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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[March, 
THE BOYS’ PICTURE. 
square word. 
MOTH 
OLIO 
TILL 
HOLD 
Grammatical Enigma. — A verb agrees with its nom¬ 
inative in person and number. 
Cross-word. —Dromedary. 
Anagrams. — 1 . Inapplicable. 2. Countenances. 3. 
Tyrannical. 4. Unpretentious. 5. Industrious. G. 
Distinguishes. 7. Inappropriate. 8. Germinal. 9. En¬ 
sconced. 10. Accomplishments. 
15©ys’ aud CS iris’ Pictures—More 
Prizes. 
It is very pleasant to think that a great many of the 
Agriculturist's boys and girls arc at work upon the same 
thing. We had a grand time over the map prizes, and 
we wish to “ keep the ball a-rolliug.” So I make some 
more propositions. Here are two pictures, one of which 
I call tlie Boys’ Picture, and the other the Girls’ Picture. 
Each picture tells a story. It may say one thing to you, 
and another to me. Let us see what stories we can get 
out of these pictures. Premiums for excellence will be 
offered below. Write out some little story that you think 
My 19,11,10, 9, 1, 5,15, 8, is a town in Tennessee. 
My whole is something nice to work. 
Shoe Fly. 
(Fill the following blanks with 
but spelled differently.) 
alike 
He- 
Ask ■ 
- of them. 
-that 
— to ■ 
• man made an 
his cigar, 
grain. 
Italian Boy. 
alphabetical arithmetic, 
7. W C E ) I D S O W ( E O C 
DIC 
NIOO 
HFNli 
NCOW 
RWD I 
I O L. S. C. 
ANAGRAMS. 
13. Red in rage. 
14. Made paste ring. 
15. Fist aside. 
10. No lunatic. 
17. Nan’s boiled rice, 
CROSS-WORD. 
18. My first is in than, but not in freeze. 
My next is in bread , but not in cheese. 
My third is in Tom , but not in Bill. 
My fourth is in pint, but not in gill. 
My fifth is in night, but not in day. 
My sixth is in June, but not in May. 
And now, if the letters right you take, 
The name of a little girl they’ll make. 
Georqe M. Babcock, 
pi. 
19. Ahtw’s hot sue fo yawsal trefgint 
Ta het salirt ew halls difn 
Vere tsrwne golna nro hatp-yaw ? 
Kolo hadea 1 dan verne dimn. E. G. B. 
SQUARE WORD. 
20. Square the word “ SOAK.” II. E. O. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE JANUARY NUMBER. 
Charade.— Turnkey, 
Omissions.— Boston. 
Pi.—Sluggards cause their own misfortunes. 
Rebus. —Who aims by industrious efforts to live, 
May make a character no one can give. 
Cats.— Catalogue. Cat-o-nine-tails. Catacomb. Cat¬ 
echism. 
AUNT SUE’S NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Jere Plumer. You are head of the class this month 
with your good long list of answers. 
E. R. Jackman. Of course, I “ like to get answers to 
the puzzles.” How else should I know that my friends 
“ enjoyed solving them ” f 
Harry M. D. It is scarcely fair to make pi of 
“ sehmearcase ” and “ baughnaughclaughber; ” our folks 
are not all insured. 
Mark W. You can write on both sides of your paper, 
as I re-write everything sent to the Puzzle Box. For 
rebuses it is only necessary to write the characters thus 
— Tooth hat B rye T world witch nose nose eye on fan 
C swings eye (long) 2 fly. 
“ To that bright world which knows no sigh, 
On fancy’s wings I long to fly.” 
Our artist will dress it up for you secundum artem. If 
your “ straight line ” be horizontal, where is the difficulty 
with the “ perpendicular” ? 
J. M. S. The same “ Aunt Sue,” but not there now. 
Jessie D. You can get both Hearth and Home and 
Agriculturist for four dollars a year. 
NOTICE. 
Once more I must request puzzlers to refrain from 
sending enigmas constructed upon the names of our pa¬ 
pers, or of any of the editors. Also, let me assure them, 
that as a groundwork for a puzzle of any kind “ Honesty 
is the best policy ” is entirely used up. 
Glad to hear from nenry MulfordjF. W. Hall, Horace 
H.. Mrs. II. J. N., O. A. G., E. R. J., Mary W. C., Ellie 
F. M., Sam J. F., and Collie. 
Tlmnks for puzzles, etc., from Harry M. D., N. G. D., 
C. H. R., W. S. H., II. S., F. W. H. 
the picture illustrates. Do it all yourself, the best you 
can, and do not let the story be longer than four pages of 
note paper, or two pages of letter paper. It may be as 
much shortey as you please. Let us see how many story- 
writers we have among our Boys and Girls. If I think 
any of them are so good that the rest of “the family” 
would like to read them, they will be published. Here 
are the premiums : 
THE BOYS’ PICTURE. 
Boys of 12 and not over 16. 
First Prize—Multum-in-Parvo Knife. 
Second Prize—A Book. 
Third Prize—A Book. 
Boys under 12. 
Three prizes, each of a book. 
THE GIRLS’ PICTURE. 
Girls of 12 and not over 1G. 
First Prize—Gold Pen. 
Second Prize—A Book. 
Third Prize—A Book. 
Qirls under 12. 
Three prizes, a book each. 
The premium articles will all be of the first quality. 
The knife and gold pen sell at $3.50 each. The books 
shall be new, useful, and interesting, just such as any 
wide-awake boy or girl will bo glad to have. Mind these 
conditions: It is not expected that the boys will write 
about the “ Girls’Picture,” nor the girls about the 
Boys’ Picture.” This trial is to be boys against boys, 
and girls against girls. In the map trial it was an open 
field without regard to sex. The stories must bo written 
upon one side of the paper only, and in black ink. I can 
not spend time in making out rubbed pencil-marks, and 
youn<r folks should avoid the folly of rod and other 
fancy inks. They must reach me on or before May 
1st. They must be directed to “ The Doctor,” 245 Broad¬ 
way, and not to Orange Judd & Co., or to any one else. 
Each one must give his or her full name find age. There! 
The‘publishers allow mo to make these very generous 
offers, and now let us have a fine lot of responses. 
The Doctor. 
S. Rat’s tea-urn. 
9. Push Emmie. 
10. I stir curt Gaul. 
11. At mince pie. 
12. Neat pride. 
