96 HOME AMUSEMENTS.

My whole describes, with nicest care,
Hach object that it treats on:

And bids each cautious wight beware ~
Of sharpers when he meets one.

 

CHARADE IX.

W itHouT my first I ne’er should need the aid
Of Betty (simple soul !) the dairy maid;

My second (start not, ladies) claims a place

As well in yours as in the tiger’s face:

My whole’s elicited by Sol’s bright ray,

To deck the bosom of sweet smiling May.

 

CHARADE X.

F, ladies, ye my first require,
I'm offspring of a stormy sire;
My second, on an April morn,
Hangs pendant from the budding thorn:
In innocence and beauty too,
My whole, ye fair, resembles you,