Chapter VII: Part II: Fancy Titles for Books (3)

Mr. Baker did not seem to see it very clearly, but the others did, and they often relate this little history for the amusement of their friends.

THE RATIONALISTIC CHICKEN.

(_Inspecting its shell._)

BY J. S. STONE.

Most strange!
Most queer,--although most excellent a change!
Shades of the prison-house, ye disappear!
My fettered thoughts have won a wider range,
And, like my legs, are free;
No longer huddled up so pitiably:
Free now to pry and probe, and peep and peer,
And make these mysteries out.
Shall a free-thinking chicken live in doubt?
For now in doubt undoubtedly I am:
This Problem’s very heavy on my mind,
And I’m not one either to shirk or sham:
I won’t be blinded, and I won’t be blind.

Now, let me see:
First, I would know how did I get in _there_?
Then, where was I of yore?
Besides, why didn’t I get out before?
Dear me!
Here are three puzzles (out of plenty more)
Enough to give me pip upon the brain!
But let me think again.
How do I know I ever _was_ inside?
Now I reflect, it is, I do maintain,
Less than my reason, and beneath my pride,
To think that I could dwell
In such a paltry miserable cell
As that old shell.
Of course I couldn’t! How could _I_ have lain,
Body and beak and feathers, legs and wings,
And my deep heart’s sublime imaginings,
In there?

I meet the notion with profound disdain;
It’s quite incredible; since I declare
(And I’m a chicken that you can’t deceive)
_What I can’t understand I won’t believe._
Where _did_ I come from, then? Ah! where, indeed?
This is a riddle monstrous hard to read.
I have it! Why, of course,
All things are moulded by some plastic force,
Out of some atoms somewhere up in space,
Fortuitously concurrent anyhow;--
There, now!
That’s plain as is the beak upon my face.

What’s that I hear?
My mother cackling at me! Just her way,
So prejudiced and ignorant _I_ say;
So far behind the wisdom of the day.
What’s old I _can’t_ revere.
Hark at her. “You’re a silly chick, my dear,
That’s quite as plain, alack!
As is the piece of shell upon your back!”
How bigoted! upon my back, indeed!
I don’t believe it’s there,
For I can’t _see_ it: and I do declare,
For all her fond deceivin’,
_What I can’t see I never will believe in!_

A MEDLEY.

I only know she came and went, [Lowell.
Like troutlets in a pool; [Hood.
She was a phantom of delight, [Wordsworth.
And I was like a fool. [Eastman.
One kiss, dear maid, I said, and sighed, [Coleridge.
Out of those lips unshorn! [Longfellow.
She shook her ringlets round her head, [Stoddard.
And laughed in merry scorn. [Tennyson.
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, [Tennyson.
You hear them, Oh, my heart, [Alice Cary.
’Tis twelve at night by the castle clock-- [Coleridge.
Beloved, we must part. [Alice Cary.
Come back, come back, she cried in grief, [Campbell.
My eyes are dim with tears; [B. Taylor.
How shall I live through all the days, [Mrs. Osgood.
All through a hundred years? [J. J. Perry.
’Twas in the prime of summer time, [Hood.
She blessed me with her hand; [Hoyt.
We strayed together deeply blest, [Mrs. Edwards.
Into the dreaming land. [Cornwall.
The laughing bridal roses blew, [Patmore.
To deck her dark brown hair, [B. Taylor.
No maiden may with her compare, [Brailsford.
Most beautiful, most rare! [Read.
I clasped it on her sweet cold hand, [Browning.
The precious golden link; [Smith.
I calmed her fears, and she was calm-- [Coleridge.
Drink, pretty creature, drink! [Wordsworth.
And so I won my Genevieve, [Coleridge.
And walked in Paradise; [Hervey.
The fairest thing that ever grew [Wordsworth.
Atween me and the skies! [Tennyson.

ANOTHER MEDLEY.

(WHO ARE THE AUTHORS?)

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
In every clime, from Lapland to Japan;
To fix one spark of beauty’s heavenly ray,
The proper study of mankind is man.

