2. This man may appear (it seems a strange thing),

As a peasant, a soldier, or even a king.

3. This flower is handsome, and holds its head high,

And in autumn in many a garden you'll spy. 4. I have hunted and searched for it all in vain, And have looked in the cupboard again and again.

5. A king who did evil the whole of his life,— His son was no better, nor indeed that son's wife.

6. A seaport of North Wales, and the castle where Was born to our King Edward a little son and

heir.

7. Although she is blind, this nice work she can do,

Shawls and stockings she'll make, or a baby's soft shoe.

33.

If from your cough you have no rest,
Take of my Last just one or two,
Made by my First; his are the best,-
At least the papers tell us so.

1. With me the farmer tills his land,-
Of iron and wood I'm not afraid;
By me the young and raw recruit

A smart and useful soldier's made. 2. In South America of cities I'm the queen— I have the finest harbour ever seen.

3. In Austria I've made myself a name,
My manufactures are well known to fame.

4. Thy soothing influence pervades my brain,
The sleep, that have sought in vain
For nights, comes o'er me now:
I may perchance ne'er wake again,
But you have come and soothed my pain,
And calmed my aching brow.

5. Pray let your aim be this, he gains no prize Whose faulty arrow past the target flies.

6. Described on paper or on board,

You'll find I'm longer than I'm broad.

7. What all Americans are apt to say,
I'll answer for it every day;

And if you hear them, you'd think they'd been
Instructed well by Babbage's machine.

8. Bestow it well on all who need its aid,
And of one danger only be afraid;

For though with it you may assuage much ill,
If overdone, there's danger you may kill.

34.

As the summer grows hot, 'tis delicious to find My First and my Last in their freshness combined. 1. A Christian dome on hostile rites looks down. 2. Crême de la crême, the leaders of the town. 3. We bow and kiss it, though we do not love it. 4. Here people dwell who must not be above it. 5. You may be first, and yet will be to blame. 6. If such an action tarnishes your name. 7. Which will you have, a book or scribe?-pray

choose.

8. It's a large quantity, you'll find, to use. 9. We listen to your works, and are delighted. 10. How marked the type, our notice is invited. 11. The man was bold who first this undertook. 12. On the right side with L how well they look!

35.

We are two out of a family of three,
And are made much use of in the winter,
But in summer we rest from our labours.

1. I am very well known dressed in green and in grey,

Though a foreigner here, can repeat all you

say.

2. In South America my Second shows

A river which in autumn overflows.

3. We are all related one unto the other,

And whether man or woman does not matter. 4. With such pleasing manners, and such winning ways,

This girl will be liked wherever she stays.

5. The farmer cries out when he looks at his ricks,

And says, 'My fine friends, I will soon stop your tricks.'

36.

'One of the heavenly host, and by his gait
None of the meanest; some great potentate,
Or of the thrones above; such majesty
Invests him coming.'

'At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise
He lights, and to his proper shape returns,
A seraph winged: six wings he wore,
To shade his lineaments divine.'

1. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial-day,
I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,
And, turning from the nursery window, drew
A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu.'

2. What country, friends, is this?' -Lady.'

'And what should I do in this country?'

3. Thousand pavilions white as snow, Spread o'er the Borough-Moor below, Upland, and dale, and down.'

4. Thanks, my Lord, for your venison; for finer or fatter,

Never ranged in a forest, or smoked in a platter.

I cut it, and sent it to Reynolds undrest, To paint it, or eat it, just as he liked best.' 5. 'Sea-king's daughter from over the sea, Saxon, and Norman, and Dane are we,

But all of us Danes in our welcome of thee!' 6. 'He clasps the crag with crooked hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world he stands.'

4. A wide-spreading tree.
5. A great composition.
6. A stratagem.

7. Very inflammable.

39.

Each other's opposites we're reckoned,
And yet this odd result you see :
My First at last must be my Second,
My Second ne'er my First can be.

1. If two negatives make an affirmative, why
Do senators shout me out twice, when they try
Their opponents' assertions with warmth to deny?
2. If on metal and old, who my value can tell ?
If new, on complexions, enquire of Rachel.
3. A part of a clock, or a posture of fence,
Or a young man or woman with more or less

2.

pence.

40.

If in your Second you feel my First,
Go to bed and get well nursed.

1. This troublesome thing may give you pain,
But the juice of this may relieve you;
3. Yet don't, like this lady, go out for a ride
4. In the chilly night, with this by your side,
Or it may in the churchyard leave you.

41.

'A nightingale that all day long
Had cheered the village with his song,
Nor yet at eve his note suspended,
Nor yet when eventide was ended,