110 HOME- AMUSEMENTS.

CHARADE XXXVII.

HY freedom, my first, is the Englishman’s boast,
Behold him enraptured! ’tis liberty’s toast ;—
My next is a term oft applied to a throng
Of gypsies so jovial, with fiddle and song:—
My whole is a set of stout desperadoes,
Who terror create by their feats and bravadoes.

 

CHARADE XXXVIII.

M* first is a preposition; my second a composition;
my whole an acquisition.

 

CHARADE XXXIX.

Y first is what gossips do when they meet; my
second is eaten with chicken or veal; my whole
is a well known port and naval station in Kent.

 

CHARADE XL.

Y first is of the tiger kind; my second is a pre-
position, at the head of elementary literature;