118 HOME AMUSEMENTS.

My second’s a term which myself will express;
My third, respiration will stop;

My whole is of vegetive kind, I confess,
And grows with a globular top.

 

CHARADE LVI.

MY first is a plaything; my second few play with;
my third plays with nobody.

 

CHARADE LYVII,
Y first is a place where no promises bind;
My second is toss’d by each wavering wind:
My whole is unstable as friendship or weather;
And those who trust to it rely on a feather.

 

CHARADE LVIII.

Y first does with ladies and lawyers abound,
And in regular families always is found;
My second to water or wind may belong, ~
Or to twenty things more, had I room in my song:
My whole is a thing that its fate does bemoan,
’Midst a sound that is form’d of a tune and a groan.