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MERRY'S teOOK OF PUZZLES. i44J
EDITED BY ROBERT MERRY.
NEW YORK: THOMAS O'KANE, PUBLISHER, .130
NASSAU STREET.
Republished by
The Pencil Puzzle Connection http://www.pencilpuzzles.com/ © Treasures Beyond Measure 2009
PEEFAOE. ri^HE "^
innumerable readers of Merry's
with
many
familiar faces, lighted
Museum
will here
up by pleasant
meet
smiles,
and
hear the same old jovial laughter that greeted them in the olden time.
Our motto is that of our noble State will see that
we have
—" Excelsior
Our readers
I"
not buried the talents of our contributors ia
napkins—but seek to bring them out into the bright day For Genius —like the lamp ef Aladdin—needs constant polishing to bring out :
its
lustre
and
Our
full effect.
object has been to instruct
by smiles
—not
the dear hearts of the young girlhood and boyhood
among
the necessary thorns of existence.
pages to
make
the sad
happy
—
^the
happy
frowns; to cheer ;
to strew flowers
In a word, we try in these still
happier.
Hence, pure fun will be found as beautiful in these pages, as hoa* ey amid the flowers of Hybla.
Robert Merry.
Robert Merry
to his friends
A kindly greeting sends, With a general assortment
of questional
Conundrums, Charades, Puzzles, Riddles of all shades.
And Rebuses, as aids To intellectual and social digestion. If the
young Merry host
Acquaintance should boast.
Or kindred,
or authorship pat.
With some
of our jokes.
We confess—('tis no hoax)— To amuse
We
other folks,
have riddled the Museum
Now we beg you you happen
If
to
"Chat.**
will show.
know.
Why the Editor, painstaking soul ? Is like the cold
storm
Which, in climates bright and warm.
Where Come
gallinippers swarm.
shivering
down from
the pole t
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Who
3.
Bible, 4. 5. 6.
man 7.
prolongs his work to as great a length as podand still completes it in time ?
Why are young ladies like arrows Why is a philanthropist like an old horse How can five persons divide five eggs, so 1
and
shall receive one,
How many
still
*
that each one remain in the dish!
soft-boiled eggs could the giant Goliah
eat upon an empty stomach 8.
What
9.
Two fathers have
fishes
?
have
?
their eyes nearest together
each a square of land.
?
One
father
divides his so as to reserve to himself one-fourth in tho
form of a square
;
thus
Tr:e other father divides his so as to reserve to himself,
one-fourth in the form of a triangle
;
thus ]
They each have four
among
sons,
and each divides the remainder
way that each son will share equally with his brother, and in similar shape. How his sons in such a
were the two farms divided ?
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TVhat is that wliich but never eaten ?
12. cut,
13.
is
i
often brought to table, often
f
Mv first is four-sixths of a step that is long, My second is a person of state My whole is a thing that is known to be wrong, ;
And 14.
Why
a strong
is
my
My second Together
And am
first
you can not
beauteous
I attend
17. 18.
Why Who
19.
There
a
was the is
first
misty morning
arms
that bore
;
the
first
woman, the great woman.
of five letters.
?
?
three refers to
man, the seven a
am a word am the name
20. I
still.
be very wealthy?
in debt like a
first
;
will,
a word of seven letters
man, the
signifies a great
and I
man
to
stand,
command
your humble servant
"Why ought a fisherman is
fair
your
16.
fers to
of hate.
are your nose and chin always at variance?
"Without
15.
symptom
Take away
of what adorns the estate of
two
re-
first
four
my
first^
many
of
Take away my first and second, and I am tlie name of a place where all the world was once congregated. Take away my last, and I am the name of a bear.rifrJ mineral. Take away my two last, and I am the name of a fashionable place of resort. I the nobility of England.
am
small in stature, but capable of doing a great deal of
mischief, as I once did in
London
in the year 1666.
21. Spell eye-water four letters. 22.
23.
24.
Why is swearing like an old coat Why is a thump like a hat Why is an inn like a burial-ground I ?
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27. If a fender cost six dollars,
come
it
to
what
will a ton of coal
?
28.
What word
will
make
29.
My
80.
What
that to
is
shorter
it
which
if
yoa add a
syllable,
?
first is a very uncomfortable state, In cold weather it mostly abounds. My second's an instrument formed of hard steel, That will cause the stout foe to stagger and reel, And when used, is a symptom of hate. My whole is an author of greatest renown, Whose fame to the last day of time will go down.
the world
the longest and yet the shortest thing in
is
the swiftest and yet the slowest
the most and the most extended the least valued and the most regretted without which nothing can be done which devours every thing, however small, and yet gives life and spirits to every object, however great? ;
divisible
;
;
;
My first
31,
is
found in every house.
From wintry winds
My
second
is
it
guards.
the highest found
In every pack of cards.
My
whole, a Scottish chief,
By
Who
for his
And, dying, 32. 83.
Why Why
fell
life,
with glory.
handsome women
are is
praised
is
and storv, country gave his
ballad, bard,
an avaricious
man
like
bread
like
?
one with a short
memory? 34. is
What
there 85.
river in Bavaria answers the question.
Who
?
Why
is
a
an even bargain
man ?
with wooden legs like one
who haa
hobby's book of pi/zzles.
11
Id
Why is
38.
What
39.
more
tliau
a parish bell like a good story
belongs to yourself, yet
is
f
used by others
yourself ?
camps about the centre I appear In smiling meadows seen throughout the year; The silent angler views me in the streams,
40. In
And
all
must trace me
in their
morning dreams
y
mob
conspicuous I stand. Proud of the lead, and ever in command.
First in the
41. The head of a whale is six feet long his tail is as long as his head and half his body, and his body is half of his whole length. How long is the whale ? ;
A
hundred stones are placed, in a straight line, a 42. yard distant from each other. How many yards must a person walk,
them
who undertakes
in a basket stationed
Is useful
44. I ;
am
my
a
an
syllables,
article in
a useful 45.
47.
stone
is
each of which
common
an animal of uncommon intelligence
46.
lirst
1
by day and by night.
word of three
first is
not an animal, is
them up, and place
My first is a part of the day, My last a conductor of light. My whole to take measure of time,
43.
word
to pick
one yard from the
;
use
my
is
second,
third,
though whole
used in carrying burdens.
My
art.
There was a man who was not born, His father was not born before him, He did not live, he did not die. And his epitaph is not o'er him.
Why is a nail, fast Why dees a miller
in the wall, like
an old
wear a white hat?
a
my
;
man ?
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My
a letter commanding to wed, your sole till it reaches your head Nothing worth as a whole, it is plain to all men That divided in halves, it is equal to ten
Or
first is
to lift
My second, though
nothing, compared to the other,
Is
worth more as a partner than
It
moans and
it
sighs,
its
double-faced brother;
and when joined
to
my
first,
Pronounces the doom of the sinner accursed.
My
third,
On
the worth and position of neighbors and friends,
you
will find his
whole value depends
And, when both the other two following fair, Changes doom to desire, and a curse to a prayer.
My
though it formeth no part of a hundred, it can justly and evenly be sundered; found in the elements everywhere present, found in all seasons, unploisant or pleasant, the chief of all lands, and yet can not wait
fourth,
Shows where 'Tis 'Tis 'Tis
On
continent, hemisphere, empire, or state.
Though
ne'er in Great Britain suspected to lower^
each quarter of that mighty power always belonged to the animal race. In the mineral kingdom they gave it a place, A.nd, being impartial, they could not deny,
'Tis the heart of It
The vegetable order
And
its
virtue to try
yet, since creation, it
In beast, bird, or
My whole Or grown
fish, root,
you'll find
never was known branch, stem, or stone.
growing
in pasture
and barns,
carpets,warm blankets, and yarns. In England, in Saxony, France, and old Wales, And in sundry more places it always prevails. Of quadrupedal origin still it is known In bipedal families oft to be shown ; [tions in coats,
—
But the strangest of all Is
its strange forms and condiseen in the covering of sage politicians.
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What
is
that
54:.
When
is
a boat like a knife
65.
What
53.
Bight
which
but never out of
invisible,
is
?
part of
London
is in
?
.<
France
i
67.
How many black beans will make five white Why is a dandy like a haunch of venison
58.
What
56.
ones?
?
kin
own son
father's
59.
Why
60.
What
that child to
is
its
father
who
a rose-bud like a promissory note
is
is
not
its
?
biblical
father calling his son
name
is
?
there which expresses a
by name, and
his son replying
?
61.
Why
is
an orange not like a church bell
62.
Why
is
the largest city in Ireland likely to be the
largest city in the world
?
63. Three-fourths of a cross,
An
Two
What
65.
Why
eQ. G. a.
circle complete. ?
should doctors attend to window-sashes ?
^
What
68. Spell
What ?
and a
smells most in a drug shop
is
that
one can see where
69.
circle complete,
triangle standing on feet,
semicircles,
64.
supper
and a
upright where two semicircles meet,
A rectangle
67.
?
which every one can divide, but no
it
has been divided
hard water with three letters of
the
?
letters.
alphabet come too late
for)
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as one letter, and written with three, are, and two only in me ; there Two letters I'm black, blue, and gray, single, I'm double, I'm
Pronounced
am read from both ends, and the same either way, restless and wandering, steady and fixed, am I And you know not one hour what I may be the next. I
I melt,
and I kindle
—beseech, and defy,
watery and moist, I am fi«ry and dry. scornful and scowling, compassionate, meek light, I am dark, I am strong, I am weak. I'm piercing and clean, I an?, heavy and dull Expressive and languid, contracted and full.
I am I am I am
I'm a globe and a mirror, a window, a door, An index, an organ, and fifty things more. I belong to all animals under the sun. And to those who were long understood to have none.
My language And
is
plain,
though
it
can not be heard,
I speak without even pronouncing a word.
Some
call
me
a diamond
Others talk of
my
—some say I am jet
water, or
how
I
am
set.
I'm a borough in England, in Scotland a stream. And an isle of the sea in the Irishman's dream. The earth without me would no loveliness wear, And sun, moon, and stars at my wish disappear.
Yet
so frail is
my
That a speck gives 73. to
"What vessel
move 74:.
is
tenure, so brittle
me
that
pain,
which
my joy.
and a drop can destroy. is
always asking leave
?
Translate the following into Latin 42, 8 rocks, e e e e e e e e e e, 46. 2. 14. 8. 0.
75.
How
is it
with a forceps with an awl ?
;
that you can work with an awl, but not while I can work with a forceps, and not
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30 77.
word the master gave to Dick, Dick scratched his head, and looking rather thick, Eeplied, '-''Hereafter it would make it stickP
Add^ was
the
*^Dick," cried the master,
*'
rudeness
is
a sin
;
FU surely put you inP
Behold the stocks, ** That," answered Dick, " won't alter it a feather, Hereafter it would make it hold togetJierP " Dick," said the man, *' if you insult me so, Your shoulders and my rod I'll put in CoP " 'Tis all the same," said Dick, *' my worthy master, Hereafter
would make
it
it stick tJie
faster,
'^^
78.
Why is France
79.
"Why
is
a
80.
Why
is
the hour of noon on the dial-plate like
woodman
pair of spectacles 81.
82.
Why
is
like a skeleton
like a stage actor
the best baker most in
Whether old Homer plain for
it is
want of bread
?
is
not clear
;
—the bard, though wont to roani,
one liquid, never had
left
home.
84. 85.
What two
?
?
not proper 86.
reasons
why
whispering in company
?
My
first is found on the ocean wave. In the spring, the pit, and the mine My second below earth's surface you have, Where seldom the sun can shine.
My
whole your dinner-table must grace, seldom fails to obtain a place.
And 87.
a
tippled wine or beer,
Why is a coward like a mouse-trap Why is green grass like a mouse
83.
?
?
Julep or cider, history
But But
?
Why
is
a gooseberry pie like counterfeit
money
!
is
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89.
Why
does a fisherman blow his horn
90.
Why
is
?
there no danger of starving in a desert ?
Take half of the needle By which sailors steer
91.
Their ship through the water,
Be
Do
cloudy or clear
it
not really break
This of
But
this
my
makes
it,
first.
thanksgiving or Christmas,
My With
second you see
;
care well compounded,
From
My
it
things were worst
your mind take
in
And At
all
and tree. some people
grain, shrub,
whole
like
Who make great pretense, Of words have a plenty, But no great stock of 92.
How is
when he 93.
it
that Methuselah
sense.
was the
oldest
man,
died before his father ?
My first is
a negative greatly in use, people begin when they mean to refuse; second is Fashion, or so called in France,
By which
My
But, like other whims,
An
article
With
is
always in use
the servant of chance. is
my
whole.
texture and form under fashion's control
But, alas
!
not a thing can
Although many have four
it
see which goes by,
sights,
and
all
have one
eye. 94.
What
is
that which, supposing
its
to be four inches, length nine inches,
inches, contains a solid foot
?
greatest breadth
and depth three
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My
96.
tongue
And
My
voice
And
is
long,
my
yet I breed no
breath
you hear both
yet I have no
is
strong,
strife
and near,
far
life.
A
waterman rows a given distance, a, and back 97. again in h hours, and finds that he can row c miles with the current, for d miles against it. Required, the time of rowing down, the time of rowing up, the rate of '^urrftnty and the rate of rowing. 98.
As
I
Up
starts
was beating on the
far east grounds,
my
a hare before
two greyhounds
The dogs, being light of foot, did fairly run, To her fifteen rods, just twenty-one And the distance that she started up before, Was six-and-ninety rods, just and no more ; Now, I would have you Merry boys declare ;
How far 99. Is
it
they ran, before they caught the hare.
possible to put twelve pieces of
rows, and have four in a
row
money
in six
?
A
100. gentleman sent a servant with a present of nine ducks, with this direction " To Alderman Gobble, with ix. ducks."
The servant took out
three,
and contrived
direction corresponded with the
number
How
neither erased uor altered a letter. 101.
Four
As
letters all
form
who
me
it
so that the
of the ducks.
did he do
quite complete,
breathe do show
Reversed, you'll find I
am
the seat
Of infamy and woe. Transposed, you'll see I'm base and mean, Again of Jewish race ;
Transposed once more, I
To hide a lovely
face.
oft
am
seen
Hs it I
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My
name
an article given For ladies and dandies to put on their linen ; It comes from the forest, I've heard people say.
103.
And
My
the
first is
made from
is
second
The juice of mouth
the skin of an animal gay.
fruit that
a
is
to
sour,
it is
comes from the South, and 'twill pucker your
;
candy shops all over the town, And, stranger to say, it is almost round. 'Tis foHind in
My
whole
is
an article that is often seen fields almost covered with green;
In the gardens and It is
And
My
104.
very sweet, and also pleasant to eat, in hot summer days affords a rich treat. first is
half of
second makes sense of cry of a kitten
bined
;
my
my
;
my
fourth
what implies good-humor; first is
;
my
a consonant and vowel com-
with the addition of the initial of
fifth,
would imply silence and boys and girls prize liighly.
third,
;
105. I
am composed
My "
106. if
2, 8, 9, is
my
whole
is
my
what many
of twelve letters.
dug out of the numeral
a substance
6, 11, 12, 8, is
a
earth.
an ancient instrument of war. former times. a vowel.
*'
4, 2, 3, is
" " " "
12, 8, 1, is a vessel used in 5, is
my
third sounds like the
4, 7, 1, 9, is a
10, 9,
is
hard substance.
a pronoun.
My whole is now before you. My first is appropriate, my second
you guess
it.
'tis nine to one ^[y whole elevates the sole above the
earth.
107.
"Why
108.
What do we
is
a conundrum like a all
do when we
monkey first
?
^et into bed
?
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110.
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111. There is
one word in the English language which harm ; change a in it, and you make it "an act of cruelty. is
universally considered a preventive of
certain letter 112.
My
may be
first
And
fashioned of iron or wood,
window
or door for safety is placed ; In village or town it does more harm than good, Leading people their health, time, and money at
to waste.
My
second's a lady, bewitching and
And Will
fair,
and strive ; dawn, and be wearied with care,
for love of her people will labor
rise before
And
My
pursue her with ardor as long as they live. whole is what ladies admire and approve.
— — the purchaser's prize
The shopkeeper's boast
;
ninepenny chintz 'tis a one-shilling glove is something which makes people open their
'Tis a It
eyes.
113.
At what
distance must a
body have
quire the velocity of 1,600 feet per second 114.
Of
115.
Why
116-
My
w^hat trade is
is
the sun in
fallen to ac-
?
May?
a small horse like a young rausk-melon
first
With
must grace a legal deed. companion, firm and red
its
;
help in marriage, too, they need, Before the blessing can be said.
Its
My
second half a hundred
If in the shortest
is.
way you
spell
You soon must guess me after this, I may as well the secret tell.
My
whole, by his celestial strains
Bears the rapt soul to worlds above
The Great
And
Creator's
tells
power proclaims,
of the Kedeemer's love.
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117.
118.
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a boy's nickname my second is meant my third is a preposition my fourth is one of My articles; my fifth is one of the United States.
119.
My
first is
;
for defense;
the
whole
is
;
a large city in Europe.
My
120.
stationed near your heart,
first is
And
serves to brace the mortal frame
Of young and
And
Who
to fair
old
it
builds a ship
To give
it
And Adam
forms a part,
woman
gives a name.
must
it
employ,
strength to stem the
fl.ood,
no real joy Till in ne\F form by him it stood. My second may be long or short, Or tight or loose, or wet or dry. Of cotton, silk, or woolen wrought, Of any texture, strength, or dyefelt
Be made of iron, gold, or steel, Of love or hate, of good or ill,
May gently bind, or heavy feel, May give support, or rudely kill.
My
whole
And what
formed by fashion, skill, and care, few ladies from their dress can spare.
is
121. How long would a ball be falling, from the top of a tower that was 400 feet high, to the earth ? 122.
Why
123.
The
Bame
are chairs like
men ?
foot of a ladder 60 feet long remaining in the
place, the top will just reach a
on one side of the other side.
How
street,
wide
is
window 40
and another 30 the street
feet
feet high high on the
?
124. There is a pile of cannon-balls, the ground tier of which contains 289 balls, and the top tier one ball. Require the whole number of balls in a pile.
mekby's book of puzzles. 125.
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^^^^
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merry's book of puzzles.
32 127.
What
skillful
housewife does not
When, where
When
to place
nicely done,
Conspicuous,
first
will not
it
it is
my
know ?
show
worst.
My
second all the world must do, Either with head or hand, In different ways the same pursue,
On
water, or on land.
My whole
a picture
of
is
life,
Varied with good or ill. With bright or dull, with light or dark, Arrano^ed with art and skill. 128.
What
cure the cold
that
is
129.
Why
130.
When did
131.
Why do
is
will
make you catch cold-^ bill?
a joke like a cocoa-nut
true Americans 132.
which
— and pay the doctor's
?
Esau, the hairy man, lose his whiskers!
postmasters deserve the execration of
all
?
my head and tail, middle slender as can be, Whether I stand on head or heel, 'Tis all the same to you or me. But if my head should be cut off. The matter's true, although 'tis strange, My head and body, severed thus. Immediately to nothing change Just equal are
My
133. If a loafer,
on his upper liv
134r.
A
smoking a
lip, is it
sin
ing
cigar, sets fire to the
procur damn ed ation. salv pa purchas
transgre ers
dy Kedeem
brush
a case of spontaneous combustion?
ssion
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MAKES E&W
136.
137.
What 2*
sailors dread.
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34:
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IV.
I.
Go wide o'er the world, And everj^ where seek me
In whirlwinds I revel,
In earth, sea, or
I flourish in
Thou never
Go
meet me
shalt
am
!
world
w-ide o'er the
I always
Yet
air,
there
"Wherever thou roamest,
In earth, sea, or
air
!
in
And
zephyrs expire
The winter I cherish. Yet each season I shun Half living in harvest, In summer, undone V.
ir.
Go speak to the woodland, And question of me Oh ne'er shall thou lind me, With
forest or tree
Go, speak
to the
am
there.
I
ever
And
come with
the warlock go with the ghoul I shriek w^ith the wizard I hoot with the owl I ride on the hazel Which witches have rent I fly on the wing Which the eagle hath bent. I
I
—
I
!
woodland,
live in its wliispers,
Though
lighter than air
!
ni.
VI.
Go, winnow the wave,
And
seek for
my
Ah, ocean and
breath
!
—
!
139.
Why
140.
I
go
Oft unseen and unsought I perish in thought.
So
and to each, you adieu Yet to all and to each, to all
I bid
;
I stay double with
you
the boy that disturbs a hive like a true
is
which has eyes and sees not, ears nose and smells not, yet is often regarded
is
not,
that
as the heau-ideal of a 141.
come and
1
What
and hears
I
I live but in words
river.
Reveal but my death Go, winnow the wave, Tho' with winter it shiver There there shalt thou find [me, 'Mid ocean and river
Christian
warmth.
I perish in fire
Why
is
human
being.
the elephant his
own
servant
?
JfEKRY
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
39
LEAP FROG 159. This is a most excellent pastime. It should be played in a
spacious place, out of doors, if possible, and
the
more there
are en-
gaged in it, provided they be of the same height and agility, the better
the sport.
is
will suppose a at play
:
—Let
We
dozen eleven
them stand
in a row, about six yards
of
apart,
with
all
their
arms folded, or their hands resting on their thighs, their elbows in, and their heads bent forward, so that the chin of each rests on his breast, the right foot advanced, the back a little bent, the shoulders rounded, and the body firm. The last begins the sport by taking a short run, placing his hands on the shoulders of the nearest player, and leaping with their assistance faces in one direction,
of course, springing with his feet at the same time his head, as represented in the cut.
—over
Having cleared the
he goes on to the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc., in and as speedily as possible. When he has gone over the last, he goes to the proper distance, and places himself in position for all the players to leap over him in their turn. The first over whom he passed, follows him over the second, third, fourth, etc. ; and when he has gone over, the one who begun the game places him-
first,
succession,
for the others to
jump over him. The
third follows the second, and so on
until the parties are
self in like
tired.
maaner
merry's book of puzzles.
iO
160. His heart
When With
and his
sad,
foot
travel faint, as the night
He had And he And he The
was
was
sore,
a stranger knocked at the cottager's door; fell
down,
missed his wa-y to the nearest town, prayed for water to quench his thirst, showed his purse as he asked for my first,
was moved by the
cotter
stranger's tale.
