Root, moot,
mori.
368. Manhattanville.
369. Hatteras.
370. Cat-o-nine-tails.
foot, boot, hoot,
371. Catastrophe.
toot, soot.
372. Catechism.
343. Mutton.
little (t) will

344.
into paint.
345.
373. Catechist, (cat
374. Cat-a-comb.
375. Blackburnian Warbler,
Parsimony.
376. Slate.
346. Personage.
377. Potomac.
347. Constantinople.
378. One is a rail-sitter,

other a rail-splitter.
848. Soldiers.
349. Contrabands.
379.
(T
350. Jurisprudence.
351.
he kissed).
change pain
he travels on a
trail
rail).
383.
Drawer, warder.
When
the
When
they linger round
the bars.
352.
Crown, crow.
353. March, sham, ash,

354.
Sam, has.
He is a man of great gravity.
355. Host, shot.

356. Tulips (two lips.)
381.
He
382.
The
383.
A yard
pleads at the bar.

letter
Abe-L.
N.
and a quarter. Abe
384. Chaucer.
357. Tyke, key.
385. It holds a gal on.
358. Sun-flower.
386. Noise.
359.
Rosemary,
387. It weighs anchor.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
888.
To axe the way.
389. Because "i"

of bliss, " e" is in hell, and
others in purgatory.
is
402.
in the midst
all
R U
L.
The hard
403. It
is
shell.
a good egg sample,
the
390. From San Jacinto to corner

of the fort, 1,843 66-100 yards.
From San Jacinto to center of the
fort, 1,971 10-100 yards.
From Ironsides to corner of the
fort, 2,096 53-100 yards.
From Ironsides to center of the
fort, 2,304 75-100 yards.
From point equidistant to center
of the fort, 1,763 47-100 yards.
891.
95
(Are you well?)
404. Gore, score.

405.
A flatterer.
406. I ate nothing to-day.

407. Shale, hale, ale.
408.
The
letter E.
409. Beersheba.
410. Teasing, easing.
411.
Penny -royal.
392.
Rampage.
412. Balista, tails.
393.
The
413. Ridgewood.
letter E.
394. I, in, pin, spin or pine, spine.
415. Halibut.
395. Earl, pearl.

396. Iri,
397.
414. Bug-bear.
416. Bashaw,
iris.
travels ten miles a day.
Wabash.
417. Because the die

they pass it.
is cast
before
398. Yesterday.
418. Canoe
"ocean").
399. Corkscrew.
400. Peculation, speculation.

401.
Her son never
sets.
419.
(transposed,
CLOWN.
420. Deer, ree.
fjrms
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Page
12.]
EOBEET MEEEY'S
BOOK OF RHYMES.
PREFACE.
Mebby nephews, merry
Merry cousins
nieces^
all,
Merry
aunts, with
merry
Merry
uncles, take
your places
Round the merry
faces.
hall.
Here's a book of merry jingles,
Made for merry times

Merry here with Merry mingles,
Merry groups, and Merrys

" Merry's
Book of Rhymes."
Aunt Sue glowing, Meta

Uncle Joe
single,
flashing,
in smiles,
Mattie warbling, Buckeye dashing,
Older crowing, Hatchet slashing,
Each in
his
own
style.
PREFACE.
VI
Merry nephs and
nieces,
meeting
Wheresoe'er yon may,
Robert Merry sendeth greeting,
Hoping he may have a
seat in
All your merry play.
"When in merry
circles chatting
Round the merry
hearth,
Merry wit with wit combatting.

Merry's
To
Rhymes
will
come
help on the mirth.
quite pat in
THE NEST BUILDERS.

Oh!
beautiful, beautiful things!
How they range

Dear Mary,
Oh
if I
wouldn't
at will through the sky!
could have wings,

I,
wouldn't I
fly ?
would
float far
away on
the cloud,
All vailed in the silver mist;
And
perhaps I should
I shouldn't
But
see, sis,
the sweet
Have each
feel so
come back
proud,
to
be kissed.
little
creatures
a straw in his beak
lesson of duty to teach us,
As
We
plainly as birds can speak.
think they are only playing,
As they
roaro to and fro in the sky;
But these busy

" 'Tis not
all
fellows are saying,

for pleasure
""We're building a snug
we
little
tiy.
nest
In the crotch of the old elm-tree
We
mean
And
"
We
it
for
one of the best,
busy enough are we.
would not
And when
live only for play
for a
song
we
take leisure,
Wo would show, in our caroling way,

How duty is wedded to pleasure."
BOOK OF RHYMES.
KIIDFESS.
A rose was faint,

One
When
and hung
head,
its
sultry summer's day,
a Zephyr kindly fanned
Then sped upon
its
its
cheek,
way.
That Zephyr now, where'er
it
roams,
Delicious perfume brings.
So kindness
gathers, as
A fragrance for its
it
goes,
wings.
Axnsrr Sub,
10
merry's illustrated
'
*, ~/<i?/af-i&&/?M
BOOK OF RHYMES.
11
SNOW-FLAKES.
Abb
the snow-flakes pearly flowers
That
And
in the skies
gently
Upon
fall
this
have
"birth,
in gleaming showers
barren earth ?
Or, are they fleecy locks of wool,
From
The
sheep that wander by
silver streams, that, singing, roll
Through valleys in the sky ?
downy feathers, cast

By little birds above,
And hurried earthward by the blast,
Or, are they
Bright messengers of love?
No, they are pearly blossoms, flung
From
heaven's airy bowers,
To recompense
.
us for the loss
Of summer's blooming
flowers.
Mattib Bell.
MERRY*S ILLUSTRATED
12
SPRING FLOWERS.
"With what a lavish hand
God
When
beautifies the earth,
everywhere,
all o'er
the land,
Sweet flowers are peeping forth
Down by the babbling brook,

Up in the silent hills,
The
glen, the bower, the
shady nook.
Their breath with fragrance
fills.
They creep along the hedge,

They climb the rugged
And, leaning
Blush in their
They seem
own
sweet
to breathe
They pour
height,
o'er the water's edge,
into
my
light.
and talk
ear,
"Where'er I look/ where'er I walk,
A music soft and clear.

