And, Saxon, I am Rhoderick Dhu!

LIFE.

Why all this toil for triumph of an hour?
[Young.
Life’s a short summer—man is but a flower;
[Dr. Johnson.
By turns we catch the fatal breath and die—
[Pope.
The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh.
[Prior.
To be is better far than not to be,
[Sewell.
Though all man’s life may seem a tragedy:
[Spencer.
But light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb—
[Daniel.
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
[Sir Walter Raleigh.
Your fate is but the common fate of all;
[Longfellow.
Unmingled joys may here no man befall;
[Southwell.
Nature to each allots his proper sphere,
[Congreve.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care;
[Churchill.
Custom does often reason overrule,
[Rochester.
And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.
[Armstrong.
Live well—how long or short permit to heaven;
[Milton.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven,
[Bailey.
Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face—
[French.
Vile intercourse where virtue has no place,
[Sommerville.
Then keep each passion down, however dear.
[Thompson.
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear;
[Byron.
Her sensual snares let faithless Pleasure lay,
[Smollet.
With craft and skill to ruin and betray,
[Crabbe.
Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise,
[Massinger.
We masters grow of all that we despise.
[Cowley.
Oh, then, renounce that impious self-esteem;
[Beattie.
Riches have wings; and grandeur is a dream.
[Cowper.
Think not ambition wise because ’tis brave,
[Sir Walter Davenant.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave,
[Gray.
What is ambition? ’Tis a glorious cheat.
[Willis.
Only destructive to the brave and great.
[Addison.
What’s all the gaudy glitter of a crown?
[Dryden.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.
[Francis Quarles.
How long we live, not years but actions tell;
[Watkins.
That man lives twice who lives the first life well.
[Herrick.
Make then, while yet you may, your God your friend.
[William Mason.
Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.
[Hill.
The trust that’s given guard, and to yourself be just;
[Dana.
For live we how we may, yet die we must.
[Shakespeare.

THE KEY.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.

  1. Cobweb.M. A. R.
  2. [Back to puzzle]
  3. Thanks.
  4. [Back to puzzle]
  5. Of course I can! (Of Corsican.)
  6. [Back to puzzle]
  7. Maid of Orleans.
  8. [Back to puzzle]
  9. Because they have studded the heavens for centuries.
  10. [Back to puzzle]
  11. The winds blue, and the waves rose.
  12. [Back to puzzle]
  13. In violet.
  14. [Back to puzzle]
  15. They leave out their summer dress.
  16. [Back to puzzle]
  17. Because I am the querist.
  18. [Back to puzzle]
  19. Penmanship.English Paper.
  20. [Back to puzzle]
  21. Heather: weather.Hearth and Home.
  22. [Back to puzzle]
  23. Nothing.
  24. [Back to puzzle]
  25. It contains all the letters of the alphabet.
  26. [Back to puzzle]
  27. A lawsuit.
  28. [Back to puzzle]
  29. His father was Enoch, who did not die.
  30. [Back to puzzle]
  31. Yes: he was the Daughter-of-Pharaoh’s son.
  32. [Back to puzzle]
  33. When Autumn is turning the leaves.
  34. [Back to puzzle]
  35. Bud-dhism.
  36. [Back to puzzle]
  37. Starch. (Star, sac, scar, tar, trash, act, arc, arch, art, ash, rat, rash, chart, cart, cat, car, chat, cash, cast, crash, hart, hat.)
  38. [Back to puzzle]
  39. Ague. (Hague; league; plague.)
  40. [Back to puzzle]
  41. Lettuce, alone. (Let us alone!)
  42. [Back to puzzle]
  43. The moon.
  44. [Back to puzzle]
  45. A human being.The Sphinx Riddle.
  46. [Back to puzzle]
  47. Noah.
  48. [Back to puzzle]
  49. Macaulay.Rural New Yorker.
  50. [Back to puzzle]
  51. N R G.
  52. [Back to puzzle]
  53. M T.
  54. [Back to puzzle]
  55. O B C T.
  56. [Back to puzzle]
  57. X L N C.
  58. [Back to puzzle]
  59. L E G.
  60. [Back to puzzle]
  61. Dutch S.
  62. [Back to puzzle]
  63. French L.
  64. [Back to puzzle]
