BIRDS, FRUITS, AND FLOWERS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.
Little difficulty will be experienced in the construction or solution of this simple form of enigma. It will, however, be found to possess a charm all its own, which will add greatly to the mirth and gaiety of the social circle. The following examples will let our readers into the whole secret of this pleasant pastime:—
Birds.—What a severe attack of quinsey prohibits you from doing.
Ans.—Swallow.
An architect well known to fame.
Ans.—Wren.
A portion of a whole, and a continued range of hills.
Ans.—Part-ridge.
What a coward does in the hour of danger.
Ans.—Quail.
Equality, and a state of utter decay.
Ans.—Par-rot.
A monarch, and a toiler of the seas.
Ans.—King-fisher.
Fruits.—A vowel, and a cooking apparatus.
Ans.—O-range.
To give way to anxiety and sorrow.
Ans.—Pine.
The greatest crime in a school-boy's calendar.
Ans.—Peach.
The colour of growing herbage, and a challenge.
Ans.—Green-gage.
Flowers.—The title of one of Macaulay's Lays, and the name of one of the public funds.
Ans.—Virginia Stock.
What a good conscience gives to its possessor.
Ans.—Heart's-ease.
An Irish vehicle, and a people who live under one government.
Ans.—Car-nation.
What honey is, and the name of more than one king.
Ans.—Sweet-william.
A religious devotee, and a babe's head gear.
Ans.—Monk-hood.
A noted Quaker, and a handy article of dress.
Ans.—Fox-glove.