Kinks.
No. 87.—Charade.
A worthy foe: a trusty friend, the safest friend to have,
For if you differ, never mind, no danger is to brave.
A friend so easily shut up, so readily put down.
Can give no cause for sore regret, for deep remorse to drown.
A thing almost all people hate, and nervous people fear.
So ugly, that to naturalists it only can be dear.
Yet when that hateful stage is past it lives its little hour,
A floating gleam of beauty, it blossoms like a flower.
The very happiest life on earth, I do believe, is this,
He sits and lets your world go by, and his own world is his!
And if he does no good at all, he surely does no harm.
And science, wisdom, wit, and song, fill all his days with charm.
Possibly 'tis an idle life, only a life of ease,
Or worse than all, a selfish life, but don't disturb him, please!
No. 88.—A Study in Cats.
| 1. | A list of numerous things of worth. |
| 2. | An inundation of the earth. |
| 3. | A kind of useful fishing-boat. |
| 4-5. | Some helps to sailors when afloat. |
| 6. | A mineral used for making soap. |
| 7. | A transformation of a trope. |
| 8. | The parent of the butterfly. |
| 9. | A bad affection of the eye. |
| 10. | A surgeon's amputating knife. |
| 11. | A poultice that may save your life. |
| 12. | A book that should be oftener read. |
| 13. | A resting-place for honored dead. |
| 14. | A sepulchre in foreign lands. |
| 15. | A cruel whip with many strands. |
| 16. | A cataract or waterway. |
| 17. | I take your senses quite away. |
| 18. | A spicy sauce to use with meat. |
| 19. | A class of workers with four feet. |
| 20. | A kind of ivy often found. |
| 21-22. | Sciences of reflected sound. |
| 23. | A heavy armor used of old. |
| 24. | The doctrines of the church, I'm told. |
| 25. | A mineral used for isinglass. |
| 26. | A useful herb you often pass. |
| 27. | An engine used for throwing stones. |
| 28. | A remedy for broken bones. |
| 29. | I form a chain of many links. |
| 30. | A philosophic list, methinks. |
| 31. | Essential to the violin. |
| 32. | I'm noted for my scaly skin. |
The Prize Story Contest.
Members forget that it takes a much longer time to read several hundred stories and weigh their merits than it does to examine puzzle answers. To this fact is due the necessary delay over our last Story Competition. But the decisions have been made, and the First Prize Story, with names of all successful contestants, will be announced next week.