He
spread the board, and he poured the ale: " The river," he said, " flows darkly down Betwixt your path and the lighted town.
And far from hence its stream is crossed By the bridge on the road that you have Gold may not buy,
lost
your weary feet Have traversed the river and reached the street. The thing you ask but the wandering moon Will be out in the sky with her lantern soon Then cross o'er the meadow, and look to the right, And you'll find my second by her light." My second shone like a silver floor, When the traveler passed from the cotter's door; He saw the town on its distant ridge. Yet he sighed no more for the far-off bridge; And his wish of the night soon gained its goal, For he found mj first when he reached my whole. till
;
;
161.
What two
162. I 8
letters of the
alphabet
make a prophet f
^fy_
163. Plant an orchard of twenty-one trees, so that there shall
be nine straight rows, with
five trees in
each row,
the outline a regular geometrical figure, and the trees at unequal distances from each other.
nor
164.
for U B yy-^ nice •'•'
c
what a
fool
u
b.
all
mebbt's book of puzzles.
165. "What part of the liorse resembles you
166.
Why
is
a horse like the prophet Elijah
167.
Why
is
a
168.
Why
is it
new married man profitable to
4:1
1
?
like a horse
keep fowl
f
?
169. My first is a collection of water used when speaking of myself; mj third whole is a town in Hindostan. ;
my is
second
a fruit;
is
my
Thomas," said Charles, " you are good at figme o. figurative answer to this question: What ought one to do who arrives at a friend's hous<^
170.
*'
ures, please give
—
too late for dinner?"
Thomas, 1028,40.
after thinking a little,
What was his meaning ?
wrote the following—
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
4^
A
teacher, having fifteen young ladies under Kei wished them to take a walk each day of the week. They were to walk in five divisions of three ladies each, but no two ladies were to be allowed to walk together twice during the week. How could they be arranged to suit the above conditions ?
171.
care,
172.
My
first is
a letter, an insect, a word,
That means
My 'Tis
My My My
next
is
to exist
;
The
moves
like a bird.
found in all climes search where you oan. is a something seen in all brawls. next you will find in elegant halls. ;
third
last is the first of the last part of
Is ever in earnest, yet
My
it
a letter, a small part of man,
day,
never in play.
whole gives a light, by some men abhorred, blessings from which no pen can record.
173. What number is that, which, added separately to 100 and 164, shall make them perfect squares ? 174.
Why
is
175.
Why
are mortgages like burglars
176.
the letter
F
like death
?
?
Fm composed of letters four, A turkey, cock, or hen ;
Behead me, and I upward Put on my head again.
soar.
Transpose me, then a beast I am,
Both bloodthirsty and wild. That preys on many a helpless lamb, And oft devours a child. 177. I
am
or injure. again, I
am
a word of three letters, signifying to spoil Transposed, I am an animal. Transposed
a part of the
human
frame.
mekby's book of puzzles,
178.
"Why
is
43
which
a grist-mill like the court-martial
cashiered Fremont? 179.
I
I
to
have wings, yet never fly I have sails, yet never go— can't keep still, if I try, Yet forever stand just so.
180.
Why
181.
What
Scripture character
182.
What
animal that always has a cold chin
keep the 183.
is
a grist-mill like an orange-tree
ladies' chins
What two
altar is certainly
184.
Why
reasons
What
is it
is
why
was a stupid sheep is
?
used
?
a young lady going to the
going wrong ? dangerous
moro than two reasons 185.
warm
?
for
a
teetotaler to
for the faith that is in
him
have
i
the most cheerful part of an arsenal?
meeby's book of puzzles.
44 186.
"Wheu does the tougue assume the functious of
the teeth 187.
?
My
company, my second third calls company.
first is
my An emblem
pany, and 188.
My Up
first
is
without com-
of stupidity,
found
in forests
in air oft rises high,
Though fastened to the ground, But by sharp means it is removed, And managed various ways ;
By
art or skill
may be improved,
it makes a blaze. second is of every kind, Is good, or bad, or gay Is dull or bright, to suit all minds. By night as well as day. The patient seaman keeps with care my whole, And well it knows his secrets night and day; And though it has no tongue, nor heart, nor soul, It tells the story of the ship's long way.
Or, perhaps,
My
;
189. There
is
a word of six
letters at either end,
make one 190.
of the most useful
Tell
me why
forty dollars to a friend.
is it, if
What
if five
is
that
the body.
you lend
does your kindness more
Than
Take oft three and it will
letter,
members of
But It
191.
letters.
and add another
commend
hundred you should send
which
is less
?
tired the longer
it
runs?
192. Why is a tailor finishing your pants like a polite host serving his guests with water-fowl ?
What was a month old weeks old now ?
193. five
at Cain's birth, that is not
meeet'b book of puzzles
194.
What
stocking
45
looks worse on a lady's foot than a darned
?
195.
Which
196.
What is
197.
My
of the girls can answer questions best! the shape of a kiss
first is
?
a busy industrious thing,
Without which no bundle your porter can bring
My
;
second is nothing to speak of, yet stands For thousands and millions, in money or lands ; My third is a question we meet every day, Relating to things we do, think, or say My whole is the questioner once it was yon, If not, 'twas your brother, or cousin, or whew I It was somebody else whom your grandmother knew.
—
—
ICEBBY
46
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
am composed
198. I
1 4 2 3, 2 3, 3 199.
8
Mj " " " "
We do not 4
of four letters.
2
3,
2.
4:
a preposition. second implies more than one. third is a pronoun. fourth some people do not pay. whole is not consistent. first is
am a word of four letters often used in prayer. Transposed, I become what every one professes. Transposed agaiu, I become an adjective, the qualities of which every one despises.
200. I
am
Transposed again, I
My
SOL
first is
part of a horse,
poison, slow yet sure,
That preys on
many
frames impure, And called by many names. My first and second form my whole,
Compounded
oft of things
That's one of Satan's dens
Many
;
man
has lost his soul, Through meeting there with friends. a
—
am a word of four letters the name of a Gape. Transposed, I am a portion of the earth's surface. Transposed again, I am a kind of meat.
202. I
Transposed again, wash.
=
803. I prove 2
X
=
—
a
;
1,
I
thus
then x'
become a verb signifying to
:
=
ax
= ax — a' (x -h a) (x — a) = a (x — a) X a = a 2 a = a 2 = 1
x'
a'
-f-
Who
will detect the fallacy !
MEBBY
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
'-
204. In wliat ladies like to
305.
sliip,
and
in
47
ffOffTON.
what capacity, do young
engage ?
>
Ethereal thing, on unseen wing,
Through space
my
first is
wandering
;
nothing knows, Yet all that's known and seen it shows. Brick, iron, mnd, stone, reed, or wood,
It
nothing
My second
sees,
it
in all climes has stood
A lodge, a nest, where love Or a
may
rest.
prison, gloomy, dark, unblest.
Away
on the bleak and desolate peak the rude tempests howl and shriek, Like a friendly eye, looking out from the sky. My whole to the wanderer gleams on high.
Where
206.
What
kind of a ship did Solomon object to
t
48 207. There are two the
sum
numbers whose product added to is 109, and the difference of
of their squares
who&e squares
is 24r.
In every hedge
208.
As
my
second
is,
well as every tree,
And when
poor school-boys act amiss,
It often is their fee.
My My
is always wicked, committed sin,
likewise
first
Yet
ne'er
total for
Composed
My
209.
my
third
titude
;
210.
first is
we must
my
whole
What
is
my first
a pronoun all is
the
do
;
Add
212.
What
same time 213.
my
;
tin.
my
fourth
that
is
is
grandmother
?
it
twenty.
which the dead and living do
?
When winter months have passed And summer suns shine bright.
away,
You ope the coffer where I lay. And bring my first to light.
My second is a valiant knight, Who wears his crest and spur, And when he's challenged to He does not long demur.
My
a fight.
whole, as ancient fables say.
Was
once a friend of Juno, In dress he makes a great display His name by this time you know. 814.
not high
a pronoun of mul-
difference between a
one to nine and make is
second
musical.
and her infant grandchild 211.
is fitted.
of brass or
Why
is
a bullet like a tender glance?
at the
215.
When innocence first had its dwelling on earth, In my first's lovely form it alighted And still to this time, from the hour of its birth. In my first it has greatly delighted. ;
My second's a Yet on age Again,
'tis
part of a smart lady's dress, it
may
a garb
And my whole 216.
Why
also be found
when
;
the heart feels distress
does with pleasure abound.
are children at play like a bird in hernest?
3
meeky's booe: of pttzzles.
50
My
male or female, young or old, you are forced to doubt one; Much must we pity the false heart or cold, "Who is so selfish as to live without one. My second is a noble work of art, Which brings together distant shores and lands;
217.
first is
'Tis very sad if
Though
neither feet
it
'Tis often furnished
has, nor head, nor heart, with a hundred hands.
My
whole in youth or age, sickness or health, life can give; Without it, all in vain are hoards of wealth,^ In joy or sorrow, charms to
By
unblest in solitude
it
we
live.
218.
What
219. 220.
Why is a dog like a tanner Why are A B's successors seedy?
221.
What
spice are the
Hindoos fond of? ?
222. I
nothing good for
is
am composed
?
of four letters
— the — the
initials
of the principal personages in Europe river in Russia
;
transposed, I
am
of four
name
of a
a part of the Crystal
Palace transposed again, I am not proud^ although elevated above the heads of most people. ;
223.
My
first is
Sweeps
When
when
the
summer wind
rustlingly through the trees,
the jasmine spray and the eglantine
Are swayed by the whispering breeze My second, a weapon of bloody strife, Of steel, so cruel and cold,
Which
ruthlessly takes the soldier's
life.
The cowardly, and the bold; My whole is a Poet, by every one known, So wide 824:.
Why
is
is
his
renown.
the letter
y
like a
young spendthrift?
mebey's book of puzzles,
225.
226.
51
Why is memory like the peacock ? My first in the garden luxuriantly grows, Delicious and sweet, as every one knows
My second The
My
a noisy, vain, garrulous
tiling,
lord of a harem, as proud as a king
whole
is still
prouder, and seems to rejoice
As much
in his tail as
One man
said to another, "
he does in his voice.
Give me one of your have twice as many as you." The other replied, " No, give me one of yours, and I shall have as many as you." How many had each ? 227.
eheep, and I
shall
228.
Where were
229.
Where
230.
Why
is
potatoes
did cherries
first
found?
come from ?
a ship under
full sail like
Niagara?
merry's book of ptjzzleb.
52
mighty pasture go Sheep in thousands, silver white
231. O'er a
As
to-day
we
see them, so
In the oldest grandsire's sight. They drink never waning old Life from an unfailing brook There's a shepherd to their fold,
—
"With a silver-horned crook.
From
a gate of gold let out,
Night by night he counts them over;
Wide
the field they rove about,
Never hath he lost a rover True the dog that helps to lead them, One gay ram in front we sec
What
the flock, and
who doth
Sheep and shepherd,
tell to
lead them,
me
?
Take off my hat, and 232. I am a word of four letters. Take you have something which you do every day. Leave off my off my head, and yon have a preposition. head and put on ray hat, and you have something used Entire, and taken backward, with my before a door. two middle letters transposed, I am a very convenient thing.
I,
myself,
am
often eaten.
233.
What
part of a ship
234.
What
animal resembles the
235.
What
animal
236.
What
animal
What
animal
237.
is is
was Cain
?
sea,
and why
the most windy, and like
is like
an apothecary
?
why?
?
a stone-breaker?
238. A man had a bar of lead that weighed 40 lbs., and he divided it into four pieces in such a way as to allow him to weigh any number of pounds from one to forty How did he manage the matter ?
239.
What
240.
Why
241. If a tree stand
242.
is is
the best key to a good dinner
a farm-yard like a hotel
woman
?
?
stands behind a tree,
how
does the
?
Wherein does a turkey-cock
differ
from a lady
?
men buy a grindstone, 40 inches in diameon equal shares. Each one is to use it until he has worn away his share. How many inches in diameter must each one use? 243. Three
ter,
244.
What two
letters of the
alphabet do children like
best?
245.
Why
are Cashmere shawls like deaf persons
?
MERRY
64 246.
Ye
mortals
A
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
— wonder
I'm an
!
elf,
strange, mysterious thing;
More
])owerful than all the sprites
Within a magic
ring.
—although I have no tongue the soul speak, and I sing — and many a song IVe sung
I speak
thrill
I
I
Resounds, while ages roll. a weapon, strong and keen,
am
All
made
But human
My The
of glittering steel souls
—not senseless flesh^
sharp two-edges
feel.
greatest writer e'er
But, ah
For what
!
— a thievish
was born elf;
I write is not, alas
Original with myself. I often take a cooling bath
But, like the Ethiop's skin,
Wlien I have bathed, I'm blacker
still
Than when I did begin Most kind am I; I glad the heart Of many a wretched wight,
And many
a suflerer
is
by
me
Transported with delight.
Most cruel I I've pierced the With cutting, burning darts ;
soul
I've dashed the fondest hopes to earth, I've crushed the lightest hearts.
Yet wise and powerful
A
very slave
am
as I
am,
I
I'm forced the mandates to obey Of both the low and high.
Now,
witty brains,
tell
who
this is,
Who blesses and who curses Who has no hands, yet still who The writer of these
verses.
is
MEREY
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES
Wiy
is
an Indian like a
248. "W by
is
an Indian
247.
flirt?
like a scholar
?
How much
249.
balloon,
seams
55
silk is required to make a spherical 16 inches in diameter, without allowing lor
?
250. All children love to go to sea, and 251. That gentle picture dost thou Itself, its
why?
know.
hues, and splendor gaining?
Some change each moment can bestow, Itself as perfect still
remaining
It lies within the smallest space.
The smallest framework forms its girth, yet that picture can embrace The mightiest objects known on earth
And
Canst thou
to
me
that crystal
(No gem can with
Which
name
worth compare) and knows no flame
its
gives all light,
Absorbed is all creation there That ring can in itself inclose The loveliest hues that light the heaven, Yet from its light more lovely goes Than all which to it can be given !
I
?
MERRY
56
8
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
252.
From From
6 take nine, from 9 take 10; 40 take 50, and 6 remain.
253.
Why
is
marriage like truth
?
254. Eequired to divide 45 in four parts, so that the first part with two added, the second with two subtracted, the third divided
by two, the fourth 'multiplied by two,
shall equal each other.
255.
Where was Major Andre going when
lie
was
captured 2 is a mansion, vast and fair, That doth on unseen pillars rest ^o wanderer leaves the portals there, Yet each how brief a guest The craft by which that mansion rose,
256. There
I
No
thought can picture to the soul by a lamp which throws stately shimmer through the whole.
'Tis lighted Its
As
crystal clear,
The
And
single
it
its roof,
never hath the eye surveyed
The master who 257.
rears aloof
gem which forms
Why
is
that
mansion made.
a sculptor like a
man who
"splits his
sides with laughter ?"
258.
Why
conflagration
259.
used
My
when
whole 260.
261.
is
were the Scribes and Pharisees like a great ?
first is
a collection of water,
fc-peaking of myself,
my
third
my is
a
second fruit,
a town in Hindostan.
X U R, X U B, X, 2 X U E 2 me. Why
was Daniel
like ^Nebuchadnezzar's
is
my
image ?
MEKRY
8
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
57
SEE-SAW.
262. Several things are riCcessary to
make
this sport
and pleasant. First^ a strong bar on. which to balance your board or plank. Secondly^ a strong, straight-grained board or plank, which will not crack safe
Thirdly^ an equal weight at each end, or Fourthly^ a clear head, and a steady hand, or foot, to keep up an even motion. With these all right,
nor twist. nearly
you
so.
will
go up and down as easily and smoothly as men
of business do, or political parties;
—but, hallo
there, boys,
John has tumbled off, and you will have a smash at the other end, which will leave John's partner in doubt whether he is up or down. 263.
What
island in the Pacific
264.
What
is
there at the
ungrammatical in 265.
Why
is
is
always at
this sport?
same time philosophical and
this sport?
an elephant like a lady's 3*
veil
?
•
merry's book of pitzzlbs,
58
was before the world begun, Before the earth, before the sun ; Before the moon was made, to light
266. I
With
brighter
beams the
starry
nigU
I'm at the bottom of the sea, And I am in immensity; The daily motion of the earth Dispels me, and to me gives birth
5
*
Yon
can not see
me
you try, before your eye
Although I'm oft Such is my whole.
;
if
;
But, for one part,
You'll find in taste I'm rather tart Kow I become the abode of men
And now, for groveling beasts, a pen I am a man who lives by drinking Anon
;
keep a weight from sinking folks go far and near I am what children like to hear I am a shining star on high And now, its pathway through the sky; My strength o'erpowers botli iron and steel; Yet oft I'm left behind the wlieel I'm made to represent a head f6und in every loaf of bread ; Such are the many forms I take. You can not count all I can make ; I
To take me,
;
Am
Yet, after
Soon
as
all,
so strange
am
you know me, then
I,
I die.
Henry is four feet high and William is five. Tlie of their heights multiplied by five is equal to their How old was their father? father's age, plus fifteen. 267.
sum
My
first is
the
name
pleasant beverage,
my
third
268.
and
my
whole
is
the
name
of a river, is
my
second
what we are too apt
of an ancient city.
is
a
to do,
MERRT8 BOOK
OF PUZZLES.
59
DEAF AND DUMB ALPHABET.
^ J
!
SINGLE HANDKD ALPHABET.
£G9. The deaf and dumb converse with each other, and with their teachers, by signs made with their hands. There are two ways of making the letters with the fingers; in one, both hands are nsed; in the other, only one. Above, you see how the letters are made with
one hand. 2T0.
When
are the letters like the keys of a piano
?
MEEKYS BOOK
60 271.
Up
OF PUZZLES.
and down two buckets ply
A single well
within
;
Wliile the one comes full on high, One the deeps must win.
Pull or empty, never ending, Ivising now, and now descending, A^lways while you quaff from this. That one lost in the abyss,
From
that well the waters living
Never both together
Come from my
272. IB
first
giving.
— ay, come
!
the battle
dawn
nigh,
the screaming trump and thundering drum are calling thee to die Fight as thy father fought, fall as thy father fell Thy task is taught, thy shroud is wrought, so forward,
And
and farewell
my
Toll ye,
And
second, toll
sing thej
night
hymn
his head, the cross
Let the prayer be
light.
and the
said,
upon
his breast.
tear be shed
—so
take
to his rest.
my
Call ye
And
high the flambeau's
,-
The wreath upon
him
Fill
1
of a parted soul beneath the silent
whole
him
let
— ay^
call the lord of lute
and
lay.
greet the sable pall with a noble song to-
day; Go,
To
him by
call liojht
his
name
!
no
fitter
hand may crave
the flame of a soldier's fame on the turf of a
soldier's grave.
273.
man's 274.
Once life
A
the truth
?
in a minute, twice in a
moment, once
in a
?
man
said.
"I
lie."
Did he
lie,
or did he
tell
MERRY
S
BOOK OF
PUZZL
li
S
275. Why is the butcher's dog in the parlor mother receiving strange company ?
276.
Why
the house 277.
61
.
like
your
should a hound never be admitted into
?
Why
is
your favorite puppy like a doll ?
278. How can a person live eighty years, and see only twenty birthdays?
meeey's book of puzzles.
62
What
279. bottles,
280.
is the dilference between twenty four quart and four and twenty quart bottles ?
How
will
you arrange four
9's so
as to
make one
hundred? 281.
Amid
the serpent race is one That earth did never bear In speed and fury there be none That can with it compare. With fearful hiss its prey to grasp-
—
It darts its dazzling course,
And
locks in one destroying clasp
The horseman and the
horse.
It loves the loftiest heights to
No
bolt its prey secures
In vain
For
As
its
mail
may
haunt
—
;
valor vaunt,
steel its fury lures
by the wind, snaps the starkest tree It can the might of metal grind. slightest straw whirled
It
;
How
hard soe'er
it
be
!
Yet ne'er but once tlie monster tries The prey it threats to gain In its own wrath consumed it dies,
And 282. boots.
while
it
slays
is slain.
A went to At
a shoemaker, B, and ordered a pair of the time appointed for their completion,
A
A
gave B a 20 dollar note, which, not being able to change, he went to C, who gave him four $5 notes. B gave A three of the notes, and kept one. The next day C came to B and told him his $20 note was a counterfeit. B gave C four $5 notes, three of which he borrowed from D. How much called for his boots.
did
B
lose
The
price
by the operation
?
was $5.
merry's book of puzzles.
283. 284. 285. 286.
When When
a boy
he
is
falls,
what does he
fall
against?
caught stealing, what does he catch?
How many feet onght a thief to have? Why is Tom Tumbledown like Adam when he
the applets
63
saw
64 287.
A
me a day or two since, that had eighty-four legs. How did if
friend asserted to
forty horses only
come ? A RIDDLE WITHIN A 288.
Moce ye Ti
si
RIDDLE.
inngeison nose hist dilerd suesg
ton cufidiift oiiy liwl socfens,
Thaw si hatt burrnen — hiwhc fi Ouy hent liwl hington veale no 280.
Our
family
is
oiiy ivdedi,
theire dies?
much more than one when he went to live in
large, but not
third as large as that of Jacob
But, like the family of that ancient patriarch, we do not keep migrate to other countries. we are scattered together, whether at home or abroad
Egypt.
We
often
;
about in every direction,
—
at
once masters, servants, and
Not
slaves to forty-four millions of people.
printed without our aid
;
and, what
is
stranger
a book
still,
we
is
are
found at the same time in every book in every library and country wliere the English language is spoken and on almost every page. Sometimes, though rarely, two It is still more rare for us all of us stand side by side. Nothing to appear together arranged in the same order. is more common with peo])le than to place us in rows or ylatoons j but whether in militia, army, or navy for some of us are employed in all these we are seldom arranged Sometimes one of us stands first; sometwice alike. times another. Sometimes a row or platoon consists of only two or three of us at others of many more and occasionally of twelve, fifteen, or twenty and, strangest to relate of all, we can be so placed as to make out about 50,000 rows, no two of which will be exactly alike. Must we not, then, be a useful family? And what, think you, is OMY family name ? all
;
—
—
;
;
;
290.
