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OUR CHIMNEY CORNER.
NO. 9. — ILLUSTRATED REBUS.
NO. 10.— CHARADE.
My first is a human being; my second is a cover for the
head; my third is a color; and my whole is an island in
the United States.
NO. 11— LOGOGRAPH.
Taken as a whole, lam a large nail; behead me and I
am a fish; behead me again and lam a boy’s nick-name.
NO. 12.— LOGOGRAPH.
Asa whole, lam a school boy’s companion ; behead
me, and I am what school boys often are when they go
to school; behead me again, and lam what you did yes
terday.
no. 13, — Conundrum.
Why is General Lee's fame like United States cur
rency ?
NO, 14. — A GOOSK QUESTION.
John and Georgo went to market with thirty geese
each. John sold his at the rate of three for a dollar,
while George got at the rate of one dollar for two geese.
John realized $lO and George $15 —making $25. Shortly
afterwards both had geese to sell again, but as John was
sick, he sent his thirty geese by George, who took the
same number of his own, making sixty in all. As they
Were sold before five for $2, he concluded to sell this time
at the same price, but after all were sold he found that
he had only 824. What became of the other dollar ?
NO. 15.— AN ARITHMETICAL PUZZLIL
Two women went to market to sell eggs. One said to
the other, “ Give me one of yours, and I shall have twice
as many as you have;” but the other said, “No;give me
one of yours, and I shall have just half as many as you.”
How many had each ?
NO. 16.— CHARADE.
To a word of consent add one half of a fright,
Next subjoin what you never behold in the night,
These rightly connected, you’ll quickly obtain
What millions have seen, but will ne’er sec again.
no, 17. — RIDDLE,
Pray what can it be that so idle is found
As to lie without sleeping in bed,
And never can find the right way to its mouth,
But by running away from its head ?
It runs without feet, like a snake in the grass.
And its arms have no fingers nor hands ;
It falls without breaking, though frailer than glass,
And is found in all ages and lands.
NO. 18.— MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM.
A teacher had a certain number of young men, boys
and girls for pupils. One morning, before beginning
their lessons, the following exercises were gone through
with :•
First, Each young man made a bow to each girl; each
young man made a bow to every other young man, and
to the teacher. Each girl made a bow to every other
girl, and the teacher. The number of bows made was 217.
Second. Each boy made a bow to each young man;
each boy made a bow to every other boy, and to the
teacher. Each young man made a bow to every other
young man, and to the teacher. Number of bows made
244.
Third. Each boy made a bow to each girl; each boy
made a bow to every other boy, and to the teacher. Each
girl made a bow to every other girl, and to the teacher.
Number of bows, 271.
How many young men, boys and girls were there ?
BURKE’S WEEK BY.
Answers to Puzzles, &e., in No. 1.
Logograph, No. I—COD.1 —COD.
Logograph, No. 2—Wheat—(heat-eat-at-T.)
Illustrated Rebus, No. I—“A1 —“A stitch in time saves nine.”
Rebus —A little darkey in bed, with nothing over it. —
(A little dark e in b e and, with 0 over it.)
Riddle —A water-melon.
Scripture Questions —Left open until next week, as no
answers have yet been sent us.
Mathematical Problems—!. The squirrel went to the
box nine times, carrying away each time two cars of his
own and one ear of corn. 2. Five cows at $lO each ; one
sheep at $3, and ninety-four chickens at 50 cents each —
making one hundred for SIOO.
Geographical Enigma—“ Burke's Weekly for Boys and
Girls.”
The Game of “ Tag.”
We doubt if there is one of onr littje readers
who has not played the old game of “tag”—so
old that the children of the Roman empire used
to play it thousands of years ago. Indeed, the
name “tag’ ’ comes from their language— tago,
or, as it was written in later times, tango , mean
ing “I touch.” In a number of that excellent
paper, the American Agriculturist , we find seve
ral variations suggested, which are calculated to
enliven the game. The first of these is
Cross Tag. —When one boy (A) is running af
ter another boy, (B) a third one (C) crosses be
tween them ; then A must endeavor to tag C, but
if another boy (D) crosses between them, A must
pursue him, and so on, until he touches the last
boy who crossed before him.
Change Tag is anew style of the play. The
pursuer or “catcher,” as he is called, while
chasing a boy, calls out “change;” then all the
players must imitate the catcher ; if lie hops they
must hop ; or he may commence jumping on both
feet, or running with a skip, or with his hands be
hind him, or change his gait in any way he thinks
best, in order to embarrass the other players and
make it easier for him to catch them. Any boy
who takes more than one step without changing,
after the catcher calls out, must take the place of
catcher. If more than one fails to make the
change at the right time, the catcher may select
his successor from among them. This mode of
the game keeps the wits as well as the legs of the
players in motion.
i
Twirling the Plate.
Here is a good in-door game: The players sit
or stand around a table covered with a cloth, and
one of them takes up a tin plate and holding it on
its edge, gives it a spin. As he does this, he
names someone of the players, who is obliged to
catch it before it has done spinning or pay a for
feit. The one who pays the forfeit then sets the
plate spinning in turn, calling on some other play
er to stop it, and so on.
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