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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[August, 
HIDDEN GAMES. 
1. Harry threw his top out of the window. 2. Here, 
Toni, run with these boot-jacks to Nesbit Hall’s store. 
3. If you want to see a Rnta-baga, tell Enos to bring you 
otie. 4. I know it was George Delmar, bless the dear 
boy. 5. Good, good! 0 Min, O Essie and Kate, come 
quickly and see this. A. Savinne. 
TRANSPOSED APHORISM. 
Clem crams tomatoes far. 
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE JUNE NUMBER. 
Anagrams.— 1. Authorities. 2. Skirmishes. 3. Drawback. 
4. Substratum. 5. Significance, fi. Brotherhood. 7. Aero¬ 
nauts. 8. Importance. 9. Apprehension. 10. Departure. 
Charade.— Orange. (“ Or,” the French for gold ; “ ange,” 
angel.) B ’ 
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Cross-Word.— 1 . Napoleon. 2. Captain Paul Pennock. 
Numerical Enigma. —l. Alberta Clara Smith. 2 Den¬ 
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Pr.—Rewards and punishments are the basis of good 
government. 
Send communications intended for Aunt Sue to Box 111, 
P . 0., Brooklyn, N. Y., and not to 245 Broadway. 
Well, Miss, you were not brought up in the country, or 
you would not be so frightened at that poor thing. If 
you once get through the gate and reach the house in 
safety, we can guess what a story you will tell so soon 
as you can get breath.—“ What is the matter, my child ? 
You are all out of breath.”—“ Oh, mother 1 let us go 
home ; such a horrid monster, and all loose too 1 Some¬ 
thing like an elephant, but not quite so big, but just 
such thick legs and round back.—No, it didn't have any 
trunk, but its neck was, oh ! so long, and such eyes.—I 
shall be afraid to go away from the house again. Do let 
us go home, there are no such awful creatures in the 
city.”—Just then Cousin Charley called “ Lucy, Lucy, 
look here. I’ve found one for you. I’ve been looking 
for one ever since you have been here, and here is a real 
prime one.”—Lucy went down, and Charley, as he placed 
the “ one ” on the grass, was much astonished to hear a 
scream, and a cry of “ Mother, here it is 1 ” and to see 
Lucy rush for the house.—“Well now, if city girls don't 
beat all, that girl is afraid of a Box-turkle, as if that 
would ever hurt anybody. Come here, Lucy, it won't 
hurt yon.”—By this time, Lucy seeing her cousin handle 
the “monster,” found it was nothing like as large as her 
fears had made it, and behaved more sensibly.—“ There,” 
said Charley, with pride, “ did you over see a handsomer 
turkle than that. I found it just t’other side of the gate, 
and you shall have it all for your own to take home with 
you.”—“Now', Charley, don’t say 1 turkle,’ didn't I read 
in the geography that they were turtles, and people in 
Florida caught them when they came ashore from the 
sea, and sold them to make turtle, not ‘turkle ’ soup.”— 
“ Well, I know turkle isn’t right, hut all the boys say so 
and its hard to get out of the way of it, but you havn’t 
read as much abont turtles as I have, or you would know 
there were sea-turtles, (whoppers those are,) fresh-water 
turtles, (some of them are snappers, I tell you), and land- 
turtles. In some countries, away off, the land turtles get 
big enough to carry a man, but here they are only about 
as big as a pint bowl.”—“ But you called it a box-turtle 
just now.”—“ So I did, and that’s what it is, just see on 
the under side, most turk—turtles, have this lower shell 
all in one piece, but this has got a hinge or jinte to it.”— 
“ Charley, joint, not 'jinte.' ’’—“Now see this joint lets 
it shut up the shell ; he has only to pull in head, tail, 
and legs, shut up shop, and there he is.”—“ It is very 
curious, but what should I do with it if I took it home ? ” 
—“Do? just nothing but let it run in the yard. Why Un¬ 
cle George, who used to live in the city, had one in his 
yard years and years. It burrowed in the ground every 
fall, and came out every spring. Uncle said that he 
could always tell w'hen it was going to rain by the way 
“Tiuly” walked around and stretched out his neck. 
And the worms and things that Tudy ate, whew 1 
“ Tudy’s a queer name for a turtle.”—“ Uncle is one of 
those men who have names for everything. He knows 
all the bugs and things by name—why, Lucy, do you 
know that even the grasses and weeds have got names— 
and such names — worse than Archipelago. He said this 
turtle was Cistudo Virginica. but this -was too long for 
everyday use, and so they called him Tudy.”—“What 
shall I feed it on? Nothing, he’ll feed himself in 
your back yard. I don’t know how many years they 
live, but they have been found with the dale cut on the 
shell—oh, ever so long ago.”—“But maybe mother 
won’t let me take it home.”—Her mother came along 
just in time to hear this, and said: “ Yes, my child, take 
it, because Charley has been so thoughtful as to catch 
it for you, and I hope it may live in our city yard for 
many years, to remind yon of your foolish fright, and to 
teach you to always look at a thing before you run from 
it, and to remind you of the day when your silly fears 
made a harmless little turtle seem a terrible monster.” 