  65. K.
  66. [Back to puzzle]
  67. In the days of no A (Noah,) before U and I were born.
  68. [Back to puzzle]
  69. T.
  70. [Back to puzzle]
  71. Q.
  72. [Back to puzzle]
  73. It’s laudin’ ’em.
  74. [Back to puzzle]
  75. No man has three feet; a man has two feet more than no man: therefore, a man has five feet.
  76. [Back to puzzle]
  77. A branch.M. L. C.
  78. [Back to puzzle]
  79. Love Me Little: Love Me Long.
  80. [Back to puzzle]
  81. Ma mère.E. P.
  82. [Back to puzzle]
  83. Amiable (Am I able?)
  84. [Back to puzzle]
  85. Conundrum.
  86. [Back to puzzle]
  87. Purcell.M. D.
  88. [Back to puzzle]
  89. You sigh for a cipher, but I sigh for thee;
  90. Oh, sigh for no cipher, but, oh, sigh for me;
  91. And O, let my sigh for no cipher go,
  92. But give sigh for sigh, for I sigh for you so!
  93. [Back to puzzle]
  94. Because they axed him whether he would or no. (Horrid!)
  95. [Back to puzzle]
  96. He was out at midnight, on a bust.
  97. [Back to puzzle]
  98. 999⁄9.
  99. [Back to puzzle]
  100. The season is backward for potatoes.
  101. [Back to puzzle]
  102. One “wouldn’t do:” one “would do.”
  103. [Back to puzzle]
  104. When he owed (Oh’d) “for a lodge in some vast wilderness.”
  105. [Back to puzzle]
  106. The reindeer (The rain, dear!)
  107. [Back to puzzle]
  108. Red Wing.M. A. R.
  109. [Back to puzzle]
  110. Insert a semicolon after “peacock,” after “comet,” after “cloud,” &c.; finally, after “sun.”
  111. [Back to puzzle]
  112. Semicolon after “talked.”
  113. [Back to puzzle]
  114. Absence of body!
  115. [Back to puzzle]
  116. The year before was 1870; the year following was 1870, too.
  117. [Back to puzzle]
  118. Because they’d fall out, if they didn’t.
  119. [Back to puzzle]
  120. Io died (iodide) of potassium.
  121. [Back to puzzle]
  122. He named it Robinson for Robinson crew so!
  123. [Back to puzzle]
  124. They’ve been to sea.
  125. [Back to puzzle]
  126. By the Sound.
  127. [Back to puzzle]
  128. He wears his collar and pants.
  129. [Back to puzzle]
  130. Veil; vile or evil; Levi, live.
  131. [Back to puzzle]
  132. A pair of spurs.
  133. [Back to puzzle]
  134. The letter A.
  135. [Back to puzzle]
  136. Translate the fourth and fifth “suis,” follow. “Suis” comes from suivre, as well as from être.
  137. [Back to puzzle]
  138. A mouse ran, full but,
  139. Against my big to.
  140. [Back to puzzle]
  141. Mind your I!
  142. [Back to puzzle]
  143. Campbell’s Poems.
  144. [Back to puzzle]
  145. Thou tea-chest!
  146. [Back to puzzle]
  147. J’aime en silence (six lances.)
  148. [Back to puzzle]
  149. Who raw for (the) read, white, and blew!
  150. [Back to puzzle]
  151. G a. (G, grand; a, petit.)
  152. [Back to puzzle]
  153. Toad (to ad.)
  154. [Back to puzzle]
  155. Noon.
  156. [Back to puzzle]
  157. Insatiate (in sat I ate.)
  158. [Back to puzzle]
  159. Follow the English pronunciation of the syllables, allowing for the cockneyish displacement of the letter h.
  160. Thus: TONY’S ADDRESS TO MARY.
  161. O Mary! Heave a sigh for me,
  162. For me, your Tony true;
  163. I am become as a man dumb,—
  164. Oh, let Hymen prompt you! etc.
  165. The eighth line is “Or eat a bit of pie.”
  166. [Back to puzzle]
  167. [Back to puzzle]
  168. [Back to puzzle]
  169. XIII. (X, VIII.)
  170. [Back to puzzle]
  171. For convenience let us call the eight-gallon measure, a; the five-gallon, b; and the three-gallon, c.
  172. From a fill c, and empty into b. Fill c again; and, from it, fill b. Then empty b into a, and c, (which has in it one gallon,) into b. Fill c again, and empty into b, which now contains four gallons; while a, also, contains four.
