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parlor window. We can look on to the piazza from 
your window; will you come with me and let us look ? ” 
Bridget was rather flattered at the idea of Mary coming 
to her for protection, so she cautiously stepped to the 
window, and together they peeped out. Yes, there was 
something black there—it was a man 1 but what was he 
doing ? Just then they heard a noise behind them, and 
Mary, uttering a suppressed shriek, would certainly have 
fainted for the first time in her life, if Harry, who had 
come into the room in his bare feet, hadn’t spoken on 
tlie instant. 
Harry was about twelve years old, a good-natured 
frolicsome chap, not much afraid of anything ; and when 
he heard what was the matter, in answer to bis question 
of what in the world they were np to, ho laughed at them 
and guessed they’d been scared by an owl. 
“Sh-li, Harry,” whispered Mary, “come here and you 
can see him. What is lie doing now, Bridget? he seems 
to be sitting down-” 
“Why it is a fellow!” said Harry, “where’s father’s 
pistol? ” 
“ Oh 1 don’t, Harry, maybe he’ll go away.” 
“Well I’ll scare him, any way I ” said Harry, “I’ll go 
and get my toot-horn and blow it at him.” 
“For the land sake child,” said Bridget in a loud 
whisper, “what good will that do ! ” 
But Harry had run off, and Mary, feeling a little more 
courageous in company, said, “ let him get it, Bridget, per¬ 
haps the man may think it is a lunatic asylum and go off.” 
Just then Harry came to the window, and blew a loud 
blast on one of those fearful trumpets that six-year-old 
boys love so well. 
pi. 
Notscant cuptoacoin strepven mapctitnot. 
ALPHABETICAL AISITHMETIC. 
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L I O 
P P W W 
P R K F 
P K N L 
P I F K 
P W I 
ISLANDS. 
1. This gives a relish to our food, 
But by dyspeptics ’tis tabooed. 
2. Fresh from the mint, a coin of gold 
Quite free from “ moth and dust” of old. 
3. A relic of the ocean we display 
A souvenir found mid briny spray. 
4. Its varied hues all poets praise 
In sunrise, sunset, storm or haze. 
5. This nation often war has waged 
With cruel vigor when engaged. 
6 . Invoked by Indian braves with awe 
Before they bloody weapons draw. Henry. 
TUANSPOSED DECAPITATIONS. 
1. Behead a girl’s name, and transpose the remainder 
into a boy’s nickname. 
2. Behead a graving too), and transpose the remainder 
into destruction. 
3. Behead a European river, and transpose the remain¬ 
der into a wagon. 
4. Behead a tree, and transpose the remainder into a 
man’s name. 
5. Behead a shrub, and transpose the remainder into a 
sound state. 
0. Behead a musical instrument, and transpose the re¬ 
mainder into a kind of cement. Italian Boy. 
Bridget and Mary bad been keeping their eyes on the 
man, who hastily rose to his feet when he heard the horn, 
and they could hear him muttering for a few minutes. 
Then he stepped to the door and rang the bell. 
Harry put his head out of the window and called out, 
“Hullo 1 what’s wanting? ” 
“ Is anything the matter with you’s, inside there ?” 
“No, we are just amusing ourselves a little: what do 
you want ? ” 
“ Faith then I came in to take a little quiet nap on your 
pee-azy, but its little sleep one ud get with fish-horns 
tooting round in the middle of the night, and women a 
scliramin’, so I'll bid you- good night and go on to the 
next town, where I was going when I came in hereto 
rest me awhile,” and away he went muttering, 
“ mighty quare doin’s iu there, any way ; it isn’t a right 
house at all 1 ” 
Harry only blew t lie horn once, but that once astonish¬ 
ed many of the neighbors who were within hearing dis¬ 
tance, and when the story of that night’s adventure was 
told in the vjjlage, they were glad to solve the mystery of 
that one blast at midnight, forsome of the old ladies were 
seriously frightened at what they were sure was some 
mysterious warning. 
A ii si 1 Sue’s Puzzlc'lEox. 
ANAGRAMS. 
1. Strays. 
2. Pursued. 
3. Deserve. 
4. Claimed. 
5. Praised. 
G. Earnest. 
7. Paternal. 
8 . Umbrella. 
9. Catalogue. 
10. Customer. 
(Yon puzzlers need not think that the above anagrams 
are “answers ” in the wrong place : each one word re¬ 
solves itself into another perfect word.—A. S.) 
OPEN 
PALE 
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 
What Cities and Rivers mean, Transposed.— 1. Herat 
—earth. 2. Oka—oak. 3. Save—vase. 4. Basle—sable. 5. 
Ebro—robe. 6. Cork—rock. 
Anagrams of Scott’s Characters.— 1. Jeannie Deans. 
3. Old Mortality. 3. Robin Hood. 4. Friar Tuck. 5. Fenel- 
la. 6. Flibbertigibbet. 7. Amy Robsart. 8. Helen McGregor. 
