Chapter V: Preface (2)

372. What kind of cat is most valued in Sunday-school?

373. Which of the cats does a young man show the most affection for?

374. With a hairy animal and an instrument for the hair, construct a burial-place.

375. I am composed of 19 letters: my 3, 7, 5--13, 8, 18, 12--15, 14, 10, 2--17, 11, 19, 5--1, 7, 17, 16, 7, 2--6, 2, 7, 18--4, 15, 11, 9, 18--and 4, 7, 8, 17, 18, 13 are birds; my whole is the name of a bird.

376. Entire, I am useful to the student; deprived of my first letter, I am behind time; transposed, a bird in the West; deprived of my first two letters, I am what you all have done; transposed, what you all do; again transposed, a beverage; my whole, deprived of the first three letters, is a Latin pronoun in the accusative case. This last reversed is a Latin conjunction. My whole, deprived of the first four letters, is a Latin preposition; my whole transposed is a crime; again transposed, I am very little; without my last letter, I am used in building houses; transposed, I am used in cooking; again transposed, I am used by shoemakers.

As an enigma, I am composed of five letters:

My 1, 5, 3 is a body of water.
My 3, 2, 5 is a liquor.
My 5, 3, 1, 4 is a point of the compass.
My 1, 5, 3, 4 is a place to rest.
My 3, 4 is a preposition.
My 1, 3, 2, 5 occurs every day.

377. What stream of water contains, (1) a chart, (2) an animal, (3) a toy, (4) two kitchen utensils, (5) three nicknames, (6) an article of clothing, (7) two articles of furniture, (8) a river, (9) a bird, (10) a ditch, (11) a preposition, (12) to strike, (13) quick, (14) a resting-place for troops.

378. How near does a boy straddling a rail come to the President of the United States?

379. When is an Indian like a railroad engine?

380. When are children in danger of forming bad habits?

381. Why is a boy crying to be helped over a rail fence like a lawyer?

382.

I am in the men, but not in the boys.
I am in the playthings, but not in the toys.
I am in the north, but not in the south.
I am in the nose, but not in the mouth.
I am in the minister, but not in his hat.
I am in the kitten, but not in the cat.
I am in the barn, but not in the floor.
I am in the window, but not in the door.
I am in the county, but not in the state.
I am in the pencil, but not in the slate.

383. How far is the President of the United States from the first man that ever died?

384. If a tough beef-steak could speak, what poet's name would it pronounce?

385. Why is a side-saddle like a four-quart measure?

386. What is that without which a wagon can not be made, and can not go, and yet is of no use to it?

387. What does a frigate weigh when ready for sea?

388. Why do pioneers march at the head of the regiment?

389. Why is "i" the happiest of the vowels?

390. Supposing two ships of war, the San Jacinto and Ironsides, to be 2,417 yards apart, at an unknown distance from a fort having a base of 666-2/3 yards. The angle from the San Jacinto to the nearest corner of the fort is 71-1/2°, to the center of the fort 62-1/2°; the angle from the Ironsides to the nearest corner of the fort is 56-1/2°, to the center of the fort 49-1/4°. Required the distance from each ship to the corner and center of the fort--also the distance from a point equidistant between the ships and the center of the fort.

391. With what three letters can you express a sentence comprising ten letters?

392. My first, though originally an animal, now-a-days often goes by steam; though commonly used for eating, is now much used to punch holes with; though hitherto considered rather sheepish than otherwise, in these times goes to war. My second lies before you; waits to do your bidding; is both black and white at the same time; can draw tears or provoke laughter; carry messages and convey instruction. Entire, I imply a disturbed state of mind, which has extended itself to the body, leading a looker-on to indulge great expectations that something is going to happen.

CHARADE.

393.