They have no pride
Ko
of birth,
choice of regal
The humblest,
May
bower
lowliest spot on earth
claim the fairest flower.
BOOK OF BHYMES.
uo**W
TOP PHILOSOPHY.
Ohildebn must be busy,
Always something learning

Toys and
trinkets, for their secrete,
Inside-outward turning.
"While the top
is
spinning,
Boys are wondering
How
it
"Why
it
does not
While the top

Still
all,
stands erect unaided,
is
fall.
humming,
the wonder grows,
By what
art the little spinner
Whistles as
it
goes.
Children learn while playing

Children play while learning;
Pastimes, often
more than
Into knowledge turning.
lesson*,
18
14
merry's illustrated
BOOK OF RHYMES.
BY THE LAKE.
Moonxight gleams upon the lake
Noiselessly the waters break
On the
Then
white and pebbly shore,
return, to break once more.
Yonder moon, the
sky's bright green.
Glitters in its depths serene,
And
the
stars,
above that glow,
Seem another heaven below.
On the white lake
shore I stand,
"Where the waters meet the land,
Shadows
all
around
me lie,
Shutting out the starry sky-^-
Shutting out the world arpund,
In their close and narrow bound,
And
the past awhile doth seem,
But a
half-forgotten dream.
In the starry night, alone,

Earthly cares and thoughts are gone.
In this
Who
silence,
deep and
still,
could harbor thought of ill?
15
mejrey's illustrated
Far from
all
the care and
strife,
All the agony of life*
"Who wouid deem the sun could
On
rise
earth's thousand miseries?
One
"by
one
To the old,
And
my thoughts come back
familiar track,
I turn
me from
the shore,
To the busy world once more.

Adalbert Oldeh.
BOOK OF BHTMES.
17
GENTLE WORDS.
Kind words revive the weary
And
cheer
As dew
And
its
soul,
saddest hours,
refreshes drooping leaves,
brightens fading flowers.
They fall,
like sunshine,
round the path
Of those who weary roam,
And
are the
"open sesame"
To every heart and home.
We know
When
the spring will soon appear,
round us
flies
the swallow,
So kind words should be harbingers
Of gentle deeds which
Upon
the
brow of want and
The joys of life they
And
Its
Then
follow.
change the
soul's
care
fling,
dark night to-day,
winter into spring.
let
your deeds be gentle deeds,
Your words be words of love

They are the
brightest
gems which shine
In angels' crowns above.
Mattie Bell,
MBRRT ?S ILLUSTRATED
18
THE FROST.
The Frost looked
And
whispered,
forth one
"Now
still,
clear night,
I shall be out of sight
80 through the valley and over the height

In silence
I'll
take
my
way.
I will not go on like that blustering train-
The wind and the snow, the
Who make
But
so
I'll
much
bustle
hail
and the
rain,
and noise in vain;
bo as busy as they."
BOOK OF EHYMES.
Then he
He
lit
19
flew to the mountain, and powdered
on the
trees,
In diamond beads
Of the
its G*est;
and their boughs he dress'd
and over the breast
quivering lake he spread
A coat of mail, that
it
need not fear
The downward point of many a

That he hung on
spear,
margin, far and near,
its
Where a rock could
rear
He went to the windows

And over each pane, like
its
head^
of those
who
Wherever he breathed, wherever he
By the light
of the
slept,
a fairy, crept;
morn were
stepp'd,
seen
Most beautiful things; there were flowers andteees;

There were bevies of birds,
There were
cities
with
ui.
">(><
tei
'
>
unn>
'"
eeu;
>-* tn-v.^s- and thesa
All pictured in silver shee&
But he did one thing that was hardly
He peeped in the
That
all
had forgotten
" Now, just to

I'll
fair
cupboard, and finding there
set
for
him
them
to prepare
a-thinking,
bite this basket of fruit," said he,
"This costly pitcher
And the
glass of
I'll
burst in three;
water they've
Shall * tchiok
!'
to
tell
left for
me
them I'm drinking!"

Miss H. F. Gottld.
20
merry's illustrated
BOOK OF RHYMES.
23
SEATING-WOMAN'S EIGHTS.
"Why may not
a,
woman
She can walk, and

y
skate?
run,
and ride
In dance, or hop, she's always great
why
Prithee
Skating
not skate or slide ?
a useful
is
art,
Full of dignity and grace
Exercises limb and heart,
Gives the blood a healthful pace.
Why may not a woman
skate
Swan-like grace and queenly sway
Mark
the vigorous, blooming Kate,
down yon
Sailing
glittering
way.
Look what conscious grace and power

!
In those broad, out-sweeping
As down
"With
strides,
the silver-gleaming floor,
still
Why may
increasing speed she glides
not a
woman
skate ?
Often on the frozen Scheldt,
Buxom Dutch
girls, early, late,
For the prize of speed have
dealt.
22
MERRY'S TLLTTSTRATED
BOOK OF RHYMES.
Sometimes from the inland town
To the
They
in
And
city mart, or fair,
merry bands
glide
Why may not a woman

To a
down,
their precious burdens bear.
friend's,
Oft they
with heart
sail,
To make a
skate ?
long miles away,
call,
elate,
or pass the day.
Often so do lovers meet,

Whispering, wooing,
While upon
billing, cooing,
their iron feet,
Miles and miles of talk they're doing*
Why may not a woman skate ?

What though
ankles she reveal
"
Skater's ankles, critics state,
Are not over-much
What
of that!
genteel.
trifling
charge!
There's a right for every

If the ankle's
May
be
'tis
somewhat
wrong
large,
well set and strong.
Why may not

Six times
a woman skate ?
we have put the question f
No one rising in debate,

"Ho one offering a suggestion,
24
MEERY'S ILLUSTRATED
Silence gives consent.
Pretty
girls,
So, then,
and women,
too,
No less than rude boys and men,

May put on the iron shoe.
Try
/
it,
girls ay, it? the skate
Good
tired,
weight,
its
Never weak, nor
The
seUs^m
for service,
Able to sustain
loosely wired
well-tried ankle
you
will Jind
In your need-hour just the one
Bind your skates on
You
will find
it
never mind !
right good fun.
BOOK OF RHYMES.
SCHOOL SOUUET.
Spell,
spell, spell!
A dozen words or
To
more
your task and learn
it
well
School days will soon be
o'er.
Write, write, write!
A page
all
Seize the
bright and clean
moments
'No lost one
in their flight,
fall
between.
Learn, learn, learn!
Some nseM knng eaen day
From
early
morn um
nigiic returns,
Waste not your time
in play,
MERRY'S ILLUSTRATED
"
; ;
27
BOOK OB EHTMES.
1
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

