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AMERICAN AGrBICUJLTURIST. 
[January, 
THE OLD NURSE'S VISIT. — Painted by T. HoVENDEN. — Brawn and Engraved for ths American Agriculturist. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE NOVEMBER NUMBER. 
Anagram?.— 1. Philosophical. 2. Phenomena. 3. Sub- 
servience. 4. Inconstant. 5. Organization. 6. Assimi- 
lated- 7. Cognizance. S. Subordinate. 9. Inaccessible. 
10. Continuance. 
Compound Arithmorems— 1. Potato. 2. Contention. 
3. Portfolio. 4. Zoology. 5. Addition. G. Patent. 7. 
Boneless. 8. Fortify. 0. Extend. 10. Exonerate. 
HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE. 
ORLEANS 
PI GMY 
COD 
T 
D I N 
ASSAY 
CONTEMN 
SQUARE WORD OF SIS LETTERS. 
KETTLE 
E A RW A X 
TREATS 
T W A I T E 
LATTER 
E X S E R T 
Numerical Enigmas.— 1. New York Tribune. 2. Ger- 
trude. 
Puzzlb.— Hearth and Home (heart, hand, home). 
Transposed Proverb.— In the absence of the feline 
race, the mice give themselves up to various pastimes. 
Cross-\Yord. —Cincinnati. 
Illustrated Keeus.— Sandy Hook (S and Y hook). 
AUNT SUE*S NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Amanda Yelsor. — In the " alphabetical arithmetic' 1 
the letter? represent figures. Haven't yougot some big 
cousin or an Uncle John who will show you how to puzzle 
it out? 
A Beginner.— Had you not better select a little more 
definite name ? 
Jere Plumer.— Your " criticisms " were very much to 
the point. The answers to 42S and 420 in August number 
are—" Two sparrows upon one ear of corn are not likely 
to agree long," and tk Sigh no more." 
Nellie Cache. — No, dear. I never bad the pleasure of 
writing to " The Little Corporal." 
Owego.— The " Arithmorem'" was pretty thoroughly 
explained in the February number, 1872. 
Thanks for letters, puzzles, etc., to C. F. J., Amanda 
Velsor, A Beginner. O. A. Gage, Nellie Bache, Owego, 
Ned W. Y7., and S. L. I). 
The OU1 Nurse's Tisif. 
Some of the pictures that we give in the Boys and 
Girls' Columns are intended to instruct, others are solely 
to amuse, and others still are what we call " art pictures,* 1 
that is, pictures that are val- 
uable for the excellence of 
their design and tlic skill of 
the artist. The picture of 
" The Old Nurse's Visit" is 
an art picture, and an ex- 
cellent one. The original, 
an orl painting, attracted 
much attention at one of the 
Academy exhibitions, and 
represents what actually hap- 
pened to the artist. Those 
■who Jive in the Northern 
States have but little idea 
of the old nurse of the South- 
ern Staies and her relations 
to the family. Almost every 
Southern home numbers 
among its inmates a black 
"mammy," trusted and es- 
teemed by the older mem- 
bers of the family, and t}T- 
annized over and coaxed in 
turn by the children. S3;e 
idolizes her young charge, 
and no matter how much 
she may threaten and scold 
it herself, permits no one 
else to do so, and is extreme- 
ly fertile in excuses for all 
its misdemeanors. Even 
when, as In the picture, the 
youngster has grown to man- 
hood, he is as much her 
pet and her "chile* 1 as in 
his infant days. She seems 
to regard him as belonging 
to her, and always takes the 
liveliest interest in his 
affairs. You can almost hear 
mammy, as Fhe seats herself 
on the edge cf the chair, as 
near as possible to the easel, 
in order to get a good view 
of the picture, and at the 
same time to sec how it is 
done, " We ll j honey, I ncb- 
ber spectcd to a'eeed nnffin 
like dis. Them trees is the 
very moral of them as growed 
on ole marsc's place where 
you chillcrns played in the 
summer. Jest to think that 
de chile what I nussed is 
growed up to be such a 
painter 1 But laws, chile, I 
might a'knowed you'd a 
been sunthin grand 1 You 
allays was spry about making 
pixtnres, and many a thing 
has you d rawed on your ole 
mammy's clean whitewashed 
walls. Well, honey, you is 
growed up now Bho* 'nnff, 
and dc ole woman can't 'spect 
to see you much, but bless 
your soul, honey, your ole 
mammy jest feels de same 
as if you was de little baby what she done toted in her 
arms long ago." And with a few more admiring looks 
at "her boy" and the wonderful picture he is painting, 
she leaves, and "The Old Nurse's Visit" is over, 
A Moy Who Turned Out Well. 
Not long ago a very rich man died iu Germany, of 
whom it is said that his bat was the beginning of his 
fortune. He served an apprenticeship to a wood-turner. 
In Germany, after a young man is through his appren- 
ticeship, he must travel for a year before he begins to 
work for himself. In the course of his Wanderjahr, or 
traveling year, young Miihl— for that was his name — 
called at a great machine-shop for work. The ragged 
and barefoot boy, with his knapsack on his back, did not 
look very promising, and he was told to go about his 
business. As be was going, the master-machinist called 
after him, "I Bay, man, what kind of a hat is that yon 
have on?" "A wooden one, sir." "A wooden one! : 
And where did yon get it ? " "I made it. sir." ," How * " 
" "With my lathe. I had a long way to go, and needed a 
hat to keep off the rain, and as I had no money to buy 
one, I made this out of wood." " But this is oval, and 
an oval form can not be made with a lathe." "That is 
true, sir, but nevertheless I did it. I took my central 
point and worked away until I made my hat." The 
keen-sighted turner at once engaged him, and found him 
to be a mechanical genius as well as a good workman. 
He became a partner, and afterwards sole proprietor, and 
at length died the richest man of the neighborhood. 
