CHARADE.
304.
My first in cities is well known
And by me many live,
Obtain their freedom in the town,
And then a vote can give;
My second we can never see,
Whether on the land or sea;
My whole the sailor often braves,
When he plows the briny waves.
305. Why may muslin and flour be considered safe articles in market?
306. Of what trade are we when we walk in the snow?
307. Take away the bees from something we frequently eat, and make it read and speak.
308. An animal before a mountain, with the right kind of article, makes a tree.
309. Transpose some animals into a salutation.
310.
Why strains my first his wearied sight,
Across the silent main,
And loiters on the lonely beach?
He looks, alas! in vain.
For the chilly hand of Death has passed
My second’s stately side,
And its gallant crew are sunk beneath
The ocean’s briny tide.
Though time may pass with silent step,
And years go quickly by,
Yet My whole shall feed the vital flame
And its power shall never die.
311. Entire, I am a companion; beheaded, a verb; replace my head, curtail me, and I am found in nearly every house; curtail again, I am a nickname; reversed, a verb.
312. My first is “for;” my second and fourth are pronouns; my third is an article; my whole is a god.
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,
You can not find me there.
Now, if from France you choose to dance
Your way just into Spain,
I there am seen, and near the queen,
In hail, in mist, and rain.
FRUITS, FLOWERS, AND PLANTS.
315. A boy’s nickname and a fruit.
316. A bird and a branch.
317. Add what we all love to what we all have.
318. The nicknames of two popular persons.
319. To deplore.
320. Curtail one of the fair sex, and leave one of the unfair sex.
321.
My first, in distant lands
Full many a temple stands,
Once builded by his hands;
The marble from the mine,
His hand hath caused to shine
In beauty half divine;
My next in tropic lands
Grows where the roving bands
Roam o’er the desert sands;
My whole went forth—the world,
From chaos rudely hurled,
Along its orbit whirled.
322. Take a letter from a piece of kitchen furniture, and make something furious.
323. Divide a sensibility, and leave a reward and a fish.
324. Divide a measure, and leave something much worn and 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.
327. Why is a hog just purchased like 120 pounds of steel?
NAMES OF PLACES.
328. The name of a race of men, a vowel, and a Greek word signifying a city.
329. A state of equality and a verb.
330. A letter on a title.
331. Behead part of a vessel, and leave a fish; curtail, and leave tranquility.
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. Resolve what made Jackson a President into a household article.
334. My first is a nickname; my second, in sound, asks a question; my third is an article; my fourth is an adverb, and my whole is a flower.
335. My first is a verb; my second is seen in a hat; my third is often used for a signal; my fourth is the same as my second, and my whole is the given name of the writer.
336.
I 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 seen on Broadway.
My whole is a city.
337. Transpose a tree into a hollow vessel.
338. D written off for air, hinge learn a channel.
339. XA100T.
Explain the sentences in italics in the following puzzle:
340.
I knew a man, not many years gone by,
Who had a block 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.
A curse upon his meals he often had,
And saw with joy it made another glad.
Strangest of all, for every house he let,
A half 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.
341.
My first’s a maiden’s Scripture name,
My second’s less than me,
My whole—ah! so unmerciful
I hope I ne’er shall be.
342. Change my head several times, and make (1) the cause for some things, (2) to debate, (3) a foundation, (4) that which often covers it, (5 and 6) two different noises, and (7) part of the soil of America.
343.
My first is half of what you do
When you are wildly dreaming;
My second our two horses drew
One day when Jack was teaming.
My whole the wolves eat when they can,
’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?
ANAGRAMS.
Fill the blanks with the words in italics, transposed.
345. Pray, Simon, that I may be cured of ——.
346. A certain —— used green soap.
347. Cleon paints not in ——.
348. Dire loss is often sustained by ——.
349. —— can stand carbon pretty well.
350. Prejudice runs even through ——.
351. Transpose a taker into a keeper.
352. Curtail a coin and leave a bird.
353. Entire, I am 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 a very large man always sober?
355. Transpose an army into what they use.
356. What flowers are always under a person’s nose?
357. Entire I am a dog; behead and transpose, and I am used in almost every house.
358. A planet and a plant.
359. Two girls’ names.
360. A certain man’s instrument of torture.
361. If you pull a rabbit’s ears, what will he say?
362. How does it appear that rabbit’s ears are just long enough.
363. Why is a rabbit like a tailor?
364. Why is a rabbit not required to take the temperance pledge?
A LATIN INJUNCTION.
365. Me! men? Tom or I?
366.
I am composed of 12 letters:
My 3, 6, 11, 2 is a puss-animalous noise.
My 8, 1, 9, 5 can make one very comfortable at some seasons of the 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 in the kitchen.
My whole is a village on the Hudson.
369. My first is an article of clothing; my first and second combined form a trade; my third is a conjunction; my whole is the name of a cape.
370. What species of cat has more than one tail?
371. What species of cat is most to be avoided?
372. What kind of cat is most valued in Sunday-school?
373. Which of the cats does a young man show the most affection for?
374. With a hairy animal and an instrument for the hair, construct a burial-place.
375. I am composed of 19 letters: my 3, 7, 5—13, 8, 18, 12—15, 14, 10, 2—17, 11, 19, 5—1, 7, 17, 16, 7, 2—6, 2, 7, 18—4, 15, 11, 9, 18—and 4, 7, 8, 17, 18, 13 are birds; my whole is the name of a bird.
376. Entire, I am useful to the student; deprived of my first letter, I am 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 letters, is a Latin pronoun in the accusative case. This last reversed is a Latin conjunction. My whole, deprived of the first four letters, is a Latin preposition; my whole transposed is a crime; again transposed, I am very little; without my last letter, I am used in building houses; transposed, I am used in cooking; again transposed, I am used by shoemakers.
As an enigma, I am composed of five letters:
My 1, 5, 3 is a body of water.
My 3, 2, 5 is a liquor.
My 5, 3, 1, 4 is a point of the compass.
My 1, 5, 3, 4 is a place to rest.
My 3, 4 is a preposition.
My 1, 3, 2, 5 occurs every day.
377. What 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) to strike, (13) quick, (14) a resting-place for troops.
378. How near does a boy straddling a rail come to the President of the United States?
379. When is an Indian like a railroad engine?
380. When are children in danger of forming bad habits?
381. Why is a boy crying to be helped over a rail fence like a lawyer?
382.
I am in the men, but not in the boys.
I 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.
383. How far is the President of the United States from the first man that ever died?
384. If a tough beef-steak could speak, what poet’s name would it pronounce?
385. Why is 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 when ready for sea?
388. Why do pioneers march at the head of the regiment?
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 666⅔ yards. The angle from the San Jacinto to the nearest corner of the fort is 71½°, to the center of the fort 62½°; the angle from the Ironsides to the nearest corner of the fort is 56½°, to the center of the fort 49¼°. Required the distance from each ship to the corner and 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?
392. My first, though originally an animal, now-a-days often goes by steam; though commonly used for eating, is now much used to punch holes with; though hitherto considered rather sheepish than otherwise, in these times goes to war. My second lies before you; waits to do your bidding; is both black and white at the same time; can draw tears or provoke laughter; carry messages and convey instruction. Entire, I imply a disturbed state of mind, which has extended itself to the body, leading a looker-on to indulge great expectations that something is going to happen.