C. Y. P. R. U.
Some merry young people in Cohasset, Massachusetts, amused themselves the other day by making a list of comparisons in common use. The result of their efforts was sent to the Postmistress, and she thinks perhaps some others among her boys and girls will try their hands at the same game of words:
Blunt as a broomstick, black as pitch, black as night, black as jet, black as a sloe, black as ink, black as ebony, black as a crow, brown as a berry, brown as a bun, bright as a button, bright as a new dollar, busy as a bee, brisk as a bee, brisk as a lark, brittle as glass, big as an elephant, big as saucers, big as canal-boats, blind as a bat, bitter as gall, bitter as worm-wood, busy as a beaver, bold as brass, bald as an egg, blind as a mole, blue as indigo, cool as a cucumber, cold as a stone, cold as charity, clear as glass, clear as crystal, clear as mud, common as dirt, cold as Greenland, cold as ice, crooked as a ram's-horn, crooked as a rainbow, clumsy as a cow, cunning as a fox, cross as a weasel, cross as a bear, cross as fiddle-sticks, cross as two sticks, cold as a frog, crazy as a loon, clean as a whistle, dead as Chelsea, dead as a door-nail, dusty as a miller, deep as a well, dark as Egypt, dark as a pocket, dry as a bone, dull as lead, dull as ditch-water, dull as dish-water, deaf as a post, deaf as an adder, dumb as a fish, early as the lark, easy as jumping over a log, easy as kissing your hand, flat as a flounder, flat as a pancake, fresh as a daisy, fine as a hair, fine as a fiddle, faithless as a monkey, fat as a seal, fat as butter, fierce as a lion, gray as glass, gray as a badger, good as pie, green as grass, good as gold, greedy as a pig, gentle as a lamb, hot as fire, hot as blazes, hot as fury, hot as Tophet, handy as a pocket in a shirt, hoary as Time, hard as flint, hungry as a wolf, hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a bear, hard as a rock, hard as a brickbat, happy as a king, high as a kite, homely as a crow, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a big sunflower, heavy as lead, lean as a hen's forehead, light as a fairy, light as thistle-down, light as a feather, long-waisted as a snake, limp as a rag, merry as a grig, merry as a thrush, merry as a marriage-bell, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare, mischievous as a monkey, meek as Moses, neat as wax, neat as a pin, old as the hills, obstinate as a mule, proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer, poor as poverty, poor as a church-mouse, plain as print, pretty as a pink, pretty as a picture, plain as daylight, playful as a kitten, poor as a crow, patient as Job, quick as a wink, quick as a flash, quick as lightning, right as a trivet, red as a lobster, red as a beet, red as a rose, rich as a Jew, sick as a pussy cat, slow as cold molasses, slow as a snail, short as pie-crust, straight as an arrow, stiff as a ram-rod, stiff as a poker, still as a mouse, soft as dough, swift as the wind, spry as a grasshopper, shifting as sand, scarce as chickens' teeth, smart as a steel-trap, sure as fate, sour as vinegar, sour as a plum, shy as a rabbit, strong as a horse, sticky as molasses, spotted as a leopard, simple as A, B, C, sweet as honey, sweet as sugar, stupid as an owl, soft as silk, sound as a nut, smooth as velvet, sharp as a razor, strong as Samson, smooth as glass, slippery as an eel, swift as thought, sharp-eyed as a lynx, thin as vanity, thin as gauze, thin as a rail, tight as a drum, tall as a steeple, tall as a bean-pole, true as steel, tired as a dog, tipsy as a lord, thirsty as a fish, tough as leather, tough as a boiled owl, thick as spatter, thick as blackberries, wet as sop, white as a sheet, white as snow, white as milk, warm as toast.
J. A.—The stamps you mention are not duplicates.
Tommy P. S.—You could not do a better thing than to learn to write short-hand. I hope you will make a very good reporter for the press. You are beginning early to be a journalist, helping your father on his paper. Does your pet bird know you when you go home on Saturday night?
Allen L.—A boy who is not strong enough to work out-of-doors should find some pleasant occupation which he can practice in the house. Have you a scroll-saw and a few designs? If so, you may make pretty boxes, book-racks, frames, and easels, for which you will find a sale among your friends. Or, if you can obtain a small printing-press, you may earn some money by printing visiting-cards, circulars, and invitations for your acquaintances. Perhaps, though an invalid, you are well enough to help along a little in the house, where there is a great deal to do, and where the mother and sisters are sometimes very tired. In the times of canning fruit, of pickling and preserving, a clever and quick-witted boy can render very welcome service. This kind of work ought to be paid for as liberally as the hoeing and weeding by which your active and healthy brothers are able to obtain their spending-money.
Eva W. and Bessie McC.—Thank you, dears, for the programme of your little entertainment. You displayed a great deal of ingenuity in arranging it.
We would call the attention of the C. Y. P. R. U. this week to Mrs. John Lillie's entertaining article on the great musical composer Christoph Willibald, Ritter von Gluck, and to "Something about Lightning," by Mr. C. J. Muller. The very little folk will be interested in the wonderful German baby with such a long list of names, and so many royal relatives to love him and teach him how to fill nobly the great station to which he is born.
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
TWO ANAGRAMS.
1. On a car I vote.
V.
2. Dream of wit dear.
Sukey.