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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[JaOTABY, 
A DUBIOUS 
DIAMOND PUZZLE. 
(Which reads horizontally, perpendicularly, round the 
corners, and all sorts of ways.) 
1. What you will always sec in a car. 
2. A fish. 
3. To appertain. 
4. A well-known Southerner. 
6. The fifth of a quart. 
The center word may he completed in twelve different 
directions. Gostavtjs M. 
pi. 
Verey no'Be talfus ear ton witrent no shi heardfoe. 
NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of twelve letters. 
My 1, 2, 3 is part of the body. 
My 1*2, 5, 3 is often eateu by infants. 
My 3, 5. 11. 8 is what naughty children do. 
My 10, 7, G i> a household article. 
My 4, 9, 8 is a boy^ nickname. 
My whole is an auimal. W. Eugene W. 
CONCEALED TKEES AND FLOWERS. 
1. Look out for that cannibal, Sam; he is dangerous. 
2. Sambc lives in a little hut near the swamp. 
3. That ape on your fence is catiug the peaches. 
4. I left my satchel, muff, aud boa in the carriage. 
5. K. M. Frankliu, dentist, spares no paine when pull- 
ing teeth. 
C. Washington's birthday is a holiday. C. H. M. 
DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
The initials name what we must all have in this world ; 
the finals name what we should strive for in the next. 
1. Civil. 2. What the king is. 3. What the champion 
does to all others. 4. What the farmer does with his 
seed. B. A mermaid. Wm. L. E., Jr. 
rCOP'V RIGHT SECURED.] 
PROSPECT . — Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
SQUAItE-WORD. 
Square the word "BLIND. 1 ' 
II. H. Clark.. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES rN THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 
Numerical Enigma.— The Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. 
Cross-Word.— Martin. 
Blanks.— 1. Dane, deign. 2. Read, red. 3. Not, knot. 
4. Scene, seen. 5. Bear, bare. 
Bi. — Mildness governs better than anger. 
Anagrams.— 1. Unalloyed. 2. Sacerdotal. 3. Eijoy- 
ment. 4. Adversaries. 5. Asthmatic. 6. Fundamental. 
7. Ligatures. 8. Phenomena. 9. Shagreened. 10. Leg- 
islature. 
Alphabetical Arithmetic. — 
347)92058(205 (Key: Our pet lamb.) 
Concealed Rivers.— 
1. Negro. 
2. Nectar. 3. Po. 
4. Muyn. 5. Congo. 
C. Red. 
7. Lena. 8. Boyne. 
9. Ohio. 10. Neuse. 11 
. Indus. 
Ciiarade. — Warrant. 
Square Words.— 
1. n O M E 
2. FARM 
OVAL 
ALOE 
MAIL 
ROSE 
ELLS 
MEET 
notices to correspondents. 
F. II. N. — Your rebus was not of a convivial type. 
Thanks, nevertheless. 
Nellie n. L. — Certainly, dear, you " may send " your 
"alphabetical arithmetic." It is not a great deal more 
trouble for me to revise than to construct. 
Emma L. D. thinks that "the few hundred rivers pub- 
lished in the November Agriculturist will be a great 
assistance " to her "when hunting in future for 'con- 
cealed rivers. 1 n 
Thanks for letters, puzzles, etc, to O. A. Gage, 
Charleys., M. L. A., F. D. M., S. R. G, g and Frank 
Bowers. 
A Dubious Prospect. 
The artist calls his picture a dubious prospect, and it 
apparently is one for poor Jack. The barn is evidently 
none too good, and all through the night Jack has heard 
the storm, and when daylight came he had little difficulty 
in pushing open the carelessly-closed window and taking 
a look about him. Be now sees what has happened during 
the night, and looks upon the drifts that the wind, which 
made him so uu comfortable, has heaped up against the 
barn. He perhaps wouderB if the boy whose business it 
is to furnish his breakfast will make his way through 
snow-drifts as high as the barn window. If said boy is 
like some boys we have known, old Jack's chances for an 
early breakfast are indeed "dubious. 11 Then again, if 
the boy is like some others that we have kuown, and are 
glad to know, his first thought as he looked from his 
\vin<lo w at the wintry prospect was for the old horse, 
who is quite dependent upon him for comfort; and if he 
is the right kind of a boy he will think that the horse on 
such a morning as this needs his feed earlier than on a 
warm one, and if he should give old Jack something a 
little extra this snowy morning we should think all the 
better of him for it. We don't think much of a boy who 
does not get attached to a good, faithful family servant 
such as old Jack no doubt is. One can make a very good 
guess at the character of a boy or girl, aud judge what 
kind of a man or woman they will make, by the way 
they care for the animals dependent upon them. We 
hope that the boy will not only give the anxious-looking 
horse his hay and oats, but an extra feed of sixpenny 
nails. " Feed a horse on six-penny nails ! I never heard 
of such a thing."— Well, probably you never did. But 
you know that food keeps the horse warm, and wheu it 
is very cold he has to eat more to keep comfortable than 
in warm weather. Well, if the boy uses the nails to 
fasten up loose boards, aud thus keep out the cold winds 
and make his stable warmer, it is very muck the same as 
if he gave him extra food. That is what we mean tor 
hoping for Jack an extra feed of nails. 