On this green grassy ball of a structure called earth,
I have dwelt unregarded for innumerable years,
And none more attached to the land of their birth,
More deep in its pleasures, its grief and its fears;
I sport 'mid the waves of the ocean and sea,
Or rest on the bank of some flowery glade.
Or join the fairies who dance on the lea,
Or play in the checkers of sunshine and shade,
But still I'm intent in my welfare I trust,
And not to vain empty frivolity given.
When I come to the end of all time, as I must,
I'm safe in the hope of dwelling in heaven.

394. Add a letter to a pronoun, and make a preposition; another, and make a noun; add another at either end, and make a verb; another, and make another noun.

395. Add a letter to a man, and make a pearl.

396. Add a letter to a Scripture character, and make a flower.

397. A and B set out from the same place, in the same direction; A travels uniformly 18 miles per day, and, after 9 days, turns and goes as far as B has traveled during those 9 days; he then turns again, and, pursuing his journey, overtakes B 22-1/2 days after the time they first set out. Required the rate at which B uniformly traveled.

398.

To a word of consent join the first half of fright,
Next subjoin what you never beheld in the night;
Now, these rightly connected, we quickly obtain
What numbers have seen, but will ne'er see again.

399.

My first it is a curious thing,
Of Nature's own produce,
And many who have lost a limb
Have found it of great use.

By my second's wondrous power
Ships are made with ease,
To stem against both wind and tide
Across the boundless seas.

My whole is very often found
Together with my first,
And comes in very handy
When you would quench your thirst.

400. Add a letter to a crime, and make meditation.

401. How is it that a hen knows no night?

402. Which class of democrats does a hen show most, regard for?

403. Why is a large fresh egg like a virtuous deed?

404. Add a letter to a heart, and make a number.

405. What is flatter than a flat?

406. I802500A.

407. Entire, I am a kind of rock; beheaded, I am considered very healthy; again beheaded, I am a beverage; then transposed, I am a meadow.

ENIGMA.

408.

'Tis found in our troubles, 'tis mixed with our pleasures,
'Tis laid up above with our heavenly treasures;
"'Tis whispered in heaven, and 'tis muttered in hell,"
And it findeth a place in each sybilline spell;
In Paradise nestled, 'mid Eden's fair flowers,
It has sported with Eve in rose-perfumed bowers;
'Tis muttered in curses, yet breathed in our prayers;
From the path of our duty it tempts us in snares.
Deep, deep in our hearts you will find it engraved;
Though in misery sunk, yet from sin it is saved.
'Tis found in the stream that flows on to the ocean;
Though in bustle forever, 'tis ne'er in commotion.
'Tis wafted afar o'er the land in each breath;
In the grave 'tis decaying--you'll find it in death.
It is floating away on the broad stream of time,
Yet it findeth a place in eternity's clime.
In the legends of nations it holdeth a place;
There's no charm without it to the beautiful face.
In thunder you'll hear it, if closely you listen;
In moonbeam and sunbeam forever 'twill glisten.
In the dew-drop it sparkles; 'tis found in the forest;
It whispers in peace when our need is the sorest.

409. My first is a drink; my second is feminine; my third is the cry of an animal; and my whole is a city in Scripture.

410. Behead something irritating, and leave something soothing.

411.

My first is not so often doled
To beggar sad and urchin bold,
As when the full amount in gold
Was paid for paper one might hold,
My second is a rank extolled
As beings of superior mold,
With virtues rare and manifold,
When they by toadies are cajoled--
A rank not made through ballots polled
By freemen legally enrolled.
My whole, a fragrant plant, is sold
In parcels small to grannies old,
Who in their early life were told
"'Twill check a fever--cure a cold."

412. Take the first syllable (which is sometimes used as an interjection to express contempt) from a warlike instrument, then transpose the remainder, and leave some ends.

413. Entire, I am found in Brooklyn; with my first two letters changed, I am a very strong and pretty kind of crockery-ware; when entire, my first is a kind of mountain; my second is found all over the world.

