A word that means to cleanse, behead,
And leave of cloth a kind;
Behead again, and leave a seed
Canaries love to find;
Behead again, and it will leave
An animal behind.
Transpose my first, and it becomes
A set of antics gay;
Then curtail twice, and leave what oft
Projects into a bay;
Curtail again, and leave what boys
Will put in mother’s way.
Transpose again, and find a word
To horses may apply;
Curtail it twice, and leave a step
That one can measure by;
Behead it, and you have a card
That often counts for high.
Transpose again, and bring to light
A well-known proper name;
And in the very center find
A serpent known to fame,
That caused the death of one,—a queen,—
Who laid to beauty claim. h. h. d.
HALF WORD-SQUARE.
A member of a legislative body; a plant; new; periods of time; to allow, reversed; a preposition; a consonant. a. c. crett.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN MARCH NUMBER.
A Common Adage.—“Well begun is half done.”
Literary Enigma.—
“Sweet was the sound when oft at evening’s close
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.”
Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village.”
1. Euripides. 2. Tasso. 3. Southey. 4. Hume. 5. Irving. 6. Carlyle. 7. Wordsworth. 8. Hawthorne. 9. Lyell. 10. Davy. 11. Emerson. 12. Mann.