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  2. Pastime Page. Puzzles, Enigmas, &c.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 5 words
  3. Happy-Go-Lucky.

    Happy-go-lucky, my dear little man, Where did you come from? and what is your clan? Highland or lowland the honor may claim, But Happy-go-lucky is surely your name! ...

    Article : 281 words
  4. Facts and Fancies. WHAT STOCKINGS HAD I ON?

    A girl had a fall last week, and injured herself so severely that she was carried home insensible. Upon recovering her first words addressed to her sisterwere "Mary, did I have on my striped stockings?" ...

    Article : 64 words
  5. GENIUS AND CAPITAL.

    Tennyson can take a worthless sheet of paper, and by writing a poem on it make it worth £20. That is genius. Rothschild oan write fewer words on a similar sheet and make it worth £10,000,000. That ...

    Article : 64 words
  6. CONUNDRUMS.

    222. What animals have only one leg between them? 223. Which are the most contented birds? 224. Why did Adam bite the apple when Eve gave ...

    Article : 139 words
  7. ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES.

    You want to know how to tell whether or not he is spoons on you? Ask him to button your glove. If he do it readily, you may as well look elsewhere; but if he goes to work with "fingers all thumb," and ...

    Article : 110 words
  8. GRATITUDE.

    A Paris correspondent has discovered a man, whose effrontery is sublime in its immensity. This is the story which he tells: "A gentleman walking with his little boy on the banks of the Seine, the child slipped ...

    Article : 115 words
  9. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES; &c., SEPTEMBER 6.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 words
  10. PICTURE PUZZLE.

    The answer to the above puzzle is a four-line stanza. The first and third lines are written out; the second and fourth lines are each represented as a rebus. The first and second lines rhyme, as do also ...

    Article : 47 words
  11. Anecdotiana, I PREFER A CHRISTIAN BURIAL.

    The late Rev. Dr. Raphall was fond of a witty retort. Once a Gentile physician attended the funeral of an Isrselite. "I don't like a Jewish funeral," said he afterwards to Dr. Raphall. There ...

    Article : 68 words
  12. CHARADES.

    A very young tree my first will be. A lapse of time for my second rhyme. A snare for fish my third I wish. My whole will name a line of fame. ...

    Article : 1,071 words
  13. FALSE AND FAIR.

    Her complexion is bright as the roses That bloom in the soft summer air, And when in the sunlight she poses, Men rapturous gaze on her hair. ...

    Article : 821 words
  14. THE WIDOW'S MITE.

    Lord John Russell's wife had been a widow, a lady of dignified and ample proportions and presenee. His lordship was of slender stature. Hence he was called by the wits the widow's mite. "Oh," ...

    Article : 69 words
  15. ANSWERS TO MEMBERS' NAMES AS GIVEN ENIGMATICALLY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 words
  16. HE WAS REBUKED.

    The Rev. Matthew Wilks was once passing through one of the crowded streets of the metropolis, when he heard a carman, who had great difficulty in getting his vehicle along, owing to the numerous ...

    Article : 147 words
  17. ANSWERS TO CONUNDRUMS, SEPTEMBER 6.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 words
  18. THE WHISKY WILL GO TO THE SORE.

    In a small village on the Frith of Forth lived an old farmer, who was called Park Jook, of whom the following anecdote is told.—One day, while working in the farm yard, he had the misfortune to get his ...

    Article : 193 words
  19. ANSWER TO PICTORIAL PUZZLE, SEPT, 6.

    "Improve each moment as it flies." ...

    Article : 12 words
  20. TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 422 words
  21. MACDONALD'S DAUGHTER—A HEROIC INCIDENT.

    There was some hope that the old Earl of Dundonald, who had rendered great service to both Charles I. and II., might succeed in saving his son's life through the influence of Father Peters, the Royal ...

    Article : 413 words
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