414. My first is annoying, my second (under certain circumstances), alarming; my whole is something frightful.

415. My first is a nickname; my second, a pronoun; my third, a conjunction; and my whole, a fish.

416. Transpose a ruler into a river.

417. Why is silver currency like Cæsar's army by the Rubicon?

418. What boat is found in every ocean?

419. 10050055N.

420. Behead an animal, transpose, and leave a coin.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.

1. W HAIR over each eye (i) n gander or a bound will p over t and v ice beef hound. (Where overreaching and error abound, will poverty and vice be found.)

2. A little patients over a parent wr on g spree vents great miss under stand in-g-s between men. (A little patience over apparent wrongs, prevents great misunderstandings between men.)

3. Crisis.

4. Mankind.

5. The excellent effects of a mild and (hand less h) tender civility are unquestionable.

6. Trice, rice, ice.

7. Pink, ink, in, pin.

8. Think twice before you speak once.

9. He had no need of a Hierarch (higher ark).

10. "Written."

11. Princeton, Prince, tin, ton, cent, Nip, tire, nice, not, in, to.

12. Araby.

13. Love.

14. Valentine's Day.

15. Wise in one's own conceit.

16. Award, ward, war, raw.

17. Elapse, lapse.

18. A chin well rounded is a charming feature.

19. 250 rods.

20. Bal-morals.

21. Malady.

22. Regimentals.

23. Because they are destitute of-fenders.

24. "A celebrated man."

25. Plane, lean, plan, lap.

26. Fin e words r no t all wais t he m ark s of a k in d heart. (Fine words are not always the marks of a kind heart.)

27. They are always in love.

28. Cunningham.

29. Hope, hop, ho!

30. Incendiary.

31. Scowl, grow, row, owl.

32. Carroll.

33. Trifling, flirting.

34. Napkin.

35. Horse, rose.

36. T hay W hoe ark wick limb maid 2 DO ill S hood beak on T in ULE watch ED. (They who are quickly made to do ill, should be continually watched.)

37. Salve, slave, lave, veal, vase, save, ale, Ave.

38. Curtail in g x pence swill lad in Co me. (Curtailing expenses will add income.)

39. When he said "Bildad."

40. He thought he was _going to blubber_, but he didn't.

41. Pasha, hasp.

42. Rupee, Peru.

43. When it is very rare.

44. Hand-some.

45. A good appetite.

46. Mastodon.

47. Casper, asper, sper, per.

48. When there is a will there is a way.

49. Curtail.

50. Disproportionableness.

51. Nine--he took _his own ears_ and _one ear_ of _corn_ out each day.

52. YOU.

53. War, raw.

54. Willow.

55. Black Rock.

56. Waterloo.

57. Lockport.

58. Buffalo.

59. Whitehall.

60. Pitcairn.

61. Caraway.

62. Judas tree.

63. Marjoram.

64. Meat, eat, ate, tea, Eta, Etam, team, tame, at'em, meta, met, me.

65. Hew hop lace S C on F I dents in awl purse on swill short L y C on F I D E in no body. (He who places confidence in all persons will shortly confide in nobody.)

66. Snow-drop.

67. Commonwealth.

68. Brogue, rogue.

69. A people intent on being overruled by a king, need not complain if monarchs arrogate their ability to over-rule opinions.

