= Fao : z : es ie = bs a 1 HOME AMUSEMENTS; » RIDDLES, CHARADES, REBUSES, | CONUNDRUMS, PARLOUR GAMES, AND FORFEITS, BY PETER PUZZLEWELL, ESQ. OF REBUS HALL. ‘Net Bdition, N . . LONDON: GRANT AND GRIFFITH, SUCCESSORS 70 JOHN HARRIS, CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. LONDON: R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL. CONTENTS. PAGE RIDDLES. . . . . 7 » od, SOLUTIONS . : : ‘ . 179 ENIGMATICAL LisT OF BIRDS 7 : . . 89 SOLUTIONS . . ‘ . : . ° 90 List oF ENGLISH. TOWNS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED - OT Key To List or Towns . ‘ . : 92 CHARADES . . . e : . - 93 SOLUTIONS . : . : : : 183 REBUSES . . : : . . . 134 SOLUTIONS . . . . : . 185 THE RIDDLING FoREST . . 7 . .. 189 Key To THE RIDDLING FOREST .« . 7 141 ANAGRAMS. : : . . . . , 142 CoNUNDRUMS . . , . . 7 “148 SOLUTIONS . . . . . . 185 GAMES . » 7 . - . 150 MISCELLANEOUS AMUSEMENTS . . . . 167 ForFEITS ’ ; * . . ‘ 174 | HOS 0.0.0. 0.0 Grp oro. » EE BGOOQOS ee Cee j ee ee oe oe oo : RIDDLES. $38.. re oy CIRO é —— oeppaovonegoeaae pocapear Gey Fo isicmrncmete eeoeo rss : DESH AES ae ie DORIC OC NOI SOO Oe OVO RIB ERI RIES ON Wy RIDDLE If, ve N deepest solitudes I most delight, Remote from cities, far from human sight; Perfict j in beauty, happy, atid alone,. I oft am mentioned, though I’m never known. Yet men to me still constantly compare All that is curious, excellent, and rare: T feel the moment destined for-my doom, And form at ance an altar and.a.tomb; But, wondrous prodigy ! though I expire, I prove a father in consuming fire. 2 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE II. ITT WAS whispered in heaven, twas muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell ; On. the confines of earth ’twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed ; *T will be found in the sphere when it’s riven asunder, Be seen in the lightning, and heard in the thunder ; "T'was allotted to man in his earliest breath, Attends at his birth, and awaits him in death ; Presides o’er his happiness, honour, and health, Is the prop of his house and the end of his wealth ; In the heaps of the miser ’tis hoarded with care, But-is sure to be lost in the prodigal heir. It begins ev'ry hope, ev’ry wish it must bound, With the husbandman toils, and with monarchs is crowned. Without it the soldier and seaman may roam, But woe to the wretch that expels it from home. In the whispers of conscience its voice will be found, Nor e’en in the whirlwind of passion be drowned. It will soften the heart ; though deaf to the ear, Twill make it acutely and instantly hear. But in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower ; Oh! breathe on it softly—it dies in an hour ! RIDDLES. 3 RIDDLE III. . [NX spring I look gay, Deck’d in comely array ; In summer more clothing J wear ; As colder it grows, I throw off my clothes, And in winter quite naked appear. RIDDLE IV. AM a thing that many say Is bought with toil and trouble ; What all would wish for once a day, Yet few desire to double. RIDDLE V. THHERE is a certain natural production, which is nei- ther animal, vegetable, nor mineral: it commonly exists from two to six feet from the earth’s surface ; it is neither male nor female, but oftenest between both ; has neither height, breadth, width, nor thickness; it is often mentioned in the Old Testament, and stands 4 HOME. AMUSEMENTS. strongly recommended in the New: and is at the same time subservient to the purposes of fidelity and treachery. RIDDLE VI. PRAY tell me, ladies, if you can, Who is that highly favour’d man, Who, though he marry many a wife, - May still live single all his life ? - RIDDLE VII. WwuHat disappointed persons are ; What tailors always do; Our grandmothers’ delight declare, Though now despised by you. RIDDLE VIII. [™ small of body, yet contain The extremes of pleasure and of pain ; T nor beginning have, nor end, More hollow than the falsest friend, If I entrap some heedless zany, Or in my magic circle any RIDDLES. 5 Have enter’d, from my sorcery No power on earth can set them free,— At least, all human force is vain, , Or less than many hundred men. .___ Though endless, yet nor short nor Jong ; And what, though I’m so wondrous strong, The veriest child, that’s pleased to try, ’ Might carry fifty such as I. E RIDDLE IX. "T*WO women went to market to sell their eggs, one had more in her basket than the other; the one who had the most said to the other, “ Give me one of your eggs, and then I shall have double the number that you have.”—** No,”- said the other ; “ give me one of yours, and then we shall have equal.” How many eggs had each of these women ? RIDDLE X. NEVER in a housé was born, Nor did I ever fly ; And yet to make the puzzle out, I soar into the sky. 6 HOME AMUSEMENTS, I oft contain both life and breath, And yet I never die; And though sometimes to remnants torn, I never heave a sigh. Oft, through ambition, I aspire, And go till I can go no higher ; And then, like many men s0 great, I sink into a lower state. RIDDLE XI. A SHOEMAKER makes shoes without any leather, With all the four elements put together— Fire, water, earth, and air,— And every customer takes two pair. RIDDLE XII. A THING that’s insipid—a comical fellow, And dignity’s mark in the Kast, Which may be either long, short, black, white, or yellow, And is generally found in a beast, A creature portrays, which appears in the spring, And you often have seen, but never heard sing. RIDDLES. RIDDLE XIII. ART of a tree—if right transposed— An insect then will be disclosed, Which robs me of my precious sleep, And makes me painful vigils keep. ‘ RIDDLE XIV. I W AS born in a forest, and wear a green head, And with green heads am compass'd full oft, Some younger, some older, Some sly, and some bolder, Some harder, and some very soft. As various specks on my face do appear, Of different colours and shapes, So intent on the matter, Some grin, and some chatter, Like 2 parcel of monkeys or apes. By nature I’m harmless, but not so by art; The art not my own, but my neighbouw’s ; If you suffer by me, Your own fault it must be, And you'll e’en have your pains for your labours. HOME AMUSEMENTS. ‘RIDDLE XV. MBLEM of youth and innocence, With thorns enclos’d, for my defence, And with no care oppress’d ; I boldly spread my charms around, _ Till some rude lover breaks the mound, And takes me to his ‘breast. Here soon I sicken and decay, . My beauty’s lost, I’m turned away, And thrown upon the street ; Where I despised and rolling lie, Am trampled on by passers by, And num’rous insults meet. Ladies, contemplate well my fate, Reflect upon my wretched state ; Implore th’ Almighty’s aid, Lest you (which Heaven forbid !) like me, Come to contempt and misery, Be ruin’d and betrayed. RIDDLE XVI. N° body I have, No food I e’er crave, RIDDLES. And yet of long legs I have two; Yet I never walk, And FT never talk, Then what does my nobody do? If you move me, then I Move most pliantly, And my feet always serve me for hands; I gather up all, The great and the small, As my master or mistress commands. If you straddle me wide, ‘T then cannot ride, And this for the best of all reasons ; For nothing D’ve got, On which I can trot, In winter or in summer seasons. Although you may stare, This is all, I declare, So now tell my name if you can; [ll farther make known, In the same honest tone, I’m neither child, woman, nor man. 10 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE XVII. SAY, what is that the infant smile displays, Whilst on its little form we fondly gaze; And, like a circling halo, seems to shed A lambent glory round its lovely head ? But soon, too soon, alas! in after life, Amidst conflicting passions’ raging strife, The charm is lost; and then we vainly mourn This first bést gift which never can return ! Happy the few, who, in the arms of death, , Hold fast this treasure to their latest breath ; Serenely they may sink into the tomb, “ And wake to rapture in a life to come.” RIDDLE XVIII. [™ strangely capricious, I’m sour or I’m sweet, To housewives am useful, to children a treat ; Yet I freely confess I more mischief have done, Than anything else that is under the sun. RIDDLE XIX. HOUGH made by art, ’tis nature gives.me voice ; I answer all, yet never speak, by choice : RIDDLES. 11 One only language I can talk, yet should In every country be understood. Unless peculiarly inspired, I’m dumb 3. I know not what is past, nor what’s to come. What I said yesterday, to-day is new, And will be so to-morrow, yet be true, RIDDLE XX. HAT? is that syren, whose enchanting song Draws the unthinking multitude along ; That feeds, with faithless hopes and luring bait, The poor deluded wretch she means to cheat ? Men call her false, inconstant, cruel, vain,— Yet seek her favours with unwearied pain : Tl’ unhappy bear her frowns, still led away With éxpectation of a better day ; The ambitious court her smiles :—only the wise Both her and all her gilded pomp despise ; Her fairy kingdom, her fantastic good, Remote, alluring ; ; nothing, nearer view’d. RIDDLE XXI. IRST I may be your servant’s name; Then your desires I may proclaim; 12 HOME AMUSEMENTS. And, when your mortal life is o’er, Hold all your wealth within my power. RIDDLE XXII. I CONTAIN many gallons of drink; Yet I often am held to the lip; Scarce Goliath could lift me, you'd think ; And yet I can hold but a sip. From the top of your house I descend, And under the pavement I crawl ; I furnish whole cities with drink ; Though seldom they see me at all. RIDDLE XXIII. EEP in the bosom of the earth T lie conceal’d from sight, Till man, who ransacks nature through, Displays my form to light. Yet, when I first salute the view, I’m rude and void of use; Til frost, which other objects binds, Assists to set me loose. RIDDLES. 