Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft breezes, to-day a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, as floods of fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast.
156. PALINDROME ON A BEETROOT
Fill in the necessary vowels, and form thus with these consonants in their present order a perfect palindrome:—
RDRTPTPTRDR
It must read alike from either end.
157. A CHARADE
My first we all do when we fail;
My next is heard in rain or hail;
My fourth a sheep of gender male;
My third is one without its tail;
My whole for foreign countries sail.