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About tlie Dog Carlo. 
BY MARY TREAT. 
Carlo was a lost or forsaken dog, and he appealed to 
my sympathies so strongly, that X begged he might he 
allowed to remain with ns. IXe was a mongrel, not 
handsome, yet with a soft, silky coat, and intelligent 
looking eyes. There was nothing remarkable about him 
except his strong affection and devotedness, and his 
love of bright colors, especially scarlet, or any of the 
bright shades of red. My attention was first drawn to 
his love of colors, by his seeming admiration of a hed of 
bright colored flowers, ( Phlox Drummondii), in which red 
strongly prevailed. He would stand or lie by these 
flowers apparently in rapt admiration for a long time 
together, never stepping on the bed, nor lying on the 
flowers. The evident pleasure he took in the red flowers, 
led me to experiment with him, and I found it was only 
a mass of color that attracted him, a small cluster of 
flowers he paid no attention to, but a large, bright 
bouquet, he admired. And it was the same in dress; a 
red shawl that I sometimes wore, was special delight, 
while a red ribbon he paid little or no attention to. 
When preparing for a walk, he would look at me inquir¬ 
ingly, if I took a black or gray wrapper, he showed no 
interest, but let me change it for red, and I had his 
most decided approval, he would gambol and frisk about 
me, evidently so much more delighted to accompany me, 
now that I was in this presentable costume 1 
So little do we comprehend the artistic taste and 
sagacity of the lower animals, that I might have worn 
that shawl for a long time, had it not been for the 
accident of the Phlox, and never have known why my 
dog was so much more sportive and happy at one time in 
accompanying me in my rambles than at another. 
Carlo from the first formed a strong attachment for my 
pet cat, which was mutual; he often put his paw over her 
in a caressing way, and she would pur and rub against 
his legs, and she frequently brought game and placed 
before him, which he always magnanimously refused 1 
After a while the cat became mother to two kittens, 
and for a time they seemed to engross all her attention, 
and I feared the strong friendship between my pets had 
ceased, until I saw the cat at her old tricks again; purring 
about Carlo; but now she seemed to have an object in 
view, she would rub against his legs and then start off 
a short distance, looking back as if she expected him 
to follow, and he did follow a little way, but finally he 
laid down, as if in despair to comprehend what she 
wanted. The cat now disappeared, and after a short 
time returned with one of her pretty, plump kittens in 
her mouth, and laid it down before him. Upon this 
Carlo got up and gazed at it with an astonished look, and 
then ventured to put his nose toward it; this aroused 
the indignation of the kitten, and it spit and struck at 
him like a little fury, and Carlo walked away abashed, 
whereupon the cat brought the kitten to me, seemingly 
disheartened with her attempt at an introduction to 
Carlo, who watched me closely while I fondled it, with a 
jealous look that I never saw manifested toward the 
mother. 
Carlo was on the best of terms with all the dogs of 
the neighborhood. I am inclined to think he was too 
much of a coward to attack a dog of his own size, and 
was too good naturcd to snarl at one less than himself. 
When meeting a dog of his acquaintance larger than 
himself, and sometimes one about his own size, he acted 
precisely like Mr. Darwin’s dog, of which he says: 
“ I formerly possessed a large dog who was not at all 
afraid to fight with other dogs; but a wolf-like shepherd 
dog in the neighborhood, though not ferocious and not 
so powerful as my dog, had a strange influence over him. 
When they met on the road my dog would run to meet 
him, with his tail partly tucked in between his legs and 
hair not erected; and then he would throw himself on 
the ground, belly upward. By this action he seemed to 
say, more plainly than by words: ‘ Behold, I am your 
slave.’ ” 
It was next to an impossibility to set Carlo to drive 
any animal that belonged to the farm, except chickens, 
he would always drive them from the lawn, and soon 
learned to do it of his own accord, but never interfering 
with, nor chasing them outside of the lawn. But he 
always drove strange cattle or hogs, and if the latter 
showed fight, he could be quite savage. 
