-- an ---- -- ----
Gave ---- advice that gave ---- -- ----.
This was his pleasant plan!

Said he, "Your ---- shines, and ----
Your ----, sweet as honey.
There's ---- -- ---- -- ----, and I think
You'd best try ----."

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No. 96--HOLLOW ST. ANDREW'S CROSS.

Upper left-hand diamond--1. In crystal. 2. A small fish. 3. Ventured. 4.
The eaves of a roof. 5. Existing. 6. To moisten. 7. In crystal.

Upper right-hand diamond.--1. In crystal. 2. A large wooden vessel. 3.
Pacifies. 4. Thunders. 5. Beneath. 6. To stitch. 7. In crystal.

Lower left-hand diamond--1. In crystal. 2. The end of a piece of lace.
3. Modified. 4 Fanatics. 5. Having the qualities of beer. 6. Arid. 7. In
crystal.

Lower right-hand diamond.--1. In crystal 2. Uncooked. 3. Committed to
memory. 4. Relating to the arch-fiend. 5. Winds. 6. An English prefix
meaning "separated". 7. In crystal.

VINCENT V. M. BEEDE.

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No. 97.

First is a prima donna.
Second is a city in Germany.
Third the capital of New Jersey.
Fourth are the celebrated falls of the United States.
Fifth is one of the five great lake ports.
Sixth is the president of the United States.
Seventh is a country in Europe.
Eighth is a well-known temperance lecturer.
Ninth is a celebrated English novelist.
Tenth is an American explorer.
My whole counted down the centre is a celebrated American poet.

LINDA MOHRMANN.

Answers to Kinks.

No. 92.

Name, Cromwell. 1. Craven, raven. 2 Rink, ink. 3 Olive, live. 4. Madder,
adder. 5 Waft, aft. 6. Event, vent. 7. Lace, ace. 8. Lair, air.

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No. 93.

1. Anti-mony. 2. Si-mony. 3. Patri-mony. 4. Cere-mony. 5. Matri-mony. 6.
Ali-mony. 7. Scam-mony. 8. Parsi-mony. 9. Acri-mony. 10. Testi-mony. 11.
Har-mony.

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No 94.

L I V E D I N G
I R O N I D O L
V O I D N O D E
E N D S I N G L E N
I D O L
N O S E
D I N G L E E E L S
I D E A E D I T
N E A T L I M E
G A T E S T E P

Two Facts about Germantown.

It was in Germantown that the mariners' quadrant was invented by Thomas
Godfrey in 1730; and that Christopher Sower, Sr., printed the first
Bible in America, a copy of which, with Sower's imprint, could have been
seen at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in