No. 8.
1, Lark—Shakespeare. 2, Cock—Longfellow. 3, Jay—Longfellow. 4, Bluebird—Longfellow. 5, Duck—O. W. Holmes. 6, Turtle-dove—D. Conway. 7, Cuckoo—Shakespeare. 8, Cuckoo—Shakespeare. 9, Pheasant—William Howitt. 10, Gull—O. W. Holmes. 11, White owl—Longfellow. 12, Eagle—Mrs. Barbauld. 13, Nightingale—Coleridge. 14, Nightingale—Coleridge.
Kinks.
No. 9.—Central Acrostic.
If the cross-words—of equal length—are correctly solved, the central letters, reading downward, will spell the name of a Greek hero whose life ended with the burning of a brand.
Cross-words.—1. A weight used in sounding. 2. Cuts into two parts. 3. A large wild-duck; the greenhead. 4. An overseer. 5. Imprisonment. 6. Long gaiters. 7. A plant clinging by tendrils. 8. Bespangled.
No. 10.—A Mathematical Melange.
From the date of the siege of Saragossa subtract that of Valentinian's death: add the number of letters in the name of a common article; divide by the number of Henry VIII.'s wives; multiply by a German word of denial; divide by the number of letters in a whip used for punishing criminals; subtract the age of the "Sage of Monticello"; add the weight of the giant anvil at the Woolwich Arsenal, England, and that of the Braganza diamond (in carats). The square root of the first half of this number multiplied by 1/37 of the second half will give the number of letters in the name of "The Blooming Grace." Who is she?