13° Then, polish’d by the artist’s hands, Tn wood I’m closely bound ; And where fair learning calls her sons, My ready help is found. To me the sciences are known; In Algebra I shine, In Mathematics often deal, ‘ And make each problem mine. To me the wisest heads submit, The deepest scholars bend ; And, though I neither read nor write, I’m learning’s common friend, Of neither sense nor love possess’d, The strongest sense I aid ; -_ Relieve the mem’ry of its load, And ease the studious head, Yet soon my knowledge is effaced, _ And ev’ry trace is lost; And oft again I’m filled with lore, Nor feel the conscious boast. 14 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE XXIV. O a word of consent, add,one half of a fright ; Next subjoin what you never beheld in the night : These rightly connected, you'll quickly obtain What numbers have seen, but will ne’er see again. RIDDLE XXV. FROM Siberia’s frozen realms am brought, Or in the wilds of Canada am sought: But soon, by art, a domicile I form, At once convenient, elegant and warm. Within the compass of this pretty cell, But two inhabitants can hope to dwell ; Here, snug and warm, in spite of wind and weather, They both may live most lovingly together. When spritig returns, with blooming flow’rets gay, My fickle inmates from my shelter stray ; And through the summer months inconstant roam, Till winter’s cold recalls the wanderers home. RIDDLE XXVI, Y body’s taper’d fine and neat, I’ve but one eye, yet am complete; RIDDLES. 150 You'd judge me, by my equipage, The greatest warrior of the age ; For when you have survey’d me round, Nothing but steel is to be found ; Yet men I ne’er was known to kill, Though ladies’ blood I often spill. RIDDLE XXVII." [NX wealth I abound; in water I stand ; As a fencer I’m valued all over the land ; At Venice I’m famous; by farmers I’m prized ; “Respected by law, yet by huntsmen despised ; Consternation and ruin ensue when I break; © And the beasts of the forest advantage on’t take. RIDDLE XXVIII. PHOUGH from York and from Yarmouth I’m never away, You'll find me always at the end of the day: Tn years though I am, and haye been all my life, T’m found with a hautboy, though not with a fife: T’m always in play—and with some little boy Am constantly found, deep engaged with his toy. _ 16 HOME AMUSEMENTS. One thing sure remains, which I scarely dare write, Indeed it a falsehood appears to the sight ; But you safely may say to your friend, if you please, I dwell in your eyes in the middle of e’es, . RIDDLE XXIX. HAVE no head, and a tail I lack, But oft have arms, and legs, and back ; I inhabit the palace, the tavern, the cot— "Tis a beggarly residence where I am not. If a monarch were present (I tell you no fable), I still should be placed at the head of the table. RIDDLE XXX. : ' CUT off heads without remorse, And yet I never make a corse ; T guillotine to give new life,— Th’ invention’s better than a knife. I’m sometimes patent, sometimes not, Yet an old-fashioned name I’ve got. Sometimes I have a costly stand, Sometimes a plain one, at command— And oft’ner none,—and so, adieu! I’m sure I am well known to you. © RIDDLES. 17 RIDDLE XXXI. [N vain you struggle to regain me, When lost, you never can obtain me ; And yet, what’s odd, you sigh and fret, Deplore my loss,-and have me yet, And often using me quite ill, And seeking ways your slave to kill,— Then promising in future you Will give to me the homage due. Thus we go on froth year to year,— My name pray let the party hear. RIDDLE XXXII. HRRE from the east arose the lamp of day, Or Cynthia gilt the night with paler ray— Ere earth was form’d, or ocean knew its place, Long, long anterior to the human race, — J did exist. In chaos I was found, When awful darkness shed its gloom around. In heaven I dwell, in those bright realms above, And in the radiant ranks of angels move. But when th’ Almighty, by his powerful call, Made out of nothing this stupendous ball, 18 ‘ HOME AMUSEMENTS. I did appear, and still upon this earth Am daily seen, and every day have birth. With Adam I in Paradise was seen, When the vile serpent tempted Eve to sin; And, since the fall, I with the humen race Partake their shame and manifest disgrace. In the dark caverns of old ocean drear Lever was, and ever shall appear. In every battle firmly I have stood, When plains seem lav’d, whole oceans dy’d with blood. But, hold—no more ! It now remains with you To find me out and bring me forth to view. RIDDLE XXXII. W HAT is that which, while it lives, constantly changes its habit, that is buried before it is dead, and whose tomb is valued wherever it is found ? RIDDLE XXXIV. EFORE my birth I have a name, But soon as born I lose the same ; And when I’m laid within the tomb, I do my father’s name assume : RIDDLES. ‘Td I change my name three days together, Yet live but one in any weather. “ PIDDLE XXXV. : IXTEEN aajeSres, twenty-four pronouns, a dis- appointed lobster, an oyster in love, and nineteen , tadicals, may all be expressed in one common liquid, which you must discover. ; RIDDLE XXXVI. BY me extended commerce reigns, And rolls from shore to shore : { mark the poles in azure plains, Nor dread the tempest’s roar. Relying on my friendly aid, The sailor:smiles serene ; Where clouds the blue expanse o’erspread, And suns arise in vain. Yet mean my form and low my birth, No gaudy tints I show ; Drawn from my fertile mother earth, Through purging fires I go. " HOME AMUSEMENTS. Till fashion’d by the artist’s skill, He ties the marriage-chain, When I my destined ends fulfil, And long my love remains. RIDDLE XXXVI. IRECT, I very small appear— Transpose, and then some news is near— Subtract a letter from my name, To please a boy, the rest remain ;— Or which, if they be backward read, Will please a drunkard in his stead. RIDDLE XXXVIII. O me maids frequent visits make, And always come for getting’s sake : And if their wants I can’t supply, They leave me discontentedly. When they arrive with their demand, They roughly shake me by the hand ; Nor quit me till I let them see The stream of good that flows from me: Of good indeed, for what on earth Was ever found t’approach its worth ? ‘RIDDLES. SI RIDDLE XXXIX, ATIVE of Cashmere, in each fragrant grove I reign, the pride and empress of the spring; And on my feast the black-eyed maidens love The gay profusion of my buds to fling. These are the fair resemblances of youth, Which with its pleasures swiftly fade away ; But my undying odour, like firm truth, ' Nor suffers change, nor ever knows decay. - RIDDLE XL. HE that in music takes delight, And he that sleeps secure by night, And he who sails too near the land, And he that’s caught by law’s strong hand ; He who his time in taverns spends, And he that courts of law attends ; He that explains heraldic signs, And he that works in silver mines,— Are all acquainted well with me : My name you surely now must see. 22 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE XLI.° A WORD that’s composed of three letters alone, And is backward and forward the same ; Without speaking a word makes its sentiments known, And to beauty lays principal claim. RIDDLE XLII. HAT is that which is in the constant possession of every human being: which cannot be bought, yet has been sold: it is invisible—never seen, but often felt ? . ‘ : RIDDLE XLHUI. pase first a small and dainty fish, Then off its head pray sever ; You then will see where oft I’ve been; And could have stayed for ever. RIDDLE XLIV. ’M used by ladies, monks, and popes, Composed of diamonds, ribands, ropes ; With pious virgins I am found, And silent hermits I surround : RIDDLES. 23 The feign’d astrologer to me Owes half of his celebrity. Venus, by my guardian care, Was more bewitching and more fair. Ladies, may you successful prove, As the once fabled Queen of Love! But use your power in better part, Not to betray but win the heart. RIDDLE XLV. [™ here, and I’m there, and I’m everywhere ; In one place not a moment I stay ; Like a goblin or sprite, I appear in the night, And Shakspeare declares me a fay. However this be, I am civil, you see, In giving you pretty good warning, That unless you take care, you will very ill fare, And perhaps may be drowned before morning. ° RIDDLE XLVI. QNCE in a year I’m sought with care, And all that year I’m trusted ; But when that year is out, you are With my advice disgusted. 