It
is said
that the flowers, as well as the birds,
Have a language
And that
You may
oft,
peculiar,
in the
hear, if
I have doubted
you
till
with phrases and words
hush of a
lately,
warm summer
day,
whatever they say.
listen,
and thought
it
was
whom poet they
The whim of some dreamer,
all
call
But
since the sweet seventh of June, fifty-one,
My
doubts have
As
vanished, like mists in the sun.
all
walked in the garden I saw a sweet
Such as seldom on
With a
deep, deepening blush overspreading its cheek,
Leaning down to a
Behind a
tall
lily,
as if
it
would speak.
orange in bloom, as
Its rich fragrant
shadow
all
it
spread
over the bed,
TTnperceived by the parties, I paused in
And, in
First,
rose,
this side of Paradise grows,
truth,
overheard an intelligent
a low, distant
murmur
arrested
my walk
talk.
my
ear,
Like the memory of tones which in dreaming we hear;

Then, clear and
distinct,
though
subtile as thought,
Their simple, articulate language I caught.
28
*
Thou
"
Too sweet for the earth and too chaste
would thou wert
fairest of
gems," said the rose, bending down,
that here, in
taller,
for
a crown,
my place,
The world might appreciate thy sweetness and grace.*'

"Nay, nay, lovely
" It
is safer
in
rose," the fair lily replied,
humble retirement
Earth's praises I court not
To
my
to hide
graces were given
exhale, in their careless redundance, to neaven.
As the
Was
rest of their talk
was
of love, and as I
acting the part of an eaves-dropping spy,
I will
not report
it
but this I have
As conveying a lesson
for
told,
young and
for old.
BOOK OF RHYMES.
THE SONG OF THE EXILE

Blow, blow, ye winds, from the wide blue
Oh,
And
still
this heart
As yonr
sea!
brow,
cool the heat of this fevered
with such melody
fluttering
wings are wafting
now
Bear on, bear on, from that distant shore,
The loving tones
01 a household
Whose cherished forms
Ye
Such
voices
sad,
dim from
fatherland!
sweet thoughts to
Of my own
far
no more,
i see
my
band
home with
me
ye bring
its ivied- walls,
Of the vine-wreathed porch, where the zephyr

Through the
rustling leaves,
Of the threshold
stone,
stilly
eve
full
and the sunbeam falls
and the open door,
Of the kindred forms
At the
sings
that gathered there,
hearts to pour,
In a gush of soag on the listening
Of the noisy flow of the
little
Whose mossy banks our
air
brook,
footsteps haunted;
Of winds which half their sweetness took
From
fragrant bowers our hands
had
planted.
Fleta Fobrester.
30
MEBETS
ILLTJSTEATBD
BOOK OF RHYMES.
THE HARVEST.
Trusting in the patient earth
For the coming need,

"Went the hopeful sower forth,
Bearing precious seed.
Precious seed and
full
of hope,
Scattered far and wide,
O'er the plain
And by
along the slope
the river side.
Softened by the vernal rain,
Quickened by the sun,
Every
little
Peep'd
planted grain
forth,
one by one.
Nourished by the rain and dew,
And
the genial light,
Blade by blade
it
upward grew,
Growing day and
Waving
in the
Bowing
night.
summer
gales,
to the blast,
O'er the teeming intervales,
Eipening to the
last.
81
82
Duly
to the harvest white,
Goldenly
As with
it
glows,
grateful heart,
and
light,
Forth the reaper goes.

Brightly as the sickle swings,
Flashing in the sun,

Merrily the reaper sings,
While the moments run.
Onward
as the strong
man
goes,
Fall the golden heads,

Till
the grain, in beauteous rows.
All the
field o'erspreads.
Gather, gather
now with
care,
Binding up your sheaves,
Save what holy
thrift
For the gleaner
Now, upon
and prayer
leaves.
the groaning wain,
Pile your treasures high,
Thankful for the gentle
And
rain,
the genial sky.
Grateful for the bounteous earth,
Trusting
Now
all
to come,
with songs of cheerful mirth.
Bring the harvest home.
BOOK OF RHYMES.
Dance and
33
sing in joyous ring,
Ere the day grows dim

Kejoice, rejoice, with heart
Shout, shout the Harvest
and
voice*,
Hymn.
34
merry's illustrated
BOOK OF EHYME8.
35
THE SNOW-HOUSE,
See, Charlie, out there,
by the elm
tree,
The snow has been eddying round,
And
has made, for our winter snow-house,
A broad and beautiful mound.

Come,
And
your shovel,
Charlie, bring out
soon
we
will let
How nice, how snug,
them
and
Our winter palace can

The door
shall
shall
cosy,
be.
be arched and
the room within
see
how
lofty,
be round;
And we'll have a fireplace and chimney,

And a carpet of straw for the ground.
Then
we'll
And
With
On
all
have a magnificent party,
our friends receive.
chestnuts,
popped cprn, and candy,
Christmas or
The Merrys
New Year's eve.
all shall
be invited,
Around our board to
sit
They with our house will be delighted,
And
we'll enjoy their wit.
86
merry's illustrated
COLD WATER.
Cold water,
pure, sparkling,
Cold water forever for
Cold water you,
too,
and bright,
me
must drink
"Who have come to our apple
to-night,
spree.
BOOK OF KHYME8.
For nothing
else
Of that most
Fo
you
At our
stuff will
But pure cold water,

will
as
much
in these
An
you see
fresh
from the pump,
have at our apple
For nothing
And
may be
we allow
no rum, no lager Mer,
Or any such
Drink
will
red-apple spree.
$To eider,
We
will get to drink,
sure you
no "brandy
wine,
37
as
spree.
you will, good
it costs,
you
hard times
friends
and
true,
see,
it is
best to have
economical spree.
So a spree
And
we
will have,
none the worse
and a jolly one
shall
too,
we be
To-morrow, for having joined to-night

In a real red-apple spree.
RsrsiL
88
MEERt's ILLUSTKATED
BOOK OF EETTMES.
TIE GOOD OLD PLOW.

Let them laud the notes
that in music float
Through the bright and
glittering hall,
"While the amorous whirl of the hair's bright curl
Bound
the shoulders of beauty
fall
dearest to me is the song of the tree,

And the rich and the blossoming bough
Oh these are the sweets which the rustic
But
As he
greets,
follows the good old plow.
All honor be, then, to those gray old men,
When at last they

Their warfare then
are
o'er,
bowed with
toil
they battle no more,
For they've conquered the stubborn
And the chaplet he wears is his silver

And ne'er shall the victor's brow
With a
laurel
crown
in his grave go
soil;
hairs,
down*
Like the sons of the good old plow.

