Take a dish for an invalid,
Neither liquid nor solid.
Mix it well with a space
That's broad and not squalid.
'Twill make you a dish
That epicures covet,
And all who partake
Will vow that they love it.
No. 17.—A Menu.
Soup—lake in Minnesota. Fish—cape in Massachusetts, river in Connecticut. Roast—river in Tennessee, lake in California. Vegetables—river in Vermont, river in Alabama. Entrées—town in Arizona, river in Montana. Dessert—city in New Jersey, island off Connecticut coast, river in Arkansas, river in Montana, river in Mississippi.
No. 18.—A Dinner Party.
Some time ago, no matter when, a grand dinner party was given, at which were guests who assumed the following names, in order to make the feast a celebration, by famous Americans, of a great American event. The assumed names were:
| 1, Common, a county, a human being. |
| 2, Government appropriation. |
| 3, Good advice, to cease from. |
| 4, Casual, worn out, a slip. |
| 5, A fish, a city in Oregon, to pursue. |
| 6, A vegetable, a drink, a hinderance, torpid. |
| 7, An Irish nickname, a stack, a fowl, grain. |
| 8, An animal's cry, meat, a torch, to peruse. |
| 9, To agree, cleansing, a weight. |
| 10, Two Bible characters, a meadow. |
| 11, A patriarch, a beverage. |
| 12, To satisfy, a wine, a cave. |
| 13, A small truck, a cry, a film, a heavenly body. |
| 14, A past participle, a sweetmeat, a tavern, hirsute, a relation. |
| 15, A fowl, to recompense, the strand, to wander. |
| 16, A plant, a verb, two letters, residences. |
| 17, A nickname, an animal, a whirlpool, a luminary. |
| 18, A bird, a Russian, a small room, to sink, to flow. |
| 19, An outfit, a chariot, a relation. |
| 20, Headgear, a weight, an animal. |