24 HOME AMUSEMENTS, RIDDLE XLVII. WHat ladies with a grace may do ; What, when you’re dress’d, sits well on you; What many a man who has a wife, Submits to, for a quiet life. RIDDLE XLVIII. [THE brute that’s most despised by man, Yet does him all the good he can ; Who bore the greatest Prince on earth, That gave to righteousness new birth : ‘Who sometimes does o’er death prevail, And health restores when doctors fail. RIDDLE XLIX. (THERE'S not a creature lives beneath the sky, Can secrets keep so faithfully as I; All things for safety are to me consign’d, Although I often leave them far behind ; I never act but by another’s will, And what he should command I must fulfil. ta cr RIDDLES. RIDDLE 1. T me crowds assemble, At me thousands tremble; T’'m gaiety’s friend ; I to life put an end; In the air hurled on high, Fraught with ruin I fly ; For dancing I’m famed ; For murder oft blamed ; I’m frequent in duels, I oft display jewels ; I describe the whole earth ; I occasion much mirth ; That I’m found in your eye, And your thumb, don’t deny. RIDDLE LI. PROM the third Harry’s time we our pedigree trace, But some will aver more ancient our race; We are born amidst bustle, and riot and noise; We're a numerous family, all of us boys; ‘We are mere human creatures, like you or another, 26 HOME AMUSEMENTS. Yet to make us requires no aid from a mother; And, what is more strange, we have oft a twin brother. Weare none of us dumb—some have language profuse— But two words are as much as most of us use: One little hint more to give I think fit, — We all of us stand before we can sit. RIDDLE LI. HAT power of the soul is that by which we per- ceive, know, remember, and judge, as well singu- lars as universals: having certain innate notices or be- ginnings of arts; a reflecting action, by which it judgeth of its own doings, and also examines them? RIDDLE LII. THREE feet I have, but ne’er attempt to go, And many nails thereon, but not one toe. RIDDLE LIV. Two brothers, wisely kept apart, Together ne’er employ’d, Though to one purpose we are bent, Each takes a different side. RIDDLES. : 27 To us no head nor mouth belongs, Yet plain our tongues appear ; With them we never speak a word, Without them useless are. In blood and wounds we deal, yet good In temper we are proved ; From passion we are always free, Yet oft with anger movd. We travel much, yet pris’ners are, And close confined to boot ; Can with the fleetest horse keep pace, Yet always go on foot. RIDDLE LV. 1 AM a small volume, and frequently bound Tn silk, satin, silver, or gold; My worth and my praises the females resound: By females my science is told. My leaves are all scarlet, my letters are steel, Each letter contains a great treasure ; To the poor they bring lodging, and fuel, and meal, To the rich entertainment and pleasure. HOME AMUSEMENTS. The sempstress explores me by day and by night, Not a page but she turns o’er and o’er; Though sometimes I injure the milliner’s sight, Still I add to her credit and store. ’Tis true, I am seldom regarded by men; Yet what would the males do without me? Let them boast of their head, or boast of their pen, Still vain is their boast, if they flout me. RIDDLE LVI, N camps about the centre I appear; In smiling meadows seen throughout the year; The silent angler views me in the streams, And all must trace me in their morning dreams; First in each mob conspicuous I stand, Proud of the lead and ever in command ; Without my power no mercy can be shown, Or soft compassion to their hearts be known ; Each sees me in himself, yet all agree Their hearts and persons have no charm for me; The chemist proves my virtue upon ore, For, touch’d by me, he changes it to more. RIDDLES. 29 RIDDLE LVI. AM by nature soft as silk, By nature too as white as milk ; T am a constant friend to man, And serve him every way I can. When dipped in wax or plunged in oil, I make his winter evenings smile: By India taught, I spread his bed, Or deck his fav’rite Celia’s head; Her gayest garbs I oft compose, And, ah!—sometimes—I wipe her nose. RIDDLE LVIII. HAT is the power of the rational soul, which covets or avoids such things as have been before judged and apprehended by the understanding? RIDDLE LIX. AM rough, I am smooth, Tam wet, I am dry; My station is low, But my title is High; The King my lawful master is,— I’m used by all, though only his. 50 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE LX. MY head and tail both equal are, My middle slender as a bee; Whether I stand on head or heel, *Tis all the same to you or me. But if my head should be cut off, The matter’s true although ’tis strange, My head and body sever’d thus, Immediately to nothing change, RIDDLE LXI. HAT word is that, which, though consisting of four syllables, is properly spelt in two letters only; and, though openly seen, is still invisible? RIDDLE LXII. I are a couple, sharp and bright, And yet when far asunder, We never aided mortal wight, Which may excite your wonder. RIDDLES. 3l And yet we must divided be, To prove of any use; And then you every day may see The wonders we produce. The most uncouth and shapeless mass To form full well we know; We ornament the sprightly lass, We decorate the beau. Ladies, you must to us apply, J For every robe you wear ; "Tis we the cut and shape supply, And make it debonair. That pretty trifle too we fill, Yelep’d a chiffoniére : And now, if you have any skill, Our name you may declare. RIDDLE LXIII. Wwiti monks and with hermits, I chiefly reside, Irom courts and from camps at a distance ; The ladies, who ne’er could my presence abide, To banish me join their assistance. 32 HOME AMUSEMENTS. Though seldom I flatter, I oft show respect To the prelate, the patriot, and peer; But sometimes, alas! a sad proof of neglect, Or a mark of contempt, I appear. By the couch of the sick, I am frequently found, And I always attend on the dead; With patient affliction, I sit on the ground, But if talk’d of, Pm instantly fled. RIDDLE LXIV.’ GAY, what is that which in its form unites All that is graceful, elegant, and true; By all admired, by all acknowledged great, And (as I trust) sincerely loved by you; Which ever on the virtuous attends, And of their peace will surest safeguard prove; The best support of noble, upright minds, The best foundation of connubial love? RIDDLE LXV. T™ tall and square made; by my neighbours most seen: : Am partly without doors, and partly within ; RIDDLES. 33 T always stand still, and ne’er go to bed ; The food I take in goes out at my head. If my stomach’s o’ercharged, assistance is found, Which cures, but ne’er fails to proclaim it around: Of late I have been more than usual opprest With a kind of a whirligig placed in my breast. I’m often so hot, that there are many days, When a spark, I may say, would set me in blaze. RIDDLE LXYI. ERFECT with a head, perfect without a head; perfect with a tail, perfect without a tail; per- fect with either, neither, or both. RIDDLE LXVII. [™ fair to a proverb, as feathers I’m light, But dark and quite heavy, if squeezed rather tight ; Though candid and pure is the face that I wear, Yet many poor innocents oft I ensnare ; And though neither coquet, a prude, nor a rake, The foulest impressions I eusily take : My parent and I do produce one another— Mamma creates daughter, and daughter the mother. D 34 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE LXYIII. AKE me entire my salutary juice In medicine will prove of sovereign use. Divide me,—that does such a change create, I’m found pure water in a double state. RIDDLE LXIX. HAT two persons are those, whose powers are equal, and whose influence extends from pole to pole? RIDDLE LXX. HO is the wizard, that with ease Can clothe a barren soil with trees, And in an instant can transform A barren heath to verdant lawn ? Who cures the palsy, stone, and gout, Embellishes a ball or rout; Promises mines of untried wealth,’ With beauty’s bloom and vig’rous health ? Who then descends to meaner things, Offering razor-strops for kings : RIDDLES. ~ 35 And oftentimes will not refuse E’en the best blacking for your shoes ? RIDDLE LXXI, HERE was a man bespoke a thing, Which when the owner home did bring, He that made it did refuse it, He that bought it would not use it ; And he that had it could not tell Whether it suited ill or well. RIDDLE LXXII. ROM India’s burning clime I’m brought, With cooling gales by zephyrs fraught ; For Iris when she paints the sky, Shews not more different hues than I ; Nor can she change her form so fast ;— T’m now a sail, and now a mast ; IT here am red, and there am green ; A beggar there, and here a queen. I sometimes live in house of hair, And oft in hand of lady fair. 36 JIOME AMUSEMENTS. I please the young, I grace the old, And am at once both hot and cold. Now meditate and duly scan, And tell my title if you can. RIDDLE LXXIII. OF a brave set of brethren I stand at the head, And, to keep them quite warm, I cram three in a bed ; Six of them in prison unfeelingly put, And three I confine in a mean little hut : To escape my fell gripe, three reside in the sky ; And, though strange it may seem, we have all but one eye: Our shape is as various as wondrous our use is, Of science the source, and the soul of the Muses. RIDDLE LXXIV. WO beaux are Harriet’s constant pride, For ever dangling at her side ; An inch their due they take an ell,— ‘The name of Harriet’s beaux pray tell. RIDDLES. ~T OD RIDDLE LXXYV. W HEN Phebus darts his early ray, I then in sparkling gems appear ; Brush’d from the fragrant hawthorn’s spray, Transient and bright as beauty’s tear: For I adorn the queen of flowers, Trembling on the verdant lawn ; Tm seen in Fora’s rosy bowers, And am exhaled as soon as born. RIDDLE LXXVI. ‘WERE sometimes three, or only two, or one, And in such cases are esteemed by none ; But when we’re many, in exalted station, We often form a people’s recreation. Being loquacious, we delight to sing The lofty acts of hero, patriot, king. Nor about these alone we make a clatter, We do as much for any other matter ; For, sympathise with man we ever must, We hail his birth-day, or lament his dust ; And we’re such fav’rites, that where’er we dwell, That place is truly said to bear the bell. 38 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE UXXVII. O the noise of a bird Unite one third Of a fruit which grows in the field ; And they will declare What those men wear Who regal authority wield. RIDDLE LXXVIII. I COUNTERFEIT all bodies, yet have none; Bodies have shadows, shadows give me one ; Loved for another’s sake, that person yet Is my chief enemy, whene’er we meet; Thinks me too old, though blest with endless youth ; And, like a monarch, hates my speaking truth. RIDDLE LXXIX. HAT is the longest and the shortest thing in the world? The swiftest and the slowest? The most indivisible and the most extended? The least valued, and the most regretted? = Withiut . which nothing can be done? Which devours ally that is small, yet gives life to all that is great ? iu RIDDLES. 