MERRY
40
ILLUSTRATED
WINTER.
Who
does not love the Winter,
When
The
all
on earth below,
houses, streams, the trees, and rocks?
Are covered
o'er
with snow
When all is fair which once was bare,

And all is bright and gay,
When down the hillside rush the sleds,
$far stop
till
far awsjr
BOOK OF RHYMES.
And
then the noise of all the boys,
"When snow-balls
The snow-king
With
And
% around
in the meadow-field.
icy jewels
crowned
sparkling as the purest gold,
The
scepter in his hand,
While icy
Await
And
4:1
courtiers,
his high
then
grim and
still,
command.
when evening
closes in
Around the household hearth,
We love to
sit
while jokes pass round,
And all is joy and mirth.

And then recount with ready
The
tongues
mishaps of the day,
Of plunges
When
at
in the deep snow-drifts
our joyous play.
And though the Spring may boast

And all its green-clad trees
Though Summer, with
its
its
flowers,
healthy showers,
a cooling breeze
Brings, many
And though in A utumn with
Of grain and
Yet
still
fruit
the crops
we're blest,
I can not belt) but say,
I love the "Waiter
'hesptv
&
"W"*
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merry's illustrated
43
BOOK OF RHYMES
JUUE,
Tis a truth that earnest students,
With hooks and nature who commune,

Are
in thought
By
and
feeling
quickened
the skies and breath of June.
While in boyhood, what could match

Schoolmates
"
it?
so opportune
call
Gome with me and
range the forest
Recreate, this day of June*"
Sister-schoolmates, gathering posies,
Stop to hear the red-breast's tune,
And laugh
at pretty squirrels running
TJp the trees, jn leafy June.,
Affcer-life, for prizes striving,
The student
toils for
lengthened
rune-
Spirit (so success) is wafted
To him by the breath

Month of months
let's
of June.
sing its praises
MusEUM-readers, join the tune
The
freshest leaves, the brightest flowers,
All are thine, sweet month of June.
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merry's illustrated
AO
WORK
With mamma
'Tis
PLAY.
for a teacher,
easy to learn
Her eye
gives her
As hard pages
She says,
boy courage,
turn.
"Now, my
dear
Fred^
Learn every word right

Ff
you're patient, the hard spots

Will vanish from sight.
When
this task is well finished,
Your work
will
he done
Then the time comes

Says every one.
for playing
BOOK OF RHYMBS,
" Your
fleet
rock-horse
And baby
shall see."
Freddy learned well
And
rides
Don't
tell
There
is
Ml
is
waiting.
his lessons,
of glee.
me of
much
to-morrow,
to d6 to-day,
That can never be accomplished,

If
we throw
the hours away.
Every moment has
Who
its
duty
the future can foretell ?
Then why put
What
off
till
to-morrow,
to-day can do as well
46
merry's illustrated
TIE BUTTERFLY.
"Don't
As
Upon
kill
me,"
caterpillar said,
Clara raised her heel,

the humble
As though
it
worm
to tread,
could not
feel.
kill me
I will crawl away,
And hide me from your sight,
And when I come, some other day,
You'll view me with delight."
"Don't
BOOK
The
caterpillar
OB"
RHYMES.
il
went and hid
In some dark, quiet place,
Where none
could look on
To change his form and
And then,
what he
did,
face.
one day, as Clara read
"Within a shady nook,
A butterfly,
superbly dressed,
Alighted on her book.
His shining wings were dotted o'er

"With gold, and blue, and green,
And
Clara
owned she naught before
So beautiful had
seen,
48
COLD WATER.
You may
boast of your brandy and wine as you pleas^
and
<3in, cider,
all
the rest
Gold water transcends them in

It is
It is
good
better
to
good for the young
It is better
their
the degrees,
It is better
'Twill revive
all
old,
it
for a frolic.
drinks for .quenching your thirst,
you
for
In sickness or health,
Oh
good for the
lot.
than gin for the colic
best of
try
it is
than wine for the generous mood,
Than whisky or rum

thf%
outward
than brandy to quicken the blood,
It is better
Tis
all
BEST.
warm you when you are cold,

cool you when you are hot
Whatever
'tis
good to
Good
It is
it is
work
'tis
you'll find
or for play
the best and the

it
will pay.
first
BOOK OF BHYMES.
49
THE TELEGRAPH-ITS SECRET.

Looking up
At
in
musing wonder
the silent wires above him,
And
profoundly meditating,
Suddenly says Pat

Suddenly says Mike
that's
Michael
that's Patrick
"
Can you show me, can you tell me,
How it is that news and letters,

How it is that big newspapers,
Full of news, and fun, and wisdom,
Travel ever back and forward,

Travel with the speed of lightning
Always
And
going, always coming,
yet never interfering
While we,
Can not
sitting under, watching,
see them, can not hear them,
Can not draw

Can not
tell
their secret
how
'tis
from them
they do
it,
Can not quite believe they do it,

T hough we all the while do know
it?"
50
" Should you ask me, Mike"

44
Should you ask," says Pat
"
How
that's
Michael
that's Patrick
these silent wires ahove us
Talk, and write, and carry letters
Carry news, and carry orders,
Though we can not
see nor hear them,
Sitting under, watching, listening
Can not
see them, can not hear them,
Can not catch the
smallest whisper
Of the messages they
carry
I should answer, I should tell you,
That those
little
wires are hollow,
them
"With a passage running through
From
the one end to the other
And they
And they
send, not papers through them,

send, not written letters ;
But they send' -these strange magicians
Through those passages so narrow,

Whispering
spirits, living fairies,
Flying ever back and forward,

Message-bearing, hither, thither
Faithful messengers, that
tell
not
You, nor me, though watching,
What the messages
listening,
they carry.'
" Och! indade," says Mikethat's Michael

u Do you know it, Pat" that's Patrick
" Do you
know
it,
Pat, for certain?
51
BOOK OF RHYMES.
Have you
seen the whispering spirits!
Have you
seen these living fairios?
Have you heard them

Have you heard
Tell me, do
Tell me, is
Then
you know
it
shooting
by us?
their fairy whisper?

it,
surely?
only blarney ?"
Patthat's
in anger,
Proudly answered, "Mike"
Patrick
know I'm Pat"that's

" Sure you know I was in College
" Sure you
Four long years in
fires,
Patrick
m College
Hewing wood and bearing

Kindling
Michael
that's
water,
and chores achieving,
For the great and learned scholars
m College.
Of the mighty F
So you
" Set
Mike"
needn't,
me down
for a
Needn't reckon
that's Michael-
Know-Kothing
me a Hindoo
Needn't doubt that what I