Tell, for you can, what is it to be wise,
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain!
“The man of Ross,” each lisping babe replies,
And drags, at each remove a length’ning chain.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb
Far as the solar walk, or milky way?
Procrastination is the thief of time,
Let Hercules himself do what he may.

’Tis education forms the common mind,
The feast of reason and the flow of soul;
I must be cruel only to be kind,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.

Syphax! I joy to meet thee thus alone,
Where’er I roam, whatever lands I see;
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown,
In maiden meditation, fancy free.

Farewell! and wheresoe’er thy voice be tried,
Why to yon mountain turns the gazing eye?
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,
That teach the rustic moralist to die.

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,
Whose beard descending, swept his aged breast;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
Man never is, but always to be blest.

AND ANOTHER MEDLEY.

The moon was shining silver bright,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
When freedom from her mountain height,
Exclaimed, “Now don’t be foolish, Joe!”

An hour passed by; the Turk awoke,
Ten days and nights with sleepless eye,
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
And spread its pall upon the sky.

His echoing axe the settlers swung,
He was a lad of high degree;
And deep the pearly caves among,
Sweet Mary, weep no more for me.

Loud roars the wild, inconstant blast,
And cloudless sets the sun at even;
When twilight dews are falling fast,
And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven.

Oh, ever thus, from childhood’s hour,
By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,
Beneath yon ivy-mantled tower,
They lingered in the forest shade.

My love is like the red, red rose;
He bought a ring with posy true;
Deep terror then my vitals froze;
And, Saxon, I am Rhoderick Dhu!

LIFE.

Why all this toil for triumph of an hour?
[Young.
Life’s a short summer--man is but a flower;
[Dr. Johnson.
By turns we catch the fatal breath and die--
[Pope.
The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh.
[Prior.
To be is better far than not to be,
[Sewell.
Though all man’s life may seem a tragedy:
[Spencer.
But light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb--
[Daniel.
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
[Sir Walter Raleigh.
Your fate is but the common fate of all;
[Longfellow.
Unmingled joys may here no man befall;
[Southwell.
Nature to each allots his proper sphere,
[Congreve.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care;
[Churchill.
Custom does often reason overrule,
[Rochester.
And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.
[Armstrong.
Live well--how long or short permit to heaven;
[Milton.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven,
[Bailey.
Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face--
[French.
Vile intercourse where virtue has no place,
[Sommerville.
Then keep each passion down, however dear.
[Thompson.
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear;
[Byron.
Her sensual snares let faithless Pleasure lay,
[Smollet.
With craft and skill to ruin and betray,
[Crabbe.
Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise,
[Massinger.
We masters grow of all that we despise.
[Cowley.
Oh, then, renounce that impious self-esteem;
[Beattie.
Riches have wings; and grandeur is a dream.
[Cowper.
Think not ambition wise because ’tis brave,
[Sir Walter Davenant.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave,
[Gray.
What is ambition? ’Tis a glorious cheat.
[Willis.
Only destructive to the brave and great.
[Addison.
What’s all the gaudy glitter of a crown?
[Dryden.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.
[Francis Quarles.
How long we live, not years but actions tell;
[Watkins.
That man lives twice who lives the first life well.
[Herrick.
Make then, while yet you may, your God your friend.
[William Mason.
Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.
[Hill.
The trust that’s given guard, and to yourself be just;
[Dana.
For live we how we may, yet die we must.
[Shakespeare.

THE KEY.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.

1. Cobweb. _M. A. R._

2. Thanks.

3. Of course I can! (Of Corsican.)

4. Maid of Orleans.

5. Because they have studded the heavens for centuries.

6. The winds blue, and the waves rose.

7. In violet.

8. They _leave out_ their summer dress.

9. Because I am the querist.

10. Penmanship. _English Paper._

11. Heather: weather. _Hearth and Home._

12. Nothing.

13. It contains all the letters of the alphabet.

14. A lawsuit.

15. His father was Enoch, who did not die.

16. Yes: he was the Daughter-of-Pharaoh’s son.

17. When Autumn is turning the leaves.

18. Bud-dhism.

19. Starch. (Star, sac, scar, tar, trash, act, arc, arch, art, ash, rat, rash, chart, cart, cat, car, chat, cash, cast, crash, hart, hat.)