. I
I
six, so as to
I
I
make
1
I
nine.
Add
five
more marks
to these
MEHEYS BOOK What
291. tree
OF PUZZLES.
that,
is
which has twelve branch-
es,
thirty
leaves on each
and
branch,
each leaf white on one side, and black on the other 292.
1.
is 8. 4. 6.
?
What
the sociable tree?
And And And
the tree which
9-
And
10.
The chronologist
12.
And
13.
What's the
15.
And
19.
the dancing tree?
nearest the sea? ^-
The most yielding tree?
the tree where ships ma}^ be
The languishing
18
is
the busiest tree?
7.
16
And
2.
tree?
8.
The
?
least selfish tree?
the tree that bears a curse ? H- The fisherman's tree tree ?
?
the tree like an Irish nurse? traitor's tree
?
14.
And
the tell-tale tree?
warmest clad? The layman's tree? 17. The housewife's tree? And the tree that makes one sad? What the tree that in death will benight you ? And the tree that your wants will supply? And the tree that to travel invites you ? And the tree that forbids you to die? What tree do the hunters resound to the skies? What brightens your house, and your mansion susthe tree that
is
tains?
26.
What tree urs^ed the Grecians in veno^eance to rise? And fight for the victims by tyranny slain ? [you ? 27. And the tree that obeys The tree that will fight ?
MEKEY's BOOJi OF PUZZLES.
6Q
29.
And And
81-
And
the tree neither
82.
The
tree to be kissed?
**•
And what guides the ships to go forth ? 36. And the The unhealthiest tree?
28.
the tree that never stands the tree that got up?
was lazy
8^-
people 87. 88. 40.
41.
43 44.
And
still ?
so.
And
the tree that
?
up nor down
And
33.
hill
?
the dandiest tree? tree of the
?
whose wood faces the north? 89. The industrious tree? And the tree that warms mutton when cold? The reddish-brown tree? 42. The reddish-blue tree? And what each must become ere he's old ? The tree in a bottle? 45. And the tree in a fog? the tree
The emulous
tree?
46.
And
47.
The
48.
And what mother and
the tree that gives the bones pain terrible tree
when schoolmasters child have the
?
flog
?
name ?
The treacherous tree ? ^0. The contemptible tree ? And that to which wives are inclined ? ^2. The tree that causes each townsman to flee ? fi8. And what round fair ankles they bind? ^^- And the tree that is ^- The tree that's entire? 49.
^1.
split?
^- The tree half given to doctors when ^7.
The
tree
^8.
And
59
The
61
And
62.
The
we
offer to friends
the tree
we may
tree that's
use as a quill
immortal?
60.
The
?
trees that are not?
the trees that must pass through the
fire
?
tree that in Latin can ne'er
be forgot, must admire ?
And 63.
ill ?
when we meet?
in England we all The Egyptian plague tree ?
64.
And
the tree that
dear?
is 65.
And what
66
The
67.
And
round
doth intwine? must ever be near? the tree that by cockneys is turned into wine? itself
tree that in billiards
MEEEYS BOOK
293.
Which
to live in 29-i.
of the planets
OF PUZZLES.
would the
67
tortoise like best
?
Why
is
a picture surrounded
by books
like
a
happy man ? 295. Mother sent Mary for an evergreen. The gardener brought a holly. Mary pointed to the sky, and the gardener brought what she wanted. What did Mary
mean? 296.
When
the day breaks, what becomes of the frag-
ments ? 297. ISTovus vir bonus vir ivit ad
saam
caudam
vel habere
vesteni homines mortuos.
298.
EE
299.
What
300.
Add
Marriage bird
is
ee.
that
something
which has no wings ?
to 9 to
make
it less.
merry's book of puzzles.
68 301.
Why
is
Satan on a shed like a bankrupt?
summer
302. How is it that trees put on their without opening their trunks?
303.
Of
make
three words
dresses,
by the insertion of a
one,
single letter.
304.
Of
a
word of one
make
syllable,
a word of throe
syllables, by the addition of a single letter.
305.
Ages
ago,
.
when Greece was young,
And Homer,
blind and wandering, sung; Where'er he roamed, through street or field, My first the noble bard upheld';
Look
to the
You'll see
Go
it
new moon
my
for
next,
there, but if perplexed,
ask the huntsman, he can show
My name —he gives it many a blow My whole, as you will quickly see, Is a large
Which
town
in Tuscany,
ladies soon will recognize
A favorite head-dress 306.
Why
307. Mr.
supplies.
an elephant like a chair ?
is
—wood being
mills for his
it
at the
.
of king of terrors, 10
quakers, and who, which and what.
^
They
odor for Dr. Juvenile Humanity, [who to Dr. Hay preservers, and little devil behold scarlet his assistance but, B 4: he arrived, the not legally good changed color, |
taker
andJ -:^ was 308.
o
Given the
number 309.
,
ct lor.
street
and the hour,
to find at
once the
city, to find at
once the
of children in the street.
Given the section of the
number of loafers and vagabonds
that infest
it.
MEBKY
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
CHRISTMAS TREE.
310. This tree.
It is
is a very curious and interesting kind of a found, loaded with every variety of strange
It has no roots, most wonderful for its yielding powers, though it bears only once a year, and that always on Christmas Eve. The last one that I saw was at Uncle Iliram HatchCousin Hannah thus describes it et's. *' At last, when none of us expected it, he (Uncle H.) threw open the folding doors, and let us into the little parlor. There was displayed the Christmas tree, in all its glory. Every little twig bore some present; dolls
fruity on tables, bare floors, or carpets.
but
is
70
and
furniture,
doll
pins,
bracelets,
ear-rings,
slippers,
watch-guards and purses, ships, windmills, and beautiful books, besides all sorts of fruits and bon-bons, and all blazing with light from the numberless candles that
Beemed
to
grow out of the branches."
A tree that,
without
life
or root,
Without a blossom, bud, or flower, Bears various and most precious fruit. That comes and goes in one short hour.
My
an adjective, short and dry. of moisture seems to imply, Or, in reference to mind, that kind of wit. Which is slack on the rein, and sharp on the bit. My second is a sort of hole, or den, Unfit for the resort of timid men. Whence once the righteous came safely out, While the wicked were wholly put to rout. My whole is an author of classic fame. If you know the man, please tell me his name.
311.
first is
Which an absence
312.
What
poet do miners value most ?
313.
What
poet
Which make a lion
314. to
Why
315.
speak
is
least distinguished for brevity
of the English poets feel at
were
would be most
?
likely
home ?
the
Amalekites
never
allowed
?
316.
Which
317.
What
Buitable
of the reptiles
Scripture
husband
is
a mathematician
character would have
for a tall laundress
?
made
?
318. What two syllables of the marriage ceremony most interesting to the priest ?
to
KERKT
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
71
319.
What
part of a house measures about two quarts!
320
When
is
821
Why are ladies
ished house 322.
What
on the stoop,
like
an unfin-
stone opens and shuts at your convenience! see how me Down will I love And you love you Up and you if
Read
p ,
sitting
?
323.
itb
a door not a door?
Why
is
a thing purchased like a shoe ?
merky's book of puzzles.
72
325. "Why is a man who makes a wager of a cent, like a person recovering from illness ? 326.
Why
is
an unpaid
is
a sanguinary epistle like a surgeon
bill
like the moisture in the
morning? 327.
Why
?
828. Ere from the east arose the lamp of day, Or Cynthia gilt the night with paler ray
Ere earth was form'd, or ocean knew its place, Long, long anterior to the human race In chaos I was found, I did exist. When awful darkness shed its gloom around. In heaven I dwell, in those bright realms above, And in the radiant ranks of angels move. But when th' Almighty, by his powerful call, Made out of nothing this stupendous ball, I did appear, and still upon this earth daily seen, and every day have birth. With Adam I in Paradise was seen. When the vile serpent tempted Eve to sin And, since the fall, I with the human race Partake their shame and manifest disgrace. In the dark caverns of old ocean drear I ever was, and ever shall appear. [blood. In every battle firmly I have stood, When plains seem lav'd, whole oceans dy'd with It now remains with you But, hold no more To find me out and bring me forth to view.
Am
—
!
330.
Why is a lost child like you Why is Fremont equal to eight honest politicians?
331.
IIow did Jonah
329.
?
feel
when
the whale swallowed
him? 332.
Why
were the Hebrews called sheep?
meeby's book of puzzles
73
833.
Why 5s
334:.
Under what
335.
Under what shade can you dance best?
Why
336. ladies
is
it
dangerous to tree is
a dashing
it
flirt
in a hay-field
most proper
young buck a
to
?
make
love?
favorite with the
?
constantly in the midst of money. 2. I am contiiinally putting people in possession of property. in my 3. I increase the number of most things that come 337.
way.
1. I
4.
1
am
am no
friend to the distressed needlewomen,
for I render needles unnecessary.
undertake a dress, I infallibly
make
5.
Yet whenever
it sit.
6.
I
am
1
quar-
merry's book of puzzles.
74
word and a blow is my maxim. 7. In fact, with rae a word becomes a weapon. 8. And merriment
relsome, for a
becomes slaughter.
men
drink converts itself
mto
the
9.
It is
commonly remarked
that
but I transform wine 10. Deprived of me, certain
into swine,
same animals.
railway speculations come out in their true character team can draw a wagon well without rae, still, 11. when I am in front, the speed is wonderfully increased.
A
13.
Marvelous products may be obtained from peat, but I am extracted from earth, pure oil alone remains. Let me go before, and a story is sure to be stale.
14.
And
12.
when
I
if
am
left out, it will
be political.
strongly attached to pluralities.
With
16.
free trade, I turn corn itself into contempt.
15. I
17. I
the midst of Kussia and Prussia, and abundant the Swiss.
Were
18.
I
when
I
take
my
left
but
grief.
departure, the evening
finished with wliat remains.
20.
2i. In person I
in good time.
am
in
among
withdrawn from that unhappy
country, Spain, nothing would be ter sport,
am
respect to
At
am
19. Afis
often
am
always much bent, though I a soiree I
was formerly more upright. 22. As to my education, I was always head of the school. 23. Though invariably 24. With me age looks wise. at the bottom of my class. 25. But a gentleman is better without me, as accompanied by
me
he appears feminine.
On
26.
a lady ought not to part witli me, for
if
the contrary,
she loses
me
she
27. I am an unwelcome visitor, for seems masculine. with me sorrow begins and happiness ends. 28. Sadness commences, and, 29. Bliss terminates. 30. Yet it is in
my
power
to
transform cares into what
is delightful.
33S. Nebuchadnezzar's lions were very undevout when Daniel was with tliem, and very poetical with his enemies. 339.
Please explain.
Why
is
a hunter like an omnibus pickpocket?
MEERYS BOG^
OF PUZZLES.
340. Figures, they say, won't Is
something either
I find that, in
my
—
^
lie
;
yf.
76
but here
false or queer.
family,
One taken from two
still
leaves
me
three,
And two
from two, by the same score, Leaves a remainder of just four. 341.
My Or
My
first is
a measure
much used
in the East,
a close-covered vehicle drawn by one beast second is a prefix a small preposition
Two
— — a paid politician
thirds of a tavern
;
My
whole, though part of a vessel, has stood Alone on the prairie, or 'neath the great wood,
And The
mean, proud palaces squatting between.
often is found, poor, wretched, and city's
merry's
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boo^'J!-
^
^uzzj^es.
BLACK-EYED MARY'S ALGEBRAICAL PROBLEM.
Take two numbers, such that the square of the
342.
plus the square of the second, shall equal 8; while the first, plus the product of the first and second,
first,
shall equal 6.
H be no
B.
—If
any choose
work
to
See
trifling puzzle.
this ont algebraically, it
Merry's Museum
mU
be foirnd to
for 1856.
343. What's that the poor's most precious friend, Nor less by kings respected
Contrived to pierce, contrived to rend, And to the sword connected.
draws no blood, and yet doth wound rich, but ne'er with spoil It prints, as earth it wanders round, blessing on the soil. The eldest cities it hath built. It
Makes
A
Bade mightiest kingdom fired to war,
Ne'er
Weal
345. frolic
;
it
to the states that prize it
When
344.
guests
rise
nor roused to guilt
is
a
political
candidate
like
Samson's
?
What
is
the most suitable dance to wind off a
?
346. Revolving round a disk I go
One The
restless
journey o'er and over; my wanderings know.
smallest field
Thy hand the space could cover Yet many a thousand miles are passed In circling round that field so narrow:
My
speed outstrips the swiftest blast. strongest bowman's arrow.
The 347.
Why
are buckwheat cakes like the caterpillar?
MEERY
348.
What
Why
350.
What
shadow 351.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
it ?
do
girls
is
blow bubbles
better than boys f
the difference between a
boy and
?
Why
77
relation does the soap-bubble bear to the
boy who makes 34:9.
8
is
a soap-bubble like
352. I have no
life,
yet, as I fly,
A thing of beauty I bear,
A part
Adam ?
to the eye,
my glittering shape beneath, of my Creator's breath
With ever-changing shade and hue and vanish from the view, And, though a phantom deemed, In portions, water, earth, and air. I rise
I share,
hifl
merky's book of puzzles.
T8
I go, but never
353.
stir,
I count, but never write,
measure and divide, and, sir, You'll Und my measures right. I run, but never walk, I strike, but never wound, I tell you much, but never talk, I
In 354.
When
thing he does
my
a boy
diurnal round.
falls into
the water,
what
is
the
first
?
355. How would the proposed removal of the Pope to Jerusalem be a false move for the Papacy, and a true one for the Papal States ?
356. 357. 358.
Why is a coachman a generous raan? Why is a dog like a clock-maker's safe? Why is the cook more noisy than a gong ?
359. Describe a partisan, and answer a question in the
same words. 360.
A word
of one syllable call to your mind.
which will, if rightly combined, Provide you with two kinds of fuel ay, more, warm piece of clothing and fasten your door.
The
letters of
361. Let two
At
—
—
A
Roman
the right plete
fives at extremities
hand of
these,
meet.
add two
circles
com-
;
Then five times one hundred place at the right hand,
And
a nice winters comfort they
make
as they
stand.
362.
What number
is
that
which can be divided by
2, 3, 4, 5,
and
and by
without a remainder?
363.
7,.
How
6,
leaving, in each case, a remainder of
lono^ aoro
were trunks
first
used?
I,
meeey's book of puzzles.
#-^ '//
1-
864. I'm black or whit^^ 1 .a
I'm
As
tall
or
flat,
brown
or gray,
I'm grnve or gay,
soft as wool, or sti.'Fas tin,
A nest for
wits to nestle in.
I liold great intellects, yet oft
Am
bothered with the weak and
eoft,
And sometimes crnsty, liard, and tliickp They fill me witii we bnrncd brick. Fashion controls
Some
aspects to
mc-, vet I
make
wear
fashion stare.
Thonofh always for one place designed, I chancre as often as the wind.
79
mebby's book of puzzles.
80
I'm dumb, and
yet, in spite of that,
than half of every " Chat," I'm mild yet none can hate (don't doubt me) Nor raise a fighting-cock without me.
Make more
—
—
865. In every
home
I stand confessed,
A friend of quiet, peace,
and
rest
my
head, and on your head My streamers rise, black, brown, or red Cut now again, and take my neck off, You leave my substance not a speck of,
Take
off
But, with ethereal lightness gay, I pass in idle breath away.
366.
What
367. In
relation
is
the door-mat to the scraper?
what do grave and gay people
368. "What sea
differ at
would make the best sleeping-room ?
Grab and Clinch, They take an ell when you offer an inch But I can do a smarter thing
369. 'Tis said of lawyers
Give me an
ell,
If for advice
When you If
I
I will
make
you come
are
ill,
it
ring
me
to
wend,
think you've reached the very end,
come and give
You
to
I call for the fee
any road you chance
You
church!
it
such a turn.
find there's something yet to learn
you seek for rest, I chuck you in a box or chest The beggar's rags I make so proud, He of his garments boasts aloud The aged and infirm with me Lose caution and timidity ; For, young or old, to every one If to the inn
I furnish, if not muscle, bone.
^
MERRY
370.
Why
is
6
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
a spotted dog most reliable
81
?
371. In what does a dog differ from a groom in his treatment of a horse ?
372.
One
of a gallant vagrant band,
My name In
is
Without me
Or
known
all earth's
in every land ; changes I am there none may war declare,
treat of peace, or try their parts
On manufacture, tillage, arts By me a patient saint of old
;
"Was changed into a warrior bold ; I made old Abner's father near ; His wife was deaf, I made her hear; His house I put upon his back His jaw an iron bond I make ; Bad spirit by my presence claims To be the end of human aims And a young bear is seen to bo coveted jewel of the sea. 4*
A
merry's book of puzzles.
82
373. Problem.
—To make a
restless child quiet
and con*
tented.
—
Problem To teach a child and usefal.
374. trious,
Why
375.
is
Merry's
Museum
be honest, indas-
to
like a note falling
due ?
876. I consist of eleven letters.
My 9th,
7th, and 1st, is where infants often repose; " 3d, 10th, and 7th, is a foreign plant much used
by us "
1st, 7th, 5th, 9th, 4:th,
"
4th, 7th,
and 11th, is to treat by word of mouth " 6th, 4th, 7tli, and 8th, is a delicious fruit; " 2d, 7th, and 3d, to do which affords great satisfaction
;
and
an essential part of the
5th, is
head
" 3d,
10, 7th, and 8th, is often used for joy or sorrow " whole is the name of a distinguished writer for Merry's Museum.
377.
Why
378. I
W. i,
6,
is
Merry's
am composed
Museum
like a
good wife ?
of twelve letters.
with 10, 5, 2, 9, which a 12, 8, 1, 7, 10, not to have, and which a 3, 8, 1, 12,
2, all 6, 2, 10,
6, 11, 4,
9, 11, 4, 2,
1.
5,
12,
379.
Why
380.
What was
381.
What
382.
Why
is
i.
6, 11, 9, 2, 6.
Merry's
Museum
like a
good mother
?
—
the difference can you show Between the Prodigal in his woe, And Lazarus, in his low estate. Feeding on crumbs at Dives' gate? fish is
does a bride wear on her finder?
Merry's
Museum
like a printing-office
?
5,
5,
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES. 1.-
The
rose shall cease to blow.
The eagle turn a dove, The stream shall cease to flow, Ere I will cease to love. The sun shall cease to shine. The world shall cease to move. The stars their light resign. Ere I will cease to love. 2. Short shoes and long corns to the enemies of freedom.
3.
The rope-maker.
Because they can not be got without a bow (beau). 4.
off
5.
Because he stops at the sound
of wo. 6.
One takes the dish with the
egg7. One, after which his stomach aot empty. 8.
The
smallest.
9.
The
first
solved in this
/
geometrical puzzle
way
is
is
AX S WEES TO PUZZLES,
SQ Stitch
stich
!
stitch
!
This song is well sung, I make you a vow. And he is a knave that aileth
!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous
now.
pitch.
She sang the " Song of the Shirt." 12.
A pack of
Nose, nose, and who gave thee that jolly red nose ? Cinnamon and ginger, nutmeg
cards.
and
And
13. Striking.
H. Because
words
16.
Because his
17. Because he dues (dews).
red
passing 27.
Footman.
me my jolly
nose.
are
between them 15.
cloves.
they gave
To ashes.
28. Short. is all 7iet profit.
is
29. Shakespeare.
siirrounded with
30. Time. 31. Wallace.
18.
Adam. 32. Because they are often toasted.
19. Heroine.
33. ting.
20. Spark.
21. Tear. 22. Because 23.
Because he
Because
a bad habit.
35. boot.
Because he
is
a resting-place
36. Full five
hundred years I've hung,
my
old grey turret high. a different theme I've
lu
sung.
whom
no-
As the hours went winging by. I've pealed the chimes of a weddhiL^
morn
Ere night
I've sadly tolled to
say
That the maid was coming love lorn,
And 37.
here
I
lay. spirit
Anl
hails light
away
she. '
he sweetly
th'
approaching
from grief no solace know. portal from th3 night, All joys to me insipid grow, Aiford me no delight.
But comes,
notes
sings.
degree, all the long day she sits in a tree,
his lofty height.
In rapt'rous
For
To whit-to-whoo. drinkest thou Noodles, to you.
my
viugs
Of all the birds that e'er I did see, The owl is the strangest in every
And when the night
end
The joyfid can sing on
Each morn
whom
nothing to
And many
He's only a pauper, body owns."
flies
has
it is felt.
26. There's a grim hearse horse, In a jolly round trot, To the churchyard a poor man is going, I wot. The road it is rougli, And the hearsg has no springs. And hark to the dirge the sad driver sings " Rattle his boues over the stones,
To
always for get-
34. I, ser. it is
24. Because it for the traveler.
26
is
I
No
Sir 38.
Because it
is
often tolled (told)
NSWEKS TO PUZZLES, 89.
Your name.
40.
The
letter
Shall behold the chief ensign, fair mercy's flag, wave Then, freed from Death's terrors and hostile alarms, When we hear the last trump, we'll stand to our arms.
M.
41. Forty- eight feet. 42. In solying this question it is clear that to pick up the first stone and put it into the basket, the person must walk two yards, one in going for the stone and another in returning with Tt that for the second stone he must walk four yards, and so on increasing by two as far as the hundredth, when he must walk two hundred yards, so that the sum total will be the product of 202 multiplied by If any one does 60, or 10,000 yards. not see why we multiply 202 by 50 in getting tlie answer, we refer him to his arithmetic. ;
87
Long expects Dr. Short
49. Doctor
to explain the
misunderstanding be-
tween them. 50.
To you who
live single, if this at trouble you, My first comes in kindness, commanding to double you. And again, it will double you, if, like a clown, all
You lift high your sole, and bend your head down Or, cut it in twain, two appear,
And Fcounting^oe, 43. Hour-glass.
Vs
both
will
make
ten it is clear. My second, alas comes shrouded in gloom, It is O, which makes wo, the !
44. Pen-man-ship. 45.
There was a
man who was
Nott
sinne7-'s
born, His father fore
was Nott born behim ;
He did Nott live, he did Nott die. And his epitaph is Nott o'er
* *
him.
Now
over the scene. If
my third, which is again.
Now
'tis
lor's
46.