39 RIDDLE LXXX. OUND is my shape, my size as broad as long, Firm is my basis, and my nerves are strong ; With double breast, and buttons round my waist, With hoops, and loops, and stays and laces graced :' The colours, titles, and the arms I bear, Blazon my fame, and speak my character. Ten thousand vassals at my levee stand, Come when I call, and move at my command. By me inspired, men keep or break the peace ; I fire their rage, or make their fury cease. Myself obnoxious to a tyrant’s will, Who wreaks unpity’d vengeance on me still ; Racking my limbs, he turns me o’er and o’er, He lugs my ears, and thumps me till I roar. RIDDLE LXXXI. I OFTEN can call forth impressions of fear, And the eye I can sometimes bedew with a tear ; J also can make it with pleasure look bright, And cause it to beam with a sense of delight. Again, I am certain it’s often been found, That I culture the mind instead of the ground ; 40 HOME AMUSEMENTS. But, alas! I no longer must herald out praise, Or think that I merit a garland of bays ; To wisdom or virtue I make no pretence, And I do not possess one idea of sense. RIDDLE LXXXII. riddle of riddles !—It dances and skips ; It is read in the eyes, though it cheats in the lips; Tf it meet with its match, it is easily caught ; But if money will buy it, ’tis not worth a groat. RIDDLE LXXXIII. Y OU eat me, you drink me, deny it who can ; I’m sometimes a woman and sometimes a man. RIDDLE LXXXIYV. J LIVED before the flood, yet still am young, I speak all languages, yet have no tongue ; In deserts was I bred; I know no schools, Nor ever understood the grammar rules ; Yet, when the courtly gallant talks with me, As polish’d in discourse I am as he. RIDDLES. 4] I am in France, in Spain, in England too ; Next moment, I’m in China or Peru. Yet legs to walk with, nature did deny, Nor have I fins to swim, nor wings to fly. I sympathise with all, in joy or pain ; Laugh with the merry, with the sad complain: By nature taught such an obliging way, That if you converse with me all the day, } I never once dissent from what you say, Where’er I am, to understand am plain, Yet all the while invisible remain ; Though thousands do, I ne’er shall die of age, Tull the last day concludes this mortal stage. RIDDLE LXXXV. FORMD half beneath and half above the earth, We sisters owe to art our second birth ; The smith’s and carpenter’s adopted daughters, Made on the earth, to travel o’er the waters. Swifter we move, the straighter we are bound ; Yet neither touch the sea nor air, nor ground. We serve the poor for use, the rich for whim, Sink when it rains, and when it freezes swim. 43 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE LXXXYVI. HOUGH legs I have got, it is seldom I walk ; Though many I backbite, yet I never talk ; In places most secret I seek to hide me, For he who feeds me never can abide me. RIDDLE LXXXVII. E are little brethren twain, Arbiters of loss and gain ; Many to our counters run, Some are made, and some undone : But men find it, to their cost, Few are made, but numbers lost : Though we play them tricks for ever, Yet they always hope our favour. RIDDLE LXXXVIII. W HEN from this life grim death the husband takes, And of his wife a lonely widow makes, Then into being I am brought you'll find, For oft I ease the sad desponding mind. RIDDLES. 43 Yet not with grief alone do I abound, With the excess of joy I’m sometimes found, Cut off my head, and then a thing you'll view, Which makes you understand what I tell you. Join on my head, and then cut off my tail, Then to your eyes it quickly will reveal A fav’rite bevrage of no small renown, With ladies, both in country and in town. RIDDLE LXXXIX. Ei bards, whose deep skill all dark mysteries can clear, Pray attend and discover my name ; Four brothers I have, and the fifth I appear, But our age is exactly the same. Yet I to their stature shall never attain, Though as fast as them always I grow ; By nature I’m fixed a dwarf to remain, And hence the enigma you'll know. RIDDLE XC. JRVER eating, never cloying ; All devouring, all destroying ; 44, HOME AMUSEMENTS. Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. RIDDLE XCI. LAIN to be saved, with much ado and pain, Scatter’d, dispersed, and gather’d up again ; Wither’d though young, sweet though not perfumed, ° And carefully laid up to be consumed. RIDDLE XCII. WAS form’d long ago, and by shepherds preferr’d, Yet on board of our ships I am frequently heard ; I inhabit aloft ; but, descend to the street, You will presently find me just under your feet. In the ball-rooms of fashion I sometimes am seen, And often enliven a dance on the green. I am stored by the rich, by the drunkard am prized ; And by Indian and Turk I am never despised. Immured in a dungeon, with anguish I’m fill’d ; My body is wounded, my blood is all spill’d. From mechanics and rabble still worse I endure ; For they burn out my entrails, and leave without cure. RIDDLES. 45 Yet a friend to all mortals I ever must be ; Nor poet nor songster exists without me: Peculiarly form’d, I delight a whole nation, And now am a riddle for your recreation. RIDDLE XCIII. EF suis & la téte de l’armée, Et je suis toujours en garde contre ’ennemi, | Et sans moi Paris serait pris. RIDDLE XCTY. AM just two and two—I am hot, I am cold, And the parent of numbers that cannot be told ; T am Jawful—unlawful ; a duty—a fault ; I am often sold dearly—worth nothing when bought ; An extraordinary boon, and a matter of course, And yielded with pleasure—when taken by force. RIDDLE XCV. W HAT is that which will give a cold—can cure a cold—and may pay the doctor? 46 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE XCVI. Six letters do my name compound ; Among the aged oft I’m found ; The shepherd also, by the brook, Hears me when leaning on his crook ; But in the middle me divide, And take the half on either side, Hach backward read, a liquor tell, Ev'ry gay toper knows it well. RIDDLE XCVII. I AM rough, smooth, hard, soft, long, short, round, flat, oval, square, or oblong. Am now honoured with the grasp of a monarch, and now in the hand of him who executes the meanest office. I possess the art of pleasing in a very eminent degree. Am now the delight of the idle beau, and now assist the skilful artist. My station is ever varying: I am now thrown carelessly in a corner, now put into the mouth, now in the pocket, and now under the grate. I will only add, that every room is indebted to me for its chicf ornament, ry RIDDLES. 47 RIDDLE XCVIII. [™ very handy at all work, Be it coarse or fine ; Oft to industry lend an aid, And forward its design. By men and women both retain’d, I grumble at no task ; Without a murmur toil all night, And no reward I ask. Though apt at everything I do, And following each rule, Yet at my mistress’s command I often go to school. RIDDLE XCIX. SUBLIME, erect, I cut the yielding air ; A guide as certain as the morning-star, I with unwearied pinions wing my way ; And round large circles in the sunbeams play. In single combat, with a valiant foe, I pluck’d the laurel from the champion’s brow, Giving both man and horse an overthrow. 48 HOME AMUSEMENTS. Within my house some ghostly fathers stand, Taking first-fruits and tithes without demand ; In robes of virgin innocence array’d, As white as priests in new-wash’d surplice clad, Yet they are said, like others in the land, To have an evil heart and griping hand. RIDDLE C. WO brothers we are, yet can’t hope to be saved ; From our very first day to our last we're enslaved; Our office the hardest, and food sure the worst, Being cramm’d with warm flesh till we’re ready to burst; Though low is our state, even kings we support, And at balls have the principal share in the sport. RIDDLE CI. W ITH you, ye lovely fair, whose charms impart, Or pain or pleasure to the wounded heart ; With you ofttimes o’er spacious plains I rove, O’er daisied meads or in the shady grove ; Oft am I fondled, clasp’d within your arms— A kind preservative to guard your charms. RIDDLES. 49 But what avails? Alas ! it is my lot— To be discarded and to be forgot ; For Pm neglected when pale Winter reigns With frigid influence o’er hills and plains : My brother then oft occupies my place, While I am left neglected in disgrace. From these few hints, I pray, my name dea I still will shelter and preserve the fair, RIDDLE CII. ’M a twin brother, mostly white as milk, Neatly attired in woollen or in silk ; On every belle I constantly attend, More in the guise of servant than of friend ; And if by chance I’m either stolen or stray’d, Shame and vexation seize the blushing maid. However, (and I own the act was civil, And shews that good may be educed from evil), The loss of such a little paltry thing, Hinted a decoration to a king. 50 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CIII. BXoucHe for one—too much for two—and nothing at all for three. RIDDLE CIY. [™ the frailest and weakest of possible things, Yet often secure what may overturn kings ; I’m entrusted with secrets by age and by youth, And perish before I discover the truth, Though weak, P’m inflexible—break ere I bend ;— But Pil mention no more—for I’m at your tongue’s end. RIDDLE CY. N Gothic towers and palaces I dwell, _ In deep recesses of the hallow’d cell; In gloomy caves, where man ne’er dared His form to trust, my plaintive voice is heard. *Mongst hollow rocks, I take my airy flight, My form secluded still from mortal sight ; Bred by the offspring of the human mind, I to the world an instant passage find. Yet short the space of time my life can boast, Born in one moment, in another lost, RIDDLES. 