9. The White Lady. 10. Diana Vernon. 
Charade. —Nonsense. 
Square Words.—1. SALT 2. 
ALOE 
L O R E 
TEEM 
Cross Word.— Salt Peter. 
Numerical Enigmas.—1. Hearth and home. 2. South¬ 
ampton. 
Pi.—Plain living and higli thinking are no more. 
The homely beauty of the good old cause 
Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence. 
And pure religion breathing household laws. 
Diamond Puzzle.— P Pumpkin. 
B U T 
H O M E R 
PUMPKIN 
MAKE R 
H I M 
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Alphabetuioal Arithmetic.—201)3841736(20014. 
“You take Ned.”) 
Concealed Rivers.—1. Elk. 2. Po. 3. Goose. 
5. White. 6. Rogue. 7. North. 8. Shell. 9. Leon. 
11. Isa. 
Riddle —A clock. 
Eclipses.— 1. Two, too, to. 2. Hare, hair. 3. Belle, bell. 
4. Bored, board. 5. Sent, cent, scent, fi. In, inn. 7. Lief, 
leaf. 8. Maid, made. 9. Write, rite, right, wright. 
Thanks for puzzles, letters, etc., to Win. S. N., Effie, Albert 
and Augusta, (leo. II. Davis, Mary B. C., Tip, Ben, E. S. D., 
J. F. Wagner, Eddie Lyons, and Gus. 
Send communications for the Puzzle Box to Aunt Sue , 
Box 111, P. O., Brooklyn , N. Y., and not to245 Broadway. 
(Key : 
i. Don. 
10. Red. 
NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 21 letters : 
My 7, G, 1G, 17, 13, is an imaginary being. 
My 2, 8, 13, 14, 2, 19, 15, 21, is a girl’s name. 
My 18, 3, 5, 10, is a vessel. 
My 11, 19, 12, 20, 21, 3, is a relative. 
My 4, 6, 9, 1, is a sort of handle. 
My whole is a well-known proverb. 
Hon. O. R. Able. 
DIAMOND PUZZLE. 
The center letters, horizontal and perpendicular, name 
an old friend. 
1. Found in the earth. 2. A shrub. 3. A musical in¬ 
strument. 4. A daily record. 5. A game for one. G. A 
household article. 7. Connected with the family circle. 
8 . Joining together. 9. Dwellings. 10. Sidewalk. 11. 
An article of clothing. 12. A sprite. 13. Found in every 
shell. W. L. Edwards, Jr. 
cross WORD. 
My first is in morning but not in sun, 
My next is in cannon but not in gun, 
My third is in hen but not in duck, 
My fourth is in good but not in luck, 
My fifth is in dark but not in light, 
My sixth is in nearly but not in quite, 
My whole comes only once a week, 
Urn sure its name I need not speak. L. Fisher. 
A PARTY OF GIRLS. 
1. Let him in, Niece Rachel.—2. She lent me her new 
book.—3. I bought these vases in New York.—4. Hark, 
Tom ! A Dell is ringing.—5. Arthur, that tie is quite be¬ 
coming.—G. Sydney Carr, I expelled your brother from 
school for disobedience.—7. Fred, I think you grow tall. 
—8. Hal, I certainly told you to learn your lesson.—9. 
Charlie is fond of music or a good book.—10. I let them 
make some cake.—11. That dog is surely going mad, 
Georgie.—12. The lad died on his wav to Calcutta. 
Minnie Thomas. 
SometEniaag’ about Ain-. 
Nothing gives me more pleasure than to have my boys 
and girls ask questions, and I am especially pleased when 
these questions show that the writer wishes to know 
about the common things around him. A very sensible 
question is sent me by Master J. A. Snow, who lives in 
Iowa. He says that he has been told that air, like other 
bodies, expands when heated, and that is all he has 
learned about it. Very naturally he wishes to know how 
much air expands for a certain amount of heat. He 
puts his question in this way: “ Suppose we have a cubic 
foot of air at the freezing point of water, (32°), and heat 
it to the boiling point, (212°), bow much space wiH’tbat 
cubic foot of air then occupy, or bow much will it ex¬ 
pand for each degree of heat.’’—It is a great pity that 
such matters as these—which may be called the first prin¬ 
ciples of things—were not taught in every school. It 
seems to me much more important that every child 
should know all about the air which surrounds him than 
that he should learn the names of the different Langs of 
England, and when their reigns began or ended. But 
to answer our friend: the law of the expansion of air, 
(and all other gases), is a very simple one. as Its rate of ex¬ 
pansion is uniform for all degrees of heat. It is equal to 
V. 10 2 d of its volume at the freezing point of water (32°), 
for each additional degree of heat. To put it in another 
form: 492 cubic inches of a ; r at 32°, will, if heated to 
33°, or one degree, become 493 cubic inches, and so on for 
every added degree of heat. This has been found true 
for all temperatures, so far as has been tested. With 
liquids and solids the case is very different, each having 
its own rate of expansion. Water expands very irregu¬ 
larly, as you will see if you read an article on page 19 in 
January last, beaded “8 Water, 9 Ice.” Above 39° water 
expands y 22 of its bulk for each degree of heat between 
that point and 212°. Mercury, the expansion of which 
is of so much importance to us because it is used to 
measure heat in the thermo-meter, or heat measurer, ex¬ 
pands very regularly between 32° and 212° for each de¬ 
gree of heat y 55 . 5 of its bulk ; beyond 212° it varies 
somewhat. Alcohol expands >/ 0 its bulk for each degree. 
