Mr. Robert Merry:
The following puzzle is from three subscribers for Merry’s Museum for 1842, and it will oblige them to see it in the May number.
H. T. C.
E. J. S.
J. W. C.
I am a word of 13 letters.
- My 3d, 12th, 13th, 5th, 12th, and 9th, is the
- name of one of the ex-presidents of the United States.
- My 1st, 8th, 13th, and 9th, is a name common with the female sex.
- My 4th, 5th, 12th, and 13th, is the name of a metal.
- My 7th, 9th, 6th, and 2d, is the name of another.
- My 11th, 10th, 9th, and 2d, is a common thing
- with boys in winter.
- My 6th, 4th, and 5th, is one of the elements.
- My whole is the name of a great warrior.
I am quite pleased with the following, and should be happy to hear from Bertha very often.
CHARADE.
- My first’s the end of him whose wife
- Was turned one day to salt;
- And doubtless, if the truth must out,
- My fourth’s the end of malt.
- My second, if you will believe it,
- Essential is to rest;
- My third,—and you can well conceive it,—
- Is that which you love best.
- My fifth—my last—’tis found in heaven—
- ’Tis found, alas! in hell;
- And though not in an oyster met,
- It lives in every shell.
- Already hath my humble name
- In these brief lines been set;
- But modest merit’s overlooked,
- And you don’t see me yet!
- I am the greatest earthly good,—
- The only path to glory,—
- Come, gentle reader, guess my name,
- And keep me e’er before thee!—Bertha.
The letter from J. A. is very gratifying, so I give it an insertion.
Petersburgh, Va., March 2, 1842.