A Hammock Convenience.

These summer nights I camp out often. The other night we told riddles, and I told this one. It was not guessed. The answer is "Hatteras."

My first is an article of dress,

One, two, is the man who will make it.

My last is as— But if I tell more

You'll have no chance to mistake it.

My whole is a point that can't be disputed;

That its position's a sound one was never refuted.

J. G. Batterson.
Asbury Park, N. J.