JANIE M.B.

WHAT IS IT?

Name the thing described in the following paragraph: 

Kingdom:  Animal, vegetable, and mineral.  Conducive to travel; dreaded by all with whom it comes in contact; an article of personal adornment; when misplaced, causes terrible disasters; false; beaten, hardened, and fire-tested; of various colors; preferred when green and flexible; constantly changed, and changing others; its use enjoined by Scripture.

M.S.R.

CHARADE.

  Darker and darker still, the slow hours creeping,
    Bring to my first the inexorable gloom;
  Silent and soft, the tender skies are weeping
    For all the beauty they no more illume.

  Stay not.  O wand’rer, by the hurrying river,
    Nor in the whispering wood, nor where above
  Rises the perilous crag.  My second ever,
    With added final, welcomes all who rove.

  Wildly my third over the hill is flying,
    Over the wide moor, and the wider sea,
  Moaning as one whose latest hope, in dying,
    Leaves an eternity of agony.

  Listen! oh, listen! to my whole, while filling
    My shadowy first with ecstasy divine! 
  Listen! oh, listen! would ye not be willing
    Ever in gloom to dwell, and not repine,—­
  Ever to joy in such melodious gladness,—­
  Ever to sorrow in such rapturous sadness?

L.S.

INCOMPLETE SENTENCES.

In each of the following sentences, fill up the blanks with suitable words having the same sound but spelled differently and having different meanings.

1.  It is but ——­ to pay your ——­ to the conductor. 2.  When the ——­ was over, he did ——­ to ——­ to his father. 3.  The ——­ was ——­ to do her work well. 4.  She ——­ that the ——­ of South America are exceedingly tall. 5.  The enraged farmer ——­ his neighbor’s cow for eating his ——. 6.  Don’t ——­ if the ——­ should hit you. 7.  The ——­ of a knave is not always as ——­ as his character. 8.  He ——­ would ——­ but is awed into sincerity before this sacred ——.

GRACE G.C.

PICTORIAL ANAGRAM PUZZLE.

[Illustration]

The answer—­a line from Young’s “Night Thoughts”—­contains six words.

Each numeral beneath the pictures represents a letter in that word of the line which is indicated by the numeral—­1 denoting that the letter it designates belongs to the first word of the line, 4 to the fourth word, and so on.