51 I once a nymph was—sported on the plains, The pride and glory of the neighbouring swains ; Till, cross’d in love, I left my native glade, My form consumed, and dwindled to a shade. RIDDLE CVI. BRITONS, in me you may behold, of late, A dismal instance of inconstant fate : Five thousand years and more ran gently round, While I, from most, respect and honour found ; By heroes, sages, senators, caress’ ; To kings and princes no unwelcome guest ; Nay, in such great request—so ran the taste— That those without me seemed to be disgraced. But see the issue of my prosperous fate ! Scarce dare I offer to appear of late, But men my life with fatal steel pursue, And all around my mangled members strew. RIDDLE CVIL. THO man, bird, and beast, I am found to belong, And with lovers am known as the theme of their song 5 52 HOME AMUSEMENTS. I’m the fountain of life and the centre of feeling, A wound made in me admits of no healing ; In some Iam cold and in others am not ; But if ever you dine on me, have me quite hot. RIDDLE CVIII. HAT could man do without my aid, Or what each fair, industrious maid ? I lead the first o’er sea and land, The second takes me by the hand, Presses me close, with care and skill, And makes me do whate’er she will. I cannot boast of many charms— Dve neither feet, nor legs, nor arms ; But all allow I have an eye, So fine, it may with beauty vie. I fear I many wounds impart, Shed blood, but never touch the heart. They who would contemplate my end, (For that’s the point where I offend,) Sharply to look about must mind, Or me much sharper they will find. RIDDLES. 53 RIDDLE CIX. I AM small, but, when entire, Of force to set a town on fire ; Let but one letter disappear, I then can hold a herd of deer; Take one more off, and then you'll find J once contain’d all human kind. RIDDLE CX. *M white, black, or blue, I’m red, gray, or green ; I’m intended to hide ‘What is meant to be seen : So supple sometimes that I’d meet at each end, At others so stubborn I’d break ere I’d bend; Like mortals, inflexible often am I, Till by the tongue soften’d, I’m brought to comply : Of prodigal traitors Iam an apt token, I only exist to be ruin’d and broken. _— RIDDLE CXI. A MONOSYLLABLE I am,—a reptile, I vow; If you put me together, I’m syllables two ; a4 HOME AMUSEMENTS. I’m English, ’m Latin, I’m one or the other, What’s English for one half, is Latin for t’other. RIDDLE CXII. I AM found on the finger, am seen round the moon; The sun in his glory displays me at noon. I’m the highway of fairies ; I’m form’d at the fair, When both gentry and bumpkins assemble to stare ; With discord I’m filled; with music I please ; With chains I’m familiar, with curtains, and keys. RIDDLE CXITI. SOFT as the dews from heav’n descend, And genial influence show’r— So sweet am I: the culprit’s friend In many a dreadful hour. If e’er I come within thy breast, Let me be cherish’d there ; And honour’d as a noble guest, Well worth your utmost care. RIDDLE CXIV. AM not what I was, but quite the reverse ;— Tam what I was, which is still more perverse ;— or qr RIDDLES. From morning to night, I do nothing but fret With wishing to be what I never was yet. RIDDLE CXY. LOVELY, bright, ethereal spark, Gaily twinkling in the dark Bosom of the ebon night, With a blue phosporic light : What art thou? The torch of love >— May’st thou more successful prove Than that famed signal did of yore, On the Hellespontie shore !— Now thou vanishest away ! Yet a little longer stay ; How can else thy airy lover, Thy retreat or thee discover ? Wait not till the rising morn ; Shall betray thy real form ; Lest what to-night so much be prized, May to-morrow be despised. RIDDLE CXYVI. HAT I do—what I do not—conjoined will make what Chloe is. 56 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CXVII. BEGOTTEN, and born, and dying with noise, The terror of women, the pleasure of boys ; Like the fiction of poets concerning the wind, I’m chiefly unruly when strongest confined, For silver and gold I don’t trouble my head, But all I delight in are pieces of lead; Except when I trade with a ship or a town, Why then I make pieces of iron go down. One property more I would have you remark, No lady was ever more fond of a spark ; The moment I get one, my soul’s all on fire, IT roar out my joy, and in transport expire. RIDDLE CXVIII. AM the perfection of art and industry, formed with mathematical precision; and, Proteus-like, take every form and colour. J adorn the palaces of kings; Iam found in the shop of the meanest artizan: the representative of a prince, and the plaything of a child; a polisher; a badge of office; and a concealer of secrets. RIDDLES, oT RIDDLE CXIX. (THE gate of life, th’ effect of strife, The fruit of sin, When I appear you drop a tear, And stay within. RIDDLE CXx, AM alittle saucy thing, Made up of seven letters; Within my tail I hold a sting, And often bite my betters. RIDDLE CXXI. F* heavenly origin, to earth I came, To solace human kind; The cement of each social frame, Balm to the wounded mind. So loved, so valued through the world, That dark pretenders take My form, with colours false unfurl’d, For gain or mischief’s sake. 58 HOME AMUSEMENTS. Firm, constant, and sincere, am I, My motives pure and whole; Theirs all are formed to gratify A base and selfish soul. Beware these traitors to my name, (If that you can divine) Compare their deeds;—if not the same, Their aperies decline. RIDDLE CXXII. W HEN first my maker form’d me to his mind, He gave me eyes, yet left me dark and blind; He form’d a nose, yet left me without smell; A mouth, but neither voice nor tongue to tell; The world me use; and oft the fair, through me, Although I hide the face, do plainly see. RIDDLE CXXIII. W HENPER the student dares to cope with me, I very often stouter prove than he; For Jet him twist and turn me as he will, He must confess that I am victor still. RIDDLES. 59 And though from his defeat he sorely smarts, Yet frankly owns that I’m a man of parts. RIDDLE CXXIY. (ATO and Chloe, combined well together, Make a drink not amiss in very cold weather. RIDDLE CXXY. Al HOUGH you boast, through ages dark, Your pedigree from Noah’s ark, Painted on parchment nice; I'm older still, for I was there: And before that I did appear With Eve in Paradise. For I was Adam—Adam I; And I was Eive—and Eve was I, In spite of wind and weather: But, mark me, Adam was not J, Neither was mistress Adam J, Unlesss they were together. Suppose, then, Eve and Adam talking— With all my heart !—But if they’re walking, 60 HOME AMUSEMENTS. There ends all simile; For though I’ve tongue, and often talk, And though I’ve legs, yet when I walk It puts an end to me. Not such an end but that I’ve breath, Therefore to’such a kind of death I make but small objection; For soon I come again in view, And, though a Christian, yet ’tis true, I die by resurrection. RIDDLE CXXYI. ALTHOUGH a human shape I wear, Mother I never had; And though no sense nor life I share, In finest silks I’m clad. By every miss I’m valued much, Beloved and highly prized; Yet still my cruel fate is such, By boys I am despised. RIDDLES, 61 RIDDLE CXXVII. IRECT or reverse, you may read me, ye fair,— The one way a number, the other a snare. RIDDLE CXXVIII. WE are so like in form and feature, That all must think us twins by nature; When in high life by chance we move, Not Hebe nor the Queen of Love With us in smoothness can compare, Nor boast complexion half so fair. To concerts, balls, and routs we go; Are seen at every brilliant show, We mingle with the jocund throng, Who lead the sprightly dance along. But grief to joy must now succeed, And we, attired in sable weed, The solemn funeral attend Of the lost father or the friend; But as insensible as they Who form’d the pomp in long array, When all our services are o’er, And we, grown old, can please no more, 62 HOME AMUSEMENTS. We both partake one common lot, Neglected first, and then forgot. RIDDLE CXXIX. MY riddle is bright: though I boast of no rays, I still have a power to enlighten: In one instant you'll find me extinguish a blaze, Which in the next moment I brighten. Though I live quite alone, yet I’m called a pair; Then how can I only be one? Develop this myst’ry, ye quicksighted fair, For now with description I’ve done. RIDDLE CXXX. AM coeval with man, and was burdened with a numerous family, most of them rude and unpo- lished, except two fair daughters, who were the delight of the world. But their barbarous cousins, envious of their perfections, reduced them nearly to their own level; and since that time, the fairest of my descend- ants bear but an imperfect resemblance to their graces. RIDDLES. 