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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
CROSS WORD. 
My first is in finished but not in done, 
My next is iu scamper but not in run, 
My third is in plump but not in fat, 
My fourth is in mouse but not in rat, 
My fifth is in river but not in lake, 
My sixth is in tremble but not in quake. 
My seventh is in grain but not in wheat, 
My eighth is in lane but not in street, 
My ninth is in beard but not in hair, 
My tenth is in round but not in square, 
My eleventh is in cattle but not in herd, 
My twelfth is in sentence but not in word, 
If good, as can be, we want to live, 
My whole we may take but must not give. 
BIBLICAL NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 42 letters : 
My 1, 11,15, 28. 7, 37, 3, 36, 23, was a Syrian idol. 
My 8, 30, 22, 16, 5, 19, 31, 38, 13, was a Roman 
province. 
My 20, 3, 35, 27, 41, 12, 32, 9, 25, was a surname 
of two disciples: 
My 29, 1, 20, 16, 33, 2, 26, 4, 31, was an ancient 
article of armour. 
My 39, 10, 6, 27, 21, 17, 4, 14, 40, was a town of 
Galilee. 
My 42, 24, 11, 18, 15, 34, 6, 9, 25, was a ruler of a 
Jewish Synagogue. 
My whole is part of a verse of the Bible. Isola. 
PATCHWORK. 
(Find in each of the following sentences, the 
letters necessary to spell the implied word. 
Examples.— 1. You can discover it a distance. 
Answer. Yonder. “Far” would not do, as there 
is no f, in the sentence. 2. You are a gosling. 
Answer. Young.) 
1. Boil it if you like, or eat it raw. 
2. You would not like to wear it. 
3. Be very careful how you make it (not cake). 
4. A brown paint made of soot. 
5. Too dark for us to read. 
6. Catch all the horses with it. 
7. I found the poor animals here (not “ field ”). 
8. You can carry them in this. 
pi. 
Istude luflidel ear swayla slaperuse ot het my 
rome. Elfs-liarneec si equit tinsdict orfm fels 
aotressia. 
FOUNDATION WORD. 
Recalcitrate. 
(Explanation. All the letters of the word 
“recalcitrate” are used in each sentence. Ex¬ 
ample. —the *** sat ***** upon the ****. Solu¬ 
tion —cat, erect, rail). 
1. The guest drank some *** and ate some **** ; 
and when he left he gave the waiter a *****. 
2. The sky was so *****, that we could ***** 
** for quite a long distance. 
3. It excites my *** to see how the ****** are 
crowded into the ***. 
4. They could find no ***** of the ******* 
diagram puzzle. 
Place a piece of thin writing-paper over the 
above diagram, and trace upon it with a lead pen¬ 
cil, the figures seen through the paper. Then cut 
them out of your paper, carefully, and trace 
each piece of paper upon cardboard. Cut out the 
seven pieces of cardboard, and put them together 
so as to form a correct circle of two and a half 
inches diameter. Aunt Sue. 
transitions. 
(Change only one letter at a time. Example. 
Change wine to milk in three moves. Wine—mine, 
mile, milk.) 
1. Change boat to land in five moves. 
2. Change dawn to noon in four moves. 
3. Change boot to shoe in four moves. 
4 . Change rain to snow in nine moves. 
5. Change lawn to silk in ten moves. 
6. Change pink to blue in fourteen moves. 
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HAND IN GLOVE. 
(The “hand” is formed by beheading and cur¬ 
tailing the “ glove. ’’—Example. To consume, in 
a shrub. Answer. Eat, heath). 
1. An animal in : to lessen. 
2. An animal in a flower-bud. 
3. An animal in portions. 
4. A bird in humble. 
5. Keenness in a book. 
6. An animal in a receptacle. 
7. An animal in a disagreeable expression. 
ness of a tail. The bear having adjusted himself 
to his work, the fox told him the catching was- 
simply a matter of time. After several hours the 
fox returned to his most patient—we will not say 
stupid, pupil, and found him engaged in a fruitless 
attempt to remove himself from the ice in which 
his tail had been frozen. A few words passed 
between Reynard and Brain; the fox explained 
how a very cold day was not the best for fishing, 
etc., but in the heat of his address was interrupted 
HOW RErNARD LED BRUIN INTO A FISHING TRAP. 