@ne day two small white pigs escaped from their 
quarters and came on to the lawn, and in vain I urged 
Carlo to drive them off; he started down to them quick 
enough, and to my surprise the pigs recognized him as 
an old friend, and commenced playing with him, and a 
wild frolic they had. After watching them a while, I 
scolded, and urged Carlo to drive them off. He would 
then pretend to try to drive them, barking and frolicking 
about them, and looking back at me in a comical way, 
as much as to say, “ Sec, I can’t make them go ! ” 
On relating this to one of the family, he informed me 
that Carlo had a regular frolic every day with the pigs, 
(which were kept in a large field), and sometimes the old 
ones joined in the play. 
Aunt Sue’s Puzzle-lSox. 
Pi.—The path that leads to fortune too often passes 
through the narrow defiles of meanness, which a man of 
exalted spirit can not stoop to tread. 
Cross-word. —Farming. 
Concealed Capes.—1 . Ann. 2. Malm. 3. Race. 4. 
Roca. 5. Romaine. 6. May. 7. Orange. 
DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
The initials and finals form two cities in the State of 
Massachusetts. 
1. A musical instrument. 
2. One of the United States. 
3. A tool. 
4. A number. 
5. A bird. 
6. A girl’s nickname. Willie Webster. 
Diamond Puzzle. 
1. Always seen in battle. 2. A unit. 3. A color. 4. A 
city. 5. A mountain. 6. To mar. 7. A river. 8. Quan¬ 
tity. 9. A quarter of a half. 
The center letters, horizontal and perpendicular, form 
a mountain. Nip. 
Cross-Word. 
My first is in heaven but not in earth. 
My next is in value but not in worth. 
My third is in light but not in dark, 
My fourth is in fire but not in spark, 
My fifth is in spring but not in fall, 
My sixth is in boat but not in yawl, 
My seventh is in ink but not in paper, 
My eighth is in candle but not in taper, 
My ninth is in June and also in May, 
My whole is a saint, or so they say. Molly. 
SQUARE WORD. 
1. A fish. 2. A country. 3. Quiet. 4. A girl’s name. 
A. L. Fred. 
ALPHABETICAL ARITHMETIC. 
HAR)BOCSEKL(LOCB 
BLOII 
C 0 AE 
CCHH 
LHCK 
LKKL 
SAL 
HAR 
L S C W. S. H., Jr. 
pi. 
Ekta teh pcads fo cavernspeere, 
Gid liet delfi fo sporgers iwed, 
Reevy brontubs dwee fo Tatcoin 
Rowry ton dan cats sadie. 
Frank A. Murtha. 
ANAGRAMS. 
1. Cast me a Modoc. 
2. Banns settle him. 
3. I bless pain, Ned. 
4. Aired tents. 
5. Sprite scene. 
C. Troop in Paris, Pa. 
7. O ! a troop is printed. 
8 . A rain-storm font. 
9. A fusil coal. 
10. Rats’ membranes. 
arithmorems. 
1. —66500. 
2. —7500500. 
3. —10050014. 
4. —130025010. 
5. —1505005550. 
6 . —40500. 
7. —1150111. 
8 . —8000500. 
9. —090015010. 
10.-200050010. 
SUNKAKU. 
NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 
1.1 am composed of 14 letters: 
My 6, 2, 8, is what every boy is. 
My 9, 10, 4, 3, is an article of furniture. 
My 3, 4,12,13, 5, is an animal. 
My 1, 7,14, belongs to a fish. 
My 2,11,1, is a pronoun. 
My whole is a name with which you are all familiar. 
C. B. Estes. 
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 
Double Acrostic.— Sacramento, Shenandoah. 
St. ThomaS 
A-H 
C- offe -E 
R- ave -N 
A- nn -A 
M- our -N 
E- meral -D 
N- eosh -O 
T- heres- A 
O-H 
Numerical Enigma.— Atlantic Ocean. 
