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®ur Chtrrmetj Sorrier.
NO. 38. — LOGOGRIPHS.
1. Behead a gill’s name, and leave astream
of water.
2. Behead a girl’s name, and leave trouble
some insects.
3. Behead a girl’s name, and leave a beau
tiful woman’s name.
4. Behead possession, and leave a fruit.
5. Behead a small boy, and leave a small
animal.
6. Behead a. writing, and leave a motion.
7. Behead a fish, and leave a liquor.
8. Cut off my head, and see what I often do.
It. Behead splendor, and leave offspring.
10. Behead a knot, and leave a song.
11. Cut off’my head, and see what I speak to.
NO. 39. —CONUNDRUMS.
1. Why is the letter II like a serpent?
2. What is the difference between a watch
maker and a jailor?
3. When is Hour like genius ?
4. What sage was the inventor of dancing?
5. Why is a watch like yesterday?
6. Why is a young lady and gentleman to
gether, like a mistake, and one greater?
7. What is the difference between a man
eating apples, and one ringing a bell ?
8. What is the difference between a hill
and a pill ?
9. What river is used on the table ?
10. What is the difference between a falling
star and fog.
11. What city is a boy’s name ?
12. What city is an animal ?
13. What city commands a luminous body
to watch ?
NO. 40. ENIGMAS.
1.
I am composed of 10 letters.
My 1,2, 3, is a title.
My 6,7, 8, 9,10, is a color,
My 8,4, 7, is a tool.
My 5,8, 7, is a girl’s nickname.
My whole is the name of a preacher of the
Gospel.
2.
I am composed of 14 letters:
My 9, 10, 12,13, is a place dear to us all.
My 5, 13, 7, is a kind of fish.
My 14, 8, 11, is a girl’s nickname.
My 4,2, 1, is an edible root.
My 5,1, 12, 2, is a girl’s name.
My 3,5, (5, 12, is a royal j urisdiction,
My 2,7, 8, 3,1, is a notice of danger.
My 14, 8, 12, is a boy’s nickname.
My 6, 10, 4,2, 7, is faithful to duty.
My whole is the name of a beloved school
mate.
NO. 41. —SQUARE WORD.
Around figure; the old name for Italy; a
walking stick ; a kind of wine; the genitive
case of a word in Latin, meaning a line; the
festival of Christ’s resurrection.
NO. 42. —CHARADES.
1. My first is a vehicle; my second and
third a people; fourth, a color; whole, a
beautiful flower.
2. 100 in 100 in a knot. What city ?
3. A girl’s name; a bird; a verb. What
city?
4. A kind of vessel; an abbreviation; a
conjunction. What State ?
5. My first denotes every one; second, a
piece of meat: third,[three-fourths of a name
for a child; whole, a Moorish palace.
BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
Answers to Puzzles, etc., in No. 52.
June 25, 1870.
355 Clock, lock; 2. Frisk, risk; 3. Mea
ger, eager; 4. Scope, cope.
356 Fellow-creature; 2. Mar-jo-ram; 3.
Master-key; 4. Pa-god-a; 5. Turn-coat.
357 Their bills are over due (dew); 2.
Not to return them ; 3. lie drops a line by
every post; 4. Ost-riches.
358 Maud Muller (Mi)tiades, Alfred, Uti
ca, Dcinochures, Melissa, Urno, Lachesis,
Laccoon, Euphrates, Rhodope).
359 The Cock (Matthew xxvi. 75).
300 —Gen. William M. Browne.
361—1. NRG (energy); 2. N V (envy); 3.
MT (empty); 4. OBCT (obesity); 5. UK
(decay).
[The Editor was obliged to leave this city
so early in the week that it is impossible to
give this week the names of those who have
sent correct answers.]
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