| Rochester, N.Y. | Egerton. |
No. 3. Charade.
| Prime not, ye fair ladies, or gentlemen wise. To disbelieve what for your fortune will prove; Next total, not gold, should select as a prize, Three, friends, to the right, and marry for love. |
| Danville, Va. | Aleda. |
No. 4. Pentagon.
1. A letter. 2. The pulp of fruit. 3. A shrub of the genus Corylus. 4. The Brazil nut. 5. Deep blue colors. 6. Contrite. 7. A detached bastion (Fort.) 8. To admit extension. 9. Rigid.
| Haverhill, Mass. | Pygmy. |
No. 5. Mutation.
| Like a hawk that pounces on its prey, Swift as lightning on a summer day, Through the stillness of the air you came, Without life, and more—without a name. Man has called you whole—perhaps you are Dross ejected from some brilliant star! But methinks the spheres their place will yield Ere to time your mystery is revealed. |
| Newark, N.J. | Demosthenes. |