7. See he comes fainting from the strife!
Loosen his neckcloth, for his life!
8. They stand beneath the broiling sun,
Their manly game has just begun.
9. I see my name is known to you,
I give you quite a brilliant hue.

352.

1. You careless rascal! how could you omit His lordship's parcel at his house to leave? 2. You have no method; really, you're not fit Any command or demand to receive.

3. You knew his lordship's 'baccy was to be Some of the very best Ameriky,

4. And I had sent a special messenger

What best would suit his noble pipe, to find. 5. Ah, yes, you grin! but I will teach you, sir, Apprentices their master's words must mind. I know that, by my frequent First detained, Your time you fritter, and your business shirk;

And, I must own it, I am really pained

To think my Second should impede your work.

353.

Deluded, jealous, swart of hue;
Reversed, each house has one or two.

1. His description.

2. His name.

3. His exclamation.

4. Where he did it.

354.

Upon thy verdant pasture I see the lowing herds, And in hedges that surround thee I hear the warbling birds..

Although you've many beds bedecked with colours

gay,

You never lay you down to rest, or sleep by night or day.

1. If you wish to pour out a large cup of tea, And can't find a cup, why then, pour it in me. 2. It has always been my fate,

Of great events to mark the date.

3. I can't do without you this hot day,

So must open the window, or faint away. 4. Sometimes I'm written, sometimes I'm done; I'm both good and bad, and yet but one.

5. Though not good company, I'm less than three, Take care of yourself, and you wont forget me. 6. As a bird I am small, as a man I have fame, And many fine structures proclaim forth my

name.

355.

Of old there were four of my First in my Second, But in more modern times only three have been reckoned.

1. His rights the problem are of the day. 2. This conquered city has passed away. 3. By dint of this you may find the words out. 4. In winter a good deal of this is about. 5. But you'll never say die whilst this is stout.

356.

A HERO WHOSE NAME IS STILL REVERENCED IN
SCOTLAND, AND WHERE HE LOST HIS LIFE.

1. What you had better keep out of.
2. Has to do with sight.

3. Name of an Indian greatly abhorred.
4. Great place for betting.

5. Worn in the days of good Queen Bess.
6. Name of a river in America.

7. A prophetess.

8. A female character, beautifully drawn by the Laureate.

357.

My First is pleasant, smooth, and short,
Tho' in a point it ends;
My Second is with poison fraught,
And by its sting offends.

1. Limoges and Venice, hide your faces-
Fragile your works, tho' clever;

Our Bond Street art preserves the graces
Of loveliness for ever.

2. A suburb by the famous strait
Which continents divides,

Where many an envoy holds his state,
And where the Frank abides.

3. The sovereign of a kingdom small,
Whom England called ally,

But lately doomed to meet his fall
From bigot enemy.

4. In sculpture, painting, and in life
I constantly am met;

Laocoon, the fatal strife,

Or children with their pet.

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5. Nought can exceed the beauty bright,
Experienced travellers say,
Which opens on the gazer's sight
On entering this bay.

6. Although in banded armour clad,
So very weak am I,

When danger threatens, I am glad
To hide myself or fly.

7. Accustomed to the woodland cover,
Fair, virtuous, brave as well,
Thy ventures with thy sylvan lover
How many ballads tell!

358.

Subject a man of peaceful views
Excites the angry mob to rise;
His theme, the powerful abuse,
Extol the workmen to the skies.

1. I give fresh life to living knaves,
And carry dead men to their graves.
2. Bred on the land, I hoist a sail,
Or hang a man, or catch a whale.

3. A modest little party, I

Part fact from possibility.

4. My verb demands my legs or horse,
My noun smells spirituous and coarse.
5. I'm dark or light, I'm brown or red,
And always stand upon my head.

6. My last applies to cats and boys,

And girls when they make too much noise.

Now guess me quick, or 'twill be reckoned
You're not my First, but want my Second.

359.

"When I blow my

breath about me,

When I breathe upon the landscape,
Flowers spring up o'er all the meadows
Singing, onward rush the rivers!'
'When I blow my breath about me,
When I breathe upon the landscape,
Motionless are all the rivers,

Hard as stone becomes the water.'
1. 'Build me straight, O worthy master!
Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel,
That shall laugh at all disaster.'

2.

'A maiden who waited and wandered, Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering all things.'

3. 'But I know that his thoughts are far away, I know that his heart is not in his work.

4.

'The lightning Smote the doorways of the caverns, With his war-club smote the doorways.'

5. Alas! I am simple and lowly bred,—

I am poor, distracted, and forlorn.'

6. And when I heard the convent door Behind me close, to ope no more,

I felt it smite me like a blow.'

360.

1. Any person who this from my Second would

buy,

2. Altho' it is wrong on my First to rely,