With a little ingenuity, and by slightly warming the wax, and shredding the matches for some effects, all sorts of comical figures can be contrived, similar in character to this dignified general on his high-stepping charger.
106. AN OLD ENIGMA
(By a former Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.)
Take five from five, and then
Put fifty in the middle;
Twice ten times five times ten
Will finish off my riddle,
And bring it to your ken
As fit as any fiddle!
No. CXXIV.—ANOTHER BOOMERANG
Cut out in cardboard a cross similar to that shown in this diagram:—
Place one of its limbs under the thumbnail of the left hand, and give the next projecting limb a sharp flick with the middle finger of the right hand. The little boomerang will fly sharply forward, and invariably return rapidly on its tracks. Try it.
107. PHONETIC GAPS
Can you fill these gaps with words of similar sound?