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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
69 
CROSS-WORD. 
My first’s in the blossom blit nol in the tree, 
Mv next’s in the ocean hut not in the sea. 
My third’s in the pantry hut not in the. shelf, 
My fourth’s in another but not in yourself, 
My fifth is in finger but not in thumb, 
My sixth is in orange hut not in a plum. 
My seventh is in cottage but never in a hut, 
My eighth is in acorn but not in a nut, 
My ninth is in shoulder but not in an arm, 
Mv tenth is in pasture but not in a farm. 
My eleventh is in village but not in the town: 
My whole is a poet of ancient renown. 
SCATTERED SQUARE. 
(Make five or more square words from the following 
well-known verse of poety. by taking four letters from 
the first line for the first word of the square: Pour let¬ 
ters from tlte second line for the second word; font’ 
from the third line for the third word, and four from the 
fourth line for the fourth word.) 
Old mother Hubbard went to the cupboard 
To get her poor dog a bone, 
When she got there the cupboard was bare, 
And so the poor dog had none. 
HALF SQUARE. 
1. Is sure to come in the 3. An animal. 
spring. 4. A preposition. 
2, “ Aft gangs agee.” 5. ^measure. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE DECEMBER NUMBER. 
Anagramatioal Omissions 
-1. Enemies. 2. Destroyed. 
3. Onslaught. 4. Confidential¬ 
ly. 5. Malevolent. 6. Con¬ 
sternation. 
Metasram. — Skate, from 
which may be made stake, 
steak, Kate, take, tea, eat, sat. 
a .—,. Flagon, hem. ewe, ewer, comb, 
banjo, reed, drum, man, fly. 8. Ham, toast, 
ton, fir, raid! fez,"key. 4. Fish, liat, crown, ear, earth, bar, 
Biblical Double Acrostic. 
Either—Darius. 
E- Ida —D 
S— heb —A 
T— abo ~R 
H—agga—I 
E- lih -U 
R— hoile—S 
Concealed Nouns.— 1 
bat. 2. Cult, 
, raid, i 
fork, goat, ton. 
Numerical Enigma. — 
•" Should auid acquaintance be 
forgot ? ” 
Anagrams.— 1. Undesirable. 
2. Utensils. 3. Untangled. 4. 
Clarified. 5. Gridiron. 6. 
Fashioned. 7. Superior. 8. 
Commensurate. 9. Repudiat¬ 
ed. 10. Invalidate. 
Pi.—A little nonsense now imd then, 
Is relished by the wisest men. 
Combinations.— 1. Asafcetlda, 2. Minerva. 
No. 471.— Illustrated Rebus.— If yon would appear 
well, be natural. 
Double Diamond. 
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I*op Corn. 
When there is a little party of children gathered to¬ 
gether, to spend a pleasant winter evening, capital 
amusement can be had with a corn-popper, and some 
pop-corn. It is such fun to see the little hard grains, turn 
themselves inside-out with an explosion, as the popper 
is gently shaken over the hot coals. Only a few kernels 
of the corn are pnt into “the wire cage on a stick,” and 
jn a few seconds the popper is as full as it can hold of 
nice, fresh, hot pop-corn. Who does not like to 
eat it, and who can not eat just one more 
nice “pop”? It seems as if “there is always room 
for one more.” Pop-corn is nice enough when fresh 
and alone, or with a trifle of salt to season it, but 
when mixed with enough warm molasses candy to make 
the grains pack into great balls, it becomes something 
very attractive in both appearance and taste. We re¬ 
member one time being guilty of excessive eating of pop¬ 
corn—a good many have a weakness that way—and some 
friends, wishing to show an appreciation of our efforts, 
prepared a pop corn ball abont the size of our head— 
and pnt it on the table. We had pop-corn for nearly a 
week, and that of the nicest kind. There was no cotton 
in the center as was looked for—all solid, and of the best 
quality. Every child likes pop-corn, and we suggest 
that those boys who do not usually grow it, had better 
look around for some good sort for seed and next spring 
plant a small patch of ground. It tastes all the nicer, 
and perhaps pops better if raised by your own hands.— 
Try and see if you can not raise a good crop to pop. 
A Boy’s Composition on Winter. 
Winter is the time of the year when it is real cold. 
There is lots of snow, too, where we live, and most of 
the neighbors are drawing logs to the saw mill and chop¬ 
ping wood. We draw oar wood from the woods on a 
long bob-sled made to draw wood. There are horses to 
the sled, and I drive them sometimes, but usually hitch 
my new sled, which I got at Christinas, behind the load, 
and get tipped over sometimes. The last time when we 
were coming down the hill, and John made the horses trot, 
I went head over heels into the gutter, and John did not 
stop for me but just laughed. 
Winter is also the time for 
going to school, and having 
a great time enow-balling at 
recess, and some of the big 
boys strike pretty hard 
sometimes. Some of ns have 
built a enow fort, and when 
we are in it we feel safe un¬ 
less they try to take the fort, 
when we have to run for 
our lives. The girls do not 
like snow-hail much, but get 
tbeir faces washed in snow, 
which I think is just as bad. 
Winter is the time when the 
days are short and the even¬ 
ings very long. The days are 
not more than half as long 
as in summer, and the nights 
are twice as long to make 
it ail square, I suppose, but 
I never staid awake to see. 
Winter is the time when we 
have buckwheat cakes; and 
pretty soon we will begin to 
have early lambs, and take 
care of them in the house; 
at least we did last year. 
