Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark.' 1. Oh, how this beautiful month of May Will make of the grass a good crop of hay! game to-night, It is the children's great delight.

2. Let us have this

3. Young man, come, take my horse away,
And give him hay and corn, I pray.
4. The summer really does seem coming,
I must leave off my winter clothing.

42.

TWO GREENHOUSE FLOWERS.

1. The servants' entrance.

2. Many signs.

3. Disease of the lungs.

4. A sweet flowering shrub.

5. Dull and weary.

6. Early in the day.

43.

'Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee! Obey, and go with me, for thou must die.'

:

'I must, indeed and therefore come I hither. Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man ; Fly hence and leave me.'

1. 'I'll carry no crotchets: I'll re you, I'll fa you; do you note me?

2. 'And look how well my garments sit upon me; Much feater than before: my brother's servants Were then my fellows; now they are my men.' 3. 'Midnight, assist our moan;

Help us to sigh and groan,
Heavily, heavily!

Graves yawn, and yield your dead,
Till death be uttered,
Heavily, heavily!

4. 'If thou hadst been born blind, thou mightst as well have known all our names, as thus to name the several colours we do wear. Sight may distinguish of colours, but suddenly to nominate them all, it is impossible.'

5. ‘Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth, The better part of my affections would Be with my hopes abroad.'

44.

'Here we are again!'

1. Adjoining to, but yet not in the town, Whose tenants on the humble cits look down. 2. A silly schoolgirl's foolish exclamation Is mostly used in vocal education.

3. Part of a borderer's armour (vide Scott)

How changed, near town, this once secluded spot!

4. With yellow hide, snub nose, and bandy legs, Or nimble, hairy, stealing fruit or eggs.

45.

1866.

'Ila, Majesty! how high thy glory towers, When the rich blood of kings is set on fire!

Oh, now doth death line his dead chaps with
steel;
The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs;
And now he feasts, mouthing the flesh of men,
In undetermined differences of kings.'

'Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus? High-stomached are they both, and full of ire, In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.'

1.

A combination in the sex uncommon,
A righteous judge, and yet a very woman.

2.

'Gallant and good,' he died the death of fame, British in heart, but alien in his name.

3.

Type of all roving husbands: this was he
Who left his wife strange countries for to see,
And wandering homewards one fine afternoon,
Found his return was not one bit too soon.

4.

Spelt in more ways than one, it names a race
Who in our island's history hold a place;
Whose vices and whose virtues cannot fail,
To point a moral or adorn a tale.

Rich yet refined

merits

5.

blonde or brunette, whose

Are none the worse when mingled with good spirits.

6.

High 'midst her people stood the warrior queen, Showed them her wounds, and pointed to the foe;

Amid that tribe no coward heart was seen, Onward they rushed, and laid the oppressor low.

7.

'What will they say in England?' was the cry, As on those bloodstained heights the conquerors stood; What did they say in England? Victory,

Too dearly won from slaves with freemen's blood.'

46.

My First, though higher than my Last,

Is often very

low;

My Last contains what in my First
You'd think you'd rarely know.

1. A well-known plant in Italy and Spain.
2. That which he gives is very plain.

3. I fear that the feeling increases each day. 4. Acquaintance once more they will seek, if they

may.

5. Where a great exile passed a dreary year. 6. I'm not allowed a glass of beer.

47.

Some learned philosophers hold that my Last From my First by selection of nature arose; That the species developed through long ages past, Till it strengthened its back, and it lengthened its nose.

1. Such doctrine as this would have caused much surprise,

To our early progenitor, could he have known it;

But if these modern lights could have opened

his eyes

To his origin, think you he'd readily own it?

2. For I guess, as they say in America, rather He'd have claimed his descent from the Man in the Moon,

Than have used the affectionate name of a father

To a hairy gorilla or dog-faced baboon.

3. His abode must have been, too, a bower of bliss,

If, on seeking at noonday the shade of a tree, He risked being challenged to suffer a kiss From his uncle the Uran, or Aunt Chimpanzee.

48.

TWO SERFS.

1. Waving his bushy tail, and urging forward the stragglers.

Regent of flocks was he when the shepherd slept.'

2. Farewell! awhile to him and thee,

My native land, good night!'

3. In yonder chair I see him sit,

Three fingers round the old silver cup.' 4. Still nearer to the shelves' dread verge, At every tack her course they urge.'

5. 'Douglas, lead fifty of our force
Up yonder hollow watercourse,
And couch thee midway on the wold,
Between the flyers and the hold.'

49.

A PHILOSOPHER, AND HIS TITLE DERIVED FROM

HIS BIRTHPLACE.

1. What strange inhabitants are these,

Upon the new-found shore ?