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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
427 
TOYS 4 MEM 9 TOOTIISo 
Horse Trees. 
We must tell you about a horse-tree. No, not a horse- 
chestnut tree, but a tree, or rather trees, in shape like a 
horse 1 We never saw one, but we give a picture which is 
no doubt correct, aa it comes from a very correct paper, 
ENGLISH HOESE TEEE. 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle, of London. Perhaps you will 
remember some pictures you have seen, of old gardens of 
a hundred or more years ago, when it was fashionable 
to clip trees and shrubs into the shape of animals, 
and other odd and unnatural forms, but the horse in the 
picture was not made in any such way; being a good 
sized pony of some 60 feet high, the clipping would not 
have been an easy matter. This horse has not had the 
help of art in any other manner, than to lop off the limbs 
from the trunks of the trees. The curious figure is not a 
single tree, but four, which accidentally grew in such a 
position, that when looked at from one particular point, 
all the trees seen together form the outline of a horse. 
The writer who describes the trees, says that the eye of 
the horse seems to be gradually approaching the jaw, 
and we fear the animal will some day swallow its own 
eye. This remarkable animal is near Windsor, England. 
A Personification.—Hornets’ Hop. 
Some artists have a great fancy for personifying birds, 
quadrupeds, insects, and even inanimate things. By 
personifying, we mean giving the animals or things 
human expressions, and drawing them as if they were 
performing human actions. The French are particularly 
clever in this kind of art, and we have seen a book in 
which all the characters, and there were a great many of 
hornets’ HOP. engaged in doing 
the most ridiculous 
things. For instance, there would be a grasshopper 
mowing with a scythe, a frog with a barber’s apron on 
shaving the big chin of,another frog who sits in a chair, 
and all such comical conceits. Here one of our clever 
artists gives ns something of this kind, and represents 
“The hornets’ hop.” You liever heard of a hornets’ hop. 
—Of course you never did, and so we publish the picture 
that you may see for yourselves how they do it. Hornets 
make people dance sometimes, as many a boy knows, 
and we do not see why they should not do a little danc¬ 
ing themselves. It is a funny idea of the artist to 
make these usually troublesome insects having a hop all 
by themselves. Hornets are not the most lovable insects 
in the world, and we never heard of any boy or girl who 
made a pet of one, although it was reported that at a 
great meeting of scientific people held in England last 
year, Sir John Lubbock exhibited a tame wasp which 
would allow itself to be handled. It may he that the 
wasp had too 
much respect for 
a nobleman to 
sting him, but 
we would not ad¬ 
vise any of you 
young American 
“ sovereigns ” to 
try to tame a 
hornet. These 
insects are said 
not to harm peV- 
sons unless at¬ 
tacked, but we 
once, without 
knowing it, hitch¬ 
ed a horse near 
a tree in which 
there was a hor¬ 
nets’ nest, and 
though the horse 
did not attack 
the hornets, they attacked the horse, and you may be 
sure that there was a very lively time for a few min¬ 
utes. They have the credit of being very industrious 
insects, and of working all night when the moon shines. 
If this is the case, we do not know how the artist found 
them using their time in dancing—but artists are peculiar 
people, and sometimes draw that which tiiey do not see 
as well as that which they do. Then there is the beetle. 
Perhaps he was invited and could not go to the hop, as 
he seems to have business in another direction. 
Auii t Sue’s Chats. 
Alonzo D. G., thinks it “makes an evening pass 
pleasantly, to do tricks and experiments,’ and wants to 
know if I don’t “ know some.” Yes, Alonzo, I “ know ” 
lots of them, and have kept a dozen people busy for an 
entire evening. Roll up a piece of paper, so that it shall 
make a tube as large round as a t wo-cent piece, and as long 
as your hand; take this between the thumb and two 
Angers of your right hand; hold it to your right eye; 
place the other end between the thumb and Arst Anger of 
your left hand, holding the back of the hand towards 
you ; keep both eyes open, and look at some object about 
three feet from yon, and there will appear a hole right 
through your left hand. The effect is very curious. 
When you get the tube started around the room, (for of 
course every one will want to try it,) get your box of 
matches and place Afteen of them on the table, making 
this Agure. 