Grandfather says the winter 
of ’37,1 think he said, was 
the coldest he ever saw, but if it was much colder than 
last Thursday night, it mast have been “ a regular snift¬ 
er,” as old Jim Cooper said. Winter is a good time to 
go visiting if it were not for the chores. Really the best 
part of winter is when it begins to get warm again, and 
the birds come back*, and the leaves begin to grow. I 
don’t think we would, many of us, like to have winter 
all the while. We have enough to suit me. 
lines first, and then fill in the others, by making the bot¬ 
tom first, and so on to the top. The jar is not so hard, 
but will require considerable time and much care, as it 
has a number of straight lines close together, and if they 
are crooked the whole will look badly. The Morniug 
Glory will not be found very difficult after the outline of 
the flower is once made; by the outline is meant the 
outer edge of the upper flaring part. It may be tlio 
easiest to begin by making the lines which run like 
umbrella bows from the center, and finish with the rim. 
Here the attachment of the upper part of the flower to 
the tube is shut out of view by the portion which spreads 
No. 473. Illustrated Rebus.—Words of wisdom from a very wise part 
of a very old book. A little pleasant study will reveal a wholesome truth. 
The Third Drawing Lesson. 
In onr first and second lesson we gave for practice fig¬ 
ures that had only straight lines, ending with the table 
and chair. Such pictures, though they may be easy to 
draw, are not very pretty. It is when carved lines are 
present in the outline that an object is pleasing to the 
eye. We find very few bodies in nature that are entirely 
bounded by straight lines. The earth as a whole is 
nearly a sphere, not “flat like a pancake,” as the ancients 
thought. A man would be considered crazy if he were 
trying to find a square pumpkin, or an animal with no 
curves in its outline.—To know how to form curves, is 
then one of the essential things in drawing most of the 
objects which we see around us. For the purpose of 
illustration, we have placed a number of things—as great 
a variety as possible—upon a small slate, which many of 
our young readers will doubtless copy upon their own.— 
If we could see all these sketches together, especially the 
first trials, what an interesting picture gallery it would 
be! The easiest object, and the one whicli most will 
take first, is the pear; it is about as simple a thing as 
could be selected, being easier than a circle, if the latter 
is drawn without anything to guide the pencil. It will be 
seen that straight lines do not take part in the outline of 
this fruit—and what fruit 
does have flat surfaces. 
Tou would have to grow 
a watermelon in a box to 
make it square, and then 
it would probably hurst 
through and take on a 
rounded form. The pear 
being drawn, it is a ques¬ 
tion which would be the 
next choice. The trum¬ 
pet combines straight and 
carved lines, and also illus¬ 
trates, that lines may dis¬ 
appear by passing behind 
some object and come in 
view again. One side of 
the upper end of the trum¬ 
pet is hidden from view 
by the larger lower por¬ 
tion which is upon this 
side of it. Draw the front 
DRAWING LESSON UPON THE SLATE. 
out towards the reader. The “ pussy ” will require some 
patience in the making of her eyes—but she will hold 
still until all are done with her. Begin with the head, 
then the neck, back, and legs. Put in the eyes and fix 
up the whiskers the last thing. The butterfly will be 
easy, so far as outline is concerned,'but to put in the 
bars and dots on the wings much care is to be taken to 
get them of the same size and shape on the right and left 
wings; the beauty of the picture depends almost entirely 
on the markings. For some pupils the turkeys wilt 
furnish a subject for a whole evening, and if one of you 
spends several upon it will not hurt the turkey, and will 
do you good. Try and try, again and again, until it can 
be drawn in good shape in quick time. The face is the 
last part of the lesson, and in some respects the most 
difficult. Any one can put lines together so that an or¬ 
dinary person will know it is intended for a man, but to 
arrange the lines to produce the likeness of some particu¬ 
lar mau is au entirely difi'erent thing. Probably this 
center-piece will furnish work—and pleasant work—for 
many pencils before the young draftsmen are satisfied 
with their work. We may turn the slate over at some 
future day, and show what there is on the other side. 
Icicles—How are tliey Made? 
If a person, upon looking outof the window, should say 
—as he might at this hour—“ What large icicles are form¬ 
ing on the eaves of the barn ! ” one could tell pretty well 
what the weather is, and has been. What are icicles?— 
Perhaps some of you will answer: “ They are sticks of 
ice, long—long enough for canes sometimes—usually 
more or less ridged and rough, tapering down to a pretty 
sharp point—every body knows what icicles are I ”—IIow 
are they formed ?—Some say they grow, but do they grow 
as children do, or cats, or even corn or apples ? Do they 
grow on the inside or the outside ? How does an icicle 
start?—But to answer this question, is the weather freez¬ 
ing or thawing when these hanging sticks ef ice begin to 
form?—Freezing, of course; but there must be water 
running down the roof and off at the eaves, to begin with. 
Icicles form then after a thaw, when the weather sets in 
cold and the temperature is below freezing. As the drops 
of water arrive at the edge of the eaves, or “ the jumping 
off place,” they become so cold that they can not jump 
bnt become solid. Along come some more drops, and 
spread out over those that have gone before and have 
frozen stiff, and become a thin film of ice, bat the tend¬ 
ency to run down causes the stick of forming ice to 
lengthen out towards the ground by the water running 
down and freezing at the end. The water keeps coming 
down, and as it strikes the ice of the icicle it runs along,, 
a film freezing all the time. Thus it increases in size- 
and length by the constant freezing of layers of water on 
the outside. If the temperature is jnst a little below ihe 
freezing point, the icicle will be longer and more slender. 
