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the country church-yard, for many would like to see me in Westminster Abbey, where there is a fine monument to me. THE ABSURD PENGUIN PUZZLE. [Illustration: Fig. 1.] [Illustration: Fig. 2.] This Puzzle appeared in No. 25, page 344. It was, with two straight cuts of the scissors, to change the fish, Fig. 1, into an absurd penguin catching a herring, as is shown in Fig. 2. * * * * * =A Spider's Instinct.=--Spiders crawling more abundantly and conspicuously than usual upon the in-door walls of houses foretell the near approach of rain; but the following anecdote shows that some of their habits are the equally certain indication of frost being at hand. Quartermaster Disjouval, seeking to beguile the tedium of his eight years of prison life at Utrecht, had studied attentively the habits of the spider. In December of 1794 the French army, on whose success his restoration to liberty depended, was in Holland, and victory seemed certain if the frost, then of unprecedented severity, continued. The Dutch Envoy had failed to negotiate a peace, and Holland was despairing, when the frost suddenly broke. The Dutch were now exulting, and the French Generals prepared to retreat; but the spider warned Disjouval that the thaw would be of short duration. He contrived to communicate with the army of his countrymen, and its Generals relied upon his assurance that within a few days the water would again be passable by troops. They delayed their retreat. Within twelve days the frost had returned, and the French army triumphed. [Illustration: "WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND CHARMING, I PRACTICED BABY-FARMING."] End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880, by Various *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, MAY 11, 1880 *** ***** This file should be named 28882.txt or 28882.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/8/8/28882/ Produced by Annie McGuire Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply
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