  173. [Back to puzzle]
  174. One bushel and one-ninth.
  175. [Back to puzzle]
  176. Nescio. Ik weet niet. Je ne sais pas. No sà. Non so. Ich weiss nicht. Ninis cume. I dinna ken. I DON’T KNOW!
  177. Professor Robinson in his Algebra attempts it, but not satisfactorily, so long as letters may be made to represent any number, or any other number, at discretion. Let us call it in this particular phase—(unfortunately it has others),—the Matrimonial Equation: “For, these two are one.”
  178. [Back to puzzle]
  179. The stranger had eaten eight-thirds of a loaf: seven-thirds belonging to one of the Arabs, and only one-third to the other.
  180. [Back to puzzle]
  181. He lost four dollars and the actual cost of the boots.
  182. [Back to puzzle]
  183. 5 herring @ 2d. = 10d.
  184. 1 “ @ ½ = ½
  185. 6 “ @ ¼ = 1½
  186. ———
  187. 12 “ 12d.
  188. [Back to puzzle]
  189. Endless.
  190. [Back to puzzle]
  191. Cares: caress.
  192. [Back to puzzle]
  193. Onion.
  194. [Back to puzzle]
  195. Advice.
  196. [Back to puzzle]
  197. When he has grounds for complaint.
  198. [Back to puzzle]
  199. For divers reasons.
  200. [Back to puzzle]
  201. For sundry purposes.
  202. [Back to puzzle]
  203. “The quality of Mercy (Mersey) is not strained.” H. B. S.
  204. [Back to puzzle]
  205. “If the grate be empty, put coal on. If the grate be full, stop putting coal on.” So said one, but another replied “How can I put coal on, when there is such a high fender?”
  206. [Back to puzzle]
  207. Because he is no better.
  208. [Back to puzzle]
  209. When it becomes a lady.
  210. [Back to puzzle]
  211. The letters of the alphabet.
  212. [Back to puzzle]
  213. One was going to St. Ives’: he met the others.
  214. [Back to puzzle]
  215. A little too long to wait! (A little 2, long 2, 8.) E. S. D.
  216. [Back to puzzle]
  217. The Image that Michal put in David’s bed. I Samuel, ch. xix. Douay version, xix ch. I Kings.
  218. [Back to puzzle]
  219. His sister. The blind beggar was a woman.
  220. [Back to puzzle]
  221. The man who thanked Heaven was the lady’s father.
  222. [Back to puzzle]
  223. “That man” was the rhymer’s son.
  224. [Back to puzzle]
  225. Hirsute.
  226. [Back to puzzle]
  227. The letter s.
  228. [Back to puzzle]
  229. Because it is always Snowdon.
  230. [Back to puzzle]
  231. They should go to Fall River and Salem.
  232. [Back to puzzle]
  233. Novice.
  234. [Back to puzzle]
  235. Burns.Hearth and Home.
  236. [Back to puzzle]
  237. Crabbe.“““
  238. [Back to puzzle]
  239. Bryant.“““
  240. [Back to puzzle]
  241. Gray.“““
  242. [Back to puzzle]
  243. Beecher.“““
  244. [Back to puzzle]
  245. Homer.
  246. [Back to puzzle]
  247. Hood.
  248. [Back to puzzle]
  249. Southey.
  250. [Back to puzzle]
  251. Coleridge.
  252. [Back to puzzle]
  253. Goldsmith.
  254. [Back to puzzle]
  255. Humboldt.
  256. [Back to puzzle]
  257. Mulock.
  258. [Back to puzzle]
  259. Lowell.
  260. [Back to puzzle]
  261. Virgil.
  262. [Back to puzzle]
  263. Akenside.
  264. [Back to puzzle]
  265. Wordsworth.
  266. [Back to puzzle]
  267. Steele.
  268. [Back to puzzle]
  269. Shakespeare.
  270. [Back to puzzle]
  271. Cowper.
  272. [Back to puzzle]
  273. WILLis.
  274. [Back to puzzle]
  275. Barry Cornwall.
  276. [Back to puzzle]
