CHARADE.

“Take a coarse kind of corn, which makes bread for the poor,

Then add that which you’ve oft help’d me over;

Join these aptly together, and you will be sure

An old borough town to discover,

To which every summer I gladly repair,

For friends kind and generous I ever found there.”

“I think the first must be oats,” said Charlotte.

“Ay, that is a coarse kind of grain,” replied Caroline; “but what town begins with that syllable?”

Mrs. Fitzallan smiled.