I remain your faithful subscriber,
a blue-eyed friend,
T. S. McC.
Mr. Merry:
In answer to Bertha’s charade in your May number, I can do no less than send you the following, hoping you will notice it in your next, and oblige B.
- Dear Bertha, if I don’t intrude,
- The truth that’s in your story
- Is what you mean by “earthly good,”
- Likewise the “path to glory.”
- The first is T, the end of Lot;
- The second’s r,—you know it;
- That stands for rest, and every jot
- As plain as words can show it.
- And if the end of malt be t,
- As I do now conceive it,
- It doubtless must the fourth one be—
- In truth, I do believe it.
- The third is u, I do believe,
- In fact you’ll not deny it;
- And if I do the right conceive,
- The fifth is h—let’s try it.
- There is an h in spelling heaven,
- Likewise in spelling hell;
- Now, if I am not much mistaken,
- There’s one in spelling shell.
- If now I make them all combined,
- Your anxious heart ’twill soothe—
- Likewise ’twill ease my weary mind,
- So let us call them TRUTH!
M.
Lancaster, May 5th, 1842.
Dear Mr. Merry:
Permit me, although an unknown friend, to address a few lines to you concerning your interesting little Magazine. I have taken it for more than one year, and I must say, the more numbers I get of it, the better I like them. I hope you will not discontinue the story of Thomas Trotter’s Voyages and Travels very shortly, as it is, in my estimation, the most interesting story I ever read. Your Magazine has become very popular, and I hope it may continue and increase in popularity, as I am certain there is no one, that is more worthy of a liberal patronage than Robert Merry’s Museum. If you will be kind enough to insert in your next month’s Magazine the enigma that I have composed, (which you will find on the other side,) you will oblige your true friend,
Virginia.