  277. Landon.
  278. [Back to puzzle]
  279. Landor.
  280. [Back to puzzle]
  281. Leigh Hunt.
  282. [Back to puzzle]
  283. Walpole.
  284. [Back to puzzle]
  285. Palmerston.
  286. [Back to puzzle]
  287. Russell.
  288. [Back to puzzle]
  289. Lytton.
  290. [Back to puzzle]
  291. Carlyle.
  292. [Back to puzzle]
  293. Seward.
  294. [Back to puzzle]
  295. W(h)ittier.
  296. [Back to puzzle]
  297. Chatter(t)on.
  298. [Back to puzzle]
  299. Because he has tenants.
  300. [Back to puzzle]
  301. It is a step fa(r)ther.
  302. [Back to puzzle]
  303. A draft.
  304. [Back to puzzle]
  305. A pack of cards.
  306. [Back to puzzle]
  307. A cord of wood.
  308. [Back to puzzle]
  309. Taking leave of things as they go.
  310. [Back to puzzle]
  311. His reaper.
  312. [Back to puzzle]
  313. It was Hamlet’s Uncle, who “did murder most foul.”
  314. [Back to puzzle]
  315. The Human Body.—1 The chest; 2 the eye-lids; 3 the knee-caps; 4 the ear-drums; 5 the nails; 6 the soles of the feet; 7 the muscles; 8 the palms of the hands; 9 the limbs; 10 two lips; 11 the hips; 12 the calves; 13 hairs; 14 the heart; 15 the eye-lashes; 16 the temples; 17 arms; 18 veins; 19 insteps; 20 eyes and nose; 21 pupils; 22 tendons.
  316. a The palate; b the roof (of the mouth;) c the bridge (of the nose;) d the shoulder-blades; e the iris (of each eye;) f the skull; g the spinal column; h the tongue; i the eye-balls, &c., jjj the stirrup, anvil and hammer (bones of the ear,) k locks (of hair).
  317. [Back to puzzle]
  318. Truant.
  319. [Back to puzzle]
  320. Scarecrow.
  321. [Back to puzzle]
  322. Intimate.
  323. [Back to puzzle]
  324. Codicil.
  325. [Back to puzzle]
  326. The hair.
  327. [Back to puzzle]
  328. Sixteen (those who were blind of both eyes, were also blind of one eye, &c.)
  329. [Back to puzzle]
  330. Because we have a W(h)ittier.
  331. [Back to puzzle]
  332. Because that was his name!
  333. [Back to puzzle]
  334. Because the other forty are Lent.
  335. [Back to puzzle]
  336. Now here, nowhere.
  337. [Back to puzzle]
  338. Ah no! (Arno.)
  339. [Back to puzzle]
  340. Unquestionably.
  341. [Back to puzzle]
  342. The road.
  343. [Back to puzzle]
  344. Columbus.
  345. [Back to puzzle]
  346. Met-a-physician.
  347. [Back to puzzle]
  348. Sackcloth.
  349. [Back to puzzle]
  350. The one who attends “patients on a monument.”
  351. [Back to puzzle]
  352. Rather he killed the gorilla.
  353. [Back to puzzle]
  354. She is a musing, b coming, d lighting, n chanting.
  355. [Back to puzzle]
  356. She is Sad you see.
  357. [Back to puzzle]
  358. She is Fair I see.
  359. [Back to puzzle]
  360. “The judicious Hooker.”
  361. [Back to puzzle]
  362. Yesterday.
  363. [Back to puzzle]
  364. Sunday; all the rest are week days.
  365. [Back to puzzle]
  366. Campbell.W. M. Praed.
  367. [Back to puzzle]
  368. Seldom, (cell-dumb.)
  369. [Back to puzzle]
  370. His equal.
  371. [Back to puzzle]
  372. Just ice.
  373. [Back to puzzle]
  374. The King’s Highway.
  375. [Back to puzzle]
