CHARADES. 118

ships, is generally a man of low condition, expert at a
catch: my whole isa pretty little animal, which, the
poets say, was a beautiful though unfortunate lady.

CHARADE XLY.

V HEN, at the great Omnipotent’s command,
Out of black chaos rose both sea and land,

My first was made, and had both life and breath—

Ate, drank, and toil’d like us, and slept in death.

My next, a creature small, of numerous race,

Made subject to my first by special grace:

My whole, though hard, and sought in burning soil,
When found, rewards the lab’rer for his toil.

 

CHARADE XLVI
M Y first is marked by good or ill,

Or is a blessing or a woe;
My second does each purpose fill
Of use, variety, or show:

I