When war’s red hand was raised to slay,
  And front to front great armies lay,
  Then, oft in the silent midnight camp,
  When naught was heard but the sentry’s tramp,
  As he patiently paced his lonely round,
  My whole was sought, and yet when found,
  It sent full many a warrior brave
  To his last long rest, in a soldier’s grave.

E.J.A.

PUZZLE BOUQUET.

1.  A cunning animal and a covering for the hand. 2.  A voracious bird of prey and a useless plant. 3.  A pipe and a flower. 4.  A sweetmeat and a bunch of hair. 5.  A noun meaning a quick breaking and a winged serpent. 6.  A stone fence and the blossom of a plant. 7.  Fragrant and a vegetable. 8.  An entertainment of dancing and a boy’s nickname. 9.  Vapor frozen in flakes, and to let fall. 10.  To enter into the conjugal state, and a precious metal.

GEORGE CHINN.

TRANSPOSITIONS.

Fill the first blank with a certain word, and then, by transposing the final letter to the place of the initial, form a word to fill the second blank.  Example:  In the halls of her ancestors she shall tread without fear.

1.  There is not on ——­ a person of larger ——. 2.  On the banks of the ——­ the traveler ——­ alone. 3.  As the thought of her kindness ——­ up in my heart, it causes it to ——­ with gratitude. 4.  It was with no ——­ intent that ——­ destroyed his first will. 5.  I noticed on the ——­ of the pond quantities of ——.

B.

LETTER ANAGRAMS.

Write a line in each case describing the position of the letters toward each other, and transpose the letters used in this description to make a word which will answer the definition given.  Thus: 

  R. } A part of the day. Ans.  R. on M. (transposed) Morn. 
  M. }

  1. { L. } A kind of bird.
     { P. }
  2.  S. R. Parts of a house.
  3.  S. T. A piece of furniture.
  4. { L. } To pillage.
     { P. }
  5. { Et. } Not rhythmical.
     { Ic. }

H.H.D.

HIDDEN DRESS GOODS.

1.  Seizing the rascal I compelled him to give up the money. 2.  Aunt Nell is fond of singing Hamburg. 3.  Belle Prescott only failed once last year. 4.  Eveline never learned to control herself. 5.  Where is Towser, Gertie? 6.  I met Homer in Oregon. 7.  Where did you find such a queer fossil, Kenneth? 8.  Tom Thumb is a tiny specimen of humanity. 9.  Did Erasmus Lincoln lose all his property by the fire?

PICTORIAL, PROVERB-ACROSTIC.

Arrange the words represented by the numbered pictures in their order.  The initials and finals (reading down the former and continuing down the latter) form a familiar proverb, the sentiment of which is suggested by the central picture.