14 HOME AMUSEMENTS.

RIDDLE XXIV.
O a word of consent, add,one half of a fright ;
Next subjoin what you never beheld in the night :
These rightly connected, you'll quickly obtain
What numbers have seen, but will ne’er see again.

 

RIDDLE XXV.
FROM Siberia’s frozen realms am brought,

Or in the wilds of Canada am sought:
But soon, by art, a domicile I form,
At once convenient, elegant and warm.
Within the compass of this pretty cell,
But two inhabitants can hope to dwell ;
Here, snug and warm, in spite of wind and weather,
They both may live most lovingly together.
When spritig returns, with blooming flow’rets gay,
My fickle inmates from my shelter stray ;
And through the summer months inconstant roam,
Till winter’s cold recalls the wanderers home.

 

RIDDLE XXVI,
Y body’s taper’d fine and neat,
I’ve but one eye, yet am complete;