Sweetheart, good-by! 
One last look at thy fair, sweet face—­
    Nay, do not cry—­
One lingering kiss, one sweet embrace. 
    Then, sweetheart, I
Must part with thee for one long day—­
    Sweetheart, good-by!

Washington, D.C. Guidon.

No. 6.  PENTAGON.

1.  A letter. 2.  A boy. 3.  Put in tune. 4.  Certain candlesticks. 5.  Yellow dyeing matters. 6.  Mocking. 7.  One made a citizen. 8.  Parts. 9.  Faculty by which external objects are perceived.

Cincinnati, Ohio. Green Wood.

No. 7.  CHARADE.

(By sound.)

“I’ve cut my one!  I’ve cut my one!”
Cried Mrs. Murphy’s eldest son: 
He nursed the one and hopped about—­
His mother from the house ran out;
“Oh, two the blissid saint presarve!”
The frightened widow cried;
“My darlin’ b’y how did ye carve
Your last so deep and wide?”
“Oh, mother dear!  I came out here
To hoe the totals without fear;
But fortune frowns against your son—­
His hoeing for this day is done.”

Mexico, Mo. Wanderoo.

No. 8.  HALF SQUARE.

1.  Makes lawful. 2.  Active principles of elaterium. 3.  Followers of Galen. 4.  Repeats. 5.  States of holding the best and third best cards (Whist). 6.  Certain minerals. 7.  Costs. 8.  Certain insects. 9.  A river of Mongolia. 10.  A plural affix. 11.  A letter.

Jefferson, O. Majolica.

No. 9.  ENIGMA.

I’m first in the alehouse and third at the dram,
In midst of the breakfast, dividing the ham;
I’m first in the army, second in battle,
Unknown to the child, I’m found in his rattle;
I’m found in all waters, but never in wells;
I’m mixed up with witchcraft, but never in spells;
On lassies and ladies I wait all their lives,
But quit them the moment they call themselves wives;
Though strange contradictions in tales may be carried,
Where virtue prevails, I am found with the married;
With the grave and the gay I number my days,
I mix in their prayers and join in their praise;
I’m never in liquor—­but once in the year,
Then with statesmen and gamblers and rakes I appear;
I’m not in this world, I’m not in the next,
But in the old saying, “between and betwixt;”
I mount with the atmosphere, taking the lead;
I visit the grave and am found with the dead;
I’m ancient as Noah, was first in the ark;
Unseen in the light, yet, I shine in the dark;
I shall last with the earth, with nature and man,
I was sketched with the draft and was found in the plan;
When nature and earth from existence are driven,
The angels will guard me eternal in heaven.

------     A Lady Reader.

No. 10.  NEWARK ICOSAHEDRON.

1.  To rest. 2.  Small pieces of artillery (Rare). 3.  Fixed deeply. 4.  The girdle of a Jewish priest. 5.  A constellation of the zodiac. 6.  A long cloak extending from head to feet, worn by women. 7.  To counterfeit. 8.  A genus of lamellibranchiate bivalves. 9.  A state of quiet or tranquility. 10.  To throw back. 11.  A sixpence. 12.  Restrains. 13.  A cave.