1. Yellow or white, conspicuous in the spring; For cleanliness your new one is the thing. 2. Political economy and money

Alone I wrote and talked about-how funny! 3. A servant, slave, or peasant here is seen,

Nay, what we all are to our Gracious Queen. 4. Black and white, thin and stout, a peasant and a peer,

A millionaire and mendicant-oh! oh! and loud hear! hear!

5. Oh, wondrous change! pride, anger, incivility, By wedlock turned to love, repose, docility. 6. A hint to idle horse to work the harder, On table, 'twas a hint of empty larder.

124.

Two painters who our sires delighted; By George the Third they both were knighted. 1. I bring you smiles, I bring you tears. 2. I flower but once in a hundred years. 3. A liquor which the Irish love. 4. A carriage light and swift to move. 5. A sound in lonely caverns heard. 6. A fiction frequently absurd. 7. A great promiscuous multitude. 8. This sorcerer St. Paul withstood.

125.

TWO OPPOSITES.

1. When new 'tis best.
2. Safe when at rest.
3. A god she nursed.
4. This man was cursed,

126.

TWO SCOTCH POETS.

1. A check.

2. An Ionian Island.
3. One in command.
4. Used for soup.
5. A Spanish river.

127.

Their name but late a misnomer seemed,
But now we hope may be appropriate deemed.
1. Its danger is not half so great
As ancient travellers relate.
2. Our admiration it commands,
As built without the use of hands.
3. A fertile country far away,

Yet subject to the English sway.
4. A house that can be moved with ease,
At any time the owners please.
5. A dame who, with imperial grace,
Now fills so well her lofty place.

6. An orator who strove in vain
His country's freedom to obtain.

128.

TULIP CHEEK.

1. 'His eye but saw that light of love, The only star it hailed above.'

2.

'Downward he runs,

Scattering fresh verdure thro' the desolate

wild.'

3. 'In such a night did he swear he loved her well,

Stealing her soul with many vows of faith
And ne'er a true one.'

4. 'Sweet bird! thou wakenest by thy song,
Bright memories and affections strong.'

5. 'But bound with many an iron chain, Bound in that church was he.'

129.

ANYHOW.

1. I wish you'd come and aid me; what a mess! How without your assistance can I dress? 2. If in this way my things about you throw, I shall devote you to the gods below.

3. Oh yes, it's very fine to talk of leaving:
You know too well the wages you're receiving,
4. And all the perquisites you are obtaining,
Ever to really think of not remaining.

5. It really does provoke my indignation,
I must reduce you to your proper station.

6. Go if you will! I think it would be best,
For then at least I should enjoy some rest.

7. Ah! now from your high phrases you come down,

And say you're sorry; but I'll bet a