20. Ague. (Hague; league; plague.)

21. Lettuce, alone. (Let us alone!)

22. The moon.

23. A human being. _The Sphinx Riddle._

24. Noah.

25. Macaulay. _Rural New Yorker._

26. N R G.

27. M T.

28. O B C T.

29. X L N C.

30. L E G.

31. Dutch S.

32. French L.

33. K.

34. In the days of no A (Noah,) before U and I were born.

35. T.

36. Q.

37. It’s laudin’ ’em.

38. No man has three feet; a man has two feet more than no man: therefore, a man has five feet.

39. A branch. _M. L. C._

40. Love Me Little: Love Me Long.

41. Ma mère. _E. P._

42. Amiable (Am I able?)

43. Conundrum.

44. Purcell. _M. D._

45. You sigh for a cipher, but I sigh for thee;
Oh, sigh for no cipher, but, oh, sigh for me;
And O, let my sigh for no cipher go,
But give sigh for sigh, for I sigh for you so!

46. Because they _axed_ him whether he would or no. (Horrid!)

47. He was out at midnight, _on a bust_.

48. 99⁹⁄₉.

49. The season is backward for potatoes.

50. One “wouldn’t do:” one “would do.”

51. When he owed (Oh’d) “for a lodge in some vast wilderness.”

52. The reindeer (The rain, dear!)

53. Red Wing. _M. A. R._

54. Insert a semicolon after “peacock,” after “comet,” after “cloud,” &c.; finally, after “sun.”

55. Semicolon after “talked.”

56. Absence of body!

57. The year before was 1870; the year following was 1870, too.

58. Because they’d _fall out_, if they didn’t.

59. Io died (iodide) of potassium.

60. He named it Robinson for Robinson crew so!

61. They’ve been to sea.

62. By the _Sound_.

63. He wears his collar and _pants_.

64. Veil; vile or evil; Levi, live.

65. A pair of spurs.

66. The letter A.

67. Translate the fourth and fifth “_suis_,” _follow_. “Suis” comes from _suivre_, as well as from _être_.

68. A mouse ran, full _but_,
Against my big _to_.

69. Mind your _I_!

70. Campbell’s Poems.

71. Thou tea-chest!

72. J’aime en silence (_six lances_.)

73. Who raw for (the) read, white, and blew!

74. G a. (G, grand; a, petit.)

75. Toad (to _ad_.)

76. Noon.

77. Insatiate (in sat I ate.)

78. Follow the English pronunciation of the syllables, allowing for the cockneyish displacement of the letter h.

Thus: TONY’S ADDRESS TO MARY.

O Mary! Heave a sigh for me,
For me, your Tony true;
I am become as a man dumb,--
Oh, let Hymen prompt you! etc.

The eighth line is “Or eat a bit of pie.”

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81. XIII. (X, ^VIII.)

82. For convenience let us call the eight-gallon measure, a; the five-gallon, b; and the three-gallon, c.

From a fill c, and empty into b. Fill c again; and, from it, fill b. Then empty b into a, and c, (which has in it one gallon,) into b. Fill c again, and empty into b, which now contains four gallons; while a, also, contains four.

83. One bushel and one-ninth.

84. Nescio. Ik weet niet. Je ne sais pas. No sà. Non so. Ich weiss nicht. Ninis cume. I dinna ken. I DON’T KNOW!

Professor Robinson in his Algebra attempts it, but not satisfactorily, so long as letters may be made to represent any number, or any other number, at discretion. Let us call it in this particular phase--(unfortunately it has others),--the Matrimonial Equation: “For, these two are one.”

85. The stranger had eaten eight-thirds of a loaf: seven-thirds belonging to one of the Arabs, and only one-third to the other.