63 RIDDLE CXXXI. "THOUGH learning hath fed me, I know not a letter; I live among books, yet am never the better; Each muse I digest, yet I know not a line: What student I am, I beg you'll divine. RIDDLE CXXXIL. "THOUGH unknown to all senses, except to the sight, Yet existence I claim by excluding the light. RIDDLE CXXXIII. ADAM my parent was,—tis very true, And yet, what’s strange, I always am with you; With insects, birds, and beasts—indeed, what not? What’s more, my use is telling what is what. RIDDLE CXXXIV. PPHERE was a man who was not born, His father was not before him; He did not live, he did not die, And his epitaph is not o’er him. 64 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CXXXV. T once to describe my name and my race, T often attend on the king in the chase; T also can find ’tis equally pleasant To wait on a ’squire, or even a peasant ; But when I conceit myself most highly bless’d, Ts when by a lady I’m fondly, caress’d: Yet many a child seems to take a delight To treat me with constant ill-humour and spite. On me you may always with safety depend, And consider me both your protector and friend. RIDDLE CXXXVI. HERE is a word in the English language, the two first letters of which signify a male, the three first a female, the four first a great man, and the whole a great woman, RIDDLE CXXXVII. W HAT is that, the more you lay on, the faster it wasteth ? RIDDLES. 65 RIDDLE CXXXYVIII. E riddling wits, I pray attend To one who always was your friend, And set me forth in public view, Though oft I’m seen, and nothing new. With women I do always dwell, From Lady Daw to lowly Nell: But on mankind I seldom wait, Not even in their greatest state; Unless they to the law belong, Then I assist them—in the wrong. Had I ne’er been, all people own, Nor want nor woe had e’er been known. In witchcraft I am known to deal, Am much concern’d for public weal; Yet never in the Court abide, Nor in the city could reside; But I in every town appear, And if you look, you'll find me there: In short, I’m found with every wretch,— But hold—'tis needless more to teach. Ie 66 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CXXXIX. RE Adam was, my early days began; I ape each creature and resemble man; I gently pass o’er tops of tender grass, Nor leave the least impression where I pass; I’m seen each day,—if not, be sure, at night You'll ever find me out by candle-light. RIDDLE CXL. EFORE a circle let appear, Twice twenty-five, and five in rear; One fifth of eight subjoin; and then You'll quickly find what conquers men. RIDDLE CXLI. GINCE Diogenes’ time, I’m the least habitation That e’er was contrived in a civilized nation ; So far and so wide sure no mortal e’er strolls, For I visit all places between the two poles. RIDDLE CXLII. OUR race is either lean or fat, As also short or tall; RIDDLES. 67 And some of us are often seen In chamber, tower, or hall. We've breath, but neither lungs nor voice, Nor have we eye nor ear; Though we possess the special knack Of making dark things clear. One of our brethren attends Duly on sick men’s beds; And, by his cheerful influence round, A gleam of comfort sheds. Another always ready stands To visit cot or stable; But, ’tis our cousins that abound About a rich man’s table. When summer comes with scorching beam, The rabble seem to flout us; In winter all men will confess, They cannot do without us. On wise or learned, great or small, A blessing we bestow; And this you have so often proved, That sure our name you know. 68 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CXLITI. Y toils are various and not few, I play the household drudge for you; And oft through lane, and street, and alley, Officious in my duty, sally: Yet was I born for nobler ends; — O’er prostrate crowds my voice descends, Where fragrant censers round are toss d And pious breasts devoutly cross’d; Of bridal joy the gay parade Were cold and dim, without my aid. Oh, would these cares were all the Fates Had destined mine !—but yet awaits Another and more sad employ; When the deep grave has closed o’er all, To mourn the wreck of human joy, And bid the tear-drops faster fall. RIDDLE CXLIY. A MONGST the Gnomes we took our birth, we ; sae Embosom’d in our mother earth, Where we remain’d in calm repose, Till man, the author of our woes, RIDDLES. 69 Discover’d our retreat at last, And now all hope of peace is past; He hacks, he hews, he breaks our bones, As if they were so many stones: And then, in sombre garments dight, He brings us to the open light— But only to insult our pain, And throws us into caves again. There, in vile durance closely pent, The remnant of our life is spent; And, like a second Polypheme, Our tyrant hits upon this scheme— To choose his victims day by day, And on his blazing altars lay: And by such means this cruel sinner Procures the comforts of a dinner. RIDDLE CXLY. III beginning of eternity, The end of time and space; The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. 70 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CXLYI. WE are little airy creatures, All of diff’rent voice and features: One of us in glass is set; One of us you'll find in jet; One of us is set in tin; And the fourth a box within: If the last you should pursue, Tt can never fly from you. RIDDLE CXLVII. HOUGH small my extent, yet my service is great; I on admirals, heroes, and trav'llers wait: Who oftentimes me as attentively view, As astronomers stars, or a lover does you. Though I’m not very learned, I silently teach; And give you that knowledge you else could not reach. RIDDLE CXLYVIII. LL of us in one you'll find, Brethren of a wondrous kind; RIDDLES. 71 Yet among us all no brother Knows one tittle of the other. We in frequent councils are, And our marks of things declare, Where, to us unknown, a clerk Sits and takes them in the dark: He’s the register of all In our ken, both great and small; By us forms his Jaws and rules; He’s our master, we his tools; Yet we can with greatest ease, Turn and wind him where we please. RIDDLE CXLIX. °M a very good thing of a moderate size, My heart many curious materials supplies; But men are so cruel, I’m thrash’d and I’m beat, Till I give up my offspring for mortals to eat. RIDDLE CL. DESTINED by fate to guard the crown, Aloft in air I reign, 72 HOME AMUSEMENTS. Above the monarch’s haughty frown, Or statesman’s plotting brain. In hostile fields, when danger’s near, T’m found amidst alarms ; In crowds where peaceful beaux appear, I instant fly to arms. RIDDLE CLI. (WAKE three fourths of a cross, then a circle com- plete; Let two semicircles a perpendicular meet; Then add a triangle that stands on two feet, With two semicircles and a circle complete. RIDDLE CLIlI, °M form’d of iron, brass, or finest gold, Of various sizes and of diff’rent mould; On crowded quays I constantly appear, And often dare to take you by the ear; All hogs to me a rooted hate betray, I spoil their mischief and prevent their play; On coffer, chest, or ornamented box, I’m found with nails, with hinges, keys, and locks; RIDDLES. 73 The food of vanity, or pledge of truth, Conferr’d by love on fond unthinking youth; But, should that vanity or truth decay, I’m thought a fetter, and am wish’d away. Last, but not least, I am by Heav’n design’d To prove a solace to the wounded mind; Like ancient ums adorn’d with care and cost, I hold the reliques of a friend that’s lost. RIDDLE CLIII. "OR me, all Western India yields its stores ; Others I seek on Java’s sultry shores; The Grecian Islands give a full supply; And fatted oxen, to enrich me, die. But yet, though wealthy, mark my fatal doom.— Pent in the precincts of a narrow room, Thrown into burning caverns, where the day Has never pierced with his refulgent ray ; Till, panting with intolerable heat, I’m served up on the tables of the great. HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CLIY. S it demanded where I dwell? J answer, in a costly cell, Reclined upon my mother’s bed, Where I am nursed and duly fed; But if I quit this loved retreat, I’m honoured by the rich and great: The lovely fair of me possest, Will clasp me to her snowy breast; And oft I prove the purest gem Found in a royal diadem. RIDDLE CLY. TIXIS in the church, but not in the steeple; ’Tis in the parson, but not in the people; *Tis in the oyster, but not in the shell; Tis in the clapper, but not in the bell. RIDDLE CLVI. QHARP is my form, my nature sharper found, When I am forced to give the fatal wound; Steep’d in black venom, then I strike the heart, And keenest pains with slightest touch impart, RIDDLES. “I Or Yet I am used to give the wretched rest, And of its burden ease the woe-fraught breast. My birth is various, but in ev’ry land I still can bear the ensign of command. Silent, I speak; my voice in every clime Is heard, and shall be to remotest time. Honour and praise of right to me belong; Tis I immortalize the poet’s song; Tis I that can transmit the patriot’s name, Sacred to ages, on the lists of fame: Yet short my date of life, however high; Soon I’m worn out, and then neglected die. RIDDLE CLVII. ’M a term often used when speaking of game, Though some of my brothers might answer the same} Now, if with a stroke you my head should remove, You'll then have what gamesters and all jockeys love: Strike off one joint more, and you'll know without fail, What has brought many hundreds, J fear, to the jail. 76 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CLVIII. IGHT though my body is, and small: Though I have wings to fly withal, And through the air may rove; Yet, were I not by nature press’d, In ease and indolence Vd rest, And never choose to move. *Tis beating makes me diligent; ‘When beat, and on an errand sent, I hurry to and fro; And, like an idle boy at school, Whom nothing but the rod can rule, Improve at every blow. RIDDLE CLIX. IS true I have both face and hands, And move before your eye: Yet when I go, my body stands; And when I stand, I lie. RIDDLES. RIDDLE CLX. JV YSTERIOUS minstrel! exquisite to please, With thy soft harmony my cares dispel, As, floating lightly on the evening breeze, Thy notes now gently fall, now loudly swell, Yet, that thou’rt fragile, and not form’d to last, Thy slender shape and failing powers proclaim ; Too roughly shatter’d by the wintry blast, Thowrt only ruins and an empty name. RIDDLE CLXI. [™M sometimes very honest, sometimes not, And less sincere at Court than in a cot; Sometimes I pleasure give, and sometimes pain, For now I praise bestow, and now disdain. The lovelier I appear, when small my throne; Enlarge but this, and all my beauty’s gone. Few things there are, at least but few I know, Which cost so little, and so much bestow. RIDDLE CLXII. [NX every gift of Fortune I abound, In me is every vice and virtue found; 78 ' HOME AMUSEMENTS. With black, and blue, and green, myself I paint; With me an Atheist stands before a Saint; Far above Nature I make Art precede, And before Sov’reigns give the poor the lead. Many who’re call’d the learned and the wise, Did I not help them, you would oft despise. Nay, more—within my grasp together bound, The King, the Beggar, and the Clown are found. In one thing I excel the proudest Lords,— You always may depend upon my words. RIDDLE CLXIII. W HEN you and I together meet, We make up six in any street; When I and you do meet once more, Then both of us make up but four; When I go hence, should you survive, Though strange to say, you would be five; If I am left and you are gone, Then J, poor I, can make but one. RIDDLES. 