Metagram.— Chinchilla: in which may be found 1 two 
c’s (two seas), 2 two I’s, 3 chin, 4 inch, 5 bin, 6 chinch, 
7 China, 8 ill, 9 hill, 10 la, 11 chill, 12 hail, and 13 in. 
Transpositions.— 1. Hero, lioer. 2. May, yam. 3. 
Peon, pone. 4. Dean, Dane. 5. Kiln, link. 
Charade.— Rupee (rue—pea). 
Diamond Puzzle.— Chicago. 
C 
S n E 
SPITE 
CHICAGO 
MEANS 
AGE 
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Word-Square.— JACK 
ALOE 
CORN 
K E N O 
Send communications for the Puzzle Pox to Aunt Sue, 
Box 111, P. O., Brooklyn , JY. 7., and not to 245 Broadway. 
Aunt Sue’s Chats. 
Effie S. W., wants to know the origin of the saying, 
“robbing Peter to pay Paul.” In the time of King 
Edward the Sixth, of England, his ministers and cour¬ 
tiers appropriated a large part of the lands belonging to 
St. Peter's church, at Westminster. The people were 
indignant at the robbery, and to reconcile them, a portion 
was set apart to pay for repairing St. Paul’s church, and 
so the people talked about robbing Peter to pay Paul, 
until the phrase became proverbial. 
G. W. Tomlinson.— That is an old joke, “ can a man 
keep his feet dry when he has a creak in his boots 1" 
but I wonder no one has suggested that he should get 
pumps. 
Emma. —You may improve the cane-bottom chairs very 
much, by washing the seats with hot soapsuds and put¬ 
ting them in the air to dry quickly ; it whitens and 
tightens them. 
Lulu.—I never like to pronounce judgment upon a 
case without hearing “ both sides of the story,” and I 
have not heard your teacher’s side ; but why keep 
dwelling on the “thorns that accompany the roses,” 
why not be glad that roses accompany the thorns ? 
Mary L. Bartlett wants to know “ If lobster’s claws 
really grow again after they are broken off.” I don’t 
know, Mary dear, from my own personal observation, 
but naturalists say they do, and that in three weeks a 
leg or claw is replaced by one nearly as large and strong 
as the one lost. In finding out that fact for your edifica¬ 
tion, I read what astonished me more than the new 
growth of a lost member, and that was that lobsters like 
raw oysters for their dinner, and in order to get at them, 
they watch till the oyster opens its shell, then pop a 
stone in, so that the oyster can not shut it again. Where¬ 
upon the lobster, so this account says, eats the oyster, 
(without pepper or vinegar). I was not astonished at 
their liking a raw oyster, but at their gumption of get¬ 
ting a stone to wedge open the oyster-shell. 
Frank. —A very neat little “ trick,” is to tell whether 
a person holds an odd or even number of pennies (but¬ 
tons, beans, or what not) in the right or left hand. Give 
a person an odd number of beans, say nine, eleven, thir¬ 
teen, or fifteen ; tell him to hold an odd number in one 
hand and an even one in the other; ask him to multiply 
the contents of the right hand by three, five, seven, nine, 
or eleven, (always an uneven number,) to multiply those 
in his left hand by two, four, six, eight, ten, or twelve ; 
let him tell you the product of the whole. Should it be 
an even number, it proves that the even number is in the 
right hand ; if the sum total be odd, the odd number is 
in the right hand. 
Examples. 
Bight hand. 
6 
3 
18 
18 
36 
Left hand. 
9 
2 
18 
Bight hand. 
3 
27 
12 
39 
Left hand. 
6 
2 
12 
Instead of one person holding all the beans, they may 
be divided between two, the performer mentally distin¬ 
guishing them as right and left; try it. 
F. L., asks if I “ know any words containing all the 
vowels.” Yes, lots of them. “Abstemiously,” and 
“ facetiously,” contain the vowels in their proper order. 
In the following they all occur, but irregularly: Authori¬ 
tatively, consequentially, disadvantageous^, encourag¬ 
ingly, eflicaciously, instantaneously, importunately, men¬ 
daciously, nefari.ously, precariously, pertinaciously, sac- 
