93. A CHARADE
Lurking in riddles oft my first is found;
My second should in ample stores abound,
Or help to make the sweetest songster heard.
Peculiar, and quite proper, is my third.
My whole has found with England’s monarch grace,
The verdant home of many a goodly race.
No. CXII.—SECOND SIGHT
Ask any one, with this diagram to work upon, to think of any number between 5 and 15, and, while your back is turned, to count up to it, beginning at the lowest step, and saying one, two, three, four, and so on, as each step of cards or single card is reached in the direction indicated by the arrow. When the number thought of has been thus arrived at, tell him to stop, and beginning afresh on that card, to count one, two, three, etc., backwards, this time skipping over the double six and the 3 steps until he again reaches the number thought of, and notices which card he has touched last.
How can you, without having seen any of his movements, at once find that card?
No. CXIII.—AN AFTER DINNER TRICK
Cut a wedge out of an apple, as is indicated in the diagram, and make six gashes as is shown.