Because
it is
in firm (infirm).
48.
To keep
his
head warm.
U100
—
O, be added
and what bache-
heart does not beat,
To tcoo a sweet damsel,
warm 47,
sad doom.
what a change comes
see
to
keep
his feet
To cheer by her smiles his lone hours and thus Escape, by good fortune, the
—
Hark! the mufflad drum sounds the last march of the brave. The soldier retreats to his quar-
bachelor's curse fourth and my last, as
My
go on to
ters, the grave,
Under Death, whom he owns
his
Commander-in-chief, No more he"ll turn out with the ready relief; But in spite of Death's terrors or cannon's alarms. When he hears the lapt trump he'll 5 tana to his arms Farewell! brother sol(Ker.s, in peace may you rest. And light lie the turf on each veteran breast, Until that review when the souls of the brare !
Is
I'll
tell.
nought more or
less
than a
capital L.
Now L
heingffifty, will even di-
vide
One Hundred, or teachers and books have
all lied.
Now examine
with
care,
and
plain you will see
That
to unlock a secret,
the key
an
L
is
;
L added, is ed into ivool. worn on a sheep, or an Whether For tvoo, with
African's skull.
chang-
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
88
Whether made into
clothing, for
bed or for body, For " sage jiotitician,^' or some other noddy. It is used, the world over, in commerce and trade
But
its last use, I
trow, was to
make a charade. SONG OF THE SVS. Not a rose that blooms, Not a ring that assumes The rainbow's beautiful
64 The nose 65 Because they have so panes (pains).
66 J'ai grand appetit. Allonasouper. 67. Water. 68. Ice.
61.
Those that come after T.
69 front,
70.
'Twas at night, when the bellhad tolled twelve,
But's indebted to me,
And
As ye
plainly see. For the scent or splendor on The moon and the stars
't.
That around ye roll, The systems ye can not discern, Are warmed by my rays,
And partake of the soul And the spirit that in me burn. And nothing throws back with such splendor my rays, As the sea's mighty mirror in midsummer days.
And
like the temple of this the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself shall fall, and, like this insubstantial vision faded, leave not a rack behind.
62.
"body,
When
poor Susan was laid on her pillow, In her ear whispered some fleeting elf
• Your
love is now tossed on the billow" Far, far at sea. All was dark as she woke out of breath Not an object her fears could discover ; All was still as the portals of death, Save fancy, which painted her lover Far, far at sea. So she whispered a prayer, closed
—
her eyes.
But the phantom still haunted her pillow. While in terror she echoed his
63. Letter!. 54.
many
it is
cries,
a cutter
As struggling he sunk on the billow
65. Letter N.
Far, far at sea. 66. Five
when peeled. 71. Lightly tread
^7. He
is
a bit of a buck.
58. His daughter. 59. It
matures by falling dew.
60. Ben-ha-dad.
And murmurs, 61 Because it is never peeled (pealed) but once. 62.
Because
it is
every year doub-
—
'tis
holy ground
Countless dead hark, hark around Angel guards their watches keep, ^Vhile frail mortals sink to sleep : And the moon, with feeble rays. Gilds the stream that bubblin|5 plays.
Music meet 72.
as soft
it
flows.
for lovers' woes.
Eye.
73. Canister.
ling ^Dublin). 68. Tobacco.
74. Forte tu, atrox Sexto Fortinato
tenes,
forti
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES. 76 The forceps
pfnclies, the
awl
punches. 76. At the peaceful midnight hour. Every sense and every power Chained lies in downy sleep Then our careful watch we keep,
Sing we in harmony Apollo's praise. generous sentiment Here every awaking. Music inspiring our mutual joy. Each social bumper giving and partaking.
Song and good cheer our time employ.
"While the wolf, in nightly prowl,
Bays the moon with hideous howl Closed are bars, a vain resistance Shrieks are raised, but no assist-
89
89.
To
you know he
let
is
coming.
Because of the sand which (sandwiches) under your feet. 90.
is
ance 91. Mag-pie.
Silence or you'll meet your fate Your keys, jewels, money, plate. !
Locks, bolts, and asunder.
Then
to rifle, rob,
77. Ad-here. 78.
bars soon
92.
93. But-ton.
and plunder.
94.
—In-here.— Co-here.
Because only the bony pari
is
95.
He
is
known by
his axe (acts).
80. XII., that is, a cross (across two eyes).
81.
two
i's
Because he kneads (needs)
it
most. 82.
83.
shoe.
On by !
the spnr of valor goaded.
primed and rifles loaded. Courage strikes on hearts of steel.
star through the dark gloom of night, Lends a clear and cheering light, AVho a doubt or fear can feel ? Now through woods like serpents "While each
creeping.
The
letter
Then on our prey like
R.
Calvert to the onset leads us. Let the weary traveler dread
house. Is like a mouse-trap as you see, For that will puzzle any mousey And pusillanimous is he.
Green grass is like a mouse, be-
cause the cattle eat
it
(cat 'U eat
it).
85. It is not aloud (allowed). Private earing (privateering) is
lions leap-
ing.
The coward skulking round a
84.
A
Pistols
left.
79.
His father was translated.
fly
us.
Struck with terror and amaze "While our swords in lightning pouring, Thunder to our rifles roaring. 96.
AbeU.
cbd
unlawful. 97.
^^^TTq hours to go down.
86. Salt-cellar.
2a 87.
Because
it is
not cnrrant (cur-
rent).
average rate of rowing
c+b
88. Glorious Apollo
from on high be-
held us
Wand'ring
^
to find
a temple for his
praise
d"^ hours to go up. cb jq:^ time up.
db
Sent Polyhymnia hither to shield ns While we ourselves such a temple
—j-%
might raise. Thus then. Guards, hands and hearts
2a
joining.
time down
r- miles per hour.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
90
21
98 The hounds gain 6 rods in every They must therefore run as
many times 2 1 rods as G Therefore 96
^ 6^16.
I'll
ing garland.
will go into 96.
21=o36
weave a gay and fresh bloom-
I'ods.
With
l\lies
And
SAveet,
To give
o © d e G ®
e
99.
O © ® 9 e 9 ® O O 100.
He wrote
s
© Q Q Q before
it,
making
it six.
and roses. blooming posies, lad
to the
me
my
heart
tells
1 love.
May
the brow of the brave never want a wreath of laurel.
110. ]\lay the trees of liberty flourish round the globe, and every man
May the wings partake of its fruit. of love never lose a feather
101. Live, evil, vile, Levi, veil. 111. Prescription— proscription.
102.
When
the rosy
dawn awaking
Paints with gold the verdant
lawn Flies,
on the wings of time dis-
porting, Sip the sweets
and taste the dawn. Warbling birds the day proclaiming. Singing sweet the lively strain; They forsake their leafy dwell-
112. Bar-gain 113. 1,600
it
makes a ynan
117.
Wave, thou royal purple stream. Gilded by the solar beam In
my
Cheer
goblet sparkling rise.
my heart, and
eyes. spirit
My
fall.
Nature.all her children viewing. Kindly bounteous cares for all.
Museum.
was
Now before you."
118.
106. Pat-ten. 107. Because it is far fetched
and
glad mine
mounts on fancy's
wing, Anointing me a merry king. While I live, Fll lave my pipe. When I'm dead and gone away. Let my drinking partner say A month he reigned, but that
103 Musk-raelon, if your second turned inside out; thus, lem-on. 104. Merry's
gp.
Hand-eL
116.
;
ripe.
No gems which plumed
fortune wears. No drop that hangs from beauty's ears,
Nor the bright
an impression.
stars which night's blue vault adorn. Nor rising suns that gild the
Sweet are the rosas that bloom by yon fountain,
vernnl morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that breaks
full of nonsense
108.
109
= 50.
114. Tanner.
To secure the golden grain. See content the humble gleaner Picks the scattered ears that
105. "
502x16 =
32
115. Because
ing.
is
-f-
40,000
Make
And
sweet are the cowslips that spangle the grove. And sweet is the breeze that blows o'er the mountains But sweeter by far is the lad that I love. ;
For other's woe down
manly
virtue's
cheeks.
119. Frankfort-on-the-Maine. 120. Pdb-band.
ANSWERd 121.400-^16
= 25.
0/25
TO PUZZLES
= 5-
135. Early to bed,
arms and 136.
123.
(
(
The native
— 302 = 51.96152 — 402 = 44.72136
v/ 60 V^ 00
and early
to rise.
Makes a man healthy, Wealthy, and wise,
five seconds.
122. Because they have
91
Music awaTcea voice of undissembled
joy.
96.68288. Ans.
And thick around hymns arise.
the woodland
Roused by the cock, the soon-clad 124. 1,785. 125. 'Tis good to tread the church-
yard's walks,
And mark the graves on
either side;
Or where the rough old sexton talks With sheer contempt of human pride
To contemplate the scattered bones That meet the eye so often there To read the inscription on the stones, And think what fleeting things we ;
shepherd Leaves his moissy cottage, where with peace He dwells, and from the crowded folds in
Order drives his verdure of The morn.
flock, to taste
the
137. Friday. 138.
W.
139.
He
are.
good at twilight's sober hour, To sit on some neglected tomb, And dwell on death's all-startling power, And muse upon our certain doom. Because these thoughts are sure to
'Tis
win The spirit more or
less
from
sin.
an earnest
bee-leaver.]
140.
A portrait.
141.
He
142.
The oak— (a-corn).
carries his
own
trunk.
143. Ful-ton.
126. Aching teeth are bad tenants.
144.
Harrow.
145. They are four-sighted (foresighted).
127. Patch-work. 128.
is
A draft.
129. It
is
good for nothing
till it is
146. Because the cart is before tlie horse.
cracked. 147.
Harrow.
shaved him.
148.
A
131 Because they blacken the face cf Washington.
149. Because
130.
132.
When
The
figure
133. Certainly *'
spotitaneuus
brother
his
is
Jacob
8.
;— Webster
:
A
152.
applicable to ani-
living sinner's transgres134 sion procured damnation. dying Redeemer's passion purchased salvation.
it
makes
ire fire.
150. (Arithmetical Puzzle.)
151. Rats
says
mals destitute of reason."
A
book.
—tars—arts—stars.
When
it is sat-in.
153. Sarsaparilla. 154.
XI
divided
—
Dr. Townsend. gives six.
IX
divided in the same way, gives four, 155.
The
letter 0.
ANSWEE8 TO PUZZLES
92 166.
The one was Maid of Orleans,
the other was
made
175.
They secure (seek your) monfij
of chittim wood. 176. Fowl, owl, wolf.
157. Sunshine
and shadow. 177.
Mar, ram, arm.
158. Pen-knife. 178. Itbreaks the kernel (colonel)
159. (Leap Frog.) 179. Windmill. 160. Bed-ford. 161.
C—R
180.
Always
181.
AduUam
182.
The chin-chilla
in
floxir.
(Seer).
162. I ate nothing
(a dull lamb).
Monday (chilly).
163. 183. She is miss-taken
and miss*
led.
184. Because three scruples
make
a dram 185.
The ball-room.
186.
When
187.
Co-nun-dram
it
back-bilee.
188. Log-book.
«
•
•
•
•
189.
164. for
you
Be see
not too wise, nor over nice,
what a
fool
you
be.
The shoe—U.
166.
He
is
fed from a loft.
167.
He
is
bride-led.
190. It is but D sent, as you 8e«, If you 500 send, lent 'twill be. But truly
When you
One ought
to wait fer tea.
171. MOW. TITM. WXD. THUB. FBI. BAT. a f p a im
the 40 lend.
191.
Awheel.
192.
He presses them with a
193.
The moon.
194.
One that needs darning.
195.
Ann,
For every grain they give a
169. Pondicherry. 170.
^hand
XL
165.
168. peck.
Hannah
goose.
sir.
196. Elliptical— a-lip-ticklei
SUIT.
abcladglakn ae laho
defjbehlblobfmbip bdn bgk
ghi|cmp|cficgn|cdk chl ceo klm f k o dhm d ojeran d p nopli Inlegphkpjfg gmojh f n 1
i
197. B-o-y. 198.
Mate
— (eat-meat-at-tea)
1
199. In-co-he-rent.
172. Bible.
200.
Amen, name, mean,
173. 125.
201. Grog-shop. 174. Because without or it makes life a lie.
lie,
it life
is
a 202. Vela, vale, veal, lave.
ANSWERS TO 203.
233.
Not!
204. In court-ship, as marry-ners.
205
Light-bouse.
206
Sureti-ship.
207. 5
and
PTTZZLBS The
93
tiller.
lion, because he tous, and has a flowing mane (main).
234.
The
Leviathan, because he swallows up the rivers.
'
235.
The buU, because he hellowt The whale, because he blows,
236.
The
7.
208. Candle-stick.
ass,
because he brays. horse, because a
Dr. Pott's
209. Me-lo-di-ons.
Pott he carries. 210. The one is careless and happy, the other is hairless and cappy. 211.
/X—cross the /, it makes XX.
212. Lie.
it pierces
hearts.
rooster, because
he pieJa
238. 1, 3, 9, 27, are the weights of the several pieces. 239.
213. Pea-cock. 214. Because
237. The and crows.
A tur-key.
240. It gobblers.
is
generally patronized
by
215. Child-hood. 241. In the grov J.
216. In earnest (in her nost). 242.
217. Friend-ship. 218. Cayenne (K. N.).
known by
219.
He
220.
They are C D.
221.
is
Good
He
flourishes his fan behind
him.
his bark.
for nothing
222. Neva, nave, vane.
223. Shake-speare.
243. 1st, 7.36. 08. 244.
246.
224. Because
225. It has eyes behind
3d, 23.
C-and-y— candy.
245. Because we them here (hear).
can not make
A steel pen. steel pen I think. made a blunder
The weapon's a Unless I've
makes Pa-pay.
it
2d, 9.56.
^
When
Hatchet dips it in the ink, stand from under. " Old lady"— quotha! think of that
I'd like to
—
My goodness heart- alive you, Mr. Hatchet—flat I'm scarcely sixty-five.
226. Pea-cock.
I tell
227. 7
and
5.
22& In the ground.
247.
He has many
cast-oflf
bowa
(beaux).
229
From
the tree. 248.
230. Because she shows her flowirg sheets.
He
is
a well re(a)d man.
249. 804,247,552 square inches
231.
Moon and
stars.
250. Because c-and-y
282.
Meat
—at—mat— team)
251.
(eat
The
eye.
q[)ell
candy
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES,
94
XL
X IX X IX
252. S I
SIX
253. Because it (certainty).
is
He
275.
L is
a certain
a ma'
is
He
stiff.
a5f 5 the deer (dear) never chased (chaste). 276.
eft
and
tie
277. Because he 278.
254. 8, 12, 20, 5.
is
a pup-pet.
He must be bom on
the 29tlx
of February. 255.
To the gallows
256.
The earth and firmament.
279. 56 quarts difference.
280. 99| 257. Because he busts (bursts).
makes
faces
and 281. Lightning.
258. Because they "devoured widows' houses."
282.
$15, and boots.
283. Against his will.
259. Pond-i-cherry.
284.
260. Cross you are, cross you be. Cross, too cross, you are for
whipping,
= a rod.
285. 16^
me.
286.
261. Because the lions could not eat him. 262. (See-saw.)
A
He
about to
is
287. Forty
fall.
have
horses
80 fore
legs.
263. Hi-lo. 264. It places the present before the past (saw).
288. Come, ye ingenious ones, this riddle guess,
(see)
not
It is
difficult,
you
will
confess. "
What
265. Because there is a 6 in both.
if
may be buoy, tour,
266. Obscurity, in which
found sour, Btory, crust.
orb,
city, sty, sot,
orbit,
rust,
rut,
You
He was 30 years
that
number which,
on
divide. then will nothing leave either side ?
The number -8-
bust, 289.
267.
is
you
The alphabet.
old.
290.
N NE
291.
The year, 12 months, 30 days, night and morning, black anJ
I
268. Exe-te-r. 269. (Deaf •
270.
271
When
and dumb alphabet.)
white.
they are fingered.
Day and
292.
night.
272. Camp-belL
273.
The
letter
M.
tree.
K
10. Date, 11. BaiJ.
2.
Hop
3.
Beech.
4.
Bee.
Honeysuckle, Judas. 14. Peach.
India-rubber.
16. Fir.
5.
274. he told the truth, he lied; if he lied, he told the truth. He lied. If he did lie, he wonld not say so
The Tea
1.
vine.
6. Bay-k
12.
13.
16.
Bon
Chretien.
7.
Pine.
8.
Yew cYoUjiiot I).
17. Broom. 18. Cypress
9.
Fig.
19.
Nightshade
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES maid
Brcadfniit. Orange (0range). Olive (0-live).
mist.
306. Because
Boneset. Birch.
Hound.
Damson.
Lime. Linden.
Slippery elm.
Medlar.
Box
Will-o
Dogwood.
Man-go.
Aspen.
Sandal. Holly
Rose.
Clove. 56. Coffee
Sloe.
Plane. Tulip. Spruce.
Palm.
elm (helm). Sycamore.
pen). 59.
Poplar.
(cof-
Aspen
Vitse (tree of life).
ball.
The
ashes.
Hazel.
Laurel. Locust.
Lilac.
Silver.
Elder. Cork.
Woodbine. Mace.
295. 'Twas the
fir
ma' meant.
They are dissolved in
A
Cole-ridge.
314.
A
Dry-den.
315. Their king
was A-gag.
318.
The
last
319.
The
stoop.
320.
When
mar-
321.
They are without dooML
A jail
300.
IX — SIX.
bird.
301. He is an poverished.)
will see love you. If you love me.
shed. (Im-
out.
I— 0— W, T,
it
Read down and up.
How
rhey leave them
"
it is a-jar.
And you .
imp over a
Insert
two (money).
322. A-gate. 323.
299.
The adder.
317. A-hi-tub.
light.
298. Too (2) great ease before inage, too little ease after it.
S04.
3U. Dry-den.
316.
297. Newman Goodman went to Qxe tailor to have his coat mended.
803.
310. (Christmas tree.)
tree, or 67. Vino.
294. It is in a good frame of mind.
302.
fire.
312.
makes Iowa.
Are— A-re-a.
"
Iota.
324. It
825.
I
\a sold.
He
a>
up a brawl, or an alarm
309. Get
313. Long-fellow.
293. Herschell (her shell).
296.
308. Beat a base-drum, or grind hand-organ.
of
Arbor
Scrub oak. Burning bush
307. Mr. Dashwood, being at the point of death, sent for his friends They sent for Dr and relatives. Childs, who inclosed a few lines to Dr. Barnes and imp-lo-red his assisBut before he arrived, the tance. invalid died, and the undertaker sent for.
(as
Southernwood 60. Tallow, snowIvy.
can't climb a tree.
it
wm
fee).
57. Tiller-tree or 58.
Smoke
305. Leg-horn.
the
o'
95
is
a
little better,
326. It
is
due
327. It
is
a letter of blood.
328.
The
329.
He
letter
gives
it
A.
up
;
ANSWERS
96
TO PUZZLES.
880. They are the candid 8 (candidate) of their party. 331.
Down
mouth. from A-ram.
364.
in the
332. Descended
S3o.
Under a pear (pair) Under a hop- vine.
836. Because he
is
—hate—hatch.
Hat
366.
A
367.
The one close their eyes. The other eye their clothes
tree.
369.
The Of
The letters. 338. First, they were not inclined to prey, and afierwards they were
" " ' " "
Tovtii-owa.
840.
makes Tents
He rifles the deer (dear). One child from two parents children from two pa-
341. Cab-in.
342. 2 and 2
344.
When he
345.
A
He
in
rags old
is
«'
gives
it
bend. bin.
brags. bold.
bone.
always on the spot,
up."
heir (air).
851. It has breathed into
it
the
life.
A soap-bubble. A clock.
354.
He
make would make
I
did, sir.
-
cot
-
coat
*'
gin
-
gain.
«
cub
-
Cuba.
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him Merry's Museum. 374. Let him subscribe for Merry*i Museum, and always pay in advance. is
always expected with
interest.
y
The " lap" is the place where infanii^ repose. And " tea" is a plant that we use ; To " Parley" 's to treat by word, I suppoe* And " pear" is a fruit we all choose. ' Many youth like " to eat," I'm afraid, 876.
feel pleasure. if.
a
lie.
Italy.
357. He may keep a watch, but he can't tell the time of day. 358. The gong makes a din. The cook makes a dinner. 869. One-sided, sir.
Once
her
near. hear.
yond measure.
356. He carries his reins (heart) in bis hand.
— oak— coal—lock.
860. Cloak 361. Wood. 362. 301.
/
to Joab. -
And part of the head is the " ear," And what is more common than, when
gets wet.
S55. It would
hina.
373. Give
375. It
They are more airy. 350. The boy can see his shadow, The shadow can't see him.
349.
353.
changed Job " "
fly.
is his
bell.
biU.
The groom curries him; The dog bites him, The groom bits him. 372. The letter A.
reel.
the butter
It
" " « " « "
end
made Ner
The shade on the dial. 347. They are the grub that makes
352.
370.
It
346.
breath of
makes
ill,
" one
The ploughshare.
348. It
letter B. ell, it
371. The dog worries
3.
Two make 4.
343.
step farther.
368. A-dri-atic.
a deer.
337.
339.
when
365. Chair.
333. There are more rakes than beaux there.
334.
363. In the Eastern wars, elephants were employed.
Or grief, to give vent to a " tear." " Peter Parley" 's distinguished I'm sure a writer. And welcom'd by all with a smile And surely no book is a greater exciter Than this, which goes many a mile.
i
377. It is cheap at any price. 378. Merry's Museum. 379. It instructs and amuses chU dren. ^ 380. The one suffered wantonly, The other from want only. 381. Her-ring. 382. Because it contains valuaU articles, wood-cuts, etc.
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EDITED BY ROBERT MERRY.
NEW YORK: THOMAS O'KANE, PUBLISHER, .130
NASSAU STREET.
Republished by
The Pencil Puzzle Connection http://www.pencilpuzzles.com/ © Treasures Beyond Measure 2009
PEEFAOE. ri^HE "^
innumerable readers of Merry's
with
many
familiar faces, lighted
Museum
will here
up by pleasant
meet
smiles,
and
hear the same old jovial laughter that greeted them in the olden time.
