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parlor window. We can look on to the piazza from 
your window ; will you come witli me and let us loolc ? " 
Bridi^ct was rather flattered at the idi-a of Mary coming 
to her for protection, so she cautiously stepped to the 
■window, and together they peeped out. Yes, there was 
something; black there— it was a man ! but what was he 
doing;? Just then they heard a uoisc behind them, and 
Marj', uttering a suppressed shriek, would certainly have 
fainted for the first time in her life, if Harry, who had 
come into the room iu his bare feet, hadn't spoken on 
the instant. 
Hairy was about twelve years old, a good-natured 
frolicsome chap, not much afraid of anything : and when 
he heard what was the matter, in answer to bis question 
of what iu the world they were up to, he laughed at them 
and guessed they'd been scared by an owl. 
*'Sh-h, Harry," whispered Mary, "come here and you 
can see him. What is he doing now, Bridget ? he ecems 
to be sitting down " 
*' Why it is a fellow!" said Harry, '■'wUcrc's Htlher's 
pistol?" 
" Oh ! don't, Harry, maybe he'll go away."' 
'• Well I'll scare him, any way 1 " said Harry, •' I'll go 
and get my toot-horn and blow it at him." 
''For the land sake child," said Bridget iu a loud 
whisper, "what good wilt that do! " 
But Harry had run off, and Mary, feeling a little more 
courageous in company, said, '"let him get it. Bridget, per- 
haps the man may think it isa lunatic asylum and go oft"." 
Just then Harry came to the window, and blew a loud 
blast oil one of those fearful trumpets that six-year-old 
hoys love so well. 
Bridget and Maiy had been keeping their eyes on the 
man, wlio hastily rose to Iiis feet when he heard the horn, 
and they could hear him muttering for a few minutes. 
Then he stepped to the door and rang the bell. 
Harry put his head out of the window and called out, 
"Hullo! what's wanting? " 
" Is anything the matter with you's, inside there ? " 
*'No, we are just amusing ourselves a little: what do 
you want?" 
"Faith then I came in to take a little quiet nap on your 
pee-azy, but its little sleep one nd get with fish-horns 
tooting round iu the middle of the night, and women a 
schramln', so I'll bid you good night and go onto the 
next town, where I was going when I came in hereto 
rest me awhile," and away he went muttering, 
" mighty quarc doin's iu there, any way ; it isn't a right 
house at all ! " 
Harry only blew tlie horu once, but that once astonish- 
ed many of the neighbors who were within hearing dis- 
tance, and when the story of that night's adventure was 
told iu the village, they were glad to solve the mystery of 
that one blast at midnight, for some of the old ladies were 
seriously frightened at what they were sure was some 
mysterious warning. 
AiiEtt $iiie*s I*aizzle»lCox. 
AN AG n A MS. 
1. Stravs. 
2. Pursued. 
3. Deserve. 
4. Claimed. 
5. Praised. 
G. Earnest. 
7. Paternal. 
8. Umbrella. 
9. Catalogue. 
10. Customer. 
(Ton puzzlers need not think that the above anagrams 
are " answ'vs " iu the wrong place : each one word re- 
solves itself iuto another perfect word. — A. S.) 
NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 21 letters : 
My 7, (>, 16, 17, 13. is an imaginary being. 
My 2. 8, 13, 14, 2, If), 15, 21, is a girl's name. 
Mv l'*^, 3, 5. 10, is a vessel. 
My 11, l(t, 12, 20, 21. 3, is a relative. 
My 4, 6, 0, 1, is a smt of handle. 
My whole is a well-known proverb. 
Hon. O. R. Able. 
diamond puzzle. 
The center letters, horizontal and pei-pendicnlar, name 
an old fiicnd. 
1. Found iu the earth. 2. A shrnb. 3. A musical in- 
etruraenf. 4. A daily record. 5. A game for one. 6. A 
household article. 7. Connected with the familv circle. 
8. Joining together. 0. Dwellings. 10. Sidewalk. 11. 
An article of clothing. 12. A sprite. 13. Found in oveiy 
shell. W. L. Edwakds, Jn. 
CROSS WORD. 
My first is in morning but not in sun, 
My next is in cannon but not; in gun, 
My third is in hen hut not in duck, 
My fourth is iu good but not in luck, 
My fifth is in dal-k but not in light. 
My sixth is in nearly but not in quite, 
My whole comes only once a week, 
I'm sure its name I need not speak. L. Fisiier. 
A PARTY OF GIRLS. 
1. Let him in, Niece Rachel.— 2. She lent me hcrnew 
book.— 3. I bouirht these vases in New York. — 1. Hark, 
Tom I A bell is ringing.— 5. Arthur, that tie is quite he- 
comin-j.- 6. Sydney Carr, I expelled your brother from 
school for disobedience. — 7. Fred, I think you grow tall. 
— 8. Hal, I certainly told you to learn your lesson. — 0. 
Charlie is fond of music or a good book.'— 10. I let them 
make some cake. — 11. Tliat dog is surelv going mad, 
Georgie.— 12. The lad died on hia way to Calcutt;i. 
