A NOVEL ACROSTIC.
If the words indicated below be written one beneath another, the finals will spell a national holiday, and the initial letters will form the plural of something which is used on that day.
- A leaf of blank paper.
- A dye.
- A kind of ancient poetry.
- Part of the head.
- An animal.
- A fresh water fish.
- Likewise.
- A leader.
- A boy’s name spelled backwards.
- A large bird.
- A small brook.
- Cunning.
—Katherine D. Salisbury.