Our motto is that of our noble State will see that
we have
—" Excelsior
Our readers
I"
not buried the talents of our contributors ia
napkins—but seek to bring them out into the bright day For Genius —like the lamp ef Aladdin—needs constant polishing to bring out :
its
lustre
and
Our
full effect.
object has been to instruct
by smiles
—not
the dear hearts of the young girlhood and boyhood
among
the necessary thorns of existence.
pages to
make
the sad
happy
—
^the
happy
frowns; to cheer ;
to strew flowers
In a word, we try in these still
happier.
Hence, pure fun will be found as beautiful in these pages, as hoa* ey amid the flowers of Hybla.
Robert Merry.
Robert Merry
to his friends
A kindly greeting sends, With a general assortment
of questional
Conundrums, Charades, Puzzles, Riddles of all shades.
And Rebuses, as aids To intellectual and social digestion. If the
young Merry host
Acquaintance should boast.
Or kindred,
or authorship pat.
With some
of our jokes.
We confess—('tis no hoax)— To amuse
We
other folks,
have riddled the Museum
Now we beg you you happen
If
to
"Chat.**
will show.
know.
Why the Editor, painstaking soul ? Is like the cold
storm
Which, in climates bright and warm.
Where Come
gallinippers swarm.
shivering
down from
the pole t
MERRY'S HOOK OF PUZZLES.
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memmom
I
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6
Who
3.
Bible, 4. 5. 6.
man 7.
prolongs his work to as great a length as podand still completes it in time ?
Why are young ladies like arrows Why is a philanthropist like an old horse How can five persons divide five eggs, so 1
and
shall receive one,
How many
still
*
that each one remain in the dish!
soft-boiled eggs could the giant Goliah
eat upon an empty stomach 8.
What
9.
Two fathers have
fishes
?
have
?
their eyes nearest together
each a square of land.
?
One
father
divides his so as to reserve to himself one-fourth in tho
form of a square
;
thus
Tr:e other father divides his so as to reserve to himself,
one-fourth in the form of a triangle
;
thus ]
They each have four
among
sons,
and each divides the remainder
way that each son will share equally with his brother, and in similar shape. How his sons in such a
were the two farms divided ?
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merry's book of puzzles.
8
TVhat is that wliich but never eaten ?
12. cut,
13.
is
i
often brought to table, often
f
Mv first is four-sixths of a step that is long, My second is a person of state My whole is a thing that is known to be wrong, ;
And 14.
Why
a strong
is
my
My second Together
And am
first
you can not
beauteous
I attend
17. 18.
Why Who
19.
There
a
was the is
first
misty morning
arms
that bore
;
the
first
woman, the great woman.
of five letters.
?
?
three refers to
man, the seven a
am a word am the name
20. I
still.
be very wealthy?
in debt like a
first
;
will,
a word of seven letters
man, the
signifies a great
and I
man
to
stand,
command
your humble servant
"Why ought a fisherman is
fair
your
16.
fers to
of hate.
are your nose and chin always at variance?
"Without
15.
symptom
Take away
of what adorns the estate of
two
re-
first
four
my
first^
many
of
Take away my first and second, and I am tlie name of a place where all the world was once congregated. Take away my last, and I am the name of a bear.rifrJ mineral. Take away my two last, and I am the name of a fashionable place of resort. I the nobility of England.
am
small in stature, but capable of doing a great deal of
mischief, as I once did in
London
in the year 1666.
21. Spell eye-water four letters. 22.
23.
24.
Why is swearing like an old coat Why is a thump like a hat Why is an inn like a burial-ground I ?
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pmM iCOMES
THEYGAVEiyVE jira.'.lr'rt)\lihhiflifcA^r!!!:m!taiT
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10
27. If a fender cost six dollars,
come
it
to
what
will a ton of coal
?
28.
What word
will
make
29.
My
80.
What
that to
is
shorter
it
which
if
yoa add a
syllable,
?
first is a very uncomfortable state, In cold weather it mostly abounds. My second's an instrument formed of hard steel, That will cause the stout foe to stagger and reel, And when used, is a symptom of hate. My whole is an author of greatest renown, Whose fame to the last day of time will go down.
the world
the longest and yet the shortest thing in
is
the swiftest and yet the slowest
the most and the most extended the least valued and the most regretted without which nothing can be done which devours every thing, however small, and yet gives life and spirits to every object, however great? ;
divisible
;
;
;
My first
31,
is
found in every house.
From wintry winds
My
second
is
it
guards.
the highest found
In every pack of cards.
My
whole, a Scottish chief,
By
Who
for his
And, dying, 32. 83.
Why Why
fell
life,
with glory.
handsome women
are is
praised
is
and storv, country gave his
ballad, bard,
an avaricious
man
like
bread
like
?
one with a short
memory? 34. is
What
there 85.
river in Bavaria answers the question.
Who
?
Why
is
a
an even bargain
man ?
with wooden legs like one
who haa
hobby's book of pi/zzles.
11
Id
Why is
38.
What
39.
more
tliau
a parish bell like a good story
belongs to yourself, yet
is
f
used by others
yourself ?
camps about the centre I appear In smiling meadows seen throughout the year; The silent angler views me in the streams,
40. In
And
all
must trace me
in their
morning dreams
y
mob
conspicuous I stand. Proud of the lead, and ever in command.
First in the
41. The head of a whale is six feet long his tail is as long as his head and half his body, and his body is half of his whole length. How long is the whale ? ;
A
hundred stones are placed, in a straight line, a 42. yard distant from each other. How many yards must a person walk,
them
who undertakes
in a basket stationed
Is useful
44. I ;
am
my
a
an
syllables,
article in
a useful 45.
47.
stone
is
each of which
common
an animal of uncommon intelligence
46.
lirst
1
by day and by night.
word of three
first is
not an animal, is
them up, and place
My first is a part of the day, My last a conductor of light. My whole to take measure of time,
43.
word
to pick
one yard from the
;
use
my
is
second,
third,
though whole
used in carrying burdens.
My
art.
There was a man who was not born, His father was not born before him, He did not live, he did not die. And his epitaph is not o'er him.
Why is a nail, fast Why dees a miller
in the wall, like
an old
wear a white hat?
a
my
;
man ?
MEBBT
8
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
40.
miiHi
13
meeet's book of puzzles.
14 60.
My
a letter commanding to wed, your sole till it reaches your head Nothing worth as a whole, it is plain to all men That divided in halves, it is equal to ten
Or
first is
to lift
My second, though
nothing, compared to the other,
Is
worth more as a partner than
It
moans and
it
sighs,
its
double-faced brother;
and when joined
to
my
first,
Pronounces the doom of the sinner accursed.
My
third,
On
the worth and position of neighbors and friends,
you
will find his
whole value depends
And, when both the other two following fair, Changes doom to desire, and a curse to a prayer.
My
though it formeth no part of a hundred, it can justly and evenly be sundered; found in the elements everywhere present, found in all seasons, unploisant or pleasant, the chief of all lands, and yet can not wait
fourth,
Shows where 'Tis 'Tis 'Tis
On
continent, hemisphere, empire, or state.
Though
ne'er in Great Britain suspected to lower^
each quarter of that mighty power always belonged to the animal race. In the mineral kingdom they gave it a place, A.nd, being impartial, they could not deny,
'Tis the heart of It
The vegetable order
And
its
virtue to try
yet, since creation, it
In beast, bird, or
My whole Or grown
fish, root,
you'll find
never was known branch, stem, or stone.
growing
in pasture
and barns,
carpets,warm blankets, and yarns. In England, in Saxony, France, and old Wales, And in sundry more places it always prevails. Of quadrupedal origin still it is known In bipedal families oft to be shown ; [tions in coats,
—
But the strangest of all Is
its strange forms and condiseen in the covering of sage politicians.
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What
is
that
54:.
When
is
a boat like a knife
65.
What
53.
Bight
which
but never out of
invisible,
is
?
part of
London
is in
?
.<
France
i
67.
How many black beans will make five white Why is a dandy like a haunch of venison
58.
What
56.
ones?
?
kin
own son
father's
59.
Why
60.
What
that child to
is
its
father
who
a rose-bud like a promissory note
is
is
not
its
?
biblical
father calling his son
name
is
?
there which expresses a
by name, and
his son replying
?
61.
Why
is
an orange not like a church bell
62.
Why
is
the largest city in Ireland likely to be the
largest city in the world
?
63. Three-fourths of a cross,
An
Two
What
65.
Why
eQ. G. a.
circle complete. ?
should doctors attend to window-sashes ?
^
What
68. Spell
What ?
and a
smells most in a drug shop
is
that
one can see where
69.
circle complete,
triangle standing on feet,
semicircles,
64.
supper
and a
upright where two semicircles meet,
A rectangle
67.
?
which every one can divide, but no
it
has been divided
hard water with three letters of
the
?
letters.
alphabet come too late
for)
MERBY
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BOOK OF PUZZLES.
17
merry's book of puzzles.
18 72.
as one letter, and written with three, are, and two only in me ; there Two letters I'm black, blue, and gray, single, I'm double, I'm
Pronounced
am read from both ends, and the same either way, restless and wandering, steady and fixed, am I And you know not one hour what I may be the next. I
I melt,
and I kindle
—beseech, and defy,
watery and moist, I am fi«ry and dry. scornful and scowling, compassionate, meek light, I am dark, I am strong, I am weak. I'm piercing and clean, I an?, heavy and dull Expressive and languid, contracted and full.
I am I am I am
I'm a globe and a mirror, a window, a door, An index, an organ, and fifty things more. I belong to all animals under the sun. And to those who were long understood to have none.
My language And
is
plain,
though
it
can not be heard,
I speak without even pronouncing a word.
Some
call
me
a diamond
Others talk of
my
—some say I am jet
water, or
how
I
am
set.
I'm a borough in England, in Scotland a stream. And an isle of the sea in the Irishman's dream. The earth without me would no loveliness wear, And sun, moon, and stars at my wish disappear.
Yet
so frail is
my
That a speck gives 73. to
"What vessel
move 74:.
is
tenure, so brittle
me
that
pain,
which
my joy.
and a drop can destroy. is
always asking leave
?
Translate the following into Latin 42, 8 rocks, e e e e e e e e e e, 46. 2. 14. 8. 0.
75.
How
is it
with a forceps with an awl ?
;
that you can work with an awl, but not while I can work with a forceps, and not
Sierrt's book of puzzles,
19
merbt's book of puzzles.
30 77.
word the master gave to Dick, Dick scratched his head, and looking rather thick, Eeplied, '-''Hereafter it would make it stickP
Add^ was
the
*^Dick," cried the master,
*'
rudeness
is
a sin
;
FU surely put you inP
Behold the stocks, ** That," answered Dick, " won't alter it a feather, Hereafter it would make it hold togetJierP " Dick," said the man, *' if you insult me so, Your shoulders and my rod I'll put in CoP " 'Tis all the same," said Dick, *' my worthy master, Hereafter
would make
it
it stick tJie
faster,
'^^
78.
Why is France
79.
"Why
is
a
80.
Why
is
the hour of noon on the dial-plate like
woodman
pair of spectacles 81.
82.
Why
is
like a skeleton
like a stage actor
the best baker most in
Whether old Homer plain for
it is
want of bread
?
is
not clear
;
—the bard, though wont to roani,
one liquid, never had
left
home.
84. 85.
What two
?
?
not proper 86.
reasons
why
whispering in company
?
My
first is found on the ocean wave. In the spring, the pit, and the mine My second below earth's surface you have, Where seldom the sun can shine.
My
whole your dinner-table must grace, seldom fails to obtain a place.
And 87.
a
tippled wine or beer,
Why is a coward like a mouse-trap Why is green grass like a mouse
83.
?
?
Julep or cider, history
But But
?
Why
is
a gooseberry pie like counterfeit
money
!
is
MEEEY 88.
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BOOK OF PUZZLES.
21
89.
Why
does a fisherman blow his horn
90.
Why
is
?
there no danger of starving in a desert ?
Take half of the needle By which sailors steer
91.
Their ship through the water,
Be
Do
cloudy or clear
it
not really break
This of
But
this
my
makes
it,
first.
thanksgiving or Christmas,
My With
second you see
;
care well compounded,
From
My
it
things were worst
your mind take
in
And At
all
and tree. some people
grain, shrub,
whole
like
Who make great pretense, Of words have a plenty, But no great stock of 92.
How is
when he 93.
it
that Methuselah
sense.
was the
oldest
man,
died before his father ?
My first is
a negative greatly in use, people begin when they mean to refuse; second is Fashion, or so called in France,
By which
My
But, like other whims,
An
article
With
is
always in use
the servant of chance. is
my
whole.
texture and form under fashion's control
But, alas
!
not a thing can
Although many have four
it
see which goes by,
sights,
and
all
have one
eye. 94.
What
is
that which, supposing
its
to be four inches, length nine inches,
inches, contains a solid foot
?
greatest breadth
and depth three
MEBEY 95.
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24
My
96.
tongue
And
My
voice
And
is
long,
my
yet I breed no
breath
you hear both
yet I have no
is
strong,
strife
and near,
far
life.
A
waterman rows a given distance, a, and back 97. again in h hours, and finds that he can row c miles with the current, for d miles against it. Required, the time of rowing down, the time of rowing up, the rate of '^urrftnty and the rate of rowing. 98.
As
I
Up
starts
was beating on the
far east grounds,
my
a hare before
two greyhounds
The dogs, being light of foot, did fairly run, To her fifteen rods, just twenty-one And the distance that she started up before, Was six-and-ninety rods, just and no more ; Now, I would have you Merry boys declare ;
How far 99. Is
it
they ran, before they caught the hare.
possible to put twelve pieces of
rows, and have four in a
row
money
in six
?
A
100. gentleman sent a servant with a present of nine ducks, with this direction " To Alderman Gobble, with ix. ducks."
The servant took out
three,
and contrived
direction corresponded with the
number
How
neither erased uor altered a letter. 101.
Four
As
letters all
form
who
me
it
so that the
of the ducks.
did he do
quite complete,
breathe do show
Reversed, you'll find I
am
the seat
Of infamy and woe. Transposed, you'll see I'm base and mean, Again of Jewish race ;
Transposed once more, I
To hide a lovely
face.
oft
am
seen
Hs it I
MEKKY'S BOOK OF PUZZLES. 102.
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mebkt's book of puzzles.
fJO
My
name
an article given For ladies and dandies to put on their linen ; It comes from the forest, I've heard people say.
103.
And
My
the
first is
made from
is
second
The juice of mouth
the skin of an animal gay.
fruit that
a
is
to
sour,
it is
comes from the South, and 'twill pucker your
;
candy shops all over the town, And, stranger to say, it is almost round. 'Tis foHind in
My
whole
is
an article that is often seen fields almost covered with green;
In the gardens and It is
And
My
104.
very sweet, and also pleasant to eat, in hot summer days affords a rich treat. first is
half of
second makes sense of cry of a kitten
bined
;
my
my
;
my
fourth
what implies good-humor; first is
;
my
a consonant and vowel com-
with the addition of the initial of
fifth,
would imply silence and boys and girls prize liighly.
third,
;
105. I
am composed
My "
106. if
2, 8, 9, is
my
whole
is
my
what many
of twelve letters.
dug out of the numeral
a substance
6, 11, 12, 8, is
a
earth.
an ancient instrument of war. former times. a vowel.
*'
4, 2, 3, is
" " " "
12, 8, 1, is a vessel used in 5, is
my
third sounds like the
4, 7, 1, 9, is a
10, 9,
is
hard substance.
a pronoun.
My whole is now before you. My first is appropriate, my second
you guess
it.
'tis nine to one ^[y whole elevates the sole above the
earth.
107.
"Why
108.
What do we
is
a conundrum like a all
do when we
monkey first
?
^et into bed
?
MEERT 109.
110.
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BOOK OF PUZZLES.
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merkt's book of puzzles.
28
111. There is
one word in the English language which harm ; change a in it, and you make it "an act of cruelty. is
universally considered a preventive of
certain letter 112.
My
may be
first
And
fashioned of iron or wood,
window
or door for safety is placed ; In village or town it does more harm than good, Leading people their health, time, and money at
to waste.
My
second's a lady, bewitching and
And Will
fair,
and strive ; dawn, and be wearied with care,
for love of her people will labor
rise before
And
My
pursue her with ardor as long as they live. whole is what ladies admire and approve.
— — the purchaser's prize
The shopkeeper's boast
;
ninepenny chintz 'tis a one-shilling glove is something which makes people open their
'Tis a It
eyes.
113.
At what
distance must a
body have
quire the velocity of 1,600 feet per second 114.
Of
115.
Why
116-
My
w^hat trade is
is
the sun in
fallen to ac-
?
May?
a small horse like a young rausk-melon
first
With
must grace a legal deed. companion, firm and red
its
;
help in marriage, too, they need, Before the blessing can be said.
Its
My
second half a hundred
If in the shortest
is.
way you
spell
You soon must guess me after this, I may as well the secret tell.
My
whole, by his celestial strains
Bears the rapt soul to worlds above
The Great
And
Creator's
tells
power proclaims,
of the Kedeemer's love.
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MEBBY
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
29
117.
118.
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a boy's nickname my second is meant my third is a preposition my fourth is one of My articles; my fifth is one of the United States.
119.
My
first is
;
for defense;
the
whole
is
;
a large city in Europe.
My
120.
stationed near your heart,
first is
And
serves to brace the mortal frame
Of young and
And
Who
to fair
old
it
builds a ship
To give
it
And Adam
forms a part,
woman
gives a name.
must
it
employ,
strength to stem the
fl.ood,
no real joy Till in ne\F form by him it stood. My second may be long or short, Or tight or loose, or wet or dry. Of cotton, silk, or woolen wrought, Of any texture, strength, or dyefelt
Be made of iron, gold, or steel, Of love or hate, of good or ill,
May gently bind, or heavy feel, May give support, or rudely kill.
My
whole
And what
formed by fashion, skill, and care, few ladies from their dress can spare.
is
121. How long would a ball be falling, from the top of a tower that was 400 feet high, to the earth ? 122.
Why
123.
The
Bame
are chairs like
men ?
foot of a ladder 60 feet long remaining in the
place, the top will just reach a
on one side of the other side.
How
street,
wide
is
window 40
and another 30 the street
feet
feet high high on the
?
124. There is a pile of cannon-balls, the ground tier of which contains 289 balls, and the top tier one ball. Require the whole number of balls in a pile.
mekby's book of puzzles. 125.
Jt
BAD
^^^^
31
merry's book of puzzles.
32 127.
What
skillful
housewife does not
When, where
When
to place
nicely done,
Conspicuous,
first
will not
it
it is
my
know ?
show
worst.
My
second all the world must do, Either with head or hand, In different ways the same pursue,
On
water, or on land.
My whole
a picture
of
is
life,
Varied with good or ill. With bright or dull, with light or dark, Arrano^ed with art and skill. 128.
What
cure the cold
that
is
129.
Why
130.
When did
131.
Why do
is
will
make you catch cold-^ bill?
a joke like a cocoa-nut
true Americans 132.
which
— and pay the doctor's
?
Esau, the hairy man, lose his whiskers!
postmasters deserve the execration of
all
?
my head and tail, middle slender as can be, Whether I stand on head or heel, 'Tis all the same to you or me. But if my head should be cut off. The matter's true, although 'tis strange, My head and body, severed thus. Immediately to nothing change Just equal are
My
133. If a loafer,
on his upper liv
134r.
A
smoking a
lip, is it
sin
ing
cigar, sets fire to the
procur damn ed ation. salv pa purchas
transgre ers
dy Kedeem
brush
a case of spontaneous combustion?
ssion
MERBT
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
135.
^^ 3
MAKES E&W
136.
137.
What 2*
sailors dread.
83
MEKEY
34:
138.
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
S
IV.
I.
Go wide o'er the world, And everj^ where seek me
In whirlwinds I revel,
In earth, sea, or
I flourish in
Thou never
Go
meet me
shalt
am
!
world
w-ide o'er the
I always
Yet
air,
there
"Wherever thou roamest,
In earth, sea, or
air
!
in
And
zephyrs expire
The winter I cherish. Yet each season I shun Half living in harvest, In summer, undone V.
ir.
Go speak to the woodland, And question of me Oh ne'er shall thou lind me, With
forest or tree
Go, speak
to the
am
there.
I
ever
And
come with
the warlock go with the ghoul I shriek w^ith the wizard I hoot with the owl I ride on the hazel Which witches have rent I fly on the wing Which the eagle hath bent. I
I
—
I
!
woodland,
live in its wliispers,
Though
lighter than air
!
ni.
VI.
Go, winnow the wave,
And
seek for
my
Ah, ocean and
breath
!
—
!
139.
Why
140.
I
go
Oft unseen and unsought I perish in thought.
So
and to each, you adieu Yet to all and to each, to all
I bid
;
I stay double with
you
the boy that disturbs a hive like a true
is
which has eyes and sees not, ears nose and smells not, yet is often regarded
is
not,
that
as the heau-ideal of a 141.
come and
1
What
and hears
I
I live but in words
river.
Reveal but my death Go, winnow the wave, Tho' with winter it shiver There there shalt thou find [me, 'Mid ocean and river
Christian
warmth.
I perish in fire
Why
is
human
being.
the elephant his
own
servant
?
JfEKRY
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
39
LEAP FROG 159. This is a most excellent pastime. It should be played in a
spacious place, out of doors, if possible, and
the
more there
are en-
gaged in it, provided they be of the same height and agility, the better
the sport.
is
will suppose a at play
:
—Let
We
dozen eleven
them stand
in a row, about six yards
of
apart,
with
all
their
arms folded, or their hands resting on their thighs, their elbows in, and their heads bent forward, so that the chin of each rests on his breast, the right foot advanced, the back a little bent, the shoulders rounded, and the body firm. The last begins the sport by taking a short run, placing his hands on the shoulders of the nearest player, and leaping with their assistance faces in one direction,
of course, springing with his feet at the same time his head, as represented in the cut.