Is as true as if a
Should have told

a man
tell
you
lawyer
Or
as if
Or
in caucus said
it
to a jury
in Congress
and swore
it
On his everlasting honor,

On his faith and on his conscience
This, I trust, will satisfy you."
52
MEEEY
ILLTJSTEATED
BOOK OF BHYMES.
53
THE UMBRELLA, AND THE APRIL SHOWED

Keep
close
we'll crowd the
The harder
it
shall
closer,
pour;
seldom one umbrella
'Tis
Is called to shelter four
But ours
is
And has
Yet
faster,
The
And
and yet
faster,
pelting sheets arrive,
our one good umbrella
bound
Is
we
For
large and generous,
a heart for more.
As
23bw
to shelter five,
are packed as snugly
bees within a hive.
let it
come
in torrents
We're snug as snug can be
What
For
On
cares our brave umbrella

five,
or four, or three ?
every side
The
The
'tis
shedding
rain in careless glee.
clouds are very leaky,
The bottom must be
out>
64
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merry's illustrated
But, with our good umbrella,
We have no fear nor doubt,

Though every
above us
stick
Kains like a tiny spout.
Heigho!
The
'tis
coming
bottles *ure
But hark
faster,
have burst;
the brave umbrella
Says, " Clouds, do

If
now your
you would wet these
You must
destroy
worsts
children,
me
first."
They must have thrown wide open
The windows of the sky

But, with our good umbrella,
I think we'll get
home dry
Or, if we do get sprinkled,
We'll neither fret nor cry.
Step lightly, bonnie
Keep
close,
sweet
sister,
little pet,
With such a brave umbrella,
We
shall
But Prink
On that
not be
will
I'll
much wet
have a drenching,
make a
bet.
How like a river torrent

It
pours along the street J
BOOK OF RHYMES.
55
Prink cares not for umbrellas,
To him a
And
bath's a treat,
our good India-rubbers
Are umbrellas
What's that you
'Tis
for our feet.
say, dear Nellie?
dropping on your arm?
Indeed, our kind umbrella
Didn't
And
"Will
make
Ha ha
!
mean you any harm
soon the good snug parlor
all
dry and warm.
the wind
is rising,
But we are almost
there.
What if our good umbrella

Should
fly
away
in air
Run, Prink, and say we're coming,
And open
the gate
do you hear
; ;
56
MBBBT
ILLTT8TKATED
THE OSTRICH.
Let the
fur-clad Laplander boast
Of the
reindeer's bird-like speed
Let the Arab, for riding post,
Bet high on his mettlesome steed
Let the Briton talk loud of the chase
With the
fox, or
the hare, or the stag
Let the Yankee, stark
mad
in the race,
Count miles by the minutes, and brag
57
BOOK OF RHYMES.
b*
"bird
of the desert
Competitors
all
is
ours
we defy
A bird of suoh wonderful powers

"We scarce
You have
all
know
if
we
ride or
we fly.
of the hippogriff heard,
For mettle and speed a rare
thing,
Half-breed betwixt courser and bird,
Keeping pace with foot and with wing.
The bird of the

The
is
he,
ostrich of beautiful plume,
Skimming
Or an
He
desert
earth, as a
swallow the
sea,
eagle the lofty blue dome.
laughs at the speed of the hind,
For pursuers he
feels
no concern,
He travels ahead of the wind,

And leaves the dull lightning
astern.

58
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meeet's illustrated
THE PLOWMAN.
Tubus up the generous soil
-
'Tis rich in
And
hidden wealth,
well repays your earnest
With
plenty, peace,
Plow with a
and
bold, strong
toll
health,.
hand
Drive deep the glittering share
Eo
surface-scratching will
command
Earth's treasures rich and rare.
Then,
if
you'd freely reap,
"With bounteous freedom
sow
And while you wake, and while you

The precious grain
will grow.
!;
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BOOK OF EHTMEB.
59
ON A GOOD HOUSE-DOG CALLED "WATCH."

Poor
faithful
Watch
And mute and

Thou
thy watch of life
is o'er,
senseless near the kitchen
door
a breathless corpse, where thou stood to
lay'st,
guard before
Thy
pliant temper,
known and
Thy prompt obedience

Whether
Or
to climb the
praised
by
all,
to thy master's call
hill,
or scour the plain,
drive encroaching hogs from out the lane
Thy
quick return, on motion of his hand,
To guard the
Thy joy
to
Domestic
door, or wait a fresh
meet at
command;
eve, with fawning play,
faces, absent
but a day
Thy
bark, that might the boldest thief affright,
And
patient
watch through many a dreary night
All speak thy worth, but none could save thy breath,
For what
is
merit 'gainst the shafts of Death ?
Sleep, then,
my
dog
Where
and
trav'ler
thief
Content
Thy
t'
thy tour of duty
have gained
o'er,
can disturb no more
all
that thou
now
canst have
master's plaudit and a peaceful grave
60
merry's ellustrated
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BOOK OP KHTMHS.
81
GONE-ALL GOIE!
By
the bubbling fount 'mid tne greenwood shades,
Tn the leafy world of the forest glades,
Ko more
the birds, at the blush of morn,
Trill their
sweet notes
they are
goneall gone
Voices of summer, I've listed long
For the witching
strains of
Through the woodland dim,

I
have sought you
ETo
more do you
oft
your matin song

o'er the rustling lawn,
but you're gone
start in
your
still
At the thundering tramp of the
all
goner
retreat
horses' feet,
Or the wandering note of the bugle horn

But the woods are mute,
for you're gone
all
gone
'Mid the wild wood's haunts, through your lonely
The rude winds
play,
and the snow-wreath
rests
In their yielding curve, while in jeering scorn
The
cold blast whistles, "
They say that ye
Of the azure
Gone
my
heart
all
gone
!"
sing 'neath a sunnier arch
skies,
where the
Brings but one endless vernal
But
is sad, for
seasons'
march
dawn
you're gone
all
gone
nest*
;!
62
merry's illustrated
THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

The Christmas
tree
The Christmas
tree
gather around
it
now
Its fruits are free
For you and
And
for me,
they hang from every bough.
BOOK OF KFYMES*
Its flowers are "bright,
And they grew
in a ni^l
9w yesterday it was bare

Did ever you see
An
So
evergreen tree
fruitful
and so
Look! here
fair
arose!
is
And who would
An
suppose
orange and a pear

"Would grow by the side
Of the
garden's pride ?
But here, you
they
see,
And, stranger
are.
yet,
Here's a bon-bon, set
On
the
same
identical stem,
With two plums,
so big
That a neighboring
Seoms
lost in the
And here,
As
I live,
fig
shadow of tjaa
what's this?
'tis
And just where
kiss,
a kiss should ae;
A tulip full blown,

Hard by it
Indeed,
'tis
is
shown
a wonderful tree.
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mkkry's illustrated
64
Here, bravo
I've found
Mebry's Museum, bound

This must be the Tree of Knowledge
Besides which, behold
All lettered in gold,
A poem fresh out from the college.