79 RIDDLE CLXIV. I HAVE three points for your discussion, Which men oft think to convey much on; (This rhyme is somewhat Hudibrastic, And warrants critic’s lash elastic; But, lest the riddle cool the while, Pray pass it over with a smile:) And yet by entering the head, Not much of wisdom thence is bred; Although, to give to them their due, Tl this avow: ‘tween me and you, By means of them the brain is strengthen’d, And life by quick digestion lengthen’d. RIDDLE CLXY. GOMETHING—nothing—as you use me; Small or bulky, as you choose me; Short-lived child of grief and pain, Live for a moment—die again. Eternity I bring to view, The sun, and all the planets too: The moon and I may disagree, But all the world resembles me. 80 HOME AMUSEMENTS. If now to know me more you need, My wisdom must your wit exceed; For were I farther known to ye, No longer mystery there would be. RIDDLE CLXYI. W ONDERFUL being! whose tremendous power, In wrath wide rolling o’er each earthly thing, Destroys, within the space of one short hour, The lowly cot, or palace of the king: Yet by thy cheering influence alone, Infusing pleasure and gay blooming health, We leave our country and our darling home, In search of science and untasted-wealth. To thee we owe the large and rich supply That commerce yields to every favour’d shore; But thou oft causest the sad widow’s sigh, And all the evils orphans most deplore. Where thou wert formn’d, or whence thy wondrous birth No mortal yet the secret e’er has found ; Yet we acknowledge thy stupendous worth, Still felt and dreaded to earth’s utmost bound. ’ RIDDLES. 81 ; RIDDLE CLXYII, FoRMD long ago, yet made to-day, I’m most in use whilst others sleep; What few would like to give away, And yet what none would wish to keep. RIDDLE CLXYVIII. OETS and old philosophers affirm, Before the world was form’d T had my birth; They trace to me the origin and germ Of all the lovely forms that deck the earth ; Indeed, I am not prized at my worth, As you in ancient stories may discern ; Yet such as wisely me shall entertain, Will find a sov’reign balm and cure of every pain. RIDDLE CLXIX. HAT is that which swectens life, Found in sister, friend, or wife; Something more than beauty dear, Chasing gloom, dispelling fear; Always gay, yet never changing, Slightly through each circle ranging; 82 |HOME AMUSEMENTS. Bringing joy, content, or mirth, To the sweet domestic hearth? This great charm shall ever last, Till the days of life be past ; And in memory fresh shall bloom, Over the lamented tomb, When fatal Death has struck the blow, And laid his lovely victim low. RIDDLE CLXX. OR vigilance and courage true Tye no superiors—equals few; Which makes me by th’ industrious prized, But by the indolent despised : Bold and alert, I meet the foe; In all engagements valour show; And if he prove too proud to yield, One falls before we quit the field. RIDDLE CLXXI. ON’T think what I say can be at all wrong, For I speak, though I have not a bit of a tongue; Yet ofttimes ’m quiet for want of my breath, And then I am perfectly silent as death. RIDDLES. 83 But when I am heard, I am always admired, And often the breast with devotion have fired; The ear I can charm, and the senses delight, Whether heard in the morning, at noon, or at night. RIDDLE CLXXII. ALTHOUGH we are but twenty-six, We change to millions two; And though we cannot speak a word, We tell what others do. RIDDLE CLXXIII. O procure the ingredients my structure demands Recourse must be had unto far distant lands; You must pillage the ocean, and murder at sea, To obtain a small part of what constitutes me. In artful enclosure, a skin on each side, Oh, grand imposition! all favours deny’d, My stoutest assistant is barr’d from the light, In constant obscurity hid from the sight. So enormous a monster as now I appear, Devoid of a head, and without any ear; 84 HOME AMUSEMENTS. And grant me the favour to raise your surprise, In relating my wonderful number of eyes: Tf narrowly search’d, more than thirty you'll find; And, strange to behold, they oft centre behind. The food that my kind benefactress bestows, T receive at the eyes, as my owner well knows; With the ladies I bear an unlimited sway, And always accomplish my labour by day. RIDDLE, CLXXIV. WO legs [ve got, which never walk on ground; But when I go or run, one leg turns round. RIDDLE CLXXYV. [fF you're to idleness inclined, A lesson take from me; Though small in body, yet you'll find I work with constant glee. And lest stern Winter’s chilling snow Should spread the verdure o’er; While Summer’s sun is in full glow, I then secure my store. RIDDLES. 85 . RIDDLE CLXXVI. HERE was a thing a full month old, ‘When Adam was no more; But ere that thing was five weeks old, Adam was years five score. RIDDLE CLXXVII. FIRST am found belonging to a god, With rapid pinions and a twisted rod; In story next, ’tis said, that I possess The power of crowning wishes with success. Upon the scholar I appropriate sit, Ensign of Jearning, and the badge of wit: But, what is strange, though not more strange than true, Tm also call’d the badge of folly too. I give the soldier half his martial air, And I improve and decorate the fair. These are my partial triumphs during day ; At night, I boast an universal sway; If in the morning many seem to scout me, It’s pretty certain they'll not sleep without me. 86 HOME. AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CLXXYVIII. FROM foreign climes my origin J trace; My hue as varied as my services. _ Without me, vain would be the nurse’s care To soothe the infant in its fretful mood ; The housewife, too, my wonted aid would iniss; Her pies and puddings would no longer please, But to ignoble exile be condemned. RIDDLE CLXXIX. TALL and slender shape I bear— No lady’s skin more white and fair! . My life is short, and doth decay So soon, it rarely lasts a day. If in the evening brought to light, I make my exit during night. RIDDLE CLXXX. W HAT is that which is neither flesh nor bone, and yet has four fingers and a thumb? RIDDLES. 87 RIDDLE CLXXXI. T° brass or tin I owe my birth, And am a thing of little worth; But yet no matron is without me, And woe to her that dares to flout me. If placed too near the kitchen fire, I with the glowing heat expire; But I drink deep, and’soon begin At first to hum, and then to sing, Tull, by degrees, my frenzy grows So very strong, it overflows. Now calm and sober I become; And, till I drink again, am dumb; But, twice a day (I blush for the confession) T fall, at least, into the same transgression. RIDDLE CLXXXII. REAT numbers do our use despise, But yet, at length, they find Without our help, in many things, They might as well be blind. 88 HOME AMUSEMENTS. RIDDLE CLXXXIII. MY body is quite thin, And has nothing within, Neither have I head, face, or eye: Yet a tail I have got Full as long as—what not? And up, without wings, I can fly. RIDDLE CLXXXIV. WONDERS UPON WONDERS!!! I saw a fishpond all on fire; I saw a house bow to a ’squire; I saw a parson twelve feet high; I saw a cottage near the sky! I saw a balloon made of lead; I saw a coffin drop down dead; I saw a sparrow run arace; TI saw two horses making lace; I saw a girl just like a cat; I saw a kitten wear a hat; I saw a man who saw these too, And says, though strange, they all are true. RIDDLES. 89 ENIGMATICAL LIST OF BIRDS (Solutions page 90.) 1. A child’s plaything. 2. What we all do at every meal. 3. A disorder incident to man and horse. 4. Nothing, twice yourself, and fifty. 5. Equality and decay. 6. A celebrated English architect. 7. A tailor’s implement. 8. A lever. 9. An instrument for raising weights. 10. Three-eighths of a monthly publication, with a baked dish. 11. A valuable species of corn, and a very necessaly part of it. 12. A cheated person. 13. A distant country. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Spoil half a score. An instrument of diversion for men and boys. A piece of wood, and a fashionable name for a strect. To cut off, and a vowel. A piece of land, and a good thing which it pro- duces. . 9 1 2 a 0 . Kite. . Swallow. 3. Thrush. 4 i) 6 .OWL, . Parrot. . Wren. HOME AMUSEMENTS. KEY TO LIST OF BIRDS. 7. Goose. 8. Crow. 9. Crane. 10. Magpie. 11. Wheatear. 12. Gull. 13. Turkey, 14, Marten. 15. Bat. 16. Sparrow. 17. Snipe. 18. Fieldfare. RIDDLES. 