1. How very pleasant this has been!
I wish it might come true.

2. Now, as you say you must be off,
I'll say goodbye to you.

3. Then bring me here The Times, I pray,
I'm anxious this to see.

4. My fourth's an island you will find
In the Mediterranean Sea.

5. How strange this

person does He really seems demented,

appear,

His ways they are so very strange,

I fear I've him offended!

Sprung from a knightly race, but wielding the pen of the writer;

Powerful in debate, and powerful too on the hustings;

Orator, poet, he who sings of the 'Night and the Morning.'

Teller of stories strange, as the long-lost 'Tales of Miletus.'

1.

Indigenous to Irish soil, but here,

In crowded streets, a frequent cause of fear;
A strange anomaly, and yet, no fun-
'Tis best avoided when 'tis seen to run.

2.

'Comparisons are odious,' so I fear

I must not liken you to this, my dear;
For so the truth would give us mutual pain
For I should speak, and you would be, too plain.

3.

'England expects,' &c. But duty

Is one thing, and another thing is booty; Therefore, Ŏ men who fought at Kirwee Banda, Why kept ye not the bird ye had in hand, eh ?

4.

Prized at all tables where 'tis understood,
Its birth must be spontaneous to be good;
What few possess, but every fool may borrow,
A cause of mirth to some, to others sorrow.

5.

A noble scion of an ancient race,
He thinks he's fit for any place;
On art and rifle-ranging apt to preach,
Tory in heart, but Liberal in speech.,

6.

Famed for its works of medieval art,
Here rests our English Richard's lion-heart;
And England's rose was sullied by the stain
Of a fair maiden's blood, unjustly slain.

4.

This is our own;
That's from abroad.

1. A wicked sort of fairy.
2. An example of cruelty.
3. An order of knighthood.
4. An ornamental fabric.
5. A small French word.

6. A sharp and painful sensation.
7. An instrument not always musical.

5.

Pray hang your hat or coat on me;
Summit of everything you see;
But when as one we are combined,
A charming toy you then will find.
1. A child, a dog, a bird.
2. Repeated every word.
3. Painful when 'tis heard.

6.

O man of learning, man of fame!
Oft great thy mind, though small thy name;
Still struggling, still labouring on,
Night comes at last, and it's not done.

1. See the children's happy faces,
Striving, eager for front places.

2. With many and many a fold,
It is reduced to this, I'm told.
3. If lost, I'm missed on every head;
For use, for beauty, and for bread.
4. Look sharp! he will deceive you yet;
That's right! by this the game we get.

7.

A DRAMATIST, AND ONE OF HIS PLAYS.
1. A Spanish explorer.

2. A Spanish palace.
3. Sends to sleep.

4. The best king of Judah.

5. The name of more than one river.

6. One of the minor prophets.

7. The burial place of many Englishmen. 8. An Egyptian deity.

9. A clever spy.

8.

My First will from my Second
Blow after blow sustain,
And every blow is reckoned
A credit and a gain,

1. This deserves more kicks than praise;
2. From this the Moslem counts his days;
3. The first thing in arithmetic;

4. Caught with a fly, a string, a stick;
5. Holds cash, or what we do to ground;
6. Long, if no turning can be found;
7. A wife mistrusted by her lord;
8. It means society or fraud;

9. A fisher of no mean success;

10. A well-known part of lady's dress;

11. And that which east, west, north, or south, Comes fittest from a female mouth.

9.

'On-on he hastened, on he drew
My gaze of wonder as he flew ;
Though, like a demon of the night,
He passed and vanished from my sight.
His aspect and his air impressed
A troubled memory on my breast,
And long upon my startled ear
Rung his dark courser's hoofs of fear."
'Yet lowering on his enemy,

As if the hour that sealed his fate,
Surviving left his quenchless hate.'

1. 'Vain Otho gave his bosom to the stroke
He bled and fell.'

2.

'Then farewell, thou earth! And, loveliest spot of earth! farewell—

Be thou still free and beautiful, and far
Aloof from desolation!'

3. 'Goddess of Wisdom! Here thy temple was,
And is, despite of war and wasting fire,
And years, that bade thy worship to expire.'
or would, or could, or should
have sung

4. Thus sung

The modern Greek in tolerable verse:

If not like quite, when Greece was young Yet in these times he might have done much worse.'

5. A lovely lady rode him fair beside,

Upon a lowly ass, more white than snow.' 6. 'Rome and her relic past Redemption's skill.'

10.

AN OPEN SQUARE, SURROUNDED BY MY SECOND. 1. A favourite dance, though short its reign. 2. A friend too oft regarded as a foe.

3. In this circle night is turned to day. 4. An ass, not warranted to ride or drive. 5. Spell my first letter, and you say my last. 6. A snare, but all is fair in war.

11.

1866.

'Oh! I have passed a miserable night,
So full of ugly dreams, of ugly sights,
That, as I am a Christian, faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night,
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days-
So full of dismal terror was the time.'