Hold
hold
my
good
sirs,
Here's a nice set of furs

'Tis
you
fir-tree,
And here,
all
must agree
not incog.,
Is a sweet sugar-hog
Does that make a mahogany-tree?
Oh who would
!
Here's a nice
Of course
Not
'tis
have guessed t
little chest,
a chestnut-tree
so fast, cousin
Knox,
Here's a beautiful box
A box-tree it surely must be.

Your proof something
For here
is
You must own

Hallo
lacks,
an ax.
'tis
an axle-tree
now
here's a whip,
For your horsemanship

Tis a whipple-tree, then,
you'll allow.
BOOK OF EHYMES.
What now
shall
be said ?
Here are needles and thread

Let's see
we
shall
Oh, pshaw
call it
pray do
tre-mend(o)us?
stop,
I'm ready to drop
Your puns
are absurdly stupendous.
65
MERRY'S ILLUSTRATED
MT MOTHER'S BIRTHPLACE
It was just outside of the village,
In a
cool, sequestered nook,
On the right was the murmuring fores^

On the left was the babbling brook.
Behind, the overshadowing mountain
Beared
its
While before
gray old head to the sky,

it,
the widening valley
Stretched out like a sea to the eyit
'Twas a rare, sweet
As
spot,
ever this fair world
There spring came
and a lov&f
knew
earliest always,
And summer the latest withdrew.

Day reluctantly left it at evening,
And hastened to greet it at dawn,
And stars, birds, and flowers loved to visit
The place where my mother was born.
BOOK OF RHYMES.
67
THE SOUG OF BOB LINCOLN,

BY TJNOLE
It
was a
The
TIM.
May,
beautiful morning, quite early in
fathers all plowing, the children all play
The mothers
And the
all
spinning, as busy as bees,
birds quite as busy all round in the trees;
While some were singing songs over and over,

Sometimes in the tree-tops, then down
Young Robert was
And the
in the clover,
trying his very best notes,
strength of his song by the length of his throat,
Chorus
Envy me, envy me,

Cordially, cordially,
Fiddlesticks, fiddlesticks
Just act your pleasure,
Sometimes he was singing to
And then to
Ifext
And
he'd light on the top of a
sing
it
will give
you a sonnet while
I will sing
thistle,
be singing or trying to whistle
Miss Alice, Miss Alice
To
farmer,
Miss Alice, and trying to charm her
moment
either
Jemmy the
sir.
you a good
one,
And stop when I choose,

Ohorus
am
me much pleasure
at leisure.
and very
explicit,
or whenever you wish
it.
Certainly, certainly, etc.
68
While
My
Jemmy
wife
is at
In a neat
You need
is
plowing and learning to whistle,
home, in the shade of a
little nest,
not look for
The farmer
is
for
it,
you never can
plowing, and soon will be
While he's cutting the
When
thistle,
with a wild rose behind
it.
find
it.
mowing
daisies his corn will
be growing.
the heads on the barley are ripe, and the cherry,
Mary Lincoln and I
will
be singing so merry.
Cordially,
Choktjs
cordially,
Envy me, envy me,

Fiddlesticks, fiddlesticks
When
sir.
the leaves on the trees and the flowers on the

clover
Are withered and
When
faded,
the grass on the
and Summer
meadows
is
is
over
leveled and gone,
We will sing our last sonnet and leave you alone.

We will fly far away to the rice and the cotton
not our thistle and rose be forgotten.
But
let
We
are certain to
And
come again
early in Spring,
bring some choice music, which
we
promise to
sing.
Choktjs
Cordially,
cordially,
Envy me, envy me,

Fiddlesticks, fiddlesticks!
sir,
BOOK OF RHYMES.
4"
69
>\
AND A WAY.
A WILL
A Lapland merchant must needs,

To a
distant
But he had no
To
carry
"Yet go
" There
Each new
one day,
market go
horse,
and he had no
sleigh,
him over the snow.
must," said the sturdy

is
way
necessity has
its
For the earnest mind to
plan,
fulfill."
So he drew, from the ice-bound
And lined
it
river,
with furs and moss,
Then harnessed a
With a rope
man
for every will
reindeer to
its
his horns across.
prow,
a scow,
MEBRT
70
No
ILLUSTRATED
track was therebut the traveler
knew
The way over valley and plain

Like a well-trained steed, the reindeer flew,
And brought him

The
fashion he set
Among
They use
And
back again.
safe
is
in fashion now,
the fur-clad Norse;

for a sleigh a flat-bottomed scow,
a reindeer for a horse.
Said the resolute man, " They shall serve
my
Whatever we must, we may,
And
sooner or later each
That where
there's
man
a will
will learn,
there's
way"
turn;
BLOWING BUBBLES.
The boys
were blowing bubbles,
Bright red, and green, and blue,
And
every changing color
That ever mortal knew.
They
floated in the
window,
And glided past my

Bui
in a
chair,
moment perished,
And faded
in the air.

MERRY
72
ILLUSTRATED
The boys, with shouts and laughter,
Blew
till
quite out of breath,
While high in the-leafy
The bubbles gleamed

Too much
Seemed
Sweet
death.
like earthly pleasure
the bubbles, bright
They charm a
Then
maple
till
fleeting
vanish,
away
and gay
moment,
away.
love's ecstatic potion
Our
long to
spirits
sip,
But Death may dash the nectar
From
the unsullied
And he who
Whose
lip.
quaffs the longest,
heart divinely glows,
Finds clouds will gather round him,
For earthly joys must
Some
grasp at wealth's bright beacon^
And
follow where
Sometimes to
it
leads
fairest honor,
Sometimes to
And
close.
foulest deeds
often proves a bubble,
A floating thing of air

Eludes the weary victim,
JLnd leaves him starving there,
73
BOOK OF RHYMES.
J*' love's
And
so frail a treasure,
wealth
may
away i
fade
If earthly joys are changing,
And fame
lives
but a day
Then where are shining jewels

