The following will speak for itself:—
Mr. Robert Merry,
I like your riddles and charades very much. My mother says it sharpens the mind to guess them. So, I guess that the answer to the first riddle, in the November number of the Museum, is the letter R, and that the answer to the second is the letter A. He says that he “is also with a party of five.” Does this mean that he is one of the five vowels?
I think your Twenty Geographical Questions were very interesting, but I did not know enough of geography to answer them.
I am your true friend,
John L——n.
The following letter is interesting in itself, and it derives additional value from the fact that it has travelled about a thousand miles to find us. It was accompanied by correct answers to our Twenty Geographical Questions; thus showing that our little friends in Illinois know as much as our Yankee girls and boys. We shall be happy to be made acquainted with more of them.
Mr. Merry: