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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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PUZZLE. 
Take four-fifths of a dozen, and strange though it seem, 
’Tis enough to go all round the earth : 
Should you ask me its value, I’m sorry to say 
I really don’t know what ’tis worth. 
COUNTIES IN GEORGIA ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED. 
1. Something constantly sought, and a weight. 
2. Something that one hears less of in February than 
in any other month, and part of an animal. 
3. Something we have been recommended not to get 
into, and cunning. 
4. A military term, and what many of us do not like to 
hear in the early morning. 
5. The remark that sometimes follows the above dis¬ 
agreeable sound. 
6. A vehicle and a list of names. 
7. Part of a bird ; and part of a river. 
S. What none wish to be, and what all wish to do. 
CONCEALED NAMES OP POETS. 
1. Bob, row nearer to the shore. 
2. I can’t Mac. O keep still 1 there’s a dnck. 
3. It is a cow, perhaps. 
4. Is this cottage for sale, I wonder? 
5. Would you call that dog a yellow one? 
6. Sit down on that log arid wait for me. 
7. Under the willow', Ella. 
8. I shall stay until you return. 
DECAPITATION. 
Entire I am a certain movement of an army, behead me 
and yon may sometimes see me under a bridge. Tran¬ 
spose the last and I burn. Transpose the whole and I 
delight; now behead me and I do mischief; once more 
behead me and you may see the very thing that did the 
damage; transpose this and see more harm. 
SCATTERED SQUARE WORDS. 
Find more than five square words in the well-known 
stanza. 
“ Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep 
And doesn’t know where to find them ; 
Let them alone, they’re sure to come home, 
With all their tails behind them.” 
(From the letters in the first line you may make such 
words as POST, BALE, SORT, BEAT, and others; from 
the letters of the second line maybe made other words 
of four letters, and so with the third and fourth lines. 
The first word of the “ square ” must be found in the first 
line of the stanza, the second word in the second line, 
the third word in the third line, and the fourth word in 
the fonrth line. You must have, at least, two new words 
in each square.) 
DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
1. A common exclamation. 4. A precious stone. 
2. A mason’s tool. 5. A French coin. 
3. Part of a ship. 
The prlmals and finals name an American officer of the 
Revolutionary war. Isola. 
• CROSS-WORD. 
My first is in coffee but not in tea, 
My next is in river but not in sea, 
My third is in finger but not in thumb, 
My fourth is in apple but not in plum, 
My fifth is in pantry but not in shelf, 
My sixth is in plunder but not in pelf. 
My seventh is in swoon but not in faint, 
My eighth is in varnish but not in paint, 
My ninth is in swim but not in float, 
My tenth is in ship but not in boat: 
Life were sad without my whole, 
It comforts many a weary soul. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE APRIL NUMBER. 
Word-making Puzzle.— 1. Add the letter U. to the word 
“engine,” transpose into “genuine.” 2. Shirt, thirst. 3. 
Dread, madder. 4. Love, novel. 3. Tale, valet. 6. Perusal, 
pleasure. 7. Cant, antic. 8. Suet, upset. 
Cross-word.— Frontispiece. 
Numerical Enigmas.— 1. Threshing machine.—2. Local 
option. 
Anagrams. 
1. Waylaid. 6. Leniency. 
2. Mullein. 7. Interpolate. 
3. Doughnuts. 8. Abeyance. 
4. Castaway. 9. Unalloyed. 
5. Beforehand. 10. Partisan 
Square Word. 
DAVIS 
ABIDE 
VIOLA 
IDLER 
SEARS 
5 Concealed Insects.—1. Gnat. 2. Bug. 3. Ant. 4. Grub 
Pi-—The Royal Library of Paris contains two million 
volumes and objects of every description. The regular 
annual increase is twenty thousand. Nearly half a million 
books are French history, only twenty thonsand English 
history; theology numbers 200,000, and in science and phi- 
losopliy there are ninety thousand volumes. Printed, sys¬ 
tematic catalogues furnished. 
Illustrated Rlbus. No. 475.—Experience increases our 
wisdom, but don’t reduce our lollies. 
No. 4 T7. Illustrated Rebus,- A truth that 
is easier to work out in a rebus like this than to keep 
constantly in view in every-day life. 
A Acvr Kind or I’ishing. 
Last month, the boys and girls will remember, we had 
a sort of a fish story, but we had but very little to say 
about the kinds of fish that were caught. In the accom¬ 
panying picture—which we will imagine is a lake, or 
even an ocean—there are ten different kinds of fish. It 
is our work to help the readers catch these members of 
the finny tribe—in other words, to get them out by hook 
or crook, or any other way. Let us begin with the 
smallest, thongh not the least important, as many an old 
fisherman will say, and with it as a sort of bait—it is 
frequently used as snch—try and catch the others. Again, 
we should first cap¬ 
ture this little fel¬ 
low, because boys 
and girls are most 
accustomed to 
catching them, and 
that too in ponds 
too small for larger 
fish 1o live in. — 
No. 2 is a fish that 
is very fond of No. 
1. It is scarcely ne¬ 
cessary to remark 
that this fish is 
larger than the one 
we have already 
caught, and put up¬ 
on the hook—so to 
speak—for the sec¬ 
ond. This fishing 
is on the principle 
that “ big fish eat 
up the little ones.” 
The one we are now 
after is olive-green 
on the back and 
nearly white on the 
underside, and is 
about a foot in 
length. The most 
common method of 
catching it is by 
trolling — the bait 
being kept in mo¬ 
tion by a slow row¬ 
ing of the boat. It 
is common, and the 
favorite fish for 
catching, in such 
large lakes as Cham¬ 
plain, George, etc. 
Lake Erie abounds 
in them.—No. 3 is a 
common freshwater 
fish, varying great- 
torch or large lantern is used to furnish light.—No. 8 is a 
large fish, growing from one to over three feet in length, 
and from five to seventy-five pounds in weight. It’s 
name is correspondingly long, and spelled in a dozen or 
more ways. Nos. 8 and 5 are much alike, and are to be 
caught in the same way. The Indians have told some 
wonderful stories about this fish, only equalled by those 
of the white-faced explorers of the northern lakes and 
rivers, where it abounds.—No. 9. We must go to the 
ocean, or at least, salt water, for this fish. The form 
of the face, which is somewhat smutty, is snpposed to 
resemble that of a sheep, as also do the teeth. A clam, 
shell and all, is sometimes put on the hook as a bait for 
A STRANGE-LOOKING LOT OF FISH TO CATCH. 
ly in size, but usually not over a foot in length. It differs 
from most fish found in the same places, in having no 
scales; it has a head of great size as compared with the 
body, and peculiar soft horns around the month, and stiff 
spines on the fins that have hnrt many a young fisherman. 
For catching this fish yon need a great, big hit of bait, 
as a piece of meat, to which more than one fish may fasten 
itself and be brought in. They have very few bones, and 
are good eating besides.—No. 4 is a long slender fish, 
with a head and mouth in shape resembling that of a 
duck. It is too large to be caught by the ordinary method 
of fishing with a still hook baited with a worm. It is so 
fond of small fish that it will quickly take one even when 
a hook is fastened in the little fellow’s hack.—No. 5 so 
much resembles the one just mentioned that it is placed 
in the same family. Fishes, like other animals, have 
their first, second, and third consins, etc. No 5 is a noted 
fish; fine both for food and the sport there is in catching 
it. Some fish go in schools; this one keeps out of them, 
and is usually found alone. Other fish avoid it, for to he 
near it may mean sudden death. This fish is fond of 
shady places among the grass in fresh water streams. 
Trolling for this fish in the biting season—the spring—is 
very exciting, and much loved by sporting fishers. A 
number of rules must be observed in safely landing or.e 
of these long, slender, greenish fish. When once safely 
on the hook, do not be in a hurry to get him out of the 
water.—No. 6 is probably the most common fish in the 
lakes, large and small, throughont the country. It is 
generally small, weighing from a half to three-quarters 
of a pound. The head is small and tapering ; hack olive- 
brown, sides belted with yellow, white underneath. The 
usual bait is the angle worm. They may be caught at all 
seasons of the year. On account of the spiny back fin, 
this fish is not so largely eaten bythe “big fish.”—No. 7, 
as the fishermen say, “ don’t bite,” and if canght at all 
most be in a net or with a spear. It is the habit of this 
fish to run up small streams in the spring to spawn—that 
is, lay their eggs—and return to the lakes for the rest of 
the season. While in the shallow streams they are often 
speared in great numbers, especially at night, when a 
this fish.—No. 10. A*common small and exceedingly shy 
fish. The head is large, back greenish, sides silvery. 
Frequently taken through the ice in winter with hooks 
baited with cheese. The same name is unfortunately 
given to a number of kinds of fish.—No. 11 is found in 
the deep clear water of quiet streams. A very lively fish, 
moving in shoals or schools. It seldom exceeds a pound 
in weight. A “ horned ” variety is common in many 
streams, the head having spiny projections upon it.—No. 
12. One of the oldest of the historical food fish, and one 
that is now being introduced into cultivation from Ger¬ 
many by onr Government. No fish, excepting the gold; 
fish, has been so extensively transported and grown in 
artificial ponds and lakes as this.—No. 13 is the last and 
the best of the list as a food fish. The flesh is reddish in 
color; the sides are sprinkled with spots. A large fish, 
from two to five feet in length, and inhabiting rivers, 
the Great Lakes and many smaller ones. 
A Small Boy’s Essay on Corn. 
Some smart hoy has been sitting up late nights when 
all the rest of the family thought him sound asleep and 
has produced an essay on corn, from which we take a 
few extracts: “ Corns are of two kinds—vegetable and 
animal. Vegetable corns grow in rows; animal corn 
grows on toes... .It is said that gophers like corns; but 
persons having corns do not like to “go fur ” if they can 
help it. Corns have kernels, and some Colonels have 
corns.... Another kind of corn is the acorn; this kind 
grows on oaks; but there is no hoax about the corn. 
Folks that have corns sometimes send for the doctor, and 
if the doctor himself is corned, he probably wont do so 
well as if he isn’t. The doctors say that corns are pro¬ 
duced by tight boots and shoes, which is probably the 
reason why, when a man is tight, they say he is corned.” 
There is a considerable more of this essay, but we have 
only selected enough to show that the lad has a corner 
on the corn question, and has doubtless been feeding on 
corn cakes, com dodgers, etc., or reading about that fab¬ 
ulous horse-like animal with a single horn—the unicorn. 