ANAGRAMS. 
1. Name in a cent. 
2. Bone us out. 
3. Ah ! these ? 
4. A Nile item. 
5. A pert corn. 
6. After curd. 
7. Snip more mint. 
8. I did set his gun. 
9. To permit no nap, 
10. Nice sport to it. 
Answers to Puzzles iu the November Number. 
Cross Word. —Napoleon. 
Amagrxms. —1. Dissatisfied. 2. Domestic. 3. 
Successor. 4. Sentient. 5. Abnegation. 6. Appre¬ 
ciated. 7. Influential. 8. Noiseless. 9. Cooperate. 
10. Lethargic. 
Numerical Enigma. —Children obey your par¬ 
ents in the Lord, for this is right. 
Diagonal. —Daniel, DOrcas HaNnah, HorAce, 
StelLa, GerulD =jDonqld. 
Hidden Verbs. —1. Eat. 2. Sing. 3. Run. 4. 
Drag. 5. Tow. 6. Bleat. 
Riddle. —Be, bee, beef, fees. 
Transpositions. — 1. Churl, lurch. 2. Charm, 
march. 3. Snipe, pines. 4 Bears, sabre. 5. Heaps, 
shape. 6. Parts, strap, traps. 
Double Acrostic. — Vashti — Smyrna. 1. Vesu¬ 
vius. 2. Abraham. 3. Sorcery. 4. Hagar. 5. 
Teman. 6. India. 
Enigmatical Bouquet.— 1. Harebell. 2 Cow¬ 
slip. 3. Foxglove. 4. Lady’s Slipper. 5. Mari¬ 
gold. 6. Larkspur. 7. Phlox. 8. Morning-glory. 
The Fox and tlie Hear. 
The Fox has a way of doing things that has 
made him the type of cunning or slyness. He 
plays strange tricks with the hunter, who with gun 
and dog seeks to secure his skin, and its soft fur. 
He also leads some of the other wild animals into 
tight places, and by sharp forethought gets the bet¬ 
ter of his foes that are many times his size. The 
picture here given shows how a fox entrapped a 
great bear. The story runs something like this: 
One ddy in winter a fox and bear met in a great 
forest and the fox told the bear that he had a new 
method of catching fish, which was so good that he 
had never failed to obtain all the fish he wanted 
whenever he had tried it. The bear was glad to 
hear of this, and at once accepted the invitation of 
the fox to try his hand—or tail rather—at fishing. 
They both journeyed along in great glee until the 
lake was reached, when the fox, finding a hole in 
the ice, told the bear he must put his tail through 
the ice and into the water, that the fish might bite 
it and be drawn out. Perhaps the young reader 
will think that a bear’s tail is not a very long thing, 
but a good story must not be spoiled by the short- 
by the approach of a hunter, who, coming up, 
found the bear not only alone but also an easy 
victim. Bear meat was plenty in one hunter’s 
home that night, and Reynard told the exploits of 
the day to his family, and the little foxes laughed 
themselves to sleep over the sad fate of Poor 
Bruin who would a fishing go. 
A B*lusj Puzzle. 
“M. A. M.,” sends a cut for the puzzle depart¬ 
ment which he describes as follows : “ Take a thin 
sheet of brass (sheet iron, wood, leather or paste 
board would do as well), and cut three holes in it— 
one an inch square, another a circle one inch in 
diameter, and a third in the form of a triangle, an 
inch from the middle of any of the three sides to 
the opposite angle. The puzzle is to cut a solid 
block of wood so as to perfectly fit each of the 
three holes, and yet pass entirely through. 
Illustrated Rebus No. 489.—Thoughtful 
words in pictorial clothing to all who in any way 
aspire to the life “ enjoyed ” by royal personages. 
