Chapter VI: Rulers of Later Times

KING PHILIP.
HERNANDO CORTEZ.
HENRY IV.
LOUIS XIV.
JOSEPH BONAPARTE.
LOUIS PHILIPPE.

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Boy Travellers in the Far East.

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ADVENTURES OF

TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY

TO

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PUZZLE PICTURE.

The envelope in the middle of this picture is supposed to contain a number of letters. These letters taken from the envelope, and correctly placed before the several objects shown in the picture, will transform them into wild animals.

THROWING LIGHT.

I am intangible; can't be seen, yet can be felt; am apparent to the taste--certainly to the touch, for I am pocketed daily, and there is no one who would not gladly grasp me at any time when offered; at the same time, I am almost always disagreeable, and very rarely desired. Too much of me is dangerous, and yet how could any one have too many of me? though even a sip is more than any one craves. No one was ever heard to say he was tired of me, and yet how many tears I have made children shed! I am the means of making people happy, yet I am dangerous under certain circumstances, though, to be sure, if I make people sick, I also make them well. Once I made a dreadful disturbance in New York, but yet I doubt if there is any city in this country where more of me, if as many, pass from people's hands.

I cost nothing, anybody can have me that wants me, yet no one if poor can keep me, though I am easily bottled. You can't confine me, though you can shut me out, for there is nothing to take hold of, but a little package will hold many hundreds of me. I am a fluid, yet I am only air. I can be made by a stroke of the pen, but the greatest care must be exercised in making me properly; but when I am made artificially I am not half as refreshing as when Nature makes me. You can carry me in your pocket, but you can not take hold of me. You may swallow me, but you can not touch me. What am I? Let some one else throw a light.

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=Answer to Charade.=--Answer to Charade on page 146 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 13 is "Chart."

=Answer to the Elephant Puzzle.=--To solve the Elephant Puzzle presented in No. 13 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE make two cuts with the scissors as shown by the white lines in Fig. 1, and transpose the section thus cut out, placing it in the position shown by the white lines of Fig 2.

IT BEING DICK'S BIRTHDAY, HE IS ALLOWED TO STAY HOME FROM SCHOOL.

1. Exploring the closets.
2. Bread and butter, with plenty of sugar.
3. Plays horse with the parlor chairs.
4. "I've sawed the chair. What will mother say?"
5. Ornaments the walls.

_Result: On Dick's next Birthday he will go to School._

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880, by Various