—over
Having cleared the
he goes on to the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc., in and as speedily as possible. When he has gone over the last, he goes to the proper distance, and places himself in position for all the players to leap over him in their turn. The first over whom he passed, follows him over the second, third, fourth, etc. ; and when he has gone over, the one who begun the game places him-
first,
succession,
for the others to
jump over him. The
third follows the second, and so on
until the parties are
self in like
tired.
maaner
merry's book of puzzles.
iO
160. His heart
When With
and his
sad,
foot
travel faint, as the night
He had And he And he The
was
was
sore,
a stranger knocked at the cottager's door; fell
down,
missed his wa-y to the nearest town, prayed for water to quench his thirst, showed his purse as he asked for my first,
was moved by the
cotter
stranger's tale.
He
spread the board, and he poured the ale: " The river," he said, " flows darkly down Betwixt your path and the lighted town.
And far from hence its stream is crossed By the bridge on the road that you have Gold may not buy,
lost
your weary feet Have traversed the river and reached the street. The thing you ask but the wandering moon Will be out in the sky with her lantern soon Then cross o'er the meadow, and look to the right, And you'll find my second by her light." My second shone like a silver floor, When the traveler passed from the cotter's door; He saw the town on its distant ridge. Yet he sighed no more for the far-off bridge; And his wish of the night soon gained its goal, For he found mj first when he reached my whole. till
;
;
161.
What two
162. I 8
letters of the
alphabet
make a prophet f
^fy_
163. Plant an orchard of twenty-one trees, so that there shall
be nine straight rows, with
five trees in
each row,
the outline a regular geometrical figure, and the trees at unequal distances from each other.
nor
164.
for U B yy-^ nice •'•'
c
what a
fool
u
b.
all
mebbt's book of puzzles.
165. "What part of the liorse resembles you
166.
Why
is
a horse like the prophet Elijah
167.
Why
is
a
168.
Why
is it
new married man profitable to
4:1
1
?
like a horse
keep fowl
f
?
169. My first is a collection of water used when speaking of myself; mj third whole is a town in Hindostan. ;
my is
second
a fruit;
is
my
Thomas," said Charles, " you are good at figme o. figurative answer to this question: What ought one to do who arrives at a friend's hous<^
170.
*'
ures, please give
—
too late for dinner?"
Thomas, 1028,40.
after thinking a little,
What was his meaning ?
wrote the following—
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
4^
A
teacher, having fifteen young ladies under Kei wished them to take a walk each day of the week. They were to walk in five divisions of three ladies each, but no two ladies were to be allowed to walk together twice during the week. How could they be arranged to suit the above conditions ?
171.
care,
172.
My
first is
a letter, an insect, a word,
That means
My 'Tis
My My My
next
is
to exist
;
The
moves
like a bird.
found in all climes search where you oan. is a something seen in all brawls. next you will find in elegant halls. ;
third
last is the first of the last part of
Is ever in earnest, yet
My
it
a letter, a small part of man,
day,
never in play.
whole gives a light, by some men abhorred, blessings from which no pen can record.
173. What number is that, which, added separately to 100 and 164, shall make them perfect squares ? 174.
Why
is
175.
Why
are mortgages like burglars
176.
the letter
F
like death
?
?
Fm composed of letters four, A turkey, cock, or hen ;
Behead me, and I upward Put on my head again.
soar.
Transpose me, then a beast I am,
Both bloodthirsty and wild. That preys on many a helpless lamb, And oft devours a child. 177. I
am
or injure. again, I
am
a word of three letters, signifying to spoil Transposed, I am an animal. Transposed
a part of the
human
frame.
mekby's book of puzzles,
178.
"Why
is
43
which
a grist-mill like the court-martial
cashiered Fremont? 179.
I
I
to
have wings, yet never fly I have sails, yet never go— can't keep still, if I try, Yet forever stand just so.
180.
Why
181.
What
Scripture character
182.
What
animal that always has a cold chin
keep the 183.
is
a grist-mill like an orange-tree
ladies' chins
What two
altar is certainly
184.
Why
reasons
What
is it
is
why
was a stupid sheep is
?
used
?
a young lady going to the
going wrong ? dangerous
moro than two reasons 185.
warm
?
for
a
teetotaler to
for the faith that is in
him
have
i
the most cheerful part of an arsenal?
meeby's book of puzzles.
44 186.
"Wheu does the tougue assume the functious of
the teeth 187.
?
My
company, my second third calls company.
first is
my An emblem
pany, and 188.
My Up
first
is
without com-
of stupidity,
found
in forests
in air oft rises high,
Though fastened to the ground, But by sharp means it is removed, And managed various ways ;
By
art or skill
may be improved,
it makes a blaze. second is of every kind, Is good, or bad, or gay Is dull or bright, to suit all minds. By night as well as day. The patient seaman keeps with care my whole, And well it knows his secrets night and day; And though it has no tongue, nor heart, nor soul, It tells the story of the ship's long way.
Or, perhaps,
My
;
189. There
is
a word of six
letters at either end,
make one 190.
of the most useful
Tell
me why
forty dollars to a friend.
is it, if
What
if five
is
that
the body.
you lend
does your kindness more
Than
Take oft three and it will
letter,
members of
But It
191.
letters.
and add another
commend
hundred you should send
which
is less
?
tired the longer
it
runs?
192. Why is a tailor finishing your pants like a polite host serving his guests with water-fowl ?
What was a month old weeks old now ?
193. five
at Cain's birth, that is not
meeet'b book of puzzles
194.
What
stocking
45
looks worse on a lady's foot than a darned
?
195.
Which
196.
What is
197.
My
of the girls can answer questions best! the shape of a kiss
first is
?
a busy industrious thing,
Without which no bundle your porter can bring
My
;
second is nothing to speak of, yet stands For thousands and millions, in money or lands ; My third is a question we meet every day, Relating to things we do, think, or say My whole is the questioner once it was yon, If not, 'twas your brother, or cousin, or whew I It was somebody else whom your grandmother knew.
—
—
ICEBBY
46
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
am composed
198. I
1 4 2 3, 2 3, 3 199.
8
Mj " " " "
We do not 4
of four letters.
2
3,
2.
4:
a preposition. second implies more than one. third is a pronoun. fourth some people do not pay. whole is not consistent. first is
am a word of four letters often used in prayer. Transposed, I become what every one professes. Transposed agaiu, I become an adjective, the qualities of which every one despises.
200. I
am
Transposed again, I
My
SOL
first is
part of a horse,
poison, slow yet sure,
That preys on
many
frames impure, And called by many names. My first and second form my whole,
Compounded
oft of things
That's one of Satan's dens
Many
;
man
has lost his soul, Through meeting there with friends. a
—
am a word of four letters the name of a Gape. Transposed, I am a portion of the earth's surface. Transposed again, I am a kind of meat.
202. I
Transposed again, wash.
=
803. I prove 2
X
=
—
a
;
1,
I
thus
then x'
become a verb signifying to
:
=
ax
= ax — a' (x -h a) (x — a) = a (x — a) X a = a 2 a = a 2 = 1
x'
a'
-f-
Who
will detect the fallacy !
MEBBY
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
'-
204. In wliat ladies like to
305.
sliip,
and
in
47
ffOffTON.
what capacity, do young
engage ?
>
Ethereal thing, on unseen wing,
Through space
my
first is
wandering
;
nothing knows, Yet all that's known and seen it shows. Brick, iron, mnd, stone, reed, or wood,
It
nothing
My second
sees,
it
in all climes has stood
A lodge, a nest, where love Or a
may
rest.
prison, gloomy, dark, unblest.
Away
on the bleak and desolate peak the rude tempests howl and shriek, Like a friendly eye, looking out from the sky. My whole to the wanderer gleams on high.
Where
206.
What
kind of a ship did Solomon object to
t
48 207. There are two the
sum
numbers whose product added to is 109, and the difference of
of their squares
who&e squares
is 24r.
In every hedge
208.
As
my
second
is,
well as every tree,
And when
poor school-boys act amiss,
It often is their fee.
My My
is always wicked, committed sin,
likewise
first
Yet
ne'er
total for
Composed
My
209.
my
third
titude
;
210.
first is
we must
my
whole
What
is
my first
a pronoun all is
the
do
;
Add
212.
What
same time 213.
my
;
tin.
my
fourth
that
is
is
grandmother
?
it
twenty.
which the dead and living do
?
When winter months have passed And summer suns shine bright.
away,
You ope the coffer where I lay. And bring my first to light.
My second is a valiant knight, Who wears his crest and spur, And when he's challenged to He does not long demur.
My
a fight.
whole, as ancient fables say.
Was
once a friend of Juno, In dress he makes a great display His name by this time you know. 814.
not high
a pronoun of mul-
difference between a
one to nine and make is
second
musical.
and her infant grandchild 211.
is fitted.
of brass or
Why
is
a bullet like a tender glance?
at the
215.
When innocence first had its dwelling on earth, In my first's lovely form it alighted And still to this time, from the hour of its birth. In my first it has greatly delighted. ;
My second's a Yet on age Again,
'tis
part of a smart lady's dress, it
may
a garb
And my whole 216.
Why
also be found
when
;
the heart feels distress
does with pleasure abound.
are children at play like a bird in hernest?
3
meeky's booe: of pttzzles.
50
My
male or female, young or old, you are forced to doubt one; Much must we pity the false heart or cold, "Who is so selfish as to live without one. My second is a noble work of art, Which brings together distant shores and lands;
217.
first is
'Tis very sad if
Though
neither feet
it
'Tis often furnished
has, nor head, nor heart, with a hundred hands.
My
whole in youth or age, sickness or health, life can give; Without it, all in vain are hoards of wealth,^ In joy or sorrow, charms to
By
unblest in solitude
it
we
live.
218.
What
219. 220.
Why is a dog like a tanner Why are A B's successors seedy?
221.
What
spice are the
Hindoos fond of? ?
222. I
nothing good for
is
am composed
?
of four letters
— the — the
initials
of the principal personages in Europe river in Russia
;
transposed, I
am
of four
name
of a
a part of the Crystal
Palace transposed again, I am not proud^ although elevated above the heads of most people. ;
223.
My
first is
Sweeps
When
when
the
summer wind
rustlingly through the trees,
the jasmine spray and the eglantine
Are swayed by the whispering breeze My second, a weapon of bloody strife, Of steel, so cruel and cold,
Which
ruthlessly takes the soldier's
life.
The cowardly, and the bold; My whole is a Poet, by every one known, So wide 824:.
Why
is
is
his
renown.
the letter
y
like a
young spendthrift?
mebey's book of puzzles,
225.
226.
51
Why is memory like the peacock ? My first in the garden luxuriantly grows, Delicious and sweet, as every one knows
My second The
My
a noisy, vain, garrulous
tiling,
lord of a harem, as proud as a king
whole
is still
prouder, and seems to rejoice
As much
in his tail as
One man
said to another, "
he does in his voice.
Give me one of your have twice as many as you." The other replied, " No, give me one of yours, and I shall have as many as you." How many had each ? 227.
eheep, and I
shall
228.
Where were
229.
Where
230.
Why
is
potatoes
did cherries
first
found?
come from ?
a ship under
full sail like
Niagara?
merry's book of ptjzzleb.
52
mighty pasture go Sheep in thousands, silver white
231. O'er a
As
to-day
we
see them, so
In the oldest grandsire's sight. They drink never waning old Life from an unfailing brook There's a shepherd to their fold,
—
"With a silver-horned crook.
From
a gate of gold let out,
Night by night he counts them over;
Wide
the field they rove about,
Never hath he lost a rover True the dog that helps to lead them, One gay ram in front we sec
What
the flock, and
who doth
Sheep and shepherd,
tell to
lead them,
me
?
Take off my hat, and 232. I am a word of four letters. Take you have something which you do every day. Leave off my off my head, and yon have a preposition. head and put on ray hat, and you have something used Entire, and taken backward, with my before a door. two middle letters transposed, I am a very convenient thing.
I,
myself,
am
often eaten.
233.
What
part of a ship
234.
What
animal resembles the
235.
What
animal
236.
What
animal
What
animal
237.
is is
was Cain
?
sea,
and why
the most windy, and like
is like
an apothecary
?
why?
?
a stone-breaker?
238. A man had a bar of lead that weighed 40 lbs., and he divided it into four pieces in such a way as to allow him to weigh any number of pounds from one to forty How did he manage the matter ?
239.
What
240.
Why
241. If a tree stand
242.
is is
the best key to a good dinner
a farm-yard like a hotel
woman
?
?
stands behind a tree,
how
does the
?
Wherein does a turkey-cock
differ
from a lady
?
men buy a grindstone, 40 inches in diameon equal shares. Each one is to use it until he has worn away his share. How many inches in diameter must each one use? 243. Three
ter,
244.
What two
letters of the
alphabet do children like
best?
245.
Why
are Cashmere shawls like deaf persons
?
MERRY
64 246.
Ye
mortals
A
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
— wonder
I'm an
!
elf,
strange, mysterious thing;
More
])owerful than all the sprites
Within a magic
ring.
—although I have no tongue the soul speak, and I sing — and many a song IVe sung
I speak
thrill
I
I
Resounds, while ages roll. a weapon, strong and keen,
am
All
made
But human
My The
of glittering steel souls
—not senseless flesh^
sharp two-edges
feel.
greatest writer e'er
But, ah
For what
!
— a thievish
was born elf;
I write is not, alas
Original with myself. I often take a cooling bath
But, like the Ethiop's skin,
Wlien I have bathed, I'm blacker
still
Than when I did begin Most kind am I; I glad the heart Of many a wretched wight,
And many
a suflerer
is
by
me
Transported with delight.
Most cruel I I've pierced the With cutting, burning darts ;
soul
I've dashed the fondest hopes to earth, I've crushed the lightest hearts.
Yet wise and powerful
A
very slave
am
as I
am,
I
I'm forced the mandates to obey Of both the low and high.
Now,
witty brains,
tell
who
this is,
Who blesses and who curses Who has no hands, yet still who The writer of these
verses.
is
MEREY
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES
Wiy
is
an Indian like a
248. "W by
is
an Indian
247.
flirt?
like a scholar
?
How much
249.
balloon,
seams
55
silk is required to make a spherical 16 inches in diameter, without allowing lor
?
250. All children love to go to sea, and 251. That gentle picture dost thou Itself, its
why?
know.
hues, and splendor gaining?
Some change each moment can bestow, Itself as perfect still
remaining
It lies within the smallest space.
The smallest framework forms its girth, yet that picture can embrace The mightiest objects known on earth
And
Canst thou
to
me
that crystal
(No gem can with
Which
name
worth compare) and knows no flame
its
gives all light,
Absorbed is all creation there That ring can in itself inclose The loveliest hues that light the heaven, Yet from its light more lovely goes Than all which to it can be given !
I
?
MERRY
56
8
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
252.
From From
6 take nine, from 9 take 10; 40 take 50, and 6 remain.
253.
Why
is
marriage like truth
?
254. Eequired to divide 45 in four parts, so that the first part with two added, the second with two subtracted, the third divided
by two, the fourth 'multiplied by two,
shall equal each other.
255.
Where was Major Andre going when
lie
was
captured 2 is a mansion, vast and fair, That doth on unseen pillars rest ^o wanderer leaves the portals there, Yet each how brief a guest The craft by which that mansion rose,
256. There
I
No
thought can picture to the soul by a lamp which throws stately shimmer through the whole.
'Tis lighted Its
As
crystal clear,
The
And
single
it
its roof,
never hath the eye surveyed
The master who 257.
rears aloof
gem which forms
Why
is
that
mansion made.
a sculptor like a
man who
"splits his
sides with laughter ?"
258.
Why
conflagration
259.
used
My
when
whole 260.
261.
is
were the Scribes and Pharisees like a great ?
first is
a collection of water,
fc-peaking of myself,
my
third
my is
a
second fruit,
a town in Hindostan.
X U R, X U B, X, 2 X U E 2 me. Why
was Daniel
like ^Nebuchadnezzar's
is
my
image ?
MEKRY
8
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
57
SEE-SAW.
262. Several things are riCcessary to
make
this sport
and pleasant. First^ a strong bar on. which to balance your board or plank. Secondly^ a strong, straight-grained board or plank, which will not crack safe
Thirdly^ an equal weight at each end, or Fourthly^ a clear head, and a steady hand, or foot, to keep up an even motion. With these all right,
nor twist. nearly
you
so.
will
go up and down as easily and smoothly as men
of business do, or political parties;
—but, hallo
there, boys,
John has tumbled off, and you will have a smash at the other end, which will leave John's partner in doubt whether he is up or down. 263.
What
island in the Pacific
264.
What
is
there at the
ungrammatical in 265.
Why
is
is
always at
this sport?
same time philosophical and
this sport?
an elephant like a lady's 3*
veil
?
•
merry's book of pitzzlbs,
58
was before the world begun, Before the earth, before the sun ; Before the moon was made, to light
266. I
With
brighter
beams the
starry
nigU
I'm at the bottom of the sea, And I am in immensity; The daily motion of the earth Dispels me, and to me gives birth
5
*
Yon
can not see
me
you try, before your eye
Although I'm oft Such is my whole.
;
if
;
But, for one part,
You'll find in taste I'm rather tart Kow I become the abode of men
And now, for groveling beasts, a pen I am a man who lives by drinking Anon
;
keep a weight from sinking folks go far and near I am what children like to hear I am a shining star on high And now, its pathway through the sky; My strength o'erpowers botli iron and steel; Yet oft I'm left behind the wlieel I'm made to represent a head f6und in every loaf of bread ; Such are the many forms I take. You can not count all I can make ; I
To take me,
;
Am
Yet, after
Soon
as
all,
so strange
am
you know me, then
I,
I die.
Henry is four feet high and William is five. Tlie of their heights multiplied by five is equal to their How old was their father? father's age, plus fifteen. 267.
sum
My
first is
the
name
pleasant beverage,
my
third
268.
and
my
whole
is
the
name
of a river, is
my
second
what we are too apt
of an ancient city.
is
a
to do,
MERRT8 BOOK
OF PUZZLES.
59
DEAF AND DUMB ALPHABET.
^ J
!
SINGLE HANDKD ALPHABET.
£G9. The deaf and dumb converse with each other, and with their teachers, by signs made with their hands. There are two ways of making the letters with the fingers; in one, both hands are nsed; in the other, only one. Above, you see how the letters are made with
one hand. 2T0.
When
are the letters like the keys of a piano
?
MEEKYS BOOK
60 271.
Up
OF PUZZLES.
and down two buckets ply
A single well
within
;
Wliile the one comes full on high, One the deeps must win.
Pull or empty, never ending, Ivising now, and now descending, A^lways while you quaff from this. That one lost in the abyss,
From
that well the waters living
Never both together
Come from my
272. IB
first
giving.
— ay, come
!
the battle
dawn
nigh,
the screaming trump and thundering drum are calling thee to die Fight as thy father fought, fall as thy father fell Thy task is taught, thy shroud is wrought, so forward,
And
and farewell
my
Toll ye,
And
second, toll
sing thej
night
hymn
his head, the cross
Let the prayer be
light.
and the
said,
upon
his breast.
tear be shed
—so
take
to his rest.
my
Call ye
And
high the flambeau's
,-
The wreath upon
him
Fill
1
of a parted soul beneath the silent
whole
him
let
— ay^
call the lord of lute
and
lay.
greet the sable pall with a noble song to-
day; Go,
To
him by
call liojht
his
name
!
no
fitter
hand may crave
the flame of a soldier's fame on the turf of a
soldier's grave.
273.
man's 274.
Once life
A
the truth
?
in a minute, twice in a
moment, once
in a
?
man
said.
"I
lie."
Did he
lie,
or did he
tell
MERRY
S
BOOK OF
PUZZL
li
S
275. Why is the butcher's dog in the parlor mother receiving strange company ?
276.
Why
the house 277.
61
.
like
your
should a hound never be admitted into
?
Why
is
your favorite puppy like a doll ?
278. How can a person live eighty years, and see only twenty birthdays?
meeey's book of puzzles.
62
What
279. bottles,
280.
is the dilference between twenty four quart and four and twenty quart bottles ?
How
will
you arrange four
9's so
as to
make one
hundred? 281.
Amid
the serpent race is one That earth did never bear In speed and fury there be none That can with it compare. With fearful hiss its prey to grasp-
—
It darts its dazzling course,
And
locks in one destroying clasp
The horseman and the
horse.
It loves the loftiest heights to
No
bolt its prey secures
In vain
For
As
its
may
haunt
—
;
valor vaunt,
steel its fury lures
by the wind, snaps the starkest tree It can the might of metal grind. slightest straw whirled
It
;
How
hard soe'er
it
be
!
Yet ne'er but once tlie monster tries The prey it threats to gain In its own wrath consumed it dies,
And 282. boots.
while
it
slays
is slain.
A went to At
a shoemaker, B, and ordered a pair of the time appointed for their completion,
A
A
gave B a 20 dollar note, which, not being able to change, he went to C, who gave him four $5 notes. B gave A three of the notes, and kept one. The next day C came to B and told him his $20 note was a counterfeit. B gave C four $5 notes, three of which he borrowed from D. How much called for his boots.
did
B
lose
The
price
by the operation
?
was $5.
merry's book of puzzles.
283. 284. 285. 286.
When When
a boy
he
is
falls,
what does he
fall
against?
caught stealing, what does he catch?
How many feet onght a thief to have? Why is Tom Tumbledown like Adam when he
the applets
63
saw
64 287.
A
me a day or two since, that had eighty-four legs. How did if
friend asserted to
forty horses only
come ? A RIDDLE WITHIN A 288.
Moce ye Ti
si
RIDDLE.
inngeison nose hist dilerd suesg
ton cufidiift oiiy liwl socfens,
Thaw si hatt burrnen — hiwhc fi Ouy hent liwl hington veale no 280.
Our
family
is
oiiy ivdedi,
theire dies?
much more than one when he went to live in
large, but not
third as large as that of Jacob
But, like the family of that ancient patriarch, we do not keep migrate to other countries. we are scattered together, whether at home or abroad
Egypt.
We
often
;
about in every direction,
—
at
once masters, servants, and
Not
slaves to forty-four millions of people.
printed without our aid
;
and, what
is
stranger
a book
still,
we
is
are
found at the same time in every book in every library and country wliere the English language is spoken and on almost every page. Sometimes, though rarely, two It is still more rare for us all of us stand side by side. Nothing to appear together arranged in the same order. is more common with peo])le than to place us in rows or ylatoons j but whether in militia, army, or navy for some of us are employed in all these we are seldom arranged Sometimes one of us stands first; sometwice alike. times another. Sometimes a row or platoon consists of only two or three of us at others of many more and occasionally of twelve, fifteen, or twenty and, strangest to relate of all, we can be so placed as to make out about 50,000 rows, no two of which will be exactly alike. Must we not, then, be a useful family? And what, think you, is OMY family name ? all
;
—
—
;
;
;
290.