That
will not
And leave
us,
break at
last,
eager viewers,
All mourning for the past?
High in the holy heavens,
A pearl of price untold

Shines brighter far than rubies,
More
It
precious than fine gold.
can not fade or perish,
Can never
It is
pass
away;
a hope in Jesus,
A trust in God alway
M, A. L.
meeey's Illusteated
BOOK OF KHYMES.,
75
AFTER* SCHOOL.
Just look upon that group of boys,
Brim
full
When,
of
frolic,
at the
They rush
spunk, and noise,
word, " The school
and
to liberty
Pell-mell, they ran,
done,"
is
fun.
and jump, and
leap,
Tumbling in one promiscuous heap,

Until you
They
wonder by what token
'scape with heads
and limbs unbroken.
Bold, reckless, cunning, cool, or sly,
What won't they do? what won't they
try?
They're up to every kind of scheme,
To
test their strength,
'Tis
and
let off steam.
an epitome of life,
Without
shades of care and strife
its
Each has
his private joke,
Regardless
how
And there's
More
and cracks
the other takes
it,
it.
boys take rough jokes
the point
pleasantly than older folks,
Not heeding much what's
said or done,
So they can have
of fun.
their
fill
76
THE NIGHTINGALE.
Sweet
bird
Of the
that through the shadows
night, so sad
and
lone,
"Warblest thy notes of gladness,
With
'Tis
softly thrilling tone.
when the gloom
And
all is
is deepest,
hushed in fear,
Save that night-winds are moaning
Through the
'Tis
then thy voice
And
As
stillness
is
dark and drear;
sweetest,
seems wafted from above,
to the sad and sorrowing
Come words
of hope and love.
Thou'rt heard within the casement,
Through the weary night of pain
And
thy warble
is
an earnest
That the day will come again.

Methinks thou art a
spirit-bird,
Sent from a holier sphere
Such
spirits
do not linger
Amidst the sorrowing here.
BOOK OF KHYMES.
LEAP-FROG.
That's
Go
it
right,
high,
Benny, go
and go
it
it
strong,
long,
Swiftly run, and boldly leap,
Froggy Charles
is
quite a heap.
now
Charley Frog,
take your jump;
Benny, make yourself a lump

'Tis
a wnolesome sport and rare
Rest and
Now
Now
toil
an equal share.
you're down, and
now
you're up*,
you leap, and now you stoop
Now you
rest,
and
Any way,
'tis
right
now you run

good
fun,
77
78
WOULD
The
OF LOVE AT
HOME
earth hath treasures fair and bright.
Deep buried
And
in her caves,
gem
ocean hideth many*a
With
his blue, curling
waves
Yet not within her bosom dark,
Or
'neath the clashing foam,
Lives there a treasure equaling

?
A world of love at home!

True, sterling happiness and joy-
Are not with
Nor can
it
gold allied,
yield a pleasure like
A merry fireside.
I envy not the
man who
dwells
In stately hall or dome,

If,
'mid his splendor, he hath not
A world of love at home.

The
friends
'Tis
whom time hath proved sincere,
they alone can bring
A sure relief to hearts that droop

'Neath sorrow's heavy wing.
Though
care and trouble
As down
I'll
life's
heed them not while
may be
mine,
path I roam,
still
world of love at home.
I have
BOOK OF EfiYMES.
79
MUST HASTEN HOME.
I must hasten home, said a rosy child.
Who
had gayly roamed
I must hasten
She
home
will seek
to
for
hours
my mother dear
me amid
the bowers.
If she chides, I will seal her lips
And offer
I
her
all
must hasten home,
As
with a
my flowers.
said a beggar girl,
she carried the pitiful store
kiss,
MERRY'S ILLUSTRATED
RO
Of crumbs and
scraps of crusted bread,
She bad gathered from door to door

I must hasten
She
I
home
And
and poor!
old,
must hasten home,
As day began
my mother dear-
to
and
is feeble,
said the ball-room belle,
dawn
to
the glittering jewels her dark hair decked,
Shone bright as the dews of morn

I'll
forsake the joys of this changing world,
"Which leave in the heart but a thorn.
must hasten home,
said a dying youth,
"Who had vainly sought
Who
had vowed to win a
And
immortalize his
for
fame
laurel wreath,
name
But, a stranger, he died on a foreign shoreAll the hopes he had cherished w^re vain.
am hastening home,
As he gazed on the
WTiere
His
oft,
feet
Farewell
I
am
ere age
had
said an aged man,
grassy sod,
had
silvered his hairs,
lightly trod
farewell to this lovely earth
hastening
home
to
God
BOOK OF RHYMES*
81
THE EVENING PRATER.

With meek and
simple
faith,
A child's confiding love,

The
infant cherub kneels to breathe
His prayer to God above.
And
To
all
the host of heaven
is
there,
listen to that infant prayer.
" God, bring dear father home,
Qod make
y
God, make
All in
me
dear mother well,
good, and let us
Thy house
come
to dwell."
Then, while their watch good angels keep,

" God giveth His beloved sleep,"
; ; !
82
.ACROSTIC.
Roses and
tulips,
with
all
their
gay
train,
O'er garden and landscape cause beauty to reign.
By
the brook, or the hillside, or light
Enchanted delighted
on, smiling,
woody
we
grove,
reve
'Rapt up in fond thoughts of the verdure and bloom,
autumn's cold frost sweeps the whole to the tomb.
'Till
My
emotions,
when
life
seems thus passing and vain,
Even wisdom and prudence can hardly
restrain.
Rude winter now comes, and with sleet,
hail,
Right and
Yet
left
I see there's a chance,
Sitting snug
My
and snow,
sends his arrows, as shivering
by the
fire,
we
with old Robert Merry.
cosy old friend, no winter
is
found
Unfurled in thy pages the whole season round

Still
birds sing their songs in
Ever speaking
in music
clime^
and talking in rhyme
may
Making
of us merry, Old Merry, with you
tell
some warm, sunny
Unless you
all
go.
even now, to be cheery,
us some odd tale that's true,
B.
BOOK OF BHYMES.
OUR HEBBT.
I am, I do not
Suee
Why we love
But
am
know
our Eebby
sure, as sure
so
can be,
Uebby knows why he loves me.

Mattie feeds
And
'tis
as
ISTeb
every day,
good as any
play,
Just to see his pranks and freaks,
"When to
When
ISTebby Mattie speaks.
go home from the
ISTebby meets
me
store,
at the door,
And says, most eloquently dumb,

"Nebby 's glad that you have come."
ISTebby is a little pet
ISTebby don't
know how
to fret
But he knows the tender est part
Of our
Mattie's tender heart*
83
cH
merry's illustrated
THE NEW SONG.

