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OUR CHIMNEY CORNER.
Trouble Wit.
Take a sheet of stiff paper, fold it down the
middle of the sheet lengthwise ; then turn down
the edge of each fold outward the breadth of a
two cent, piece 5 measure it as it is folded into
three equal parts, with
7 — be turned outward, and
.. —} the other of course. will
■3j" - fall right; then pinch it
a quarter of an inch deep
ySSujffisL in plaits like a ruff, so
C that when the paper lies
pinched in its form, it is
. in the fashion represent-
ed by A*, when closed
iSIBIIIiSy together it will be like
g . unc ] ose it again, and
shuffle it with both hands, and itj will look
like a pack of cards; close it, and turn each cor
ner inward with your forefinger and thumb, and
it will be like a rosette for a lady’s shoe, as C:
stretch it further, and it will resemble an old-fash
ioned bed cover, like D ; let go your forefinger
at the lower end, and it‘
will resemble a door E^SSylJjdyiJJjAMi
blind, as E ; close it Ulillllll
again and pinch it at the
bottom, spreading the c
top, and it will represent
a fan, like F ; pinch it J*
half way, and open the
top, and it will appear in
the form shown by G ; 11
hold it in that form, and H |II
with the thumb of your
left hand turn out the
next fold, and it will be like H.
In fact, by a little ingenuity and practice, Trou
ble-Wit maybe made to assume an infinite variety
of forms, and be productive of very considerable
amusement.
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NO. 90. — RIDDLE.
In marble walls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk ;
Within a fountain chrystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
« NO. 91. — LOGOGRII’II.
Entire, I am a county in Ohio ; behead me and I
become the Latin of a word in common use; be
head me again and I am a very useful animal;
behead me again and I become a Roman numeral.
no. 92. — ENIGMA.
I’m seen in the moon, but not in the sun;
I’m put in a pistol, but not in a gun ;
I’m found in fork, but not in knife ;
I belong to the parson, but not to his wife ;
I go with the rogue, but not with the thief;
I’m seen in a book, but not in a leaf;
I stay in a town, but not in a street;
I go with your toes, but not with your feet.
c. w. w.
NO. 93. —RIDDLES. •
1. To those who know me best
I reveal what others cannot guess.
2. Y\ bat is that which exists, without weight,
measurement, or color, and has never been seen ?
BURKE’S WEEKLY.
NO. 95. — A MIXED PUZZLE.
11 Mr. Five-quarter Wood :
Sir —Your who, which and that came to see me
the other day, when the most extraordinary word
connecting sentences of circumstances took place.
But I must recount the facts in order that you may
see the position without magnitude of my story.
They had brought with them a most beautiful
twenty-one shillings hen, intended as a gift for a
neighbor. During the night it escaped into the
public twelve ounces , where had been left some
poisoned thirds of an inch, with which to kill
rats, at which it immediately began to eight quarts
away as fast as it could. Asa matter of course,
a . was put to its existence. They were much
alarmed when they found it gone, and even made
no twenty grains to hint that a distinguished ex
iled Five and a half yards, who was staying at my
house, knew about it. Os course I was shocked
at so twelve dozen an insult to my friend. It in
censed me to that three hundred and sixtieth part
of a circle that I thought under the circumstances
it would not be too forty square poles to order
them to leave my house. Why, they might as
well have accused me of being in three miles with
a rogue. Happily, however, the keeper of the
twenty shillings, who is a leader of the twenty
four sheets of this village, found the body, brought
it to my house, the whole matter.
Your who, which and that apologized to me, and
the Five and a half yards. We smoked two hogs
heads of tobacco apiece, and happiness was once
more restored. I am very well with the excep
tion of four roods in my lower jaw. Business is
good. The tenth part of a cent here is running
again, and every four inches is again employed.
Yours, truly,
, James Three Barleycorns,
WITHOUT ANY IIA1R.”
NO. 96. —REBUS.
H he CBO 80 RBO.
Answers to Puzzles, etc., in No. 3.
No. GC — Arithmetical Question. —He divided
fifteen apples.
No. 67 — Shadow Picture. — An Indian.
No. 68— Riddle.— TOBACCO.
No. 69 — Logogripli. —Switch —witch —itch.
No. 70 — Geographical Enigma. —Potsdam —Po
—Pots —dam. Stop—mad.
No. 71 — Riddle. —Balaam’s ass.
No. 72 — Conundrums. — 1. Because there are
many draughts there. 2. Maid of Orleans. 3.
Because he is above, doing a mean action.
No. 73— Enigma. —God is love.
No. 74— Puzzle. —An hour glass.
No. 75 —Baboon —a boon.
No. 76 — Puzzle. — 1. He first takes over the
goat; he then returns and takes the wolf; he
leaves the wolf on the other side and brings back
the goat, he then takes over the cabbages and
comes back once more and carries the goat over.
Thus the wolf is never left alone with the goat,
nor the goat with the cabbages. 2. Remove one
of the end pieces, and you thus take the centre
piece from the middle without touching it.
No. 55 — Arithmetical Puzzle. —He lost. The
96 apples at three for a cent cost him 32 cents ;
the 96 at two for a cent cost 48 cents —total 80
cents. He had 192 apples, and sold eight
two cents worths, for which he receive# 70 cents,
and had two apples left. He consequently lost
three and one-fifth cents.
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