. I
I
six, so as to
I
I
make
1
I
nine.
Add
five
more marks
to these
MEHEYS BOOK What
291. tree
OF PUZZLES.
that,
is
which has twelve branch-
es,
thirty
leaves on each
and
branch,
each leaf white on one side, and black on the other 292.
1.
is 8. 4. 6.
?
What
the sociable tree?
And And And
the tree which
9-
And
10.
The chronologist
12.
And
13.
What's the
15.
And
19.
the dancing tree?
nearest the sea? ^-
The most yielding tree?
the tree where ships ma}^ be
The languishing
18
is
the busiest tree?
7.
16
And
2.
tree?
8.
The
?
least selfish tree?
the tree that bears a curse ? H- The fisherman's tree tree ?
?
the tree like an Irish nurse? traitor's tree
?
14.
And
the tell-tale tree?
warmest clad? The layman's tree? 17. The housewife's tree? And the tree that makes one sad? What the tree that in death will benight you ? And the tree that your wants will supply? And the tree that to travel invites you ? And the tree that forbids you to die? What tree do the hunters resound to the skies? What brightens your house, and your mansion susthe tree that
is
tains?
26.
What tree urs^ed the Grecians in veno^eance to rise? And fight for the victims by tyranny slain ? [you ? 27. And the tree that obeys The tree that will fight ?
MEKEY's BOOJi OF PUZZLES.
6Q
29.
And And
81-
And
the tree neither
82.
The
tree to be kissed?
**•
And what guides the ships to go forth ? 36. And the The unhealthiest tree?
28.
the tree that never stands the tree that got up?
was lazy
8^-
people 87. 88. 40.
41.
43 44.
And
still ?
so.
And
the tree that
?
up nor down
And
33.
hill
?
the dandiest tree? tree of the
?
whose wood faces the north? 89. The industrious tree? And the tree that warms mutton when cold? The reddish-brown tree? 42. The reddish-blue tree? And what each must become ere he's old ? The tree in a bottle? 45. And the tree in a fog? the tree
The emulous
tree?
46.
And
47.
The
48.
And what mother and
the tree that gives the bones pain terrible tree
when schoolmasters child have the
?
flog
?
name ?
The treacherous tree ? ^0. The contemptible tree ? And that to which wives are inclined ? ^2. The tree that causes each townsman to flee ? fi8. And what round fair ankles they bind? ^^- And the tree that is ^- The tree that's entire? 49.
^1.
split?
^- The tree half given to doctors when ^7.
The
tree
^8.
And
59
The
61
And
62.
The
we
offer to friends
the tree
we may
tree that's
use as a quill
immortal?
60.
The
?
trees that are not?
the trees that must pass through the
fire
?
tree that in Latin can ne'er
be forgot, must admire ?
And 63.
ill ?
when we meet?
in England we all The Egyptian plague tree ?
64.
And
the tree that
dear?
is 65.
And what
66
The
67.
And
round
doth intwine? must ever be near? the tree that by cockneys is turned into wine? itself
tree that in billiards
MEEEYS BOOK
293.
Which
to live in 29-i.
of the planets
OF PUZZLES.
would the
67
tortoise like best
?
Why
is
a picture surrounded
by books
like
a
happy man ? 295. Mother sent Mary for an evergreen. The gardener brought a holly. Mary pointed to the sky, and the gardener brought what she wanted. What did Mary
mean? 296.
When
the day breaks, what becomes of the frag-
ments ? 297. ISTovus vir bonus vir ivit ad
saam
caudam
vel habere
vesteni homines mortuos.
298.
EE
299.
What
300.
Add
Marriage bird
is
ee.
that
something
which has no wings ?
to 9 to
make
it less.
merry's book of puzzles.
68 301.
Why
is
Satan on a shed like a bankrupt?
summer
302. How is it that trees put on their without opening their trunks?
303.
Of
make
three words
dresses,
by the insertion of a
one,
single letter.
304.
Of
a
word of one
make
syllable,
a word of throe
syllables, by the addition of a single letter.
305.
Ages
ago,
.
when Greece was young,
And Homer,
blind and wandering, sung; Where'er he roamed, through street or field, My first the noble bard upheld';
Look
to the
You'll see
Go
it
new moon
my
for
next,
there, but if perplexed,
ask the huntsman, he can show
My name —he gives it many a blow My whole, as you will quickly see, Is a large
Which
town
in Tuscany,
ladies soon will recognize
A favorite head-dress 306.
Why
307. Mr.
supplies.
an elephant like a chair ?
is
—wood being
mills for his
it
at the
.
of king of terrors, 10
quakers, and who, which and what.
^
They
odor for Dr. Juvenile Humanity, [who to Dr. Hay preservers, and little devil behold scarlet his assistance but, B 4: he arrived, the not legally good changed color, |
taker
andJ -:^ was 308.
o
Given the
number 309.
,
ct lor.
street
and the hour,
to find at
once the
city, to find at
once the
of children in the street.
Given the section of the
number of loafers and vagabonds
that infest
it.
MEBKY
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
CHRISTMAS TREE.
310. This tree.
It is
is a very curious and interesting kind of a found, loaded with every variety of strange
It has no roots, most wonderful for its yielding powers, though it bears only once a year, and that always on Christmas Eve. The last one that I saw was at Uncle Iliram HatchCousin Hannah thus describes it et's. *' At last, when none of us expected it, he (Uncle H.) threw open the folding doors, and let us into the little parlor. There was displayed the Christmas tree, in all its glory. Every little twig bore some present; dolls
fruity on tables, bare floors, or carpets.
but
is
70
and
furniture,
doll
pins,
bracelets,
ear-rings,
slippers,
watch-guards and purses, ships, windmills, and beautiful books, besides all sorts of fruits and bon-bons, and all blazing with light from the numberless candles that
Beemed
to
grow out of the branches."
A tree that,
without
life
or root,
Without a blossom, bud, or flower, Bears various and most precious fruit. That comes and goes in one short hour.
My
an adjective, short and dry. of moisture seems to imply, Or, in reference to mind, that kind of wit. Which is slack on the rein, and sharp on the bit. My second is a sort of hole, or den, Unfit for the resort of timid men. Whence once the righteous came safely out, While the wicked were wholly put to rout. My whole is an author of classic fame. If you know the man, please tell me his name.
311.
first is
Which an absence
312.
What
poet do miners value most ?
313.
What
poet
Which make a lion
314. to
Why
315.
speak
is
least distinguished for brevity
of the English poets feel at
were
would be most
?
likely
home ?
the
Amalekites
never
allowed
?
316.
Which
317.
What
Buitable
of the reptiles
Scripture
husband
is
a mathematician
character would have
for a tall laundress
?
made
?
318. What two syllables of the marriage ceremony most interesting to the priest ?
to
KERKT
S
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
71
319.
What
part of a house measures about two quarts!
320
When
is
821
Why are ladies
ished house 322.
What
on the stoop,
like
an unfin-
stone opens and shuts at your convenience! see how me Down will I love And you love you Up and you if
Read
p ,
sitting
?
323.
itb
a door not a door?
Why
is
a thing purchased like a shoe ?
merky's book of puzzles.
72
325. "Why is a man who makes a wager of a cent, like a person recovering from illness ? 326.
Why
is
an unpaid
is
a sanguinary epistle like a surgeon
bill
like the moisture in the
morning? 327.
Why
?
828. Ere from the east arose the lamp of day, Or Cynthia gilt the night with paler ray
Ere earth was form'd, or ocean knew its place, Long, long anterior to the human race In chaos I was found, I did exist. When awful darkness shed its gloom around. In heaven I dwell, in those bright realms above, And in the radiant ranks of angels move. But when th' Almighty, by his powerful call, Made out of nothing this stupendous ball, I did appear, and still upon this earth daily seen, and every day have birth. With Adam I in Paradise was seen. When the vile serpent tempted Eve to sin And, since the fall, I with the human race Partake their shame and manifest disgrace. In the dark caverns of old ocean drear I ever was, and ever shall appear. [blood. In every battle firmly I have stood, When plains seem lav'd, whole oceans dy'd with It now remains with you But, hold no more To find me out and bring me forth to view.
Am
—
!
330.
Why is a lost child like you Why is Fremont equal to eight honest politicians?
331.
IIow did Jonah
329.
?
feel
when
the whale swallowed
him? 332.
Why
were the Hebrews called sheep?
meeby's book of puzzles
73
833.
Why 5s
334:.
Under what
335.
Under what shade can you dance best?
Why
336. ladies
is
it
dangerous to tree is
a dashing
it
flirt
in a hay-field
most proper
young buck a
to
?
make
love?
favorite with the
?
constantly in the midst of money. 2. I am contiiinally putting people in possession of property. in my 3. I increase the number of most things that come 337.
way.
1. I
4.
1
am
am no
friend to the distressed needlewomen,
for I render needles unnecessary.
undertake a dress, I infallibly
make
5.
Yet whenever
it sit.
6.
I
am
1
quar-
merry's book of puzzles.
74
word and a blow is my maxim. 7. In fact, with rae a word becomes a weapon. 8. And merriment
relsome, for a
becomes slaughter.
men
drink converts itself
mto
the
9.
It is
commonly remarked
that
but I transform wine 10. Deprived of me, certain
into swine,
same animals.
railway speculations come out in their true character team can draw a wagon well without rae, still, 11. when I am in front, the speed is wonderfully increased.
A
13.
Marvelous products may be obtained from peat, but I am extracted from earth, pure oil alone remains. Let me go before, and a story is sure to be stale.
14.
And
12.
when
I
if
am
left out, it will
be political.
strongly attached to pluralities.
With
16.
free trade, I turn corn itself into contempt.
15. I
17. I
the midst of Kussia and Prussia, and abundant the Swiss.
Were
18.
I
when
I
take
my
left
but
grief.
departure, the evening
finished with wliat remains.
20.
2i. In person I
in good time.
am
in
among
withdrawn from that unhappy
country, Spain, nothing would be ter sport,
am
respect to
At
am
19. Afis
often
am
always much bent, though I a soiree I
was formerly more upright. 22. As to my education, I was always head of the school. 23. Though invariably 24. With me age looks wise. at the bottom of my class. 25. But a gentleman is better without me, as accompanied by
me
he appears feminine.
On
26.
a lady ought not to part witli me, for
if
the contrary,
she loses
me
she
27. I am an unwelcome visitor, for seems masculine. with me sorrow begins and happiness ends. 28. Sadness commences, and, 29. Bliss terminates. 30. Yet it is in
my
power
to
transform cares into what
is delightful.
33S. Nebuchadnezzar's lions were very undevout when Daniel was with tliem, and very poetical with his enemies. 339.
Please explain.
Why
is
a hunter like an omnibus pickpocket?
MEERYS BOG^
OF PUZZLES.
340. Figures, they say, won't Is
something either
I find that, in
my
—
^
lie
;
yf.
76
but here
false or queer.
family,
One taken from two
still
leaves
me
three,
And two
from two, by the same score, Leaves a remainder of just four. 341.
My Or
My
first is
a measure
much used
in the East,
a close-covered vehicle drawn by one beast second is a prefix a small preposition
Two
— — a paid politician
thirds of a tavern
;
My
whole, though part of a vessel, has stood Alone on the prairie, or 'neath the great wood,
And The
mean, proud palaces squatting between.
often is found, poor, wretched, and city's
merry's
76
boo^'J!-
^
^uzzj^es.
BLACK-EYED MARY'S ALGEBRAICAL PROBLEM.
Take two numbers, such that the square of the
342.
plus the square of the second, shall equal 8; while the first, plus the product of the first and second,
first,
shall equal 6.
H be no
B.
—If
any choose
work
to
See
trifling puzzle.
this ont algebraically, it
Merry's Museum
mU
be foirnd to
for 1856.
343. What's that the poor's most precious friend, Nor less by kings respected
Contrived to pierce, contrived to rend, And to the sword connected.
draws no blood, and yet doth wound rich, but ne'er with spoil It prints, as earth it wanders round, blessing on the soil. The eldest cities it hath built. It
Makes
A
Bade mightiest kingdom fired to war,
Ne'er
Weal
345. frolic
;
it
to the states that prize it
When
344.
guests
rise
nor roused to guilt
is
a
political
candidate
like
Samson's
?
What
is
the most suitable dance to wind off a
?
346. Revolving round a disk I go
One The
restless
journey o'er and over; my wanderings know.
smallest field
Thy hand the space could cover Yet many a thousand miles are passed In circling round that field so narrow:
My
speed outstrips the swiftest blast. strongest bowman's arrow.
The 347.
Why
are buckwheat cakes like the caterpillar?
MEERY
348.
What
Why
350.
What
shadow 351.
BOOK OF PUZZLES.
it ?
do
girls
is
blow bubbles
better than boys f
the difference between a
boy and
?
Why
77
relation does the soap-bubble bear to the
boy who makes 34:9.
8
is
a soap-bubble like
352. I have no
life,
yet, as I fly,
A thing of beauty I bear,
A part
Adam ?
to the eye,
my glittering shape beneath, of my Creator's breath
With ever-changing shade and hue and vanish from the view, And, though a phantom deemed, In portions, water, earth, and air. I rise
I share,
hifl
merky's book of puzzles.
T8
I go, but never
353.
stir,
I count, but never write,
measure and divide, and, sir, You'll Und my measures right. I run, but never walk, I strike, but never wound, I tell you much, but never talk, I
In 354.
When
thing he does
my
a boy
diurnal round.
falls into
the water,
what
is
the
first
?
355. How would the proposed removal of the Pope to Jerusalem be a false move for the Papacy, and a true one for the Papal States ?
356. 357. 358.
Why is a coachman a generous raan? Why is a dog like a clock-maker's safe? Why is the cook more noisy than a gong ?
359. Describe a partisan, and answer a question in the
same words. 360.
A word
of one syllable call to your mind.
which will, if rightly combined, Provide you with two kinds of fuel ay, more, warm piece of clothing and fasten your door.
The
letters of
361. Let two
At
—
—
A
Roman
the right plete
fives at extremities
hand of
these,
meet.
add two
circles
com-
;
Then five times one hundred place at the right hand,
And
a nice winters comfort they
make
as they
stand.
362.
What number
is
that
which can be divided by
2, 3, 4, 5,
and
and by
without a remainder?
363.
7,.
How
6,
leaving, in each case, a remainder of
lono^ aoro
were trunks
first
used?
I,
meeey's book of puzzles.
#-^ '//
1-
864. I'm black or whit^^ 1 .a
I'm
As
tall
or
flat,
brown
or gray,
I'm grnve or gay,
soft as wool, or sti.'Fas tin,
A nest for
wits to nestle in.
I liold great intellects, yet oft
Am
bothered with the weak and
eoft,
And sometimes crnsty, liard, and tliickp They fill me witii we bnrncd brick. Fashion controls
Some
aspects to
mc-, vet I
make
wear
fashion stare.
Thonofh always for one place designed, I chancre as often as the wind.
79
mebby's book of puzzles.
80
I'm dumb, and
yet, in spite of that,
than half of every " Chat," I'm mild yet none can hate (don't doubt me) Nor raise a fighting-cock without me.
Make more
—
—
865. In every
home
I stand confessed,
A friend of quiet, peace,
and
rest
my
head, and on your head My streamers rise, black, brown, or red Cut now again, and take my neck off, You leave my substance not a speck of,
Take
off
But, with ethereal lightness gay, I pass in idle breath away.
366.
What
367. In
relation
is
the door-mat to the scraper?
what do grave and gay people
368. "What sea
differ at
would make the best sleeping-room ?
Grab and Clinch, They take an ell when you offer an inch But I can do a smarter thing
369. 'Tis said of lawyers
Give me an
ell,
If for advice
When you If
I
I will
make
you come
are
ill,
it
ring
me
to
wend,
think you've reached the very end,
come and give
You
to
I call for the fee
any road you chance
You
church!
it
such a turn.
find there's something yet to learn
you seek for rest, I chuck you in a box or chest The beggar's rags I make so proud, He of his garments boasts aloud The aged and infirm with me Lose caution and timidity ; For, young or old, to every one If to the inn
I furnish, if not muscle, bone.
^
MERRY
370.
Why
is
6
BOOK OF PUZZLES,
a spotted dog most reliable
81
?
371. In what does a dog differ from a groom in his treatment of a horse ?
372.
One
of a gallant vagrant band,
My name In
is
Without me
Or
known
all earth's
in every land ; changes I am there none may war declare,
treat of peace, or try their parts
On manufacture, tillage, arts By me a patient saint of old
;
"Was changed into a warrior bold ; I made old Abner's father near ; His wife was deaf, I made her hear; His house I put upon his back His jaw an iron bond I make ; Bad spirit by my presence claims To be the end of human aims And a young bear is seen to bo coveted jewel of the sea. 4*
A
merry's book of puzzles.
82
373. Problem.
—To make a
restless child quiet
and con*
tented.
—
Problem To teach a child and usefal.
374. trious,
Why
375.
is
Merry's
Museum
be honest, indas-
to
like a note falling
due ?
876. I consist of eleven letters.
My 9th,
7th, and 1st, is where infants often repose; " 3d, 10th, and 7th, is a foreign plant much used
by us "
1st, 7th, 5th, 9th, 4:th,
"
4th, 7th,
and 11th, is to treat by word of mouth " 6th, 4th, 7tli, and 8th, is a delicious fruit; " 2d, 7th, and 3d, to do which affords great satisfaction
;
and
an essential part of the
5th, is
head
" 3d,
10, 7th, and 8th, is often used for joy or sorrow " whole is the name of a distinguished writer for Merry's Museum.
377.
Why
378. I
W. i,
6,
is
Merry's
am composed
Museum
like a
good wife ?
of twelve letters.
with 10, 5, 2, 9, which a 12, 8, 1, 7, 10, not to have, and which a 3, 8, 1, 12,
2, all 6, 2, 10,
6, 11, 4,
9, 11, 4, 2,
1.
5,
12,
379.
Why
380.
What was
381.
What
382.
Why
is
i.
6, 11, 9, 2, 6.
Merry's
Museum
like a
good mother
?
—
the difference can you show Between the Prodigal in his woe, And Lazarus, in his low estate. Feeding on crumbs at Dives' gate? fish is
does a bride wear on her finder?
Merry's
Museum
like a printing-office
?
5,
5,
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES. 1.-
The
rose shall cease to blow.
The eagle turn a dove, The stream shall cease to flow, Ere I will cease to love. The sun shall cease to shine. The world shall cease to move. The stars their light resign. Ere I will cease to love. 2. Short shoes and long corns to the enemies of freedom.
3.
The rope-maker.
Because they can not be got without a bow (beau). 4.
off
5.
Because he stops at the sound
of wo. 6.
One takes the dish with the
egg7. One, after which his stomach aot empty. 8.
The
smallest.
9.
The
first
solved in this
/
geometrical puzzle
way
is
is
AX S WEES TO PUZZLES,
SQ Stitch
stich
!
stitch
!
This song is well sung, I make you a vow. And he is a knave that aileth
!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous
now.
pitch.
She sang the " Song of the Shirt." 12.
A pack of
Nose, nose, and who gave thee that jolly red nose ? Cinnamon and ginger, nutmeg
cards.
and
And
13. Striking.
H. Because
words
16.
Because his
17. Because he dues (dews).
red
passing 27.
Footman.
me my jolly
nose.
are
between them 15.
cloves.
they gave
To ashes.
28. Short. is all 7iet profit.
is
29. Shakespeare.
siirrounded with
30. Time. 31. Wallace.
18.
Adam. 32. Because they are often toasted.
19. Heroine.
33. ting.
20. Spark.
21. Tear. 22. Because 23.
Because he
Because
a bad habit.
35. boot.
Because he
is
a resting-place
36. Full five
hundred years I've hung,
my
old grey turret high. a different theme I've
lu
sung.
whom
no-
As the hours went winging by. I've pealed the chimes of a weddhiL^
morn
Ere night
I've sadly tolled to
say
That the maid was coming love lorn,
And 37.
here
I
lay. spirit
Anl
hails light
away
she. '
he sweetly
th'
approaching
from grief no solace know. portal from th3 night, All joys to me insipid grow, Aiford me no delight.
But comes,
notes
sings.
degree, all the long day she sits in a tree,
his lofty height.
In rapt'rous
For
To whit-to-whoo. drinkest thou Noodles, to you.
my
viugs
Of all the birds that e'er I did see, The owl is the strangest in every
And when the night
end
The joyfid can sing on
Each morn
whom
nothing to
And many
He's only a pauper, body owns."
flies
has
it is felt.
26. There's a grim hearse horse, In a jolly round trot, To the churchyard a poor man is going, I wot. The road it is rougli, And the hearsg has no springs. And hark to the dirge the sad driver sings " Rattle his boues over the stones,
To
always for get-
34. I, ser. it is
24. Because it for the traveler.
26
is
I
No
Sir 38.
Because it
is
often tolled (told)
NSWEKS TO PUZZLES, 89.
Your name.
40.
The
letter
Shall behold the chief ensign, fair mercy's flag, wave Then, freed from Death's terrors and hostile alarms, When we hear the last trump, we'll stand to our arms.
M.
41. Forty- eight feet. 42. In solying this question it is clear that to pick up the first stone and put it into the basket, the person must walk two yards, one in going for the stone and another in returning with Tt that for the second stone he must walk four yards, and so on increasing by two as far as the hundredth, when he must walk two hundred yards, so that the sum total will be the product of 202 multiplied by If any one does 60, or 10,000 yards. not see why we multiply 202 by 50 in getting tlie answer, we refer him to his arithmetic. ;
87
Long expects Dr. Short
49. Doctor
to explain the
misunderstanding be-
tween them. 50.
To you who
live single, if this at trouble you, My first comes in kindness, commanding to double you. And again, it will double you, if, like a clown, all
You lift high your sole, and bend your head down Or, cut it in twain, two appear,
And Fcounting^oe, 43. Hour-glass.
