"The St. Nicholas Club, of Philadelphia," a company of young puzzlers, have sent us four clever metrical answers to Mr. Cranch's poetical charades published in the April number. We are sorry that we have not room to print all these answers, but here are two of them:
First Charade.
When swiftly in the car you glide,
With friend or lover by your side,
All fear or danger you deride.
But should the car be overset,
You surely will be in a pet,
Although no ill betide.
When safely in your home you rest,
With foot upon the carpet pressed,