91 A LIST OF ENGLISH TOWNS ENIGMATI- CALLY EXPRESSED. (Solutions page 92.) . A bird and a liquid letter. . The sound of a single woman’s voice. . Contention, and what belongs to a lamp. . Gain one city and you name another. A tree, and a patriarch. A. wet toast ordered to labour. . A potentate’s weight upon an English river. . A common disease and a counterfeit. . A piece of pig-meat belonging to the mother of us all. . Bid a recluse continue feeding. . Merchandize. . The seat of bile, and a piece of water. . A resting place, and a wet walk. . A large Feel’ and a considerable w eight. 5. Tanber: and the riches of a merchant. A place at an inn, and a fisherman’s tools. . The traitor’s dread, and a celebrated cathedral chureli. . Harbours, and a very necessary part of them. . A bit of land, belonging to the pope’s predecessor. — HOME AMUSEMENTS. KEY TO LIST OF TOWNS. 1. Dover. 11. 2, Maidstone. 12. 3. Warwick. 13, 4. Winchester. 14, 5. Oakham. 15. 6. Worksop. 16. 7. Kingston upon Thames. 1%. 8. Feversham. 18. 9. Evesham. 19. 0. Nuneaton. Ware. Liverpool. Bedford. Shipton. Woodstock. Barnet. Axminster. Portsmouth. Peterfield. ye 22288 LBB knoe BEBER E> oS BiG CCCECCECCCEOCEEEGEEE Sr Creo CHARADIES. x * eo Ze GGG EEE Zoe ene Se LE Tee ne CHARADE I. ~e- Sr Or Sr No. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121, 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. 137. Ring . Mercy .. Old Maid Glow-worm Lovely Cannon . . : Wax . . 7 Death Epigram Friendship Mask . Charade . Chocolate Bedfellow Doll 3 Ten—Net . % Gloves ° Snuffers . Language . Bookworm Eclipse A name. ; The man’s name was NOT Dog Heroine-He- HenHero 64 Whetstone. 63 64 64 No. 138. 139. 140. 141. 142, 143. 144. 145. 146. 147, 148, 149. 150. 151. 152. 153, 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. 163. 164. 165, HOME AMUSEMENTS, Letter W Shadow L-0-V-E.. Sedan Chair Candles . Bell .. Coals Letter E The Five Vow als A Chart . B The Five Senses Walnut Tree Hat T-O-B-A-C-C-O Ring Mince Pie . Pearl Letter R Pen : . ‘ Brace—Race—Ace Shuttlecock Clock £olian Harp. The Tongue The Alphabet VLIV.V.1.. Three-pronged Fork O(Zero) Page 65 66 66 66 66 68 68 69 70 70 70 71 71 72 72 73 74 74 74 75 76 76 77 77 77 78 79 79 No. 166. 167. 168. 169. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. 176. 177. 178. 179. 180. 181. 182. 183. 184. Wind. Bed Love . Good Temper Cock. . Organ _. Alphabet Lady’s Stays . Pair of Compasses Ant Page 80 81 81 81 82 82 83 83 84 84 The Moon, never more than a month old Cap : Sugar Candle . A Glove Tea Kettle . . Spectacles . Paper Kite To read this aright, shift the point from the end of each line, to the noun in the middle: thus, I saw a fish-pond:—All on fire,I saw a house :— Bow to a ‘squire, I saw a parson, &c. 85 85 86 86 86 87 87 88 88 No. . Goose-berry . Fire-lock ee SCO ANA TKR WDNR OO DIAARYWN SOLUTIONS TO CHARADES. Co-nun-drum . Friend-ship . Heart’s-ease Ant-hem . Arm-chair . Hand-bill . Cow’s-lip . Snow-drop . Tar-tar . Wine-glass . . Spin-net . . Pil-grim . Hour-glass . Foot-stool . Gold Watch . Love-letter . . Horse-shoe . Hat-red ‘ 21. . Orange 23. |. Butter-fly . Tell-tale . Time-piece Li-ly ’ CHARADES, Page No. 93 | 26. Lap-pet . 94 | 27. Ham-mock . 94 | 28. O’-live 94 | 29. Cat-a-comb . 94 | 30. Peer-less. 95 | 3l. Pat-ten 95 | 32. Eye-lash . 95 | 33. Pad-dock 96 | 84. Bed-room 96 | 35. Horn-pipe 97 | 386. Candle-stick 97 | 37. Press-gang . . 98 | 88. Fort-une. 98 | 39. Chat-ham 99 | 40. Cat-a-strophe . 99 | 41. India-man . 100 | 42. Men-ace:. . 100 | 43. Heart’s-ease . 101 | 44. King-fisher 102 | 45. Adam-ant . 102 | 46. Hour-glass 103 | 47. Sol-ace . 103 | 48. Ham-mock 104 | 49. Star-ling . 104 | 50. Pea-cock . - 105 - 106 - 108 - 110 - 115 183 Page 105 105 106 107 - 107 108 109 109 110 - 110 110 111 . 111 112 » 112 113 . 113 114 . 114 114 184 No. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64, 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. HOME AMUSEMENTS. Bar-rack Sea-son Glow-worm . Night-shade . Art-i-choke . Rattle-snake Court-ship Bag-pipe . Wel-come Rib-band. : Sky-light May-pole. Cork-screw . Earth-quake Cur-few Rain-bow Pen-knife Pur-chase Fare-well . Fire-brand Cross-bun Bar-gain . Fruit-tree : Gooseberry-fool Lark-spur Foot-path. Wo-man Fire-lock . Page 115 . 116 116 117 117 . 118 118 . 118 119 . 119 119 . 120 120 . 120 121 - 121 121 . 122 122 . 123 123 « 128 125 . 124 124 . 124 124 . 125 No. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97, 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. page Ink-stand . 125 Ward-robe . . 125 I-dol . 126 New-gate . - 126 Bond-age . 126 Her-ring . 126 Flam-beau . 127 Son-net « ¢ 127 Break-fast - 127 Ad-vice 128 Sir-i-us . . 128 Sup-plant . 128 Bed-stead . 129 Mis-fortune 129 Sun-day . 180 Cod-ling 130 Name-less . 1380 Muff-box 130 Shake-spear . . 131 Tamer-lane «| 18d A-corn . . 131 Eye-lash 132 Child-hood . 132 End-less 132 Heart’s-ease . . 133 Horse-man-ship. 133 Blue-beard - 133 Watch-man 133 SOLUTIONS TO REBUSES, 185 REBUSES. Page | No. Page Mapam. Theinitial 10. Pot-a-toe . 136 letters are from the 11. Celery . » 136 words MumM—ANNA 12. Turnip. . - 136 — DEED — ANANA 13. Parsnip 186 (the pine apple) and 14. Green-gage . 137 MINIM . 134 | 15. Gooseberry . 137 - Rock—cork . 134 | 16. Orange . 137 ._ DIM . 135 | 17. Apricot 137 . Civic 135 | 18. Currant . . 187 . Peach—cheap . . 185 | 19. Peach . 137 . Rabbi-t 135 | 20..Damson . . 137 . X. S. (excess) S. X. 21. Carnation 137 (Essex) : . 185 | 22. Marygold . 137 . Pope—Ilyssus—Nel- 23. Poppy. - 138 son—Death —Addi- 24. Columbine . 138 son—Rogers — Pin- 25. Evening Primrose 138 dar 135 | 26, Tulip 138 . Penny-royal - 186 CONUNDRUMS. 1. The Royal Exchange 143 | 4. Sixty-six dozen; or792 143 5. He pronounces sen- 2, An ear-wig » 143 3. They require pressing 143 tences . 143 HOME AMUSEMENTS, No. Page 6. Because they are re- gular and irregular 143 7. A Pack of Cards. 143 8. Two—outside and in- side . 143 9. The letter M . 144 10. The outside . 144 11. M-usic . 144 12. It will change oats into goats . 144 13. It makes ant (aunt) pant . 144 14. The dark 144 15. Like to be drowned 144 16. It is just-ice . 144 17. It must be ground before it is used . 144 18. There is not a single person in it 144 19. There are grains init 144 20. Because his nose is above hischin . 144 21. The Elder Tree 144 22. When he is a gob- bling (goblin) 144 23. She makes the butter- _ fly 144 No. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 39 40 41 Page When his wig is not paid for . 144 He has a bit always in his mouth - 145 It is charged and dis- charged 145 Wheelwright . 145 It is out of your head 145 A coachman 145 He is learning 145 Tt follows the C (Sea) 145 Because the bed will not come to us 145 . A bow . 145 . They have a merry thought between them 145 5. When he is a-shaving 145 . It springs from the eyes 145 . He puffs . . 145 . He is.a bee-holder . 145 . Because there are three scruples to a dram 145 . By B heading the Al- phabet ‘ » 145 . The Road ‘ . 145 SOLUTIONS TO CONUNDRUMS. No. Page 42, A jest . . . 146 43. Twenty . . . 146 44, He is going to Bag- dad . : : 146 45. Because words are constantly passing between them ._ 146 46. Growing older . 146 47, Grandson . . .« 146 48. They are Major-ca, Minor-ca,and Ameri-ca 146 49. A staff or stick . 146 50. Sealing-wax . . 146 l. Ithasacrown . 146 2. He is governed by a minister . . . 146 53. Compasses . . 146 54. Itisthecentreoflight 146 55. One was governed by Deys, the other by Knights A . 146 56. A-musing, B-coming, D-lighting, N-chant- ih. a ae tg 4G . They are stationary 147 . She forms lasses into classes . i . 147 an ~r ao ae No. 59, 60. 61. 63. 64, 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74,, . Facetiously 66. There is a@ difference James the First. He was king of Scotland before he was king of England They live by hook and by crook . The Thames (Batter- - 147 sea and Chel-sea) He stops at the sound of wo When it is a waggon (wagging) He holds the reins (rains). A bald head Stone weet No horse has fivelegs A ditch : : To cover his head It comes before T Dwarfs , He is devoted to a muse (amuse), and delights in fancy, (infancy) 187 Page 147 - 147 147 . 147 147 . 147 147 . 147 147 147 147 . 147 . 148 148 - 148 188 No. 75. 76. 77. HOME AMUSEMENTS. Page | No. Page Two pigs under a 87. He is a Sir, and _ grate 148 when his coat is’ Because he is andee ‘ on, it is a surtout a sovereign . 148 (Sir too) 148 When they are mus- 88. None will remain, tard (muster’d) . 148 they will fly away 149 . A Grocer (grow Sir) 148 | 89. Both contain fixed 79. A Daughter . 148 hair (air) . 149 . When its a little bare 90. When exposed tofire (bear) 148 they run 149 . Ashes when they are 91. They are sacked and burnt . 148 burnt . 149 . Because no one will 92. Whenit’sasky-light 149 giwethemtous. 148 | 93. A Don-key - 149 . When it becomes a- 94, Co-nun-drum 149 pretty Woman. 148 | 95. Whenit’salittletart 149 . EG and C (£gean 96. General Post. . 149 Sea) . 148 | 97. Miss Fortune (mis- . When it’s alittle red: fortune) 149 dish (radish) 148 98. P Ginithoutankeee) 149 . A hole in their stock- 99. A Heathen (hethen) 149 ing - 148 | 100. ItisneartheTemple 149 THE END. LONDON :—R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL. (CRB QR QO 29 9 9 29 29g BEBRLI BRL 298 29 9 9 $3 RAI COREE eS Pew and Interesting Works, = PUBLISHED BY Ee Oo ooo a. S (0) ; Solo Bi GRANT AND GRIFFITH, oe 10} x (SUCCESSORS TO JOHN HARRIS,) a [8 CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON. Sf S —_+— ste H IIT BAM’S ADVENTURES ; a oe or, THE YARNS OF AN O1.D Mariner. By Mary CowpEn