86. He lost four dollars and the actual cost of the boots.

87. 5 herring @ 2_d._ = 10_d._
1 “ @ ½ = ½
6 “ @ ¼ = 1½
-- -----------
12 “ 12_d._

88. Endless.

89. Cares: caress.

90. Onion.

91. Advice.

92. When he has grounds for complaint.

93. For divers reasons.

94. For sundry purposes.

95. “The quality of Mercy (Mersey) is not strained.” _H. B. S._

96. “If the grate be empty, put coal on. If the grate be full, stop putting coal on.” So said one, but another replied “How can I put coal on, when there is such a high fender?”

97. Because he is no better.

98. When it becomes a lady.

99. The letters of the alphabet.

100. _One_ was _going_ to St. Ives’: he met the others.

101. A little too long to wait! (A _little_ 2, _long_ 2, 8.)
_E. S. D._

102. The Image that Michal put in David’s bed. I Samuel, ch. xix. Douay version, xix ch. I Kings.

103. His sister. The blind beggar was a woman.

104. The man who thanked Heaven was the lady’s father.

105. “That man” was the rhymer’s son.

106. Hirsute.

107. The letter s.

108. Because it is always _Snowdon_.

109. They should go to Fall River and Salem.

110. Novice.

111. Burns. _Hearth and Home._

112. Crabbe. “ “ “

113. Bryant. “ “ “

114. Gray. “ “ “

115. Beecher. “ “ “

116. Homer.

117. Hood.

118. Southey.

119. Coleridge.

120. Goldsmith.

121. Humboldt.

122. Mulock.

123. Lowell.

124. Virgil.

125. Akenside.

126. Wordsworth.

127. Steele.

128. Shakespeare.

129. Cowper.

130. WILLis.

131. Barry Cornwall.

132. Landon.

133. Landor.

134. Leigh Hunt.

135. Walpole.

136. Palmerston.

137. Russell.

138. Lytton.

139. Carlyle.

140. Seward.

141. W(h)ittier.

142. Chatter(t)on.

143. Because he has tenants.

144. It is a step fa(r)ther.

145. A draft.

146. A pack of cards.

147. A cord of wood.

148. Taking leave of things as they go.

149. His reaper.

150. It was Hamlet’s Uncle, who “did murder most foul.”

151. The Human Body.--^1 The chest; ^2 the eye-_lids_; ^3 the knee-_caps_; ^4 the ear-_drums_; ^5 the nails; ^6 the _soles_ of the feet; ^7 the muscles; ^8 the _palms_ of the hands; ^9 the limbs; ^10 two lips; ^11 the hips; ^12 the calves; ^13 hairs; ^14 the heart; ^15 the eye-_lashes_; ^16 the temples; ^17 arms; ^18 veins; ^19 insteps; ^20 eyes and nose; ^21 pupils; ^22 tendons.

^a The palate; ^b the _roof_ (of the mouth;) ^c the _bridge_ (of the nose;) ^d the shoulder-_blades_; ^e the iris (of each eye;) ^f the skull; ^g the spinal _column_; ^h the tongue; ^i the eye-_balls_, &c., ^jjj the stirrup, anvil and hammer (bones of the ear,) ^k locks (of hair).

152. Truant.

153. Scarecrow.

154. Intimate.

155. Codicil.

156. The hair.

157. Sixteen (those who were blind of both eyes, were also blind of one eye, &c.)

158. Because we have a W(h)ittier.

159. Because that was his name!

160. Because the other forty are Lent.

161. Now here, nowhere.

162. Ah no! (Arno.)

163. Unquestionably.

164. The road.

165. Columbus.

166. Met-a-physician.

167. Sackcloth.

168. The one who attends “patien_ts_ on a monument.”

169. Rather he killed the gorilla.

170. She is a musing, b coming, d lighting, n chanting.

171. She is _Sad you see_.

172. She is _Fair I see_.

173. “The judicious Hooker.”

