PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

No. 1.

CONUNDRUMS.

1. Why is the letter J like the end of spring?
2. What is the most useful letter to a deaf old lady?
3. When may a chair be said to dislike you?
4. When is a window like a star?
5. Why is corn like a rose-bush?
6. Why is an egg like a colt?

No. 2.

CHARADE.

When sharp and blustering is my first,
And all are under cover,
Before the cheerful fireside sit
My second and her lover.
Empire City.


No. 3.