14S 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[April, 
DIAMOND PUZZLE. 
The center letters, perpendicular and horizontal, name 
one of Sbakspeare’s characters. 
1. A consonant. 
2. A quadruped. 
3. Trials of speed. 
4. A name. 
5. Sediment. 
6 . Eaten. 
7. Two hundred. 
William P. and Edwin II. Albright. 
ANSWERS TO TUZZLES IN THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 
Numerical Enigmas. — 1. Be just, and fear not. 
2. Autumn leaves. 
Cross-Words.— 1. Laura. 2. Samuel. 
Alphabetical Arithmetic.— 
1809)386650280(213737 Key: “ Reckon fast.” 
Square-Word. OJUDD 
JOKER 
UKASE 
DESKS 
DRESS 
The First Lesson in Rowing-. 
Can you swim? Yes, Miss, we mean you as well as 
your brother. We believe that both boys and girls 
should be taught to swim. Boys generally, if they live 
near the water, learn to swim without much teaching. 
If they can swim, then they can learn to row, for we do not 
think that a hoy should be trusted in a boat unless he is 
able to take care of himself if he should happen to get over¬ 
board. It is not only useful to know how to row, but 
rowing is most capital exercise. It calls a great num- 
TAKING HIS FIRST LESSON IN RO W I N G. —Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
CROSS-WORD. 
My first is in tact but not in skill. 
My next is in dose but not in pill. 
My third is in noun but not in verb. 
My fourth is in spice but not in herb. 
My fifth is in part but not in whole. 
My sixth is in heart but not in soul. 
My seventh is in won’t but not in will. 
My eighth is in note but not in bill. 
My ninth is in pink but not in blue. 
My tenth is in one but not in two. 
My eleventh is in knoll but not in hedge. 
My twelfth is in pin but not in wedge. 
My thirteenth is in blue but not in pink. 
My fourteenth is in speak but not in think. 
My whole is a city of well-known fame: 
Study the letters and tell its name. 
Ja-se-pe-es. 
alphabetical arithmetic. 
OLA)CRHBEKS(HOLA 
C A A R 
K L A E 
KERB 
BIISK 
B C C H 
LCSS 
L B II S 
A A E 
BLANKS. 
(Fill the blanks with words pronounced alike but 
spelled differently.) 
1. He was ordered to-out the -of the church. 
2. The-does not grow on the island of-. 
3. Will you-a-of apples for the child? 
4. The-was a man of mean-. 
5. I am afraid this - will not agree with the 
young -. 
6. The child began to-for the-. 
Italian Boy. 
Hidden Names of Ancient Grecian Deities.— 
1. Venus. 2. Castor. 3. Saturn. 4. Cybele. 5. Doris. 
6 . Occanus. 
Ornithological Amputations. —1. Powter, tower. 
2. Plover, lover. 3. Snipe, pine. 4. Ortyx, Tory. 
All contributions for the Puzzle-Box should be ad¬ 
dressed to “Aunt Sue,” Box 111, P. O., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
AUNT SUE’S NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Hannah R.—Thanks for your “ contribution,” but as 
it may be found in most of the unabridged dictionaries 
it is scarcely worth our while to publish it. 
Thanks for answers, letters, etc , to O. A. Gage, Miles 
P. J., Mary C. S., Maggie Cator, J. E. Frahm, W. H. S. F., 
James H. G., and Mamie W. 
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A Corresponding Society.— One of 
our boys writes that he thinks that a corresponding soci¬ 
ety might be formed among the farmers’ boys which 
would result in great benefit to its members, and sends 
us a notice calling for the addresses of those who wish 
to become members and asks us to publish it. This is a 
question to which there are two sides, and we hope that 
“ 0. F.” will not think us unkind if we decline to pub¬ 
lish his call. In the first place he takes no measures to 
satisfy us that there is such a person as “ O. F.,” and we 
do not know — although we do not think it—but it is a 
dodge of some one to get the addresses of boys all over 
the country. Secondly, we do not think such a proposi¬ 
tion would meet the approval of parents in general. We 
should not wish a son to be in correspondence with a 
circle of boys of whom we know nothing whatever. A 
forced correspondence of this kind is not likely to result 
in much good. If “ 0. F.” is desirous of improving him¬ 
self let him get together half-a-dozen or more boys in 
his own neighborhood and form a young Farmers’ Club. 
He will find it of much more use than a wide-spread cor¬ 
respondence with strangers you never have seen. 
her of muscles into play, and not only exercises the arms, 
but the chest and, in fact, the whole body. Rowing is 
now very popular with college students, and crews from 
a number of the leading colleges have a yearly rowing 
match, which is the occasion of much excitement. They 
carry a good thing too far, but even that is better than 
horse-racing. The boy is fortunate if he, like the one in 
the picture, has an “ old salt ” for a friend, who will 
teach him how to handle the oars. Of course great skill 
can only be had by practice, but you can get along much 
faster with a little showing. It is amusing to see what 
work those make who are unused to rowing; they lay 
out a great deal of strength to little purpose, and get more 
tired in fifteen or twenty minutes than a regular oarsman 
would in all day. Some men who live in the lake 
| regions make nothing of rowing twenty miles or more 
from one point to another. The boy in the picture has 
“ caught a crab.” Perhaps yon don’t know what that 
means. When one misses a stroke and instead of pulling 
his oar against the water pulls it against the air he is 
very apt to lose his balance and tumble over, and this is 
what sailors and water-men call “ catching a crab.” 
Writing- for tlie Papcr.-A number 
of boys and girls have written us articles that they wish 
us to print. Now, we are always glad to hear from any 
boy or girl of our large family ; you may be sure of that. 
But we must be the judge as to the printing. There are 
but few very young people who can write what other 
young people would care to read. It might please the 
writers to see what they have written in print, but we do 
not often get an article from boys and girl6 that we think 
should be printed. “But should we not try?” O! 
course you should, and the very first one who writes 
what we think the rest would be pleased to see will have 
the article appear in the paper. You who can not yet 
spoil all the words correctly must not think of writing 
for the paper. First learn to write a plain and neat 
hand without making a single mistake in spelling; 
the time will be much more usefully employed than 
in writing things that you hope may be printed. 