174. Yesterday.

175. Sunday; all the rest are _week_ days.

176. Campbell. _W. M. Praed._

177. Seldom, (cell-dumb.)

178. His equal.

179. Just ice.

180. The King’s Highway.

181. Postage.

182. Baking--_a king_, _b king_, _a kin_.

183. Strawberry.

184. A Mushroom.

185. Fault.

186. A ditch.

187. When they chatter.

188. Short.

189. A pillow.

190. _Ad_vice.

191. Heat; you can _catch_ cold.

192. Sausage. _Rural New Yorker._

193. Hemlock.

194. Heroine; hero; her; he.

195. A blush.

196. He took his cup and saucer.

197. The cat’ll eat it.

198. B natural.

199. B sharp.

200. If the stairs were a way, I would go down stairs.

201. Nameless.

202. He “cut it too little”; that is, he did not cut it enough.

203. TOBACCO.

204. Because of the sandwiches (sand which is) there.

205. How did the sandwiches get there? Ans. There Ham dwelt, and there his descendants were bred and mustered (bread and mustard.)

206. Was there any butter on the sandwiches? Ans. No; Ham took only his wife; he took none of his family BUT _her_.

207. His was made _of_ Gophir wood, and they are made _to_ go for wood.

208. “Noah went _forth_.”

209. (M) _a jest_ (y).

210. “Dreaming often;” dreaming of _ten_.

211. Yes; “perhaps” _is_ most like maybe, or a bee in May.

212. The third gave it her ring, which Puss _couldn’t_ eat.

213. On the other side.

214. Eusebius, (You see by us.)

215. Inch; chin.

216. Envy; (N. V.)

217. Pardon.

218. Cape, caper.

219. Ten, tenor.

220. Foe, four.

221. Oak, ochre.

222. Sow, soar.

223. Fee, fear.

224. Roe, roar.

225. Sue, sewer.

226. Be, beer.

227. Lie, lyre.

228. Beau, bore.

229. Stowe, store.

230. Sea, seer.

231. Cough, coffer.

232. Loaf, loafer.

233. Port, porter.

234. Pie, pyre.

235. Bat, batter.

236. Dee, deer.

237. Tart, Tartar.

238. Tea, tier.

239. Ye, year, yeast.

240. Bow, boar, boast.

241. Fee, fear, feast.

242. Pay, pear, paste.

243. Lea, Lear, least.

244. Bow, rower, roast.

245. Bee, bier, beast.

246. E, ear, east.

247. Co., core, coast.

248. Poe, pour, post.

249. Go, gore, ghost.

250. Weigh, weigher, waste.

251. “Dear Nephew;
See, my coal on.
Uncle John.”
“Dear Uncle;
Coal on!
James.”

252. He is above doing a bad action.

253. Because a hen lays only one egg a day, and a ship _lays to_.

254. Because you can.

255. ^1 corn, ^2 needles, ^3 pins, ^4 buckles, ^5 canals, ^6 combs,
^7 rivers, ^8 roses, ^9 clocks, ^10 potatoes, ^11 stars,
^12 shoes. _Hearth and Home._

256. The whale that swallowed Jonah.

257. Bunyan--a bunion.

258. A girl is a lass, and alas is an interjection.

259. Learning to go alone.

260. The door-bell.

261. White kids.

262. He would want muzzlin’.

263. When it lies in a well.

264. Three: Sirius and the two pointers.

265. _Hailing_ omnibuses.

266. All the rest are in audible.

267. Because he is not a(p)parent.

268. A river.

269. Neither: both burn shorter.

270. Because it keeps its hands before its face; and, though full of good works, it is wholly unconscious of them, and always running itself down.

271. Manslaughter; man’s laughter.

272. _Mo_nosyllable.

273. A bed.

274. (P)shaw!

275. The sons raise meat there. (The sun’s rays meet there.)

276. Innocence Abroad, by Mark Twain (In no sense, a broad).

277. Facetiously.

278. Philip the Great.

279. Bug-bear.

280. Wat Tyler Will Rufus.

281. Bloomer (err; her; Herr).

282. Clio.

283. Cheat; heat; eat; at; chat; ache.

284. One; none.

285. Arrow-head.

286. A man of deceit
Can best counter_feit_;
So, as everything goes,
He can best count ’er toes.

287. Balaam’s Ass.

288. A kiss.

289. The _five_ vowels.

290. Dotage.

291. Seaward.

292. Mimic.

293. Disgraceful.

294. The first made musical instruments; the second was a baggage-man; the third was employed in a gas-factory; and the fourth made candles.