But the subject is a wide one, and 1 only intended to help 
my young friend out of his difficulty : perhaps from the 
rule I have given, he will tell the rest of us bow large his 
cubic-foot of air would be if heated from 32° to 212°.— 
To your slate and pencil Master Snow, and let us know 
the result. The Doctor. 
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I'ired ILittle Robbie. 
BY MARY D. BRINE. 
Fast asleep in grandpa’s arms ! Poor tired little Rob¬ 
bie 1 This lias been such a dreary day for him, for mam¬ 
ma went away early in the morning, to visit some friends 
a long distance off, and her little boy has not found Mary 
a very cheerful companion. She has been “ too busy to be 
bothered,” so Robbie lias heard for the liundreth time, 
he thinks, and his multitude of questions have been 
utterly ignored : “ Run away, Robbie, and amuse your¬ 
self,” Mary the maid advised, and the lonely little fellow 
would surely have followed her advice, if his poor little 
heart had not ached sorely, and if his throat had not con¬ 
tained such a great lump, of something, he didn’t know 
what, that made it ache as badly as his heart. It really 
was very dreary ! He wondered what the little girl next 
door did every day without any dear mamma; Robbie 
remembered when that little playmate’s mother had been 
laid to rest under the green grass, in a beautiful place 
where the flowers bloomed all summer, and little birds 
sang in the trees around. Of course he didn’t realize 
what a sad thing had happened for that little girl, because 
his own dear mamma was close beside him, and kissed 
away all the strange fears which at the time possessed 
him. But now, when for the first time he had been so 
long away from those loving arms, and that gentle voice 
which never, no, never answered His little foolish ques¬ 
tions impatiently, Robbie began to understand liow 
miserable his little playmate must be, and felt very sorry 
for her. He thought if mamma .would only come home, 
lie would love her forty times more than ever. The sun 
has shone beautifully all day, and out in the garden the 
flowers have coaxed Robbie with their fragrance, to come 
and admire their beauty, but somehow the sunshine 
hasn’t found its way into the hoy’s lonely heart, and so 
even old Tray lias wagged His tail and harked liis plea 
for a frolic, all in vain. Puss, poor cat, is disgusted with 
tlie unusual silence, and has at last retired to the barn, to 
wonder why her tail has so strangely escaped its usual 
number of pulls and twistings. And so the long day 
passed, and Robbie, whose heart had only grown lieavler 
with tlie approach of twilight, went to find grandpa, 
who was sitting all alone in His room beside the window, 
and coaxed him to tell a “ ’ittle ’tory.” 
Then grandpa talked of tlie time when he was little 
like Robbie, and told marvelous tales of boyish frolic, 
which made tlie little fellow laugh, and also caused Tray 
to renew again his attempts to please his little master. 
But tlie stories were more interesting than Tray, so 
grandpa went on and on witli them, and all the while the 
shadows grew thicker and longer. How funny it seemed 
to the cliild that grandpa was ever little like himself, 
with such fat cheeks and dresses short above fat knees 1 
But when grandpa said, “Yon will some day look like 
me," why tliat capped the climax, and Robbie “ knew bet¬ 
ter than to believe his face would ever be creased all over, 
and that his cheeks would sink into holes like those,” 
poking a fat finger into grandpa’s thin cheeks. It was 
all a mistake, lie thought, and mamma would set matters 
right when she came home. Then gradually he grew 
sleepy, and when Mary brought the howl of bread and 
milk, Robbie did not care at all for it, and, in fact, was 
off in dreamland, forgetting grandpa’s stories, his own 
loneliness, and even mamma herself, while the curly 
head weighed heavier on the aged arm, and little blue 
eyes were safely hidden behind their thin white lids. 
Yes, he is fast asleep now, the moonbeams are peep¬ 
ing thro’ the window, and fall almost like a blessing 
from heaven on the two who are so silently sitting to¬ 
gether. One life is just beginning its course, the other 
is nearly ready to lay its duties down forever. Sweet 
memories of “auld lang syne” are filling grandpa’s 
heart, and who can tell how sincere a prayer goes up 
from that aged heart, for the little soldier who must 
buckle on his armor and stand up in the great fight 
between right and wrong. “God bless them both!” 
the moonbeams seem to say, and now we will leave thorn 
alone together, until mamma returns with papa to find 
her little boy fast asleep in grandpa’s arms. 
