8 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



rubber ever since America was explored, yet, until a 

 few years ago, we made no use of it except for rubbing 

 pencil marks out of paper ! 



Here follows a charade by no less eminent a 

 person than the great statesman, Charles James 

 Fox. Why do we introduce it in this place ? 

 That is a question which the ingenious reader will 

 answer for himself when he shall have solved the 

 charade. The key to it will be found in the pre- 

 ceding pages : 



' Inscribed on many a learned page, 



In mystic characters and sage, 

 Long time my first has stood ; 



And though its golden age be past, 



In wooden walls it yet may last, 

 Till clothed in flesh and blood. 



My second is a welcome prize 



For those who love their curious eyes 

 With foreign sights to pamper ; 



But should it chance their gaze to meet, 



Jll improvise, in the street, 

 Oh ! how 't would make them scamper ! 



My third 'a a kind of wandering throne, 



To woman limited alone, 

 The Salique law reversing ; 



But when the imaginary queen 



Prepares to act this novel scene, 

 Her royal part rehearsing ; 



Overturning her presumptuous plan, 



Up jumps the old usurper Man." 



