98 ' HOME AMUSEMENTS.

Unite then my first and my second together,
And banish the gloom that’s produced by dull weather.

 

CHARADE XIII.

He child of a peasant, Rose, thought it no shame
To toil at my first all the day;

When her father grew rich, and a farmer became,

- My first to my second gave way.

Then she married a merchant, who brought her to town;
To this eminent station preferred,

Of my first and my second unmindful she’s grown,
And gives all her time to my third.

 

CHARADE XIY.
Ho“. inverted and odd is the fate of the slave

Who is closely imprison’d before he is taken!
Such indeed is my first, who can frequently save
Your health or your spirits, by malady shaken.
When the youthful are robbed of their gay recreations,
And the aged are racked by misfortune and care;
When old maids in their prudery frown at flirtations,
My next is the aspect they commonly wear.