70. Practice flows from principle, for as a man thinks, so he will act.

71. The first that turned up.

72. Monkey, money.

73. At-ten-dance.

74. N I X.

75. A hawk.

76. My son, hear the instruction of thy father.

77. P-o-u-l-t-r-y.

78. Because it is often vain (vane) to aspire (a spire).

79. He is an infidel (inn fiddle).

80. He is not likely to have a good run.

81. He is a Jew ill (Jewel).

82. He distributes letters.

83. Dodo.

84. They are sure to bring him full crops.

85. He faces the fire.

86. Slaughter, laughter.

87. Because there is a bridge in every brigade.

88. Donor.

89. Astray.

90. Impeach.

91. Plumbago.

92. Peace to be sure requires justice.

93. Joab--2 Samuel xviii. 14.

94. Omri--1 Kings xvi. 24.

95. Shelomith--Levit. xxiv. 11.

96. Hadaosoh--Esther viii. 7.

97. Uzziah--2 Chron. xxvi. 21.

98. Ahaziah's mother--2 Chron. xxiii. 13.

99. Joshua.

100. Contemplation.

101. American.

102. Supplementary.

103. Apollos.

104. Korah.

105. Hiram Hatchet.

106. Nehemiah.

107. Incendiarism.

108. Presentation.

109. Baltimore.

110. Smartest.

111. Regurgitation.

112. Disaccommodation.

113. Porcelain.

114. Insular.

115. Recapitulation.

116. Burnside.

117. Prestidigitateur.

118. Contradictory.

119. Indeterminate.

120. Ossification.

121. Resignation.

122.

If words could satisfy the heart,
The heart might feel less care;
But words, like summer birds, depart,
And leave but empty air.
A little said, and truly said,
Can deeper joy impart,
Than hosts of words which reach the head,
But never touch the heart.

123. Watch over your heart to keep out all vice.

124. Darius, radius.

125. Sausage, assuage.

126. He was bound to Havanna (Have Anna).

127. He was _reviled_ who came to _deliver_.

128. It would be reformed.

129. Canoe, ocean.

130. Surface.

131. It would be recreation.

132. Miserable.

133. Your word.

134. Met-a-physician.

135. Flattery.

136. He is no better.

137. A day's difference.

138. Only the dead one; the others would fly away.

139. Conundrum.

140. A good intention, but undervalued and misunderstood.

141. Wolf, fowl.

142. Stripes, sprites.

143. Cataract.

144. "Honest Old Abe."

145. Aden.

146. When It's mild (it smiled.)

147. Treason, reason.

148. Daisy.

149. Buttercup.

150. Hound-tongue.

151. Mode sty i s one oft he chief or name nt sof youth. (Modesty is one of the chief ornaments of youth.)

152. Husbandman.

153. Because Time beats all men, and a drummer beats time.

154. When it is used to sow lace (solace).

155. Forbearing.

156.

(1) Mr. and Mrs. A. cross the river together, Mr. A brings the
boat back.

(2) Mrs. B. and Mrs. C. cross, Mrs. A. returns.

(3) Mr. B. and Mr. C. cross, Mr. and Mrs. B. return.

(4) Mr. A. and Mr. B. cross, Mrs. C. returns.

(5) Mrs. C. and Mr. B. go over, and Mr. A. returns for his
wife.

157. Light.

158. Red-riding-hood.

159. Ann Eliza (analyzer).

160. Glass.

161. Entrance.

162. Desert.

163. Subjects.

164. Object.

165. Piece of mind being secured we maze mile at miss fortunes. (Peace of mind being secured, we may smile at misfortunes.)

166. Wilful lie (Wilforley).

167. Willie H. Coleman.

168. Fleta Forrester.

169. Jasper.

170. Had anchor (H. A. Danker).

171. Sibyl Grey.

172. Slate, tales, least, stale, steal.

173. The required radius, 0 feet 1.922257 inches.

174. When it is _a raining_ (arraigning).

175. Political.

176. Issue.

177.

Be not too wise nor over nice
For if you be, you little see,
How like an idiot you be.

178. It will be ten to one if he catches it.

179. Ill.

180. B and Y (bandy.)

181. Zebra, bear.

182. What a wheel!

183. Revolutionary.

184. In _mills_.

185. While it can not move without a head of water, it never gets ahead of the water, and yet is always moving.

186. Star, sat, rat, tar, art, as, at.

187. Blood-root.

188. Ox-bane.

189. Candy-tuft.

190. Arrow-head.

191. Bed-straw.

192. Patience and perseverance will perform wonders.

193. I, -- crossed makes X etc.

194. Boa-constrictor.

195. _a._ Rock pigeon. _b._ Rose mallow.