\ 
Then say to the company, “ there you see Ave perfect 
squares, take away three matches only, and leave three 
perfect squares.” And now is a good time to study 
characters, some will see it at a glance, others look a 
little while, don’t see it, and lose interest in it; others 
don’t see it, and insist on being told the solut ion ; others 
again don’t see it for some time, but stick to it till they 
do And it out. If you want any work done give it to the 
latter; they are the kind yon can depend upon. Of course, 
you see which matches to remove, the two lower ones on 
the lower left hand corner, and the centre one on the top 
row, leaving a Agure like this, 
having three perfect squares. I could toll you ot several 
more, but must attend to some other of my correspondents 
now. You might cut that paper four inches square, (?) 
that was mentioned in the Agriculturist some months 
ago. and tell your friends to cut it in such a manner that 
they can walk through it. 1 tried it, succeeded, and was 
reminded of “cutting up didoes.” 
Auut Sue’s Puzzle-lCox. 
NUMERICAL enigmas. 
1. I am composed of 12 letters : 
My 7, 1, 11, 4, is a girl’s name. 
My 10, 2, 5, 6, 12, is capacious. 
My 3, 9, 8, 7, is a number. 
My whole is where the author of the enigma lives. 
Herisert J. K. 
2.1 am composed of 17 letters: 
My 1, 6, 11, 4, is a pronoun. 
My 5, 15, 7, 17, is that which conArms. 
My 9, 10, 10, is a color. 
My 13, 2, 3, 12, is much used by sportsmen, 
My 8, 11. 14, is a Scripture name. 
My whole is a command, A Subscriber. 
PUZZLES. 
1. I am a musical instrument, and although I contain 
two large vessels, and three-fourths of another, am often 
put into my Arst. Quiz. 
2. Take a certain tree ; break the last half of it, and it 
may beneAt you, but if you reverse the Arst half, and 
break that, you will surely come to grief. F. R. S. 
3. With Ave letters express a sentence containing nine¬ 
teen letters. 
Diamond Puzzle. 
The center letters, perpendicular and horizontal, name 
an Indian princess. 
1. An insect. 2. A place of rest. 3. A title. 4. A cake. 
5. A labial. Ellen M. 
CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. 
My Arst is in daughter but not in girl, 
My next is in crimping but not in curl, 
My third is in peach but not in pear, 
My fourth is in table but not in chair, 
My fifth is in feather but not in bird, 
My sixth is in letter but not in word, 
My seventh is in Annie but not in Nell, 
My eighth is in tumbled but not in fell, 
My whole has now left us: we loved him well. 
L. F. M. L. 
EQUIVOCAL WORDS. 
’ • 
1. To instruct—to send to jail—to perform. 
2. A sort of dictionary—an agreement. 
3. An edible—a disease—to. salt. 
4. Part of an indictment—a title—to reckon. 
5. A fish—a fruit—a mechanical contrivance. 
6. A small sail-boat—a trade—cunning. Bessie. 
SQUARE WORDS. 
1. —1. Stingy. 2. A girl’s name. 3. An acid. 4. A 
title. P. Ink and Cap I. Tal. 
2. —1. Fashion. 2. A precious stone. 3. Black. 4, 
Animals. “A Young Man.” 
transpositions. 
(Fill the blanks with the same words transposed.) 
1. The-ate up the-. 
2. He went to-to-his wrongs. 
3. The-which she wore, came from-. 
4. Ask the-to-the volume. 
5. The hush has - always. 
ARITHMETICAL PUZZLE. 
1000 and tea. 
100 and an a. 
150 and go. 
1 and h. 
1001 and nan. 
100 and ein. 
55 and see. 
My initials are things of great use to us, 
My finals go faster than the fastest “ bus.” Nip. 
pi. 
A targe singue lilw claydind wedgeonlack shi stefdec.' 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN TIIE SEPTEMBER NUMBER-UH 
Charade. —Armada. 
Square Word.— GRANT 
ROMEO 
A M A S A 
NESTS 
TOAST 
Cross-Word.— Powder. 
Diamond Puzzle.— Constancy. 
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FENCE 
PENS I Y E 
CONSTANCY 
BREAKER 
BENCH 
ACE 
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THE BEETLE. 
