| reads | hard | than | sian | youth | the | square | this | | | | | | | | | | |-----------------------------------------------------------
----------| | | | | | | | | | | as | right | each | poured | at | horde | ward | fight | | | | | | | | | | |-----------------------------------------------------------
----------| | | | | | | | | | | long | so | knight | ly | thr’gh | the | on | leaps | | | | | | | | | | |-----------------------------------------------------------
----------| | | | | | | | | | | As | on | life’s | may | up | bold- | and | to | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------
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The above puzzle consists of a verse of eight rhyming eight-syllable lines; each syllable occupies a square and follows in succession according to the knight’s move on the chess board.

F.W.

EASY HIDDEN FISHES.

In each of the following sentences find, concealed, the name of a well-known fish.

1.  A Russian soldier, at Toms’s, ate a salamander. 2.  “Do you spell ‘knob’ as she does?” 3.  “Where is my badge?” “Ella has it.” 4.  Francesco drew a large prize yesterday. 5.  “Have the girls and boys seen Fanny Dunbar?” “Belle has.” 6.  My dolls had the measles last month. 7.  Every soldier leaves his tent.  “Rout the enemy!” is the battle-cry. 8.  I heard, with regret, that she had lost her ring. 9.  I composed a song of which the first verse begins something like this:  “Hark! ’tis a cricket chirping.” 10.  Wax dolls melt when left too near the fire.

A.E.M.

POETICAL REBUS.

A two-line quotation from Cowper.

[Illustration]

RIDDLE.

    Gleaming gayly, flashing light;
    White as snow, and black as night;
    Ladies, I’m your slave, your pride,
    Though in ocean I abide.

    Power have I o’er life and death,—­
    I, a creature without breath! 
    I, so small that you can draw
    Fifty, like me, through a straw.

R.S.C.

SUGGESTED WORD-SQUARE.

In the following rhyme, the words of the Square are suggested by the sense, and are to be inserted in the blanks, in order, as the blanks occur,—­the first word in the first blank, the second word in the second blank, and so on.

    To buy a ——­ was foolish waste. 
      (I’d no ——­ how it would taste!)
    “I’ll just have bread and ——­,” said Daisy. 
      “Who ——­ a fruit like that, is crazy!”