196. Selah!

197. Stiver, rivets.

198. Kite, tike.

199. Wolf, fowl.

200. Scows, cows.

201. Stripes, sprites.

202. Ape, pea.

203. Danes, sedan.

204. Dawn, wand.

205. All is not gold that glitters.

206. Pawpaw.

207. Crane-fly.

208. Maple.

209. Trug, rug.

210. Sport.

211. Excommunication.

212. Moss-rose.

213. Because it bears the palm.

214. Enumerating.

215. Embrocation.

216. Virulent.

217. Combativeness.

218. Midshipman.

219. Season.

220. Acrobats.

221. First be sure you are right, then go ahead.

222. Lake, sake, Jake, bake, wake, make, rake, hake, cake, fake, take.

223. Amethyst.

224. Direction (die-wreck-shun).

225. Warlock.

226. They have always agreed.

227. Flake, lake.

228. BOOK-CASE. Baltic, Odessa, Olympus, Killanaule.

229. Liquorice.

230. Lover, cover, hover, mover, rover.

231. Oliver, Olive, Levi.

232. Time and tide wait for no man.

233. Bug-bear.

234. Philosophy.

235. Turks, sturk.

236. Owe nothing.

237. Arm-chair.

238. R U A TT. (Are you a tease?)

239. Once upon a time a horrid, cross, overbearing man undertook to beat his wife upon a very small provocation indeed; but she understood and overcame his evil intention, for before he could injure her, she demolished him in a little time with a cudgel.

240. Tennessee (10 A C).

241. Ounce, cat, pig, horse, seal, cow.

242. Head-less.

243. Weed, need, meed, feed, deed, heed, reed, seed.

244. Patapsco.

245. Level.

246. Fund.

247. Mum, Abba, Dad, Anna, Minim--MADAM.

248. Rebecca, rebec.

249. C low shoe r heart against awl vice, butt open the door to wall t root h. (Close your heart against all vice, but open the door to all truth.)

250. When they are candidates (candied dates).

251. Because it is ink-lined (inclined).

252. When he declines a drink.

253. Loops, spool.

254. Animal, lamina.

255. Em-bark.

256. When it is a perch.

257. (Often read) ink.

258. A clock.

259. Each has his own bark.

260. One is an analyzer (Ann Eliza), the other a charlatan (Charlotte Ann).

261. It has many boughs (bows).

262. Because the cat 'ill eat it.

263. They are tumblers.

264. A bushel of corn.

265. Sealing-wax.

266. Because his works are wicked, and all his wicked works come to light.

267. He is a-mending the public ways.

268. Because he is dog-matical.

269. He axes it.

270. Independence. (Inn, deep, pendants.)

271. Because they leave every spring.

272. Yes, when he is tired of one place he can go to another.

273. Clouds.

274. Sable, stable.

275. Elm, Lem.

276. Lama, Alma.

277. Ash, has.

278. Flea, leaf.

279. Brag, garb.

280. Jehoshaphat.

281. Because he has no shoes on.

282. Long or short, he only gets ahead one foot at a time.

283. Frill, rill, ill.

284. Fare-well.

285. Rebellion.

286.

_To remove the shears._--Take the loop end of the string; put it through the right handle, and carry the loop around to _a_, as shown by the dotted line here given. Let the loop be carried still further toward _b_, until it has passed entirely around the whole shoars, and you can then remove them, as they will slip out through the handles.

