ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
1. W hair over each eye (i) n gander or a bound will p over t and v ice beef hound. (Where overreaching and error abound, will poverty and vice be found.)
2. A little patients over a parent wr on g spree vents great miss under stand in-g-s between men. (A little patience over apparent wrongs, prevents great misunderstandings between men.)
3. Crisis.
4. Mankind.
5. The excellent effects of a mild and (hand less h) tender civility are unquestionable.
6. Trice, rice, ice.
7. Pink, ink, in, pin.
8. Think twice before you speak once.
9. He had no need of a Hierarch (higher ark).
10. “Written.”
11. Princeton, Prince, tin, ton, cent, Nip, tire, nice, not, in, to.
12. Araby.
13. Love.
14. Valentine’s Day.
15. Wise in one’s own conceit.
16. Award, ward, war, raw.
17. Elapse, lapse.
18. A chin well rounded is a charming feature.
19. 250 rods.
20. Bal-morals.
21. Malady.
22. Regimentals.
23. Because they are destitute of-fenders.
24. “A celebrated man.”
25. Plane, lean, plan, lap.
26. Fin e words r no t all wais t he m ark s of a k in d heart. (Fine words are not always the marks of a kind heart.)
27. They are always in love.
28. Cunningham.
29. Hope, hop, ho!
30. Incendiary.
31. Scowl, grow, row, owl.
32. Carroll.
33. Trifling, flirting.
34. Napkin.
35. Horse, rose.
36. T hay W 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.)
37. Salve, slave, lave, veal, vase, save, ale, Ave.
38. Curtail in g x pence swill lad in Co me. (Curtailing expenses will add income.)
39. When he said "Bildad."
40. He thought he was going to blubber, but he didn’t.
41. Pasha, hasp.
42. Rupee, Peru.
43. When it is very rare.
44. Hand-some.
45. A good appetite.
46. Mastodon.
47. Casper, asper, sper, per.
48. When there is a will there is a way.
49. Curtail.
50. Disproportionableness.
51. Nine—he took his own ears and one ear of corn out each day.
52. YOU.
53. War, raw.
54. Willow.
55. Black Rock.
56. Waterloo.
57. Lockport.
58. Buffalo.
59. Whitehall.
60. Pitcairn.
61. Caraway.
62. Judas tree.
63. Marjoram.
64. Meat, eat, ate, tea, Eta, Etam, team, tame, at’em, meta, met, me.
65. Hew hop lace S C on F I dents in awl purse on swill short L y C on F I D E in no body. (He who places confidence in all persons will shortly confide in nobody.)
66. Snow-drop.
67. Commonwealth.
68. Brogue, rogue.
69. A people intent on being overruled by a king, need not complain if monarchs arrogate their ability to over-rule opinions.
70. Practice flows from principle, for as a man thinks, so he will act.
71. The first that turned up.
72. Monkey, money.
73. At-ten-dance.
74. N I X.
75. A hawk.
76. My 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).
79. He is an infidel (inn fiddle).
80. He is not likely to have a good run.
81. He is a Jew ill (Jewel).
82. He distributes letters.
83. Dodo.
84. They are sure to bring him full crops.
85. He faces the fire.
86. Slaughter, laughter.
87. Because there is a bridge in every brigade.
88. Donor.
89. Astray.
90. Impeach.
91. Plumbago.
92. Peace to be sure requires justice.
93. Joab—2 Samuel xviii. 14.
94. Omri—1 Kings xvi. 24.
95. Shelomith—Levit. xxiv. 11.
96. Hadaosoh—Esther viii. 7.
97. Uzziah—2 Chron. xxvi. 21.
98. Ahaziah’s mother—2 Chron. xxiii. 13.
99. Joshua.
100. Contemplation.
101. American.
102. Supplementary.
103. Apollos.
104. Korah.
105. Hiram Hatchet.
106. Nehemiah.
107. Incendiarism.
108. Presentation.
109. Baltimore.
110. Smartest.
111. Regurgitation.
112. Disaccommodation.
113. Porcelain.
114. Insular.
115. Recapitulation.
116. Burnside.
117. Prestidigitateur.
118. Contradictory.
119. Indeterminate.
120. Ossification.
121. Resignation.
122.
If words could satisfy the heart,
The heart might feel less care;
But words, like summer birds, depart,
And leave but empty air.
A little said, and truly said,
Can deeper joy impart,
Than hosts of words which reach the head,
But never touch the heart.
