A Subscriber.
- My 8th, 2d, 9th, 19th, 24th, 4th, was a celebrated English poet.
- My 3d, 26th, 14th, 16th, 27th, is one of the elements.
- My 21st, 11th, 6th, 7th, 26th, 8th, exists only in imagination.
- My 14th, 9th, 10th, 5th, 19th, is a gaudy flower.
- My 4th, 11th, 20th, 13th, 17th, 16th, 26th, 9th, was a Swiss philosopher.
- My 19th, 1st, 5th, 22d, is various in form and expression.
- My 9th, 15th, 28th, 26th, 14th, is an article of extensive commerce.
- My 12th, 13th, 9th, 4th, 19th, 24th, 27th, was strikingly exemplified in
- My 4th, 7th, 8th, 1st, 26th, 4th, 6th, 14th, 1st, 16th, 14th, 15th, 5th, 4th, 6th.
- My 19th, 26th, 19th, 26th, 3d, is a foreign production.
- My 14th, 16th, 23d, 10th, was a famous archer.
- My 13th, 14th, 26th, 14th, 9th, 16th, is pale and motionless.
- My 24th, 26th, 25th, 18th, 23d, is much used in one of the polite arts.
- My 6th, 2d, 13th, 14th, 14th, 1st, 2d, 9th, 26th, 8th, 8th, 2d, 22d, 6th, asks your opinion of my whole.
Philadelphia, April 6, 1842.
Mr. Merry:
You will pardon the liberty that one of your juvenile admirers has taken, by sending you a puzzle for your invaluable Museum. The subject is one that you are very familiar with, and as I have but just made it my subject, perhaps full justice may not have been done to its character. I have at least tried to make the best of it.
Elizabeth.
I am composed of 9 letters.
- My 4th, 8th, 6th, is the retreat of a wild beast.
- My 9th, 2d, 4th, is the name of the Creator.
- My 4th, 2d, 5th, is a female deer.
- My 6th, 8th, 4th, is a nickname for a boy.
- My 3d, 2d, 8th, is what cloth is made from.
- My 1st, 3d, 5th, is a scripture denunciation.
- My 7th, 5th, 9th, is a part of the human frame.
- My 9th, 2d, 9th, is a record kept by seamen.
- My 2d, 4th, 8th, is a piece of poetry.
- My 4th, 3d, 6th, is a Spanish title.
- My 4th, 2d, 9th, is a sagacious animal.
- My 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, is a romantic spot.
- My 6th, 3d, 4th, is where Adam’s first son went and dwelt.
- My 7th, 8th, 6th, 4th, is an act of friendship.
- My 4th, 3d, 1st, 6th, is an article of commerce.
- My 9th, 3d, 1st, 6th, is a female dress.
- My 9th, 2d, 1st, 8th, 6th, is a Scottish name for a small flower.
- My 8th, 4th, 5th, 6th, is the first spot inhabited by human beings.
- My 9th, 3d, 2d, 4th, is what all people should be.
- My whole is what my friend Robert Merry has found very useful to himself in moving through the world.
Utica, April 9, 1842.
Mr. Merry: