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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[August, 
N cmerical Enigma. — Hearth. 
Transpositions. — 1. 51 a s • 
querading. 2. Interstice. 3. 
Ascertained. 4. Persistent. 
5. Remembrances. G. Com¬ 
panionship. 
Cross Word.— Aunt Sue. 
Pi.—Ho unto others as you 
would have others do unto 
you. 
Doubee Acrostic.— 
P- etre -L 
A- nchov -Y 
C-hameleo-N 
O-X 
Rebuses. —435. Grate—Grater. 
436. To be intent only on 
trifles augurs a weak mind. 
AUNT SUE'S NOTICES TO COR¬ 
RESPONDENTS. 
Robt. W. 51.—If your puz¬ 
zles are good ones, they would 
be acceptable. I might as well 
warn you that it will not be 
worth while to send numerical 
or cross-word enigmas. 
Thanks for letters, puzzles, 
etc., to J. C. C., Little 5Iac, 
S. F. S., F. T. G., Lillie H. 51., 
R. W. 51., Jere P.. W. P. & 
E. n. A., Addie K. S., F. W. 
T. , and Dticliie Welch. 
Aunt Sue’s address is Box 
111, P. 0., Brooklyn, N. T. 
IVo Thoroughfare 
is the title by which 
the artist calls tills pleas¬ 
ing picture. There you 
are, youngster, mother has 
fastened you in so that 
yon will bo all safe while she is at her work. She 
did not think of the flowering vine that runs up on 
the side of the cottage. Baby has a love for flowers, and 
his-quick eye has caught the sight of a bright blossom 
which he must have. Let us hope that he gets the 
wished-for flower, and that the mother is not made un¬ 
secure it. Oh that babies could think ! But they do not. 
Is not this the trouble with some large babies ? 
■ — - ——-• - 
A Rope Ferry.— Did you ever see one? 
They are not common, and probably only those boys 
where the travel is not sufll- 
oient to afford a bridge, the 
streams are often crossed by 
means of a ferry like that shown 
in the engraving. A strong 
rope is stretched from one 
shore to the other, and usually 
fastened at each end to a well- 
rooted tree. The ferry-boat is 
usually a scow or flat-boat, 
with a deck level with its sides, 
and so arranged that horses 
and cattle and wagons can be 
taken aboard. Upon the rope 
stretched across the river there 
is a large pulley, and to this 
pulley is attached a rope which 
is made fast to the boat. Now 
let us suppose that a boat of 
this kind is loaded and ready 
to start. The ropes that fast¬ 
ened it to the shore are let 
go; the force of the current 
tends to carry the boat down 
stream ; the attachment to the 
rope across the river tends to 
hold it still. As a sort of 
compromise between these two 
forces, the boatis carried across 
thejriver. By a skillful manage¬ 
ment of the rope that attaches 
the boat to the pulley and the 
rudder, the ferryman readily 
conveys his cargo from one side 
of the river to the other. If 
the big rope should happen to 
break, probably the passen¬ 
gers would find themselves at 
a different landing from the one 
they intended to reach. Some 
of the rivers of the far West, 
like the Colorado, are too wide 
for a rope-ferry, and these are 
crossed by large boats which 
are towed up stream by means 
of ropes and then left to the 
current which carries them down rapidly, while those on 
the boat by means of oars and rudder do the best they can 
to direct it to the opposite side. Sometimes a favorable 
landing is made, but often the current carries the boat 
far below its destination, and it has to be hauled back to 
the landing by means of ropes. The current is not very 
CROSSING A RIVER BY A ROPE FERR Y .—Drawn and Engraved for the America^ Agriculturist, 
happy by a scream that tells us that her darling has lost I and girls who live in the newer parts of the country I violent near the shore where the water is shallow, and 
his balance and fallen down the stairs in the attempt to | can say “yes!” In many parts of the South and West, | the boat can be pulled along, though it is hard work. 