Vs
both
will
make
ten it is clear. My second, alas comes shrouded in gloom, It is O, which makes wo, the !
44. Pen-man-ship. 45.
There was a
man who was
Nott
sinne7-'s
born, His father fore
was Nott born behim ;
He did Nott live, he did Nott die. And his epitaph is Nott o'er
* *
him.
Now
over the scene. If
my third, which is again.
Now
'tis
lor's
46.
Because
it is
in firm (infirm).
48.
To keep
his
head warm.
U100
—
O, be added
and what bache-
heart does not beat,
To tcoo a sweet damsel,
warm 47,
sad doom.
what a change comes
see
to
keep
his feet
To cheer by her smiles his lone hours and thus Escape, by good fortune, the
—
Hark! the mufflad drum sounds the last march of the brave. The soldier retreats to his quar-
bachelor's curse fourth and my last, as
My
go on to
ters, the grave,
Under Death, whom he owns
his
Commander-in-chief, No more he"ll turn out with the ready relief; But in spite of Death's terrors or cannon's alarms. When he hears the lapt trump he'll 5 tana to his arms Farewell! brother sol(Ker.s, in peace may you rest. And light lie the turf on each veteran breast, Until that review when the souls of the brare !
Is
I'll
tell.
nought more or
less
than a
capital L.
Now L
heingffifty, will even di-
vide
One Hundred, or teachers and books have
all lied.
Now examine
with
care,
and
plain you will see
That
to unlock a secret,
the key
an
L
is
;
L added, is ed into ivool. worn on a sheep, or an Whether For tvoo, with
African's skull.
chang-
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
88
Whether made into
clothing, for
bed or for body, For " sage jiotitician,^' or some other noddy. It is used, the world over, in commerce and trade
But
its last use, I
trow, was to
make a charade. SONG OF THE SVS. Not a rose that blooms, Not a ring that assumes The rainbow's beautiful
64 The nose 65 Because they have so panes (pains).
66 J'ai grand appetit. Allonasouper. 67. Water. 68. Ice.
61.
Those that come after T.
69 front,
70.
'Twas at night, when the bellhad tolled twelve,
But's indebted to me,
And
As ye
plainly see. For the scent or splendor on The moon and the stars
't.
That around ye roll, The systems ye can not discern, Are warmed by my rays,
And partake of the soul And the spirit that in me burn. And nothing throws back with such splendor my rays, As the sea's mighty mirror in midsummer days.
And
like the temple of this the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself shall fall, and, like this insubstantial vision faded, leave not a rack behind.
62.
"body,
When
poor Susan was laid on her pillow, In her ear whispered some fleeting elf
• Your
love is now tossed on the billow" Far, far at sea. All was dark as she woke out of breath Not an object her fears could discover ; All was still as the portals of death, Save fancy, which painted her lover Far, far at sea. So she whispered a prayer, closed
—
her eyes.
But the phantom still haunted her pillow. While in terror she echoed his
63. Letter!. 54.
many
it is
cries,
a cutter
As struggling he sunk on the billow
65. Letter N.
Far, far at sea. 66. Five
when peeled. 71. Lightly tread
^7. He
is
a bit of a buck.
58. His daughter. 59. It
matures by falling dew.
60. Ben-ha-dad.
And murmurs, 61 Because it is never peeled (pealed) but once. 62.
Because
it is
every year doub-
—
'tis
holy ground
Countless dead hark, hark around Angel guards their watches keep, ^Vhile frail mortals sink to sleep : And the moon, with feeble rays. Gilds the stream that bubblin|5 plays.
Music meet 72.
as soft
it
flows.
for lovers' woes.
Eye.
73. Canister.
ling ^Dublin). 68. Tobacco.
74. Forte tu, atrox Sexto Fortinato
tenes,
forti
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES. 76 The forceps
pfnclies, the
awl
punches. 76. At the peaceful midnight hour. Every sense and every power Chained lies in downy sleep Then our careful watch we keep,
Sing we in harmony Apollo's praise. generous sentiment Here every awaking. Music inspiring our mutual joy. Each social bumper giving and partaking.
Song and good cheer our time employ.
"While the wolf, in nightly prowl,
Bays the moon with hideous howl Closed are bars, a vain resistance Shrieks are raised, but no assist-
89
89.
To
you know he
let
is
coming.
Because of the sand which (sandwiches) under your feet. 90.
is
ance 91. Mag-pie.
Silence or you'll meet your fate Your keys, jewels, money, plate. !
Locks, bolts, and asunder.
Then
to rifle, rob,
77. Ad-here. 78.
bars soon
92.
93. But-ton.
and plunder.
94.
—In-here.— Co-here.
Because only the bony pari
is
95.
He
is
known by
his axe (acts).
80. XII., that is, a cross (across two eyes).
81.
two
i's
Because he kneads (needs)
it
most. 82.
83.
shoe.
On by !
the spnr of valor goaded.
primed and rifles loaded. Courage strikes on hearts of steel.
star through the dark gloom of night, Lends a clear and cheering light, AVho a doubt or fear can feel ? Now through woods like serpents "While each
creeping.
The
letter
Then on our prey like
R.
Calvert to the onset leads us. Let the weary traveler dread
house. Is like a mouse-trap as you see, For that will puzzle any mousey And pusillanimous is he.
Green grass is like a mouse, be-
cause the cattle eat
it
(cat 'U eat
it).
85. It is not aloud (allowed). Private earing (privateering) is
lions leap-
ing.
The coward skulking round a
84.
A
Pistols
left.
79.
His father was translated.
fly
us.
Struck with terror and amaze "While our swords in lightning pouring, Thunder to our rifles roaring. 96.
AbeU.
cbd
unlawful. 97.
^^^TTq hours to go down.
86. Salt-cellar.
2a 87.
Because
it is
not cnrrant (cur-
rent).
average rate of rowing
c+b
88. Glorious Apollo
from on high be-
held us
Wand'ring
^
to find
a temple for his
praise
d"^ hours to go up. cb jq:^ time up.
db
Sent Polyhymnia hither to shield ns While we ourselves such a temple
—j-%
might raise. Thus then. Guards, hands and hearts
2a
joining.
time down
r- miles per hour.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.
90
21
98 The hounds gain 6 rods in every They must therefore run as
many times 2 1 rods as G Therefore 96
^ 6^16.
I'll
ing garland.
will go into 96.
21=o36
weave a gay and fresh bloom-
I'ods.
With
l\lies
And
SAveet,
To give
o © d e G ®
e
99.
O © ® 9 e 9 ® O O 100.
He wrote
s
© Q Q Q before
it,
making
it six.
and roses. blooming posies, lad
to the
me
my
heart
tells
1 love.
May
the brow of the brave never want a wreath of laurel.
110. ]\lay the trees of liberty flourish round the globe, and every man
May the wings partake of its fruit. of love never lose a feather
101. Live, evil, vile, Levi, veil. 111. Prescription— proscription.
102.
When
the rosy
dawn awaking
Paints with gold the verdant
lawn Flies,
on the wings of time dis-
porting, Sip the sweets
and taste the dawn. Warbling birds the day proclaiming. Singing sweet the lively strain; They forsake their leafy dwell-
112. Bar-gain 113. 1,600
it
makes a ynan
117.
Wave, thou royal purple stream. Gilded by the solar beam In
my
Cheer
goblet sparkling rise.
my heart, and
eyes. spirit
My
fall.
Nature.all her children viewing. Kindly bounteous cares for all.
Museum.
was
Now before you."
118.
106. Pat-ten. 107. Because it is far fetched
and
glad mine
mounts on fancy's
wing, Anointing me a merry king. While I live, Fll lave my pipe. When I'm dead and gone away. Let my drinking partner say A month he reigned, but that
103 Musk-raelon, if your second turned inside out; thus, lem-on. 104. Merry's
gp.
Hand-eL
116.
;
ripe.
No gems which plumed
fortune wears. No drop that hangs from beauty's ears,
Nor the bright
an impression.
stars which night's blue vault adorn. Nor rising suns that gild the
Sweet are the rosas that bloom by yon fountain,
vernnl morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that breaks
full of nonsense
108.
109
= 50.
114. Tanner.
To secure the golden grain. See content the humble gleaner Picks the scattered ears that
105. "
502x16 =
32
115. Because
ing.
is
-f-
40,000
Make
And
sweet are the cowslips that spangle the grove. And sweet is the breeze that blows o'er the mountains But sweeter by far is the lad that I love. ;
For other's woe down
manly
virtue's
cheeks.
119. Frankfort-on-the-Maine. 120. Pdb-band.
ANSWERd 121.400-^16
= 25.
0/25
TO PUZZLES
= 5-
135. Early to bed,
arms and 136.
123.
(
(
The native
— 302 = 51.96152 — 402 = 44.72136
v/ 60 V^ 00
and early
to rise.
Makes a man healthy, Wealthy, and wise,
five seconds.
122. Because they have
91
Music awaTcea voice of undissembled
joy.
96.68288. Ans.
And thick around hymns arise.
the woodland
Roused by the cock, the soon-clad 124. 1,785. 125. 'Tis good to tread the church-
yard's walks,
And mark the graves on
either side;
Or where the rough old sexton talks With sheer contempt of human pride
To contemplate the scattered bones That meet the eye so often there To read the inscription on the stones, And think what fleeting things we ;
shepherd Leaves his moissy cottage, where with peace He dwells, and from the crowded folds in
Order drives his verdure of The morn.
flock, to taste
the
137. Friday. 138.
W.
139.
He
are.
good at twilight's sober hour, To sit on some neglected tomb, And dwell on death's all-startling power, And muse upon our certain doom. Because these thoughts are sure to
'Tis
win The spirit more or
less
from
sin.
an earnest
bee-leaver.]
140.
A portrait.
141.
He
142.
The oak— (a-corn).
carries his
own
trunk.
143. Ful-ton.
126. Aching teeth are bad tenants.
144.
Harrow.
145. They are four-sighted (foresighted).
127. Patch-work. 128.
is
A draft.
129. It
is
good for nothing
till it is
146. Because the cart is before tlie horse.
cracked. 147.
Harrow.
shaved him.
148.
A
131 Because they blacken the face cf Washington.
149. Because
130.
132.
When
The
figure
133. Certainly *'
spotitaneuus
brother
his
is
Jacob
8.
;— Webster
:
A
152.
applicable to ani-
living sinner's transgres134 sion procured damnation. dying Redeemer's passion purchased salvation.
it
makes
ire fire.
150. (Arithmetical Puzzle.)
151. Rats
says
mals destitute of reason."
A
book.
—tars—arts—stars.
When
it is sat-in.
153. Sarsaparilla. 154.
XI
divided
—
Dr. Townsend. gives six.
IX
divided in the same way, gives four, 155.
The
letter 0.
ANSWEE8 TO PUZZLES
92 166.
The one was Maid of Orleans,
the other was
made
175.
They secure (seek your) monfij
of chittim wood. 176. Fowl, owl, wolf.
157. Sunshine
and shadow. 177.
Mar, ram, arm.
158. Pen-knife. 178. Itbreaks the kernel (colonel)
159. (Leap Frog.) 179. Windmill. 160. Bed-ford. 161.
C—R
180.
Always
181.
AduUam
182.
The chin-chilla
in
floxir.
(Seer).
162. I ate nothing
(a dull lamb).
Monday (chilly).
163. 183. She is miss-taken
and miss*
led.
184. Because three scruples
make
a dram 185.
The ball-room.
186.
When
187.
Co-nun-dram
it
back-bilee.
188. Log-book.
«
•
•
•
•
189.
164. for
you
Be see
not too wise, nor over nice,
what a
fool
you
be.
The shoe—U.
166.
He
is
fed from a loft.
167.
He
is
bride-led.
190. It is but D sent, as you 8e«, If you 500 send, lent 'twill be. But truly
When you
One ought
to wait fer tea.
171. MOW. TITM. WXD. THUB. FBI. BAT. a f p a im
the 40 lend.
191.
Awheel.
192.
He presses them with a
193.
The moon.
194.
One that needs darning.
195.
Ann,
For every grain they give a
169. Pondicherry. 170.
^hand
XL
165.
168. peck.
Hannah
goose.
sir.
196. Elliptical— a-lip-ticklei
SUIT.
abcladglakn ae laho
defjbehlblobfmbip bdn bgk
ghi|cmp|cficgn|cdk chl ceo klm f k o dhm d ojeran d p nopli Inlegphkpjfg gmojh f n 1
i
197. B-o-y. 198.
Mate
— (eat-meat-at-tea)
1
199. In-co-he-rent.
172. Bible.
200.
Amen, name, mean,
173. 125.
201. Grog-shop. 174. Because without or it makes life a lie.
lie,
it life
is
a 202. Vela, vale, veal, lave.
ANSWERS TO 203.
233.
Not!
204. In court-ship, as marry-ners.
205
Light-bouse.
206
Sureti-ship.
207. 5
and
PTTZZLBS The
93
tiller.
lion, because he tous, and has a flowing mane (main).
234.
The
Leviathan, because he swallows up the rivers.
'
235.
The buU, because he hellowt The whale, because he blows,
236.
The
7.
208. Candle-stick.
ass,
because he brays. horse, because a
Dr. Pott's
209. Me-lo-di-ons.
Pott he carries. 210. The one is careless and happy, the other is hairless and cappy. 211.
/X—cross the /, it makes XX.
212. Lie.
it pierces
hearts.
rooster, because
he pieJa
238. 1, 3, 9, 27, are the weights of the several pieces. 239.
213. Pea-cock. 214. Because
237. The and crows.
A tur-key.
240. It gobblers.
is
generally patronized
by
215. Child-hood. 241. In the grov J.
216. In earnest (in her nost). 242.
217. Friend-ship. 218. Cayenne (K. N.).
known by
219.
He
220.
They are C D.
221.
is
Good
He
flourishes his fan behind
him.
his bark.
for nothing
222. Neva, nave, vane.
223. Shake-speare.
243. 1st, 7.36. 08. 244.
246.
224. Because
225. It has eyes behind
3d, 23.
C-and-y— candy.
245. Because we them here (hear).
can not make
A steel pen. steel pen I think. made a blunder
The weapon's a Unless I've
makes Pa-pay.
it
2d, 9.56.
^
When
Hatchet dips it in the ink, stand from under. " Old lady"— quotha! think of that
I'd like to
—
My goodness heart- alive you, Mr. Hatchet—flat I'm scarcely sixty-five.
226. Pea-cock.
I tell
227. 7
and
5.
22& In the ground.
247.
He has many
cast-oflf
bowa
(beaux).
229
From
the tree. 248.
230. Because she shows her flowirg sheets.
He
is
a well re(a)d man.
249. 804,247,552 square inches
231.
Moon and
stars.
250. Because c-and-y
282.
Meat
—at—mat— team)
251.
(eat
The
eye.
q[)ell
candy
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES,
94
XL
X IX X IX
252. S I
SIX
253. Because it (certainty).
is
He
275.
L is
a certain
a ma'
is
He
stiff.
a5f 5 the deer (dear) never chased (chaste). 276.
eft
and
tie
277. Because he 278.
254. 8, 12, 20, 5.
is
a pup-pet.
He must be bom on
the 29tlx
of February. 255.
To the gallows
256.
The earth and firmament.
279. 56 quarts difference.
280. 99| 257. Because he busts (bursts).
makes
faces
and 281. Lightning.
258. Because they "devoured widows' houses."
282.
$15, and boots.
283. Against his will.
259. Pond-i-cherry.
284.
260. Cross you are, cross you be. Cross, too cross, you are for
whipping,
= a rod.
285. 16^
me.
286.
261. Because the lions could not eat him. 262. (See-saw.)
A
He
about to
is
287. Forty
fall.
have
horses
80 fore
legs.
263. Hi-lo. 264. It places the present before the past (saw).
288. Come, ye ingenious ones, this riddle guess,
(see)
not
It is
difficult,
you
will
confess. "
What
265. Because there is a 6 in both.
if
may be buoy, tour,
266. Obscurity, in which
found sour, Btory, crust.
orb,
city, sty, sot,
orbit,
rust,
rut,
You
He was 30 years
that
number which,
on
divide. then will nothing leave either side ?
The number -8-
bust, 289.
267.
is
you
The alphabet.
old.
290.
N NE
291.
The year, 12 months, 30 days, night and morning, black anJ
I
268. Exe-te-r. 269. (Deaf •
270.
271
When
and dumb alphabet.)
white.
they are fingered.
Day and
292.
night.
272. Camp-belL
273.
The
letter
M.
tree.
K
10. Date, 11. BaiJ.
2.
Hop
3.
Beech.
4.
Bee.
Honeysuckle, Judas. 14. Peach.
India-rubber.
16. Fir.
5.
274. he told the truth, he lied; if he lied, he told the truth. He lied. If he did lie, he wonld not say so
The Tea
1.
vine.
6. Bay-k
12.
13.
16.
Bon
Chretien.
7.
Pine.
8.
Yew cYoUjiiot I).
17. Broom. 18. Cypress
9.
Fig.
19.
Nightshade
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES maid
Brcadfniit. Orange (0range). Olive (0-live).
mist.
306. Because
Boneset. Birch.
Hound.
Damson.
Lime. Linden.
Slippery elm.
Medlar.
Box
Will-o
Dogwood.
Man-go.
Aspen.
Sandal. Holly
Rose.
Clove. 56. Coffee
Sloe.
Plane. Tulip. Spruce.
Palm.
elm (helm). Sycamore.
pen). 59.
Poplar.
(cof-
Aspen
Vitse (tree of life).
ball.
The
ashes.
Hazel.
Laurel. Locust.
Lilac.
Silver.
Elder. Cork.
Woodbine. Mace.
295. 'Twas the
fir
ma' meant.
They are dissolved in
A
Cole-ridge.
314.
A
Dry-den.
315. Their king
was A-gag.
318.
The
last
319.
The
stoop.
320.
When
mar-
321.
They are without dooML
A jail
300.
IX — SIX.
bird.
301. He is an poverished.)
will see love you. If you love me.
shed. (Im-
out.
I— 0— W, T,
it
Read down and up.
How
rhey leave them
"
it is a-jar.
And you .
imp over a
Insert
two (money).
322. A-gate. 323.
299.
The adder.
317. A-hi-tub.
light.
298. Too (2) great ease before inage, too little ease after it.
S04.
3U. Dry-den.
316.
297. Newman Goodman went to Qxe tailor to have his coat mended.
803.
310. (Christmas tree.)
tree, or 67. Vino.
294. It is in a good frame of mind.
302.
fire.
312.
makes Iowa.
Are— A-re-a.
"
Iota.
324. It
825.
I
\a sold.
He
a>
up a brawl, or an alarm
309. Get
313. Long-fellow.
293. Herschell (her shell).
296.
308. Beat a base-drum, or grind hand-organ.
of
Arbor
Scrub oak. Burning bush
307. Mr. Dashwood, being at the point of death, sent for his friends They sent for Dr and relatives. Childs, who inclosed a few lines to Dr. Barnes and imp-lo-red his assisBut before he arrived, the tance. invalid died, and the undertaker sent for.
(as
Southernwood 60. Tallow, snowIvy.
can't climb a tree.
it
wm
fee).
57. Tiller-tree or 58.
Smoke
305. Leg-horn.
the
o'
95
is
a
little better,
326. It
is
due
327. It
is
a letter of blood.
328.
The
329.
He
letter
gives
it
A.
up
;
ANSWERS
96
TO PUZZLES.
880. They are the candid 8 (candidate) of their party. 331.
Down
mouth. from A-ram.
364.
in the
332. Descended
S3o.
Under a pear (pair) Under a hop- vine.
836. Because he
is
—hate—hatch.
Hat
366.
A
367.
The one close their eyes. The other eye their clothes
tree.
369.
The Of
The letters. 338. First, they were not inclined to prey, and afierwards they were
" " ' " "
Tovtii-owa.
840.
makes Tents
He rifles the deer (dear). One child from two parents children from two pa-
341. Cab-in.
342. 2 and 2
344.
When he
345.
A
He
in
rags old
is
«'
gives
it
bend. bin.
brags. bold.
bone.
always on the spot,
up."
heir (air).
851. It has breathed into
it
the
life.
A soap-bubble. A clock.
354.
He
make would make
I
did, sir.
-
cot
-
coat
*'
gin
-
gain.
«
cub
-
Cuba.
1 ! '
him Merry's Museum. 374. Let him subscribe for Merry*i Museum, and always pay in advance. is
always expected with
interest.
y
The " lap" is the place where infanii^ repose. And " tea" is a plant that we use ; To " Parley" 's to treat by word, I suppoe* And " pear" is a fruit we all choose. ' Many youth like " to eat," I'm afraid, 876.
feel pleasure. if.
a
lie.
Italy.
357. He may keep a watch, but he can't tell the time of day. 358. The gong makes a din. The cook makes a dinner. 869. One-sided, sir.
Once
her
near. hear.
yond measure.
356. He carries his reins (heart) in bis hand.
— oak— coal—lock.
860. Cloak 361. Wood. 362. 301.
/
to Joab. -
And part of the head is the " ear," And what is more common than, when
gets wet.
S55. It would
hina.
373. Give
375. It
They are more airy. 350. The boy can see his shadow, The shadow can't see him.
349.
353.
changed Job " "
fly.
is his
bell.
biU.
The groom curries him; The dog bites him, The groom bits him. 372. The letter A.
reel.
the butter
It
" " « " « "
end
made Ner
The shade on the dial. 347. They are the grub that makes
352.
370.
It
346.
breath of
makes
ill,
" one
The ploughshare.
348. It
letter B. ell, it
371. The dog worries
3.
Two make 4.
343.
step farther.
368. A-dri-atic.
a deer.
337.
339.
when
365. Chair.
333. There are more rakes than beaux there.
334.
363. In the Eastern wars, elephants were employed.
Or grief, to give vent to a " tear." " Peter Parley" 's distinguished I'm sure a writer. And welcom'd by all with a smile And surely no book is a greater exciter Than this, which goes many a mile.
i
377. It is cheap at any price. 378. Merry's Museum. 379. It instructs and amuses chU dren. ^ 380. The one suffered wantonly, The other from want only. 381. Her-ring. 382. Because it contains valuaU articles, wood-cuts, etc.
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