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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[July, 
CROSS WORD. 
& first is in poet but ’t.is not in verse. 
My next is in package but ’tis not in purse, 
My third is in primrose b..t ’tis not in pink, 
My fourth is in paper but ’tis not in ink, 
My fifth is in porcelain but not in a mug, 
My sixth is in camphor but not in a drug, 
My seventh’s in regal but not in the Queen, 
My eighth is in homestead but not. in demesne, 
My ninth is in songstress, delightful to hear, 
My whole will complete a far-famed one- 
in clear. M. E. P. 
NUMERICAL ENIGMAS. 
1. I am composed of 1.3 letters : 
My 2, 5, 11, 9, is the name of a river in the U. S. 
My 6, 7, 8, 4, is a vehicle. 
My 13, 12. 1, is a girl’s name. 
My 0, 2, 10. 9, 3, is a beauty caused by the sun. 
My whole is one of the United States. Ella G. 
3. I am composed of 30 letters : 
My 18, 8, 23, is an animal. 
My 14, 6, 10. 30, is an article of clothing. 
My 2, 19, 5. 28. is a bird. 
My 25, 4, 23, is a receptacle. 
My 10, 1, 27, 17. is baked in the oven. 
My 21, 20, 9, 13, is a fruit. 
My 11, 29, 12. 3, is always very cold. 
My 24, 20. 22, 7, 15. may vary in price (though of the 
same size) from nothing to a thousand dollars and 
more. 
My whole is a well-known proverb. 
3. I am composed of 30 letters : 
My 1, 2, 0, 3. 28. 22. 18. 9, 23, is a reptile, 
My 4, 20, 7. 8, 36. 30, is a part in music. 
My 14, 15. 25, 29, 34. 35, 28, 21, is complete. 
My 20. 19. 31. 32, is tidy. 
My 33, 5. 7. 27, 12, 11, we should all be. 
My 1. 10, 13, 24, 30, is a kind of mud. 
My 10. 17, is a preposition. 
My whole is a quotation. Denver C. T. 
PUZZLE. 
Take five hundred and fifty, One hundred and nothing, 
And put them in order together, 
A word you will find, which I think I may say 
Is often applied to the weather. 
WILD-FLOWER ANAGRAMS. 
1. I bit Ursula Grant. 5. Lo ! Ann died. 
2. O lone molasses 1 6. Eloise Frost. 
3. Friend Cora Wall. 7. A sure hat. 
4. About Mayweed. 8. Lord Ogden. M. G. 
ANAGRAMS OF THE NAMES OF THREE CELEERATED 
PHILOSOPHICAL WRITERS. 
Cool ye black bone. Carter. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE MAT NUMBER. 
Anagrams.— 1. Unconsidered. 2. Contusions. 3. Bludg¬ 
eons. 4. Encompassed. 5. Ingredients. 6. Aloresaid. 7. 
Redundancy. 8. Accomplished. 9. Diffuseness. 10. Par¬ 
liamentary. 
Bible Exercise.— Abner. Bathsheba. Chloc. Damaris. 
Escliol. FeMx. Gihon. Hiram. Iscariot. Jacob. Kirjath- 
Jearim. Lyeaonia. Nathaniel. Obadiah. Paul. Rlioda. 
Smyrna. Trophimus. Uzziel. Vasliti. Zaehariah. 
CnARADE.—Mayor; May—or. 
Numerical Enigmas.— 1. Truth is mighty and will pre¬ 
vail.—2. Washington. 
Acrostic. —1. Lewellyn. 2. Eddy. 3. Alexander. 4. 
Rankin. 5. Nautical. 0. Turtle. 7. Otho, Greece. 8. Knife. 
9. Nerve. 10. Ogdensburg. 11. Wasp. 12. Trite. 13. Hornet. 
14. Tell. 15. Stocking. 10. Engraving. 17. Lithograph. 18. 
Firth.—Learn to know thyself. 
. Concealed States and Countries.—1. Pern. 2. Ireland. 
3. Ohio. 4. Oregon. 5. Siam. G. Idaho. 7. Spain. 8. Iceland. 
Decapitation.— Shaft, haft. aft. 
Cross word.— Arabian Night’s Entertainments. 
Pr.—Happy is he who can take warning from the mishaps 
of others. 
Square Words—1. ASTER 
S T O V E 
TOKEN 
EVENT 
RENTS 
PRIDE 
A I SEE 
I D L F, D 
N E E I) V 
Thanks for letters, puzzles, etc., to M. Jennie H., Mechan¬ 
ic, J. A. McG., R. D. Gage, Alpha Beta. Sphinx, (such a 
generous lot. so nicely prepared and so modestly offered!), 
J. E. W., II rrv T,. S.. Efim V., and s. Martin. 
Send communications intended for Aunt, Sue to Box 111, 
P. OBrooklyn , N. Y., and not to 245 Broadway. 
Oh yes, master Tip, you think you have done a fine 
thing, don’t yon f You know that you have been in mis¬ 
chief, your face shows it just as plainly as if you could 
speak. Yes, sir, and what is worse, you don’t look a bit 
sorry. If you were a poor starved cur, there might be 
some excuse for you, but when you are properly fed, to go 
and just out of mischief kill the old hen is too mean even 
for a dog.—When we saw this picture, the first thought 
was, that is a picture that will please a great many of our 
Agriculturist boys and girls: so we bad it engraved, and 
here it is. Even those too young to read can understand 
what the artist meant to show, and older ones will ad¬ 
mire the cleverness with which it is done. It is said 
that animals have no reason, but they must have some¬ 
thing very much like it. Did you ever notice the differ¬ 
ent expressions in dogs, and how differently they look 
when they have done something for which they expect 
praise, from what they do when they know they have 
done wrong, and deserve a scolding, if nothing more? 
The dog in the picture has an amusing expression, as if 
he pretended to know nothing about what had happened 
to the old hen, at the same time he is chuckling over the 
nice meal she made. Then the poor little orphaned 
chickens, how their distress makes a sad side to the 
picture, and contrasts strongly with the “ I don’t care, I 
am glad I did it, only I hope I won’t get found out,” 
written as plainly on the dog’s face as can he.—“ Found 
out”—master Tip—such things are always found out. 
Smart as you think you are, you are a very stupid dog. 
You havn’t sense enough to remove those tell-tale legs, 
which show as plainly as can be what has become of the 
old hen. You’ll catch It—and you deserve it, too. — It is 
just so not only with dogs, but people who do wrong; 
yes, and young people, too. They think that they can do 
some forbidden thing, and not he found out — their cun¬ 
ning lasts while they are doing it, hut they are sure to 
leave the legs, or some other silent witness, in sight. 
