AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
30S 
Numerical Enigma.— Hearth. 
Transpositions. — 1. Mas- 
querading. 2. Interstice. 3. 
Ascertained. 4. Persistent. 
5. Remembrances. G. Com- 
panionship. 
Cross Word.— Annt Sue. 
Pi.— Do unto others as you 
would have others do unto 
you. 
Double Acrostic. — 
P- etre -L 
A- nchov -Y 
C-hamclco-H 
O X 
REBtisBsJ-^SS. Grate— Grater. 
436. To he intent only on 
trifles augurs a weal; mind. 
AUNT SUE'S NOTICES TO COR- 
RESPONDENTS. 
Eobt. W. M.— If j-onr puz- 
zles are good ones, they would 
be acceptable. I might as well 
warn you that it will not be 
worth while to send numerical 
or cross-word enigmas. 
Thanks for letters, puzzles, 
etc.. to J. C. C, Little Mac, 
S. P. S., F. T. G., Lillie II. SL, 
R. W. M.. Jcre P. r W. P. & 
E. n. A., Addie K. S., F. W. 
T„ and Duchie Welch. 
Aunt Sue"s address is Sox 
111, P. <?., Brooklyn. X. T. 
No Thoroughfare 
is the title by which 
the artist calls this pleas- 
ing picture. There you 
are, youngster, mother has JJO THOROUGHFARE . — Drawn and Engrat 
fastened you iu so that 
you will be all safe while she 
did not think of the floweriu 
the side of the cotta; 
[August, 
is at her work. She 
vine that runs up on 
Baby has a love for flowers, and 
his quick eye has caught the sight of a bright blossom 
whlcll he irrast him.-. !>■;* o<- liopo tUnt Uo gets IhG 
wished-for flower, and that the mother is not mad ■ mi- 
secure it. Oh that babies could think ! 
Is not this the trouble with some large 
But they do not. 
babies ? 
A. ltoi»e Peiry. — Did ™ 
They are not common, and probably 
ever ece one r 
only those boys 
where the travel is Hot suffi- 
cient to afford a bridge, the 
streams are often crossed by 
means of a ferry like that shown 
in the engraving. A strong 
rope is stretched from one 
shore to the other, and usually 
fastened at each end to a well- 
rooted tree. The ferry-boat is 
usually a scow or flat-boat, 
with a deck level with its sides, 
and so arranged that horses 
and cattle and wagons can be 
taken aboard. L'pou the rope 
stretched across the river there 
is a large pulley, and to this 
pulley is attached a rope which 
is made fast to the boat. Xoiv 
t us suppose that a boat of 
this kind is loaded and ready 
to start. The ropes that fast- 
ened it to the shore are let 
go : the force of the current 
tends to carry the boat down 
stream ; the attachment to the 
rope across the river tends to 
hold it still. As a sort of 
compromise between these two 
forces, the boat is carried across 
the]river. Byaskillful manage- 
ment of the rope that attaches 
the boat to the pulley and the 
rudder, the ferryman readily 
convevs his cargo from one side 
of the river to the other. If 
the big rope should happen to 
break, probably the passen- 
gers would fmd themselves at 
a different landing from the one 
they intended to reach. Some 
of the rivers of the far West, 
like the Colorado, are too wide 
for a rope-ferry, and these are 
crossed by large boats which 
are towed up stream by means 
of ropes and then left to the 
current which carries them down rapidly, while those on 
the boat by means of oars and rudder do the best they can 
to direct it to the opposite side. Sometimes a favorable 
landing is made, but often the current carries the boat 
f»>- below iu destination, and it has to be hauled back to 
the lauding by means of ropes. Tho current is not very 
Agricultui i i. 
CROSSING A 
ROPE FERR Y. — Drawn and Engraved for the Am • ■"> -1" " 
RIVER BY A 
happy by a scream that tells us that her darling has lost I and girls who live in the newer parts of the country I violent near the shore where tho water is -hallow, and 
his balance and fallen down the stairs in tho attempt to | can ray " yes ! " In many parts of the South and West, | the boat can be pulled along, though it is hard work. 
