3. Left-hand Hour-glass.—1. Spotted. 2. Fences sunk below the ground. 3. A mite. 4. In drawling. 5. The dado. 6. A map. 7. Calcined gypsum.
4. Right-Hand Hour-glass.—1. Revolves. 2. Writing material. 3. A couch. 4. In drawling. 5. A beverage. 6. To step. 7. To sparkle.
Vincent V. M. Beede, R.T.F.
No. 31.—A Heterogeneous Pie.
A maniac in a Canadian asylum once requested his keeper to bring him a pie composed of the following ingredients:
One object1 which once bore the words, "For the fairest," won by Venus; one cup of one2 who rides the main; three cups of an appropriate name3 for a hard-headed animal; a morsel of a rod4 little used in billiards; a nickname5 applied to a New England State; one pound of the fish6 that struggles; a goodly quantity of the fruit7 from which a mechanic in one of Shakespeare's comedies derives his name; a dash of the nom de plume8 of James W. Morris; forty incites9; a heaping measure of the substance10 indicated by the blank.
"Not a ——
But shows some touch in freckle, streak, or stain,
Of his unrivall'd pencil."—Cowper.
Xentrique.