To see eight or ten vats full of these frightful creatures will unnerve a stranger, but to the planter it is a pleasant sight. As the blue deepens the coolie's exertions increase. Every muscle is strained, his head is thrown back, his chest expanded, and his long black hair drips with the white foam, still he keeps up the measured beat, and his cries pierce the morning air. Such scenes as I have described continue for about three hours, after which the coolies are exhausted, and require rest.

Although the following curious puzzle, kindly sent by our correspondent E. L. W., is not new, it may amuse many of our little readers who have never seen it before. Those who are successful in discovering the answers will have their names included among the solvers of puzzles in No. 154:

BISHOP OF OXFORD'S PUZZLE.

I have a trunk with—
1. Two lids.
2. Two caps.
3. Two musical instruments.
4. Two established measures.
5. A great number of things a carpenter can not dispense with.
6. I have always about me a couple of good fish.
7. A great number of smaller ones.
8. Two lofty trees.
9. Fine flowers.
10. The fruit of an indigenous plant.
11. Two playful animals.
12. A number of smaller and less tame breed.
13. A fine stag.
14. A great number of whips without handles.
15. Some weapons of warfare.
16. A number of weather-cocks.
17. The steps of a hotel.
18. The House of Commons on the eve of a division.
19. Two students, and a number of Spanish grandees to wait upon them.
20. A wooden box.
21. Two fine buildings.
22. The product of a camphor and caoutchouc tree.
23. Two beautiful phenomena.
24. A piece of money.
25. An article used by Titian.
26. A kind of boat in which balls are held.
27. An article used crossing rivers.
28. A fine pair of blades without handles.
20. Part of a carpenter's implement.
30. A letter finished off with bows.
31. Secure fastenings for the whole.
All these are in the human body.

Exchangers are requested to state definitely what they wish, as well as what they have to exchange. Do not say that you have certain articles for "offers," but name the things you prefer to receive, whether coins, books, stamps, or curiosities.

C. Y. P. R. U.

Many of the boys and girls who read this column have derived a great deal of pleasure and profit too from the stories and histories of Jacob Abbott. His "Rollo Books" and "Franconia Stories" contain a great deal of information about every-day things, and his graver works are as entertaining as stories, so that any C. Y. who wishes to be both amused and instructed is always perfectly safe in choosing from the library a volume by Jacob Abbott.