The Mystic Garden 



[All matter relating to this department sh 

 New Hampshire.] 



JANUARY PUZZLES. 



No. 16. CHAEADE. 



I passed a one in the shady road, 



And I said to my son as my wheel I bestrode, 



"I shall run a race to yonder two, 



For I ride a pace unknown to you." 



But a boy near by took -a whole you see, 

 And pointing his gun at a neighboring tree, 

 Fired wide of his mark, and pierced my tire, 

 So homeward I strode trembling with ire. 

 Hawley, Minn. Aunt Jane. 



No. 17. — SQLTARE. 



1. To set out or proceed spiritedly. 2. The 

 Oriental tamarisk. 3. A South American 

 woolly-haired cameloid ruminant. 4. A 

 prosimian mammal allied to the monkey. 

 5. To desire something anxiously. 



Canaan, N. H. Sweet Sixteen. 



No. 18. CHAEADE. 



Primal, "a healthy dish" they say 

 When taken early in the day, 

 Final certainly is meant 

 When defined to mean extent. 

 Total in physiology is seen 

 As one of the plants — not green. 

 Fresno, Calif. Gentle Annie. 



No. 19. — square. 



1. One of a pre-Latin people of southern 

 Italy. 2. To set out or proceed spiritedly. 

 3. Clubs. 4. A genus of shrubs or small 

 trees of the oak family. 5. A small but 

 widely scattered genus of trees or shrubs of 

 the dogwood family. Sweet Sixteen. 



Canaan, N. H. 



No. 20. REVEESAL. 



Should I meet in the street 



A poor afflicted one, 

 I'd two him, and then hurry 



O'er the road — yes, run. 

 Hawley, Minn. Aunt Jane. 



No. 21. SQUARE. 



1. An item in one's assets. 2. An instru- 

 ment for reducing a dislocation. 3. To set 

 out or proceed spiritedly. 4. A shrub of the 

 genus HamMcits. 5. A South American 

 weasel-like carnivore. Sweet Sixteen. 



Canaan, N. H. 



Id be addressed to Aunt Eunice, Elmwood, 



No. 22. — eeheadment. 



Complete assuredly means death, 

 Of which we speak with bated breath. 

 Cut off its head, then general rule 

 Says it is a carpenter's tool. 

 Again behead, and then we see 

 A pronoun, plain as plain can be. 

 Fresno, Calif. Gentle Annie. 



No. 23. SQUARE. 



1. Close tightly together. 2. A wine press. 

 3. Nimble. 4. To set out or proceed spirit- 

 edly. 5. Quarries. Sweet Sixteen. 



Canaan, N. H. 



No. 24- REVERSAL. 



If a one man drinks all he can 

 From the old second cask. 



It's my belief he'll come to grief, 

 And that is all I'd ask. 

 Hawley, Minn. Aunt Jane. 



No. 25. SQUARE. 



1. To accumulate. 2. The divinely supplied 

 food on which the Israelites subsisted in the 

 wilderness. 3. One of the order of spiritual 

 beings endowed with immortal life. 4. A 

 snood. 5. To set out or proceed spiritedly. 



Canaan, N. H. Sweet Sixteen. 



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