123. Watch over your heart to keep out all vice.
124. Darius, radius.
125. Sausage, assuage.
126. He was bound to Havanna (Have Anna).
127. He was reviled who came to deliver.
128. It would be reformed.
129. Canoe, ocean.
130. Surface.
131. It would be recreation.
132. Miserable.
133. Your word.
134. Met-a-physician.
135. Flattery.
136. He is no better.
137. A day’s difference.
138. Only the dead one; the others would fly away.
139. Conundrum.
140. A good intention, but undervalued and misunderstood.
141. Wolf, fowl.
142. Stripes, sprites.
143. Cataract.
144. “Honest Old Abe.”
145. Aden.
146. When It’s mild (it smiled.)
147. Treason, reason.
148. Daisy.
149. Buttercup.
150. Hound-tongue.
151. Mode sty i s one oft he chief or name nt sof youth. (Modesty is one of the chief ornaments of youth.)
152. Husbandman.
153. Because Time beats all men, and a drummer beats time.
154. When it is used to sow lace (solace).
155. Forbearing.
156.
(1) Mr. and Mrs. A. cross the river together, Mr. A brings the boat back.
(2) Mrs. B. and Mrs. C. cross, Mrs. A. returns.
(3) Mr. B. and Mr. C. cross, Mr. and Mrs. B. return.
(4) Mr. A. and Mr. B. cross, Mrs. C. returns.
(5) Mrs. C. and Mr. B. go over, and Mr. A. returns for his wife.
157. Light.
158. Red-riding-hood.
159. Ann Eliza (analyzer).
160. Glass.
161. Entrance.
162. Desert.
163. Subjects.
164. Object.
165. Piece of mind being secured we maze mile at miss fortunes. (Peace of mind being secured, we may smile at misfortunes.)
166. Wilful lie (Wilforley).
167. Willie H. Coleman.
168. Fleta Forrester.
169. Jasper.
170. Had anchor (H. A. Danker).
171. Sibyl Grey.
172. Slate, tales, least, stale, steal.
173. The required radius, 0 feet 1.922257 inches.
174. When it is a raining (arraigning).
175. Political.
176. Issue.
177.
Be not too wise nor over nice
For if you be, you little see,
How like an idiot you be.
178. It will be ten to one if he catches it.
179. Ill.
180. B and Y (bandy.)
181. Zebra, bear.
182. What a wheel!
183. Revolutionary.
184. In mills.
185. While it can not move without a head of water, it never gets ahead of the water, and yet is always moving.
186. Star, sat, rat, tar, art, as, at.
187. Blood-root.
188. Ox-bane.
189. Candy-tuft.
190. Arrow-head.
191. Bed-straw.
192. Patience and perseverance will perform wonders.
193. I, — crossed makes X etc.
194. Boa-constrictor.
195. a. Rock pigeon. b. Rose mallow.
196. Selah!
197. Stiver, rivets.
198. Kite, tike.
199. Wolf, fowl.
200. Scows, cows.
201. Stripes, sprites.
202. Ape, pea.
203. Danes, sedan.
204. Dawn, wand.
205. All is not gold that glitters.
206. Pawpaw.
207. Crane-fly.
208. Maple.
209. Trug, rug.
210. Sport.
211. Excommunication.
212. Moss-rose.
213. Because it bears the palm.
214. Enumerating.
215. Embrocation.
216. Virulent.
217. Combativeness.
218. Midshipman.
219. Season.
220. Acrobats.
221. First be sure you are right, then go ahead.
222. Lake, sake, Jake, bake, wake, make, rake, hake, cake, fake, take.
223. Amethyst.
224. Direction (die-wreck-shun).
225. Warlock.
226. They have always agreed.
227. Flake, lake.
228. Book-Case. Baltic, Odessa, Olympus, Killanaule.
229. Liquorice.
230. Lover, cover, hover, mover, rover.
231. Oliver, Olive, Levi.
232. Time and tide wait for no man.
233. Bug-bear.
234. Philosophy.
235. Turks, sturk.
236. Owe nothing.
237. Arm-chair.
238. R U A TT. (Are you a tease?)
239. Once upon a time a horrid, cross, overbearing man undertook to beat his wife upon a very small provocation indeed; but she understood and overcame his evil intention, for before he could injure her, she demolished him in a little time with a cudgel.
240. Tennessee (10 A C).
241. Ounce, cat, pig, horse, seal, cow.
242. Head-less.
243. Weed, need, meed, feed, deed, heed, reed, seed.
244. Patapsco.
245. Level.
246. Fund.
247. Mum, Abba, Dad, Anna, Minim—Madam.
248. Rebecca, rebec.
249. C low shoe r heart against awl vice, butt open the door to wall t root h. (Close your heart against all vice, but open the door to all truth.)
250. When they are candidates (candied dates).
251. Because it is ink-lined (inclined).
252. When he declines a drink.
253. Loops, spool.
254. Animal, lamina.
255. Em-bark.
256. When it is a perch.
257. (Often read) ink.