287. Wasp.

288. Pine apple.

289. I O U 0 (I owe you nothing).

290. Eleve, levee.

291. The letter A.

292. Stable, table, Able, Abe.

293. Hares, share.

294. Glare, large.

295. Yard, dray.

296. Stake, skate.

297. Lurch, churl.

298. One hug enough.

299. Milk-maid.

300. Maine.

301. Box.

302. Quicksand.

303. Les Miserables.

304. Trade Winds.

305. One may be barred and the other bolted.

306. Printers.

307. Bread and butter--read and utter.

308. Catalpa.

309. Lamas, salam.

310. Friend-ship.

311. Mate, ate, mat, ma, am.

312. Prometheus.

313. Nathaniel P. Banks.

314. The letter I.

315. Bilberry.

316. Larkspur.

317. Heartsease.

318. Sumac.

319. Rue.

320. Lady, lad.

321. Mandate.

322. Range, rage.

323. Feeling.

324. Furlong.

325. Flagrant.

326. Apathy.

327. It is a pig-got.

328. Indianapolis.

329. Paris.

330. London.

331. Keel, eel, E E (ease).

332. Cat-a-logue.

333. Votes, stoves.

334. Polyanthus.

335. Isabella.

336. Washington.

337. Gum, mug.

338. Depend not on fortune, but conduct.

339. Tenacity.

340. Beam, hairs (hares), temples a cur sup on his meals, tenants, eggs salted (exalted), a narrow mind.

341. Ruthless.

342. Root, moot, foot, boot, hoot, toot, soot.

343. Mutton.

344. A little (t) will change pain into paint.

345. Parsimony.

346. Personage.

347. Constantinople.

348. Soldiers.

349. Contrabands.

350. Jurisprudence.

351. Drawer, warder.

352. Crown, crow.

353. March, sham, ash, Sam, has.

354. He is a man of great gravity.

355. Host, shot.

356. Tulips (two lips.)

357. Tyke, key.

358. Sun-flower.

359. Rosemary.

360. Aaron's rod.

361. Nothing.

362. Ho does not want them made shorter.

363. He is fond of cabbage.

364. He never drinks.

365. Memento mori.

366. Orpheus C. Kerr.

367. Uncle Robert's Picture.

368. Manhattanville.

369. Hatteras.

370. Cat-o-nine-tails.

371. Catastrophe.

372. Catechism.

373. Catechist, (cat he kissed).

374. Cat-a-comb.

375. Blackburnian Warbler.

376. Slate.

377. Potomac.

378. One is a rail-sitter, the other a rail-splitter.

379. When he travels on a trail (T rail).

380. When they linger round the bars.

381. He pleads at the bar.

382. The letter N.

383. A yard and a quarter. _Abe_--Abe-L.

384. Chaucer.

385. It holds a gal on.

386. Noise.

387. It weighs anchor.

388. To axe the way.

389. Because "i" is in the midst of bliss, "e" is in hell, and all the others in purgatory.

390. From San Jacinto to corner of the fort, 1,843 66-100 yards.

From San Jacinto to center of the fort, 1,971 10-100 yards.

From Ironsides to corner of the fort, 2,096 53-100 yards.

From Ironsides to center of the fort, 2,304 75-100 yards.

From point equidistant to center of the fort, 1,763 47-100 yards.

391. R U L. (Are you well?)

392. Rampage.

393. The letter E.

394. I, in, pin, spin or pine, spine.

395. Earl, pearl.

396. Iri, iris.

397. B travels ten miles a day.

398. Yesterday.

399. Corkscrew.

400. Peculation, speculation.

401. Her son never sets.

402. The hard shell.

403. It is a good egg sample.

404. Core, score.

405. A flatterer.

406. I ate nothing to-day.

407. Shale, hale, ale.

408. The letter E.

409. Beersheba.

410. Teasing, easing.

411. Penny-royal.

412. Balista, tails.

413. Ridgewood.

414. Bug-bear.

415. Halibut.

416. Bashaw, Wabash.

417. Because the die is cast before they pass it.

418. Canoe (transposed forms "ocean").

419. CLOWN.

420. Deer, ree.

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