295. Cod.

296. The postman.

297. Cowslip.

298. Love.

299. The axle-tree.

300. Because it is farthest from the bark.

301. Because his business makes him sell-fish.

302. Pearlash.

303. If he was a _won_der, she was a _Tu_dor.

304. LION
INTO
OTTO
NOON.

305. A cock.

306. Enigma.

307. Crabbe, Shelley, Moore.

308. Goldsmith, Locke.

309. Campbell, Knight, Day, Foote.

310. His face.

311. BLIND.

312. Young, Gay, Hood, Lamb, Field, Gray, Fox, Hunt, Horne, Lingard, Wordsworth, Steele.

313. Marvell, Hilarius, Akenside, Manley, Hyde, Pope.

314. Aërial.

315. Bass, perch, roast pig, turkey, fillet, celery, gooseberry pudding, dates, Hamburg grapes.

316. Fire-fly.

317. The nose.

318. _Wal_nut.

319. Pea-nut.

320. Butternut.

321. _Beech_nut.

322. Chestnut.

323. Cocoanut.

324. The morning glory.

325. Snow drops.

326. Spinach.

327. The passion flower.

328. The spruce tree.

329. Because he has Adam’s Needle, Jacob’s Ladder, and Solomon’s Seal.

330. Catnip and Henbane.

331. Heart-ache.

332. Cashmere.

333. Season.

334. A drum.

335. Chain, china, chin.

336. Charge, charger.

337. Scamp, scamper.

338. Lad, ladder.

339. Tell, teller.

340. Barb, barber.

341. Din, dinner.

342. I, ire.

343. Yew, ewer.

344. Owe, oar.

345. Crescent, (cress-scent.)

346. The 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 30th, in the circle, were Jews.

347. Honesty is the best policy. (On ST, etc.)

348.

349. The Tongue.

350. Bothwell. _St. Nicholas._

351. A little more than _kin_ and less than _kind_.

352. Clink, link, ink, chair, hair, air.

353. (1) D-ranged; (2) C-girt; (3) D-lighted; (4) N-hammered; (5)
D-tested; (6) R-gone-out: (7) G-owed; (8) K-dense; (9) O-void;
(10) S-pied; (11) B-held; (12) C-bored; (13) X-pensive;
(14) D-famed. _St. Nicholas._

354. Wake robin.

355. Fill blanks with: straining, training, raining; dashing, plashing, marching, arching.

356. Lily.

357. Ivanhoe. _St. Nicholas._

358. Aries,--_we_aries. The enigma refers to the period when Taurus (the name of whose principal star Aldebaran signifies “He went before, or led the way,”) was First Constellation. Next, Aries, always First Sign, was also First Constellation; and now the Constellation Pisces “leads the year.”

359. Tissue.

360. Because it is written with great E’s.

361. Because it is written with two great E’s--(_too_ great ease.)

362. Trace a five-pointed star, and plant a tree at each extreme point, and at each point of intersection.

363. In naught extenuate, and set _down_ naught in
malice. _E. S. D._

364. That boy lied.

365. Fill the blanks with heart, story, art, tory.

366. Fill the blanks with plover, lover, over, ver; glowing, lowing, owing, wing.

367. “For thou art as deaf as a p-o-s-t.”

368. April: (ape, rill).

369. He mispronounced the word “full.” “You’re a fool, Moon,” said he.

370. The pronoun “it,” which may stand for anything on earth, or under or above the earth, seems to be the only possible solution. In the first line it stands, perhaps, for the utmost limit of space; in the second, for the centre of the earth, etc.

