[16]. Perverse—preserve.
[17]. Fiddle. (Take V from FIVE, and insert DDL.)
[18]. A Chinese.
[19]. By gently and frequently scratching the table-cloth within three or four inches of the tumbler, the coin will creep from under.
[20]. Come ye ingenious ones, this riddle guess,
It is not difficult, you will confess.
What is that number which, if you divide,
You then will nothing leave on either side?
(The figure 8, divided laterally.)
[21]. When one will not, two can not quarrel.
[22]. A great many of our difficulties may be overcome by assiduity and proper diligence. Mischief lurks under dissimulation.
[23]. Draw a horizontal line from the shoulders of one dog to the tail of the other, and from the fore legs of one to the hind legs of the other.
[24]. Hasten. (a, an, hat, he, neat, eat, then, at, than, ah!) There are other words out of which may be made all the parts of speech.
[25]. Facetiously, Abstemiously.