CHARADE.
393.
On 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;
I sport ’mid the 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.
394. Add a letter to a pronoun, and make a preposition; another, and make a noun; add another at either end, and make a verb; another, and make another noun.
395. Add a letter to a man, and make a pearl.
396. Add a letter to a Scripture character, and make a flower.
397. A and B set out from the same place, in the same direction; A travels uniformly 18 miles per day, and, after 9 days, turns and goes as far as B has traveled during those 9 days; he then turns again, and, pursuing his journey, overtakes B 22½ days after the time they first set out. Required the rate at which B uniformly traveled.
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, we quickly obtain
What numbers have seen, but will ne’er see again.
399.
My first it is 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 power
Ships are made with ease,
To stem against both wind and tide
Across the boundless seas.
My whole is very often found
Together with my first,
And comes in very handy
When you would quench your thirst.
400. Add a letter to a crime, and make meditation.
401. How is it that a hen knows no night?
402. Which class of democrats does a hen show most, regard for?
403. Why is a large fresh egg like a virtuous deed?
404. Add a letter to a heart, and make a number.
405. What is flatter than a flat?
406. I802500A.
407. Entire, I am a kind of rock; beheaded, I am considered very healthy; again beheaded, I am a beverage; then transposed, I am a meadow.
ENIGMA.
408.
’Tis found in our troubles, ’tis mixed with our pleasures,
’Tis laid up above with our heavenly treasures;
“’Tis whispered in heaven, and ’tis muttered in 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 it tempts us in snares.
Deep, deep in our hearts you will find it engraved;
Though in misery sunk, yet from sin it is saved.
’Tis found in the stream that flows on to the ocean;
Though in bustle forever, ’tis ne’er in commotion.
’Tis 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,
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 when our need is the sorest.
409. My first is a drink; my second is feminine; my third is the cry of an animal; and my whole is a city in Scripture.
410. Behead something irritating, and leave something soothing.
411.
My first is not so often doled
To beggar sad and urchin bold,
As when the full amount in gold
Was paid for paper one might hold,
My 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 legally enrolled.
My whole, a fragrant plant, is sold
In parcels small to grannies old,
Who in their early life were told
“’Twill check a fever—cure a cold.”
412. Take the first syllable (which is sometimes used as an interjection to express contempt) from a warlike instrument, then transpose the remainder, and leave some ends.
413. Entire, I am found in Brooklyn; with my first two letters changed, I am a very strong and pretty kind of crockery-ware; when entire, my first is a kind of mountain; my second is found all over the world.
414. My first is annoying, my second (under certain circumstances), alarming; my whole is something frightful.
415. My first is a nickname; my second, a pronoun; my third, a conjunction; and my whole, a fish.
416. Transpose a ruler into a river.
417. Why is silver currency like Cæsar’s army by the Rubicon?
418. What boat is found in every ocean?
419. 10050055N.
420. Behead an animal, transpose, and leave a coin.
The puzzle is, to get from the Entrance to the Center Bower, by following the space between the lines without crossing the lines.