371. Dogmatic.

372. Cambyses.

373. About 117.7 feet. (Find the radius of a circle whose area is 43,560 square feet.).--_Prof. Eaton, of Packer Institute._

374. Informal.

375. A DINNER PARTY--THE GUESTS.

1. Robert Bruce.
2. Sir Walter Scott.
3. Cleopatra.
4. Leonidas.
5. Napoleon.
6. John Milton.
7. Louis XVI.
8. Artemisia.
9. Michael Angelo.
10. Gustavus of Sweden.
11. Warwick.
12. Anne of Warwick.
13. Christopher Wren.
14. Cardinal Mezzofanti.
15. Nelson.
16. Robert Burns.
17. The Chevalier Bayard.
18. Cromwell.
19. Sir Robert Walpole.
20. Sopor, King of Persia.
21. Death.
22. Schwartz, or Roger Bacon.
23. Alfred the Great.
24. Captain Cook.
25. Johannes Gutenberg.
26. Marshal Ney.
27. Galileo.
28. Blucher.
29. Sir Isaac Newton.
30. Julius Cæsar.
31. Sir Humphrey Davy.
32. Sir Walter Raleigh.
33. Sir James Ross.
34. Alfred Tennyson.
35. William Wordsworth.
36. Geoffrey Chaucer.
37. Charles XII of Sweden.
38. The Black Prince.
39. Sir Francis Drake.
40. Talleyrand.
41. Herodotus.

DISHES, ETC.

1. Oysters.
2. Soles.
3. Herring.
4. Crabs.
5. Venison.
6. Turkey.
7. Bacon.
8. Lamb.
9. Goose.
10. Hare.
11. Duck.
12. Woodcock.
13. Partridge.
14. Tongue.
15. Terrapin.
16. Potatoes.
17. Pease.
18. Parsnips.
19. Tomatoes.
20. Beets.
21. Spinach(e).
22. Cabbage.
23. Cauliflower.
24. Salad _in_.
25. Jelly.
26. Celery.
27. Artichokes.
28. Capers.
29. Cucumbers.
30. Salt.
31. Hominy.
32. Bread.
33. A _floating_ island.
34. Whips.
35. Currants.
36. Gooseberries.
37. Pears.
38. Oranges.
39. Pine apples.
40. Apricots.
41. Medlars.
42. Figs.
43. Grapes (gray apes.)
44. Comfits.
45. Nuts.

_Note._--“A headless man had a letter,” etc., page 78. Was “the
letter” the letter O--equivalent to a cipher, to nought, or nothing?
If this is the solution, then the headless man had “nothing” to
write; “nothing” was read by the blind man; the dumb repeated and the
deaf heard “nothing.”

Footnotes

[1] Reminichia--overhanging the water--the Indian name of a bluff at the entrance of a certain Minnesota city.

[2] Full of delights: blessed.

[3] The book was written in good faith, and was published for the benefit of the Syracuse University.

[4] Emerson, in his “Parnassus,” and the _Atlantic Monthly_ for April, 1875, accredit “A Colusion between A Water-Snaik and A Aligater,” to G. H. Derby (“John Phenix”). It was contributed by “K. N. Pepper” to the _Knickerbocker Magazine_, in 1854.

Transcriber’s Notes

Inconsistent word hyphenation and spelling have been regularized.

Apparent typographical errors have been corrected.

Depending on the device, software and font used to read this text, not all elements may display as intended.

Italics are indicated as _italics_.

Bold words are indicated as =bold=.

Very large type is indicated as ++large++.

Small capitals were changed to all capitals.

Superscripts are preceded by a caret character: ^superscript, and subscripts are preceded by a tilde character: ~subscript.

In puzzle 347, superscript (^) and subscript (~) marks affect only the next letter displayed.

The symbol ‘‡’ indicates that the description in parentheses has been added to an illustration tag. Visual elements in puzzles 72, 351, 363 and in answer 348 have been described in this way.

Puzzles 79 and 80 and their answers are represented as text art.

In the printer’s short-hand poem on page 119, the “{” character was originally depicted facing upwards.

The illusion “Seeing is Believing: Seeing is Deceiving” on Page 97 may not work with every font.

The word pyramid on Page 132 may not make the expected shape with every font.