TIC.

The initials and finals, read downward, name two Latin poets.

1. To affirm. 2. A male character in Shakspeare. 3. To cry aloud. 4. One
of the United States. 5. An order of architecture. 6. Small.

VERTI.

NAMES OF AUTHORS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.

1. An Italian river. 2. A prefix, and an enemy. 3. A berry, and a spine.
4. A machine, and a small house. 5. The cat'll eat it. 6. What doves do,
and an expression of contentment. 7. Bright things that fly upward. 8.
What should be done with a sister in the sulks. 9. What should be done
to one's mother. 10. Half of a New England city, and what is useless
when dry.

RUSTICUS.

ENIGMA.

My first is in boy, but not in lad;
My second in merry, but not in sad.
My third is in stripe, but not in streak;
My fourth is in proud, but not in meek.
My fifth is in little and also in tall;
My sixth in none, but not in all.
My whole a trusty guide is found
For animals men ride around.

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