ENIGMATICAL LIST OF BIRDS.

(Solutions, see end of the book.)

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 necessary part of it.

12. A cheated person. 13. A distant country.

14. Spoil half a score.

15. An instrument of diversion for men and boys. 16. A piece of wood, and a fashionable name for a

street.

17. To cut off, and a vowel.

18. A piece of land, and a good thing which it produces.

A LIST OF ENGLISH TOWNS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.

(Solutions, see end of the book.)

1. A bird and a liquid letter.

2. The sound of a single woman's voice.
3. Contention and what belongs to a lamp.
4. Gain one city and you name another.
5. A tree and a patriarch.

6. A wet toast ordered to labour.

7. A potentate's weight upon an English river. 8. A common disease and a counterfeit.

9. A piece of pig-meat belonging to the mother of us all.

10. Bid a recluse continue feeding.

11. Merchandise.

12. The seat of bile, and a piece of water. 13. A resting place, and a wet walk.

14. A large vessel, and a considerable weight. 15. Timber, and the riches of a merchant. 16. A place at an inn, and a fisherman's tools. 17. The traitor's dread, and a celebrated cathedral church.

18. Harbours, and a very necessary part of them. 19. A colour and a sheet of water.

CHARADE I.

UT off my head, how singular I am;
Cut off my tail, how plural I appear.
What is my head cut off? the sounding sea-

What is my tail cut off? a flowing river.

Within the mingling deep I sportive play,
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute for ever!

CHARADE II.

MY first is a fowl of good eating,

Though not at all times of the year:

My second, without any treating,

Is found in the hedge that is near.

My whole is a fruit that is seen

To flourish in gardens, near bowers; "Tis red, it is yellow, or green;

And you like it much better than flowers.

CHARADE III.

WITH my first I sometimes warm myself;

My second secures the miser's pelf:
These, when connected, will display
My third, which is carried every day.

CHARADE IV.

MY first is a contraction for society; my second denotes a recluse; my third forms part of the ear; and my whole is but a quibble.

MY

CHARADE V.

Y first I would venture for; my second I would venture in; my whole is more talked of than

practised.

CHARADE VI.

MY second is conveyed to my first by the company of a friend; my whole is a product of spring.

CHARADE VII.

MY first, brave Nelson yielded, midst the jar
Of angry battle and the din of war;

My second, when from labour we retreat,
Far from polite, yet offers us a seat:
My whole is but my second more complete.

CHARADE VIII.

WITHOUT my first I ne'er should need the aid
Of Betty (simple soul!) the dairy maid;
My second (start not, ladies!) claims a place
As well in yours as in the tiger's face:
My whole's elicited by Sol's bright ray,
To deck the bosom of sweet smiling May.

CHARADE IX.

[F, ladies, ye my first require,

I'm offspring of a stormy sire;
My second, on an April morn,
Hangs pendant from the budding thorn:
In innocence and beauty too,

My whole, ye fair, resembles you.