    1. Robert Bruce.
    2. Sir Walter Scott.
    3. Cleopatra.
    4. Leonidas.
    5. Napoleon.
    6. John Milton.
    7. Louis XVI.
    8. Artemisia.
    9. Michael Angelo.
    10. Gustavus of Sweden.
    11. Warwick.
    12. Anne of Warwick.
    13. Christopher Wren.
    14. Cardinal Mezzofanti.
    15. Nelson.
    16. Robert Burns.
    17. The Chevalier Bayard.
    18. Cromwell.
    19. Sir Robert Walpole.
    20. Sopor, King of Persia.
    21. Death.
    22. Schwartz, or Roger Bacon.
    23. Alfred the Great.
    24. Captain Cook.
    25. Johannes Gutenberg.
    26. Marshal Ney.
    27. Galileo.
    28. Blucher.
    29. Sir Isaac Newton.
    30. Julius Cæsar.
    31. Sir Humphrey Davy.
    32. Sir Walter Raleigh.
    33. Sir James Ross.
    34. Alfred Tennyson.
    35. William Wordsworth.
    36. Geoffrey Chaucer.
    37. Charles XII of Sweden.
    38. The Black Prince.
    39. Sir Francis Drake.
    40. Talleyrand.
    41. Herodotus.
    42. Oysters.
    43. Soles.
    44. Herring.
    45. Crabs.
    46. Venison.
    47. Turkey.
    48. Bacon.
    49. Lamb.
    50. Goose.
    51. Hare.
    52. Duck.
    53. Woodcock.
    54. Partridge.
    55. Tongue.
    56. Terrapin.
    57. Potatoes.
    58. Pease.
    59. Parsnips.
    60. Tomatoes.
    61. Beets.
    62. Spinach(e).
    63. Cabbage.
    64. Cauliflower.
    65. Salad in.
    66. Jelly.
    67. Celery.
    68. Artichokes.
    69. Capers.
    70. Cucumbers.
    71. Salt.
    72. Hominy.
    73. Bread.
    74. A floating island.
    75. Whips.
    76. Currants.
    77. Gooseberries.
    78. Pears.
    79. Oranges.
    80. Pine apples.
    81. Apricots.
    82. Medlars.
    83. Figs.
    84. Grapes (gray apes.)
    85. Comfits.
    86. Nuts.
  376. Postage.
  377. [Back to puzzle]
  378. Baking—a king, b king, a kin.
  379. [Back to puzzle]
  380. Strawberry.
  381. [Back to puzzle]
  382. A Mushroom.
  383. [Back to puzzle]
  384. Fault.
  385. [Back to puzzle]
  386. A ditch.
  387. [Back to puzzle]
  388. When they chatter.
  389. [Back to puzzle]
  390. Short.
  391. [Back to puzzle]
  392. A pillow.
  393. [Back to puzzle]
  394. Advice.
  395. [Back to puzzle]
  396. Heat; you can catch cold.
  397. [Back to puzzle]
  398. Sausage.Rural New Yorker.
  399. [Back to puzzle]
  400. Hemlock.
  401. [Back to puzzle]
  402. Heroine; hero; her; he.
  403. [Back to puzzle]
  404. A blush.
  405. [Back to puzzle]
  406. He took his cup and saucer.
  407. [Back to puzzle]
  408. The cat’ll eat it.
  409. [Back to puzzle]
  410. B natural.
  411. [Back to puzzle]
  412. B sharp.
  413. [Back to puzzle]
  414. If the stairs were a way, I would go down stairs.
  415. [Back to puzzle]
  416. Nameless.
  417. [Back to puzzle]
  418. He “cut it too little”; that is, he did not cut it enough.
  419. [Back to puzzle]
  420. TOBACCO.
  421. [Back to puzzle]
  422. Because of the sandwiches (sand which is) there.
  423. [Back to puzzle]
  424. How did the sandwiches get there? Ans. There Ham dwelt, and there his descendants were bred and mustered (bread and mustard.)
  425. Was there any butter on the sandwiches? Ans. No; Ham took only his wife; he took none of his family BUT her.
  426. His was made of Gophir wood, and they are made to go for wood.
  427. [Back to puzzle]
  428. “Noah went forth.”
  429. [Back to puzzle]
  430. (M) a jest (y).
  431. [Back to puzzle]
  432. “Dreaming often;” dreaming of ten.
