Surely every one of my readers has heard or read of this little girl who, while on her way to her grandmother's house, met the fierce wolf in the woods. The words in italics represent the anagram, and I am confident some of the bright little readers would soon discover in the above line their well-known friend Little Red Riding-hood. Is not this an excellent anagram?
A gentleman of New Haven, Connecticut, who uses the nom de plume of "O. Possum," is the author of the following—and I fancy some of the older members of the family would have to assist to solve it, being an anagram of a well-known book that few of the little folks read:
Past homes of Italy pied.
"Of days gone by, a story written
By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton."
The answer is The Last Days of Pompeii.
From the landing of the Pilgrims down to the present day the history of our country is full of grand events that afford most excellent subjects for anagrams, and many of my friends have utilized some of them. I could fill several pages with the anagrams I have collected, but lack of space compels me to give only a few of the best.
A contributor who uses the nom de plume of "Jim Jam" was the first to use the event of Washington crossing the Delaware for an anagram, with the following result:
A hard, howling, tossing water scene.
Soon after receiving this a friend, now dead, sent me the following on the same subject. His nom de plume was "Graham":
Lo! see rash acting with dangers won.
One "Percy Vere" also used this subject, with this result: