235. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM
What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch it without a steel trap?
236. AN ENIGMA
By Praed
Across my first, with flash and roar,
The stately vessel glides alone.
And mournful on the crowded shore
There stands an aged crone,
Watching my second’s parting smile,
As he bids farewell to his native isle.
My whole comes back to other eyes,
With beauteous change of fruit and flowers,
But dim to her are those bright skies,
And sad those joyous hours;
For, alas! my first is dark and deep,
And my second cannot hear her weep.
237. THE ARAB AND HIS ASS
The Sequel
When morning dawned, and the tide was out,
The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s ..........,
And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt,
For he had the best donkey in all that §.