  433. [Back to puzzle]
  434. Yes; “perhaps” is most like maybe, or a bee in May.
  435. [Back to puzzle]
  436. The third gave it her ring, which Puss couldn’t eat.
  437. [Back to puzzle]
  438. On the other side.
  439. [Back to puzzle]
  440. Eusebius, (You see by us.)
  441. [Back to puzzle]
  442. Inch; chin.
  443. [Back to puzzle]
  444. Envy; (N. V.)
  445. [Back to puzzle]
  446. Pardon.
  447. [Back to puzzle]
  448. Cape, caper.
  449. [Back to puzzle]
  450. Ten, tenor.
  451. [Back to puzzle]
  452. Foe, four.
  453. [Back to puzzle]
  454. Oak, ochre.
  455. [Back to puzzle]
  456. Sow, soar.
  457. [Back to puzzle]
  458. Fee, fear.
  459. [Back to puzzle]
  460. Roe, roar.
  461. [Back to puzzle]
  462. Sue, sewer.
  463. [Back to puzzle]
  464. Be, beer.
  465. [Back to puzzle]
  466. Lie, lyre.
  467. [Back to puzzle]
  468. Beau, bore.
  469. [Back to puzzle]
  470. Stowe, store.
  471. [Back to puzzle]
  472. Sea, seer.
  473. [Back to puzzle]
  474. Cough, coffer.
  475. [Back to puzzle]
  476. Loaf, loafer.
  477. [Back to puzzle]
  478. Port, porter.
  479. [Back to puzzle]
  480. Pie, pyre.
  481. [Back to puzzle]
  482. Bat, batter.
  483. [Back to puzzle]
  484. Dee, deer.
  485. [Back to puzzle]
  486. Tart, Tartar.
  487. [Back to puzzle]
  488. Tea, tier.
  489. [Back to puzzle]
  490. Ye, year, yeast.
  491. [Back to puzzle]
  492. Bow, boar, boast.
  493. [Back to puzzle]
  494. Fee, fear, feast.
  495. [Back to puzzle]
  496. Pay, pear, paste.
  497. [Back to puzzle]
  498. Lea, Lear, least.
  499. [Back to puzzle]
  500. Bow, rower, roast.
  501. [Back to puzzle]
  502. Bee, bier, beast.
  503. [Back to puzzle]
  504. E, ear, east.
  505. [Back to puzzle]
  506. Co., core, coast.
  507. [Back to puzzle]
  508. Poe, pour, post.
  509. [Back to puzzle]
  510. Go, gore, ghost.
  511. [Back to puzzle]
  512. Weigh, weigher, waste.
  513. [Back to puzzle]
  514. “Dear Nephew;
    See, my coal on.
    Uncle John.”
    “Dear Uncle;
    Coal on!
    James.”
  515. [Back to puzzle]
  516. He is above doing a bad action.
  517. [Back to puzzle]
  518. Because a hen lays only one egg a day, and a ship lays to.
  519. [Back to puzzle]
  520. Because you can.
  521. [Back to puzzle]
  522. 1 corn, 2 needles, 3 pins, 4 buckles, 5 canals, 6 combs, 7 rivers, 8 roses, 9 clocks, 10 potatoes, 11 stars, 12 shoes.
  523. Hearth and Home.
  524. [Back to puzzle]
  525. The whale that swallowed Jonah.
  526. [Back to puzzle]
  527. Bunyan—a bunion.
  528. [Back to puzzle]
  529. A girl is a lass, and alas is an interjection.
  530. [Back to puzzle]
  531. Learning to go alone.
  532. [Back to puzzle]
  533. The door-bell.
  534. [Back to puzzle]
  535. White kids.
  536. [Back to puzzle]
  537. He would want muzzlin’.
  538. [Back to puzzle]
  539. When it lies in a well.
  540. [Back to puzzle]
  541. Three: Sirius and the two pointers.
  542. [Back to puzzle]
  543. Hailing omnibuses.
  544. [Back to puzzle]
  545. All the rest are in audible.
  546. [Back to puzzle]
  547. Because he is not a(p)parent.
  548. [Back to puzzle]
  549. A river.
  550. [Back to puzzle]
  551. Neither: both burn shorter.
  552. [Back to puzzle]
  553. Because it keeps its hands before its face; and, though full of good works, it is wholly unconscious of them, and always running itself down.
  554. [Back to puzzle]
  555. Manslaughter; man’s laughter.
  556. [Back to puzzle]
  557. Monosyllable.
  558. [Back to puzzle]
  559. A bed.
  560. [Back to puzzle]
  561. (P)shaw!
