39.

It is no offence to conspire in the evening, because what is treasonable is reasonable after t!

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40.

The bit of botany—

Inscribe an m above a line,
And write an e below,
This woodland flower is hung so fine
It bends when zephyrs blow—

is solved by, me, an em on e, the delicately hung wind-flower.

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41. A PIED PROVERB

The pied proverb, is “A rolling stone gathers no moss.”