Minnie Thomas. 
Notscant cuptoacoin strepvcn mapetitnot. 
ALPHABETICAL AKITHMETIC. 
I R E ) O K F W L ( N F t 
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PK 
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P 
P 
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ISLANDS. 
1. This gives a relish to our food, 
But by dyspeptics 'tis tabooed. 
2. Fresh from the mint, a coin of gold 
Quite free from '' moth and dust" of old. 
3. A relic of the ocean we display 
A souvenir found mid briny spray. 
4. Its varied hues all poets praise 
In sunrise, sunset, storm or haze. 
5. Tliis nation often war has waged 
With cruel vigor when engaged. 
6. Invoked by Indian braves with awe 
Before they bloody weapons draw. IIenrt. 
TRANSPOSED DECAPITATIONS. 
1. Behead a girl's name, and transpose the remainder 
into a l)oy'.'^ nickname. 
2. Behead a graving tool, and transpose the remainder 
into destruction. 
3. Behead a European river, and transpose the remain- 
der into a wagon. 
4. Behead a tree, and transpose the remainder iuto a 
man's name. 
5. Beliead a shnib, and transpose the remainder iuto a 
sound state. 
(), Behead a musical instrument, and transpose the re- 
mainder into a Icind of cement. Italian Bot. 
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NEAR 
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE FEERUABT NUMBER. 
WnAT Cities and Rivers mean. Transposed.— 1. Herat 
—earth. 2. Oka— oak. 3. Save— vase. 4. Basle— sable. 5. 
Etjro— robe. 6. Cork— rock. 
Anagrams OF,SroTT's CHiBAOT.ERs.— l. .Teannle Deans. 
2. Old Mortiility. 3. Robin Hood. 4. Friar Tuck. .'i. Fenel- 
la. 6. I'litibertignibet. 7. Amy Robsart. 8. Helen McGregor, 
y. The White Lady. 10. Diana Vernou. 
Chat: ADE.— Nonsense. 
Squake Words.— 1. SALT 
ALOE 
L O li E 
TEEM 
Cross Word.— Salt Peter. , 
Numerical Enigmas.— 1. Hearth and home. 
ampton. 
Pi.— Plain livinE; and higli thinking are no more. 
The homely beauty of tlie goo<l old cause 
Is tronc ; our peace, our fearful innocence. 
And pure religion breathing household laws. 
Diamond Puzzle.— P Pumpkin, 
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HOMER 
PUMPKIN 
MAKER 
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ALPHAnETHICAL ARITHMETIC.- 291)5841756(20074. 
" Tou take Ned."J 
Concealed Rivers.- 1. Elk. 2. Po. 3. Goose. 
5. White. 6. Rogue. 7. North. 8. Sliell. 9. Leon. 
11. Isa. 
Riddle.— A clock. 
Eclipses.— 1. Two, too, to. 2. Hare, hair. 3. Belle, bell. 
4. Bored, board. 5.- Sent, cent, scent. 6. In, inn. 7. Lief, 
lent". 8. ftlaid, made. 9. Write, rite, right, wright. 
Thanks for puzzles, If-tters, etc., to Win. S. N., Effie. Albert 
and AnuMisia, <ieo. H. Davis, Mary B. C, Tip, Ben, E. S. D., 
J. F. WagiKN , Eddie Lyons, and Clus. 
Send co/nmu/if'caffons for (he Puzzle Box to Aunt Sue, 
Box 111, P. (?., Brookhjn\ X. Y., and not to 245 Broadway. 
ilTc'j : 
■I. Don. 
10. i:eil. 
Nothing gives me more nleasure than to have my boys 
and girls ask questions, and I am especially pleased when 
these questions show that tlie writer wishes to know 
about the common things around him. A very sensible 
question is sent me by Master J. A. Snow, who lives in 
Iowa. He says that he has been told that air, like other 
bodies, expands when heated, and that is all he has 
learned about it. Very naturally he wishes to know how 
much air expands for a certain amount of heat. lie 
puts his question in this way: " Suppose we have a cubic 
foot of air at the freezing point of water, (32°), and heat 
it to the boiling point. (212°), how much space will that 
cubic foot of air then occnpj', or how much will it ex- 
pand for each degree cf heat." — It is a great pity that 
Buch matters as these— which may be called the first prin- 
ciples of things— were not taught iu every school. It 
seems to me much more important that every child 
should knnw all about the air which surrounds him than 
that he should learn the names of the different uings of 
England, and when their rcigus began or en'led. But 
to answer our friend: the law of the expansion of air, 
(and all other gases), is a very simple one ^s fts rate of ex- 
pansion is uniform for all degrees of heat. It is eqnal to 
V4;i'jd of its volume at the freezing point of water (-12°). 
for each additional degree of hep.i. To put it in another 
form : 4!i3 cubic inches of a'r at 32°. will, if heated to 
S^J**, or one degree, become 49J cubic inches, and so on for 
every added degree of heat. This has been found true 
foral! temperatures, so far as ha3 beea tested. AVith 
liquids and solids the case is very different, each having 
its own rate of expansion. Water expands very irregu- 
larly, as you will sec if j-^ou read an article on page 19 in 
January last, headed "fi Water, 9 Ice." Above 39° water 
expands V22 of its bu^k for each degree of heat between 
that point and 212°. Mercury, the expansion of which 
is of so much importance to us because it is used to 
measure heat in the thermometer, or heat measurer, ex- 
pands very regularly between 32° and 212° for each de- 
gree of heat V65-5 of its bulk ; beyond 212° it varies 
somewhat. Alcohol expands V-j its bulk for each degree. 
