AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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JUST HATCHE D. — Vrawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
Maggie C. The idea of addressing your Auntie as 
" Dear Sir!" 
Mocking Bird and Jennie Foster. The way to find 
out " how to solve ,1 any puzzle ia to study the answer 
and the puzzle together. 
Blue Bird thinks that Hautboy must subsist on 
" stews and soups ,*" perhaps that is what makes him. such 
a "broth of a boy." I believe that is complimentary ; if 
not, I take it all back. 
Andrew M. G. How you must enjoy having earned 
your paper, when many boys, who are not "cripples," 
don't earn their salt. 
Lillie S. Gotwalt. Can you tell me why young gen- 
tlemen who answer puzzles, like to sign young ladies' 
names ? 
B. W. P. The " prize " has been a gold pen, to gen- 
tlemen; but yon will see a change in the prize pro- 
gramme with this number. 
John C. Watson. Do you know how fortunate you 
are to have a mother who is willing and who has the time 
to enter into your amusements ? 
Toccoa Cozart. (Have we an Indian among us ! 
Whence came such a name?) You are welcome to our 
"charmed circle." I cannot tell you "the age of my 
oldest correspondent," but I am proud to say that some 
of them are grandmothers and grandfathers. Some are 
so young that they print their little letters; and some 
younger yet get their Bisters or other relative to write for 
them. One little chap, in his dictation, said : " Tell 
Aunt Sue I failed in the water.'''' I like to have the little 
ones make a household word of " Annt Sue." 
Willie S. On. What is the matter, dear, with "Be- 
trothal ? " Suppose you look in your big dictionary and 
make your mind easy. 
Harold FnoTmNGHAM sends 258 words made from the 
word "valentines." Can any one make more words 
out of that one, or out of any other word of ten letters ? 
I fancy they can. (He does not use the plurals except 
when they have a different signification.) 
H. W. Otis. Thanks for your puzzles and rebuses, fio 
good, and so modestly presented. 
Horace Miller. Did you receive your anagram 
letters? 
Maggie D. C. Yes, dear, your answers were quite 
right as far as they went. 
Mt. Vernon. (No signature.) You must remember 
that the Agriculturist is issued long before its date. 
Thanks for Puzzles, etc., to B. W. P., S. L. D., E. L. 
C, Aunt Molly, G. M. B., G. B. C, and W. W. Y. 
THE PRIZE. 
I have been very much exercised this month upon the 
question of who deserved the prize. First came S. L. 
Dimon, who answered all but Nos. 17 and 407 ; then Blue 
Bird, who misses 16 and 407; then Star and Crescent, 
who misses 27 and 406. Now come Lillie Streeper and 
John A. Boston, who both fail on 407 ; and now we have 
three who answer the whole list (leaving out No. ly, of 
course, as it-was faulty). Newy, W. F. Curtiss, and O. 
B. Joyful. O. B. J. gives the original answer to No. 13, 
and I suppose I might decide that he wins the prize ; but 
Newy and W. F. C. give " knotlcss," which is certainly 
unexceptionable. So I have concluded to give each one 
a gold pen, instead of drawing lots. 
The Anagram Prize was drawn, from among fifty-two 
names, by Clara R. Taylor, Oakfield, Genesee Co., 
N. Y, I hope the pleasure that the other fifty-one took 
in solving the anagrams will compensate them for their 
trouble in writing the answers. 
Just Hatched. 
The above picture was made for you, Boys and Girls ; 
but I wonder if any of you will be as much amused with 
it as I was when I first saw it. You may think it strange 
that one old enough to be your grandfather can find 
amusement in a picture for children. You must not sup- 
pose, that we old fellows are going to let you young ones 
have all the fun. Now, is not there something right 
funny in the expression of the little chick that is looking 
at the broken egg-shell. His countenance says as plainly 
as can be, " Did I come out of that ?" " How did I ever 
get into " such a little brittle cell ?" Poor chicky, he is 
only puzzling himself about that which has proved too 
much for much larger bipeds without bill and feathers. 
We daily hear and read of wonderful discoveries and 
mysterious things, but after all there is nothing more 
wonderful than the egg we eat at breakfast. If we ex- 
amine it ever so closely, we find in it nothing like a 
chicken, and not the least sign of life. Yet twenty-one 
days under The hen brings out of the shapeless mass of 
white and yolk, bones, flesh, down, bill, and claws, and 
all these belonging to a living and moving thing ! What 
arc the most wonderful feats of magicians compared to 
this ? The chick standing behind the first one has an 
air of wisdom. It was probably hatched some hours be- 
fore the other, has seen something of the world, and 
looks with a feeling of contempt upon the later comer. 
It seem»to me that I have seen something of this feel- 
ing shown by individuals who were not chickens. Then 
there is the little fellow that has picked his shell and has 
not come out. I wonder what it is thinking about. It 
evidently is not in a hurry to try the new world, the 
light of which has just come into its narrow dwelling. 
I think this not only a very pretty, hut a suggestive pic- 
ture, and I hope you will agree with— The Doctor. 