  562. [Back to puzzle]
  563. The sons raise meat there. (The sun’s rays meet there.)
  564. [Back to puzzle]
  565. Innocence Abroad, by Mark Twain (In no sense, a broad).
  566. [Back to puzzle]
  567. Facetiously.
  568. [Back to puzzle]
  569. Philip the Great.
  570. [Back to puzzle]
  571. Bug-bear.
  572. [Back to puzzle]
  573. Wat Tyler Will Rufus.
  574. [Back to puzzle]
  575. Bloomer (err; her; Herr).
  576. [Back to puzzle]
  577. Clio.
  578. [Back to puzzle]
  579. Cheat; heat; eat; at; chat; ache.
  580. [Back to puzzle]
  581. One; none.
  582. [Back to puzzle]
  583. Arrow-head.
  584. [Back to puzzle]
  585. A man of deceit
  586. Can best counterfeit;
  587. So, as everything goes,
  588. He can best count ’er toes.
  589. [Back to puzzle]
  590. Balaam’s Ass.
  591. [Back to puzzle]
  592. A kiss.
  593. [Back to puzzle]
  594. The five vowels.
  595. [Back to puzzle]
  596. Dotage.
  597. [Back to puzzle]
  598. Seaward.
  599. [Back to puzzle]
  600. Mimic.
  601. [Back to puzzle]
  602. Disgraceful.
  603. [Back to puzzle]
  604. The first made musical instruments; the second was a baggage-man; the third was employed in a gas-factory; and the fourth made candles.
  605. [Back to puzzle]
  606. Cod.
  607. [Back to puzzle]
  608. The postman.
  609. [Back to puzzle]
  610. Cowslip.
  611. [Back to puzzle]
  612. Love.
  613. [Back to puzzle]
  614. The axle-tree.
  615. [Back to puzzle]
  616. Because it is farthest from the bark.
  617. [Back to puzzle]
  618. Because his business makes him sell-fish.
  619. [Back to puzzle]
  620. Pearlash.
  621. [Back to puzzle]
  622. If he was a wonder, she was a Tudor.
  623. [Back to puzzle]
  624. LION
  625. INTO
  626. OTTO
  627. NOON.
  628. [Back to puzzle]
  629. A cock.
  630. [Back to puzzle]
  631. Enigma.
  632. [Back to puzzle]
  633. Crabbe, Shelley, Moore.
  634. [Back to puzzle]
  635. Goldsmith, Locke.
  636. [Back to puzzle]
  637. Campbell, Knight, Day, Foote.
  638. [Back to puzzle]
  639. His face.
  640. [Back to puzzle]
  641. BLIND.
  642. [Back to puzzle]
  643. Young, Gay, Hood, Lamb, Field, Gray, Fox, Hunt, Horne, Lingard, Wordsworth, Steele.
  644. [Back to puzzle]
  645. Marvell, Hilarius, Akenside, Manley, Hyde, Pope.
  646. [Back to puzzle]
  647. Aërial.
  648. [Back to puzzle]
  649. Bass, perch, roast pig, turkey, fillet, celery, gooseberry pudding, dates, Hamburg grapes.
  650. [Back to puzzle]
  651. Fire-fly.
  652. [Back to puzzle]
  653. The nose.
  654. [Back to puzzle]
  655. Walnut.
  656. [Back to puzzle]
  657. Pea-nut.
  658. [Back to puzzle]
  659. Butternut.
  660. [Back to puzzle]
  661. Beechnut.
  662. [Back to puzzle]
  663. Chestnut.
  664. [Back to puzzle]
  665. Cocoanut.
  666. [Back to puzzle]
  667. The morning glory.
  668. [Back to puzzle]
  669. Snow drops.
  670. [Back to puzzle]
  671. Spinach.
  672. [Back to puzzle]
  673. The passion flower.
  674. [Back to puzzle]
  675. The spruce tree.
  676. [Back to puzzle]
  677. Because he has Adam’s Needle, Jacob’s Ladder, and Solomon’s Seal.
  678. [Back to puzzle]
  679. Catnip and Henbane.
  680. [Back to puzzle]
  681. Heart-ache.
  682. [Back to puzzle]
  683. Cashmere.
  684. [Back to puzzle]
