"Read this event on history's page—
The cold waters swashing on in rage."
While "Edwin Drood's" attempt resulted as follows:
Watch a soldier hang on, steering s.w.
This was sent to me more as a joke, and the answer given as "Crossington washing the Delaware," but both answers can be found. I will here say that a true and perfect anagram should not contain a single letter to represent words, as in the one given above; nor should any but proper abbreviations be used, and these as rarely as possible.
The two following were composed by "Traddles," who, by-the-way, is looked upon as quite an expert in this amusement:
Horror flee! Rude war's better ended.
"The surrender of Robert Edward Lee," which also ended the war of the rebellion.
A French site. 'Tis blotted out, eh?
"The destruction of the Bastile," a terrible state-prison, which was destroyed by the people of Paris on the 15th of July, 1789.
O! glad boy finds rich metal in clay of shoal river.