258. A clock.
259. Each has his own bark.
260. One is an analyzer (Ann Eliza), the other a charlatan (Charlotte Ann).
261. It has many boughs (bows).
262. Because the cat ’ill eat it.
263. They are tumblers.
264. A bushel of corn.
265. Sealing-wax.
266. Because his works are wicked, and all his wicked works come to light.
267. He is a-mending the public ways.
268. Because he is dog-matical.
269. He axes it.
270. Independence. (Inn, deep, pendants.)
271. Because they leave every spring.
272. Yes, when he is tired of one place he can go to another.
273. Clouds.
274. Sable, stable.
275. Elm, Lem.
276. Lama, Alma.
277. Ash, has.
278. Flea, leaf.
279. Brag, garb.
280. Jehoshaphat.
281. Because he has no shoes on.
282. Long or short, he only gets ahead one foot at a time.
283. Frill, rill, ill.
284. Fare-well.
285. Rebellion.
286.
To remove the shears.—Take the loop end of the string; put it through the right handle, and carry the loop around to a, as shown by the dotted line here given. Let the loop be carried 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 the handles.
287. Wasp.
288. Pine apple.
289. I O U 0 (I owe you nothing).
290. Eleve, levee.
291. The letter A.
292. Stable, table, Able, Abe.
293. Hares, share.
294. Glare, large.
295. Yard, dray.
296. Stake, skate.
297. Lurch, churl.
298. One hug enough.
299. Milk-maid.
300. Maine.
301. Box.
302. Quicksand.
303. Les Miserables.
304. Trade Winds.
305. One may be barred and the other bolted.
306. Printers.
307. Bread and butter—read and utter.
308. Catalpa.
309. Lamas, salam.
310. Friend-ship.
311. Mate, ate, mat, ma, am.
312. Prometheus.
313. Nathaniel P. Banks.
314. The letter I.
315. Bilberry.
316. Larkspur.
317. Heartsease.
318. Sumac.
319. Rue.
320. Lady, lad.
321. Mandate.
322. Range, rage.
323. Feeling.
324. Furlong.
325. Flagrant.
326. Apathy.
327. It is a pig-got.
328. Indianapolis.
329. Paris.
330. London.
331. Keel, eel, E E (ease).
332. Cat-a-logue.
333. Votes, stoves.
334. Polyanthus.
335. Isabella.
336. Washington.
337. Gum, mug.
338. Depend not on fortune, but conduct.
339. Tenacity.
340. Beam, hairs (hares), temples a cur sup on his meals, tenants, eggs salted (exalted), a narrow mind.
341. Ruthless.
342. Root, moot, foot, boot, hoot, toot, soot.
343. Mutton.
344. A little (t) will change pain into paint.
345. Parsimony.
346. Personage.
347. Constantinople.
348. Soldiers.
349. Contrabands.
350. Jurisprudence.
351. Drawer, warder.
352. Crown, crow.
353. March, sham, ash, Sam, has.
354. He is a man of great gravity.
355. Host, shot.
356. Tulips (two lips.)
357. Tyke, key.
358. Sun-flower.
359. Rosemary.
360. Aaron’s rod.
361. Nothing.
362. Ho does not want them made shorter.
363. He is fond of cabbage.
364. He never drinks.
365. Memento mori.
366. Orpheus C. Kerr.
367. Uncle Robert’s Picture.
368. Manhattanville.
369. Hatteras.
370. Cat-o-nine-tails.
371. Catastrophe.
372. Catechism.
373. Catechist, (cat he kissed).
374. Cat-a-comb.
375. Blackburnian Warbler.
376. Slate.
377. Potomac.
378. One is a rail-sitter, the other a rail-splitter.
379. When he travels on a trail (T rail).
380. When they linger round the bars.
381. He pleads at the bar.
382. The letter N.
383. A yard and a quarter. Abe—Abe-L.
384. Chaucer.
385. It holds a gal on.
386. Noise.
387. It weighs anchor.
388. To axe the way.
389. Because “i” is in the midst of bliss, “e” is in hell, and all the others in purgatory.
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.
391. R U L. (Are you well?)
392. Rampage.
393. The letter E.
394. I, in, pin, spin or pine, spine.
395. Earl, pearl.
396. Iri, iris.
397. B travels ten miles a day.
398. Yesterday.
399. Corkscrew.
400. Peculation, speculation.
401. Her son never sets.
402. The hard shell.
403. It is a good egg sample.
404. Core, 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.
412. Balista, tails.
413. Ridgewood.
414. Bug-bear.
415. Halibut.
416. Bashaw, Wabash.
417. Because the die is cast before they pass it.
418. Canoe (transposed forms “ocean”).
419. CLOWN.
420. Deer, ree.
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