  685. Season.
  686. [Back to puzzle]
  687. A drum.
  688. [Back to puzzle]
  689. Chain, china, chin.
  690. [Back to puzzle]
  691. Charge, charger.
  692. [Back to puzzle]
  693. Scamp, scamper.
  694. [Back to puzzle]
  695. Lad, ladder.
  696. [Back to puzzle]
  697. Tell, teller.
  698. [Back to puzzle]
  699. Barb, barber.
  700. [Back to puzzle]
  701. Din, dinner.
  702. [Back to puzzle]
  703. I, ire.
  704. [Back to puzzle]
  705. Yew, ewer.
  706. [Back to puzzle]
  707. Owe, oar.
  708. [Back to puzzle]
  709. Crescent, (cress-scent.)
  710. [Back to puzzle]
  711. The 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 30th, in the circle, were Jews.
  712. [Back to puzzle]
  713. Honesty is the best policy. (On ST, etc.)
  714. [Back to puzzle]
  715. [Back to puzzle]
  716. The Tongue.
  717. [Back to puzzle]
  718. Bothwell.St. Nicholas.
  719. [Back to puzzle]
  720. A little more than kin and less than kind.
  721. [Back to puzzle]
  722. Clink, link, ink, chair, hair, air.
  723. [Back to puzzle]
  724. (1) D-ranged; (2) C-girt; (3) D-lighted; (4) N-hammered; (5) D-tested; (6) R-gone-out: (7) G-owed; (8) K-dense; (9) O-void; (10) S-pied; (11) B-held; (12) C-bored; (13) X-pensive; (14) D-famed. St. Nicholas.
  725. [Back to puzzle]
  726. Wake robin.
  727. [Back to puzzle]
  728. Fill blanks with: straining, training, raining; dashing, plashing, marching, arching.
  729. [Back to puzzle]
  730. Lily.
  731. [Back to puzzle]
  732. Ivanhoe.St. Nicholas.
  733. [Back to puzzle]
  734. Aries,—wearies. The enigma refers to the period when Taurus (the name of whose principal star Aldebaran signifies “He went before, or led the way,”) was First Constellation. Next, Aries, always First Sign, was also First Constellation; and now the Constellation Pisces “leads the year.”
  735. [Back to puzzle]
  736. Tissue.
  737. [Back to puzzle]
  738. Because it is written with great E’s.
  739. [Back to puzzle]
  740. Because it is written with two great E’s—(too great ease.)
  741. [Back to puzzle]
  742. Trace a five-pointed star, and plant a tree at each extreme point, and at each point of intersection.
  743. [Back to puzzle]
  744. In naught extenuate, and set down naught in malice.E. S. D.
  745. [Back to puzzle]
  746. That boy lied.
  747. [Back to puzzle]
  748. Fill the blanks with heart, story, art, tory.
  749. [Back to puzzle]
  750. Fill the blanks with plover, lover, over, ver; glowing, lowing, owing, wing.
  751. [Back to puzzle]
  752. “For thou art as deaf as a p-o-s-t.”
  753. [Back to puzzle]
  754. April: (ape, rill).
  755. [Back to puzzle]
  756. He mispronounced the word “full.” “You’re a fool, Moon,” said he.
  757. [Back to puzzle]
  758. The pronoun “it,” which may stand for anything on earth, or under or above the earth, seems to be the only possible solution. In the first line it stands, perhaps, for the utmost limit of space; in the second, for the centre of the earth, etc.
  759. [Back to puzzle]
  760. Dogmatic.
  761. [Back to puzzle]
  762. Cambyses.
  763. [Back to puzzle]
  764. About 117.7 feet. (Find the radius of a circle whose area is 43,560 square feet.).— Prof. Eaton, of Packer Institute.
  765. [Back to puzzle]
  766. Informal.
  767. [Back to puzzle]
  768. A DINNER PARTY—THE GUESTS.
  769. DISHES, ETC.
  770. [Back to puzzle]
LION
INTO
OTTO
NOON.

Note.—“[A headless man had a letter],” etc., [page 78]. Was “the letter” the letter O—equivalent to a cipher, to nought, or nothing? If this is the solution, then the headless man had “nothing” to write; “nothing” was read by the blind man; the dumb repeated and the deaf heard “nothing.”