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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[December, 
THE MORNING PAPER . —Drawn ancl Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
ALPHABETICAL ARITHMETIC. 
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W WE D 
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CONCEALED SEAS, GULPS, BATS, ETC. 
1. 0 sis, I am going to school next Monday week. 
2. Bab lacks only one block of having a hundred in 
her quilt. 
3. I could not tell whether it was the clown or the 
horse that knocked over the stool. 
4. It was a new hit, Elsie said, but I did not' think 
much of it. 
5. Did you see Ben gallop past here this morning? 
Alice E. Brown. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 
Anagrams. — 1. Acknowledged. 2. Transgressed. 
3. Ordinances. 4. Dispersion. 5. Impoverished. 
6. Prophesied. 7. Tabernacles. 8. Inheritance. 
9. Phenomena. 10. Circumstances. 
Cross- W ord. —George Washington. 
Alphabetical Arithmetic.— 
282)970543(3441 (Key ; Boiled mush.) 
Pi.—Do good to your enemy that he may become 
your friend. 
Numerical Enigma. —The Innocents Abroad; or the 
new Pilgrim’s Progress. 
Riddle.— Page. 
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AUNT SUE’S NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Will.— Your square word began finely but ended in- 
gloriously: a full stop will not quite do for a letter. 
Try again. 
Fred H. B.—Perhaps yon failed to say whether your 
contribution was intended for the Hearth and Home or for 
t\\c Agriculturist. I can only,guess if I receive no hint 
as to which paper the puzzle is meant for. 
Thanks for letters, puzzles, etc., to Ambrose M. S., 
M. G., Lc Roy, the O. P. A., Martin B. Weiske, Frank P., 
Ida M. C., and Frank L. S. 
Aunt Sue’s address is Box 111, P. O., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
I'liie Morning- Paper. 
Here is a picture that will please youngsters. All chil¬ 
dren like dogs, and we are not quite sure but they like 
mischievous dogs the best. If they do, they will like 
this dog, for he is certainly one of the roguish sort. The 
scene is evidently in the suburbs of some city or town 
where the carrier leaves the paper every morning. Those 
who are accustomed to get their paper regularly every 
morning feel quite annoyed if it does not come at the 
regular time. The good old gentleman was evidently not 
the only one upon the look-out for the paper this morn¬ 
ing. Zip had seen the paper morning after morning fly 
from the carrier’s hands to the door-step, and then soon 
after picked up by some one from the house. “What is 
this ? ” he thought—that is if dogs do think, and some of 
them seem to—“here must be something good, or the 
people in the house would not be so anxious to get it. If 
it is good for them it must he good for me, and I .will try 
what it is like.” How Zip carried out his intentions 
about the paper, and the consternation of its rightful 
owner when he discovered the mischief are so well told 
by the artist who drew the picture, that we need not say 
anything more about them. Did you ever notice how 
very fond some dogs are of playing with paper? They 
like to play with it and tear it in pieces, probably just for 
the fun of hearing it rustle. It is not well to encourage 
dogs in this ; though it seems fun at the time it may lead 
to mischief. Some time, when no one is by to watch, 
the dog may amuse himself with a piece of paper that is 
of great value, and thus make trouble. We must tell you 
about a dog we used to know whose name was not Zip, 
but “ Tip.” Tip’s master had taught him many tricks, 
and a more intelligent dog we never saw. The master, 
an exceedingly neat man, was in a bank, which was 
nicely carpeted and kept in the best possible order. Tip 
had been trained to pick up every scrap of paper that the 
customers of the bank and others dropped upon the floor 
and bring it to his master, who had only to say “ paper ” 
and off the dog would go in search of the stray piece. 
He knew the word paper so well, and what it menut, that 
when outside of the bank if his master or any one who 
knew Tip well would say “ paper” to him, he would go 
off and hunt and not return until he had found a piece of 
paper of some kind, which he would bring with evident 
pride and satisfaction. 