"Whence that sweet, inspiring
Pealing on
Hark
its thrilling
From
u
my ravished
notes again
the courts of heaven I
Hallelujah to the
Who
strain,
ear?
hear
Lamb,
hath bought us with His blood
Honor, glory to His name,
We through Him are
sons of God."
Angels fain their notes would join
With that
But
vast,
triumphant song
though
their harps,
all divine,
Ne'er can reach that wondrous song.
Learned on earth, and new in heaven,
Only they
Who
to
its
God by
chords can
know
grace are given,
Ransomed from the depths

Angels can not know or
In their pure, unfallen
How
of wo.
tell,
bliss,
a soul, redeemed from
hell,
Sings the mystery of grace
They the chosen,
countless throngT
Ever round the throne above,

In their
new and
endless song,
Celebrate redeeming love,
BOOK OF RHYMES.
85
jyiSSpililSillilî
THE CHINAMAN.
The Chinaman
On opium
The Yankee
his life consumes,
regaling
his tobacco
With equal
fumes
zest inhaling
Though trembling nerves and
Warn them
that health
For almost everything
Some reason wit

But
that's
done
supposes,
for the smoker's faith, not
The keenest wit

'Us
fitful
is failing.
discloses
filthy, vulgar, costly fun,
Hateful to
all
good noses,
one
glooms
merry's ILLUSTRATED
AH"
Well,
You
"With
INDIAN DANDY.
isn't that
a funny dress ?
think he must be cruel,
human hones
And
set
round his crown,
skulls in place of jewels,
BOOK OF EHYMES.
Yet
in his countenance
87
you see
^Nothing severe or savage,
As if,
with cannibal
intent,
Our whole domain he'd
ravage.
There's no accounting for our taste^

u
gustibus" and so forth
(
De
Some
;)
dote on very slender waists,
Some
like
hooped
cisterns go forth*
Sneer not at Indian or Malay,

!N"or
He
get into a passion
does as you do day by
day-
Follows the latest fashion.
White dandies
"White
Which
is
strut in stove-pipe hats,
women
go bare-headed
most proper, red or white,
We leave in doubt deep
shaded.
88
MEERY
ILLUSTRATED
THE SHADOW.
Ons sunny day
When lo,
a child went Maying-
while 'mid the zephyrs playing,
He saw his shadow

He turned and fled,
at his
The seeming goblin came
And
back
but on his track

apace,
step for step gave deadly chase
"Weary at
last,
with desperate might
The urchin paused and faced the
When lo,
fright,
the demon, thin and gray,
Faded amid the grass away

'Tis thus in life
when shadows chase,
we but meet them face to face,

What seemed a fiend in fear arrayed,
If
Sinks at our feet a harmless shade.
Petee Pabiot
CONTENTS.
The Nest Builders
Kindaess
Snow Flakes.
11
Spring Flowers
12
Top Philosophy
By
the
....
Lake
18
15
Gentle Words
IT
The Frost
18
SkatingWoman's Eights
21
School Sonnet
25
The Language
The Song
of Flowers
27
29
of the Exile
The Harvest
81
The Snow House
85
Cold Water
36
The Good Old Plow
89
Winter
40
June
43
Work and Play
44
TheButterHy
46
OoldWater
The Telegraphits
48
Secret
The April Shower
The
49
Ostrich
58
56
.....
The Plowman
The House-Bog " Watch*
58
,.
59
90
CONTENTS.
paq
Gone-
Gone
all
.......<<.
The Christmas Tree
My
Mother's Birthplace
The Song
A.
of
Bob Lincoln... .........
61
62
,
.... ,.,...-
Way
Will and a
71
Charley and his Boat
The
is
74
he that Considereth the Poor
Dissatisfied
Angler Boy
T5
77
The Destroyer Destroyed

v
The Kose
Of What
79
in the Yale
is
the Alphabet
81
Composed ?
83
Geography and Astronomy

Going
to
.......
to Do It.....
When One Won't Quarrel, Two
85
85
Can'l
87
Caterpillar
The Warning
88
84
School
The Way
The
6T
69
Our Garret
Blessed
66
88
Bell
Blowing Bubbles
89
93
After School
The Nightingale
94
Leap Frog
05
A World of Love at Home..

I
must Hasten
96
Home
97
The Evening Prayer
99
100
Acrostic
OurNebby
101
The New Song

The Chinaman
102
The Indian Dandy

The Shadow
103
104
106

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MERRY'S

EDITED BY ROBERT MERRY.

nnunierable readers of Merry's

familiar faces, lighted

jovial laughter that greeted

that of our noble State

not buried the talents of our contributors in

like the lamp of Aladdin

object has been to instruct

the dear hearts of the young girlhood and boyhood

the necessary thorns of existence.

A kindly greeting sends,

And Rebuses, as aids

young Merry host

Acquaintance should boast,

have riddled the Museum "Chat/3

Now we beg you will

Why the Editor, painstaking soul ?

Which, in climates bright and warm,

down from the

MERRY'S HOOK OF PUZZLES.

meret's book of puzzles.

Wlio prolongs his work to as great a length as pos

Why are young ladies like arrows

shall receive one,

soft-boiled eggs could the giant Goliah

upon an empty stomach

Two fathers have

their eyes nearest together

each a square of land.

divides his so as to reserve to himself one-fourth in the

Ti;e other father divides his so as to reserve to himself

one-fourth in the form of a triangle

They each have four

and each divides the remainder

his sons in such a

that each son will share

equally with his brother, and in similar shape.

were the two farms divided ?

MEEBr'S BOOK OF PUZZLES.

but never eaten

often brought to table, often

My first is four-sixths of a step that is long,

are your nose and chin always at variance

my first you can not stand,

Why ought a fisherman to be very wealthy?

of five letters. Take away

Take away my first and second,

small in stature, but capable of doing a great deal of

mischief, as I once did in

21. Spell eye-water four letters.

Why is swearing like an old coat

MEREY'fi BOOK OF PUZZLES.

27. If a fender cost six dollars,

will a ton of coal

first is a very uncomfortable state,

My second's an instrument formed of hard steel,

whole is an author of greatest renown,

the longest and yet the shortest thing in

the world; the swiftest

and yet the slowest; the most

found in every house,

From wintry winds

second is the highest found^In every pack of cards.

Merry's Rhymes and Puzzles

Merry's Rhymes and Puzzles