But the subject is a wide one, and 1 only intended to help 
my young friend out of bis difficulty : perhaps from the 
rule I have given, he will tell the rest of us how large his 
cubic-foot of air would be if heated from 32° to 212°. — 
To your slate and pencil Master Snow, and let us know 
the result. The Doctor. 
Xii-eU I^ittlc Ro1>1>ie. 
BY MART D. BRINE. 
Fast asleep in grandpa's arms I Poor tired little Rob- 
bie I This lias been such a dreary day for him, for mam- 
ma went away early in the morning, to visit some friends 
a long distance off, and her little boy has not found Mary 
a very cheerful companion. She has been " too busy to be 
bothered," so Robbie has heard for the huudreth time, 
he thinks, and bis multitude of queetious have been 
utterly ignored: "Run aw;iy, Robbie, and amuse your- 
self," Mary the maid advised, and the lonely little fellow 
would surely have followed her advice, if his poor little 
heart had not ached sorely, and if his throat had not con- 
tained such a great lump, of something, he didn't know 
what, that made it ache as badly as his heart. It really 
was very dreary ! He wondered what the little girl next 
door did er«"y day without any dear mamma; Robbie 
remembered when that little playmate's mother had been 
laid to rest under the green grass, in a beautiful place 
where the flowers bloomed all summer, and little birds 
sang in the trees around. Of course he didn't realize 
what a sad thing had happened for that little girl, because 
his own dear mamma was close beside him, and kissed 
away all the strange fears which at the time possessed 
him. But now, when for the first time he had been so 
long away from those loving arms, and that gentle voice 
which never, no, never answered his little foolish ques- 
tions impatiently, Robbie began to understand how 
miserable his little playmate must be, and felt very sorry 
for her. He thought if mamma would only come home, 
he would love her forty times more than ever. The sun 
has shone beautifully all day, and out iu the garden the 
flowers have coaxed Robbie with their fragrance, to come 
and admire their beauty, but somehow the sunshine 
hasn't found its way into the boy's lonely heart, and so 
even old Tray has wag::cd his tail and barked his plea 
for a frolic, all in vain. Puss, poor cat, is disgusted with 
the unusual silence, and has at last retired to the barn, to 
wonder why her tail has so strangely escaped its usual 
number of pulls and twistings. And so the long day 
passed, and Robbie, whose heart had only grown heavier 
with ttie approach of twilight, went to find grandpa, 
wiio was sitting all alone iu his room beside the window, 
and coaxed him to tell a " 'ittlc Hory." 
Then grandpa talked of the time when he was little 
like Robbie, and told marvelous tales of boyish frolic, 
which made the little fellow laugh, and also caused Tray 
to renew again his attempts to please his little master. 
But the stories were more interesting than Tray, so 
grandpa went on and on with them, and all the while the 
shadows grew thicker and longer. How funny it seemed 
to the child that grandpa was ever little like himself, 
with such fat cheeks and rfr^5;'(°5 short above fat knees I 
But when grandpa said, "You will some day look like 
7«c," why that capped the climax, and Robbie " knew bet- 
ter than to believe his face would ever be creased all over, 
and that Ms cheeks would sink into holes like those," 
poking a fat finger into grandpa's thin cheeks. It was 
all a mistake, he thought, and mamma would set matters 
right when she came home. Then gradually he grew 
sleepy, and when Sfary brought the bowl of bread and 
milk, Robbie did not cflre at all for it, and, in fact, was 
off in dreamland, forgetting grandpa's stories, his own 
loneliness, and even mamma herself, while the curly 
head weighed heavier on the aged arm, and litilc blue 
eyes were safely hidden behind their thin white lids. 
Tes, he is fast aslycp now, the moonbeams are peep- 
ing thro' the window, and fall almost like a blessing 
from heaven on the two who are so silently sitting to- 
gether. One life is just beginning its course, the other 
is nearly ready to lay its duties down forever. Sweet 
memories of "anld lang syne" arc filling grandpa's 
heart, and who can tell how sincere a prayer goes up 
from that aged heart, for the little soldier who must 
buckle on his armor and stand np in the great flght 
between right and wrong. "God bless them both I" 
the moonbeams seem to say, and now we will leave them 
alone together, until mamma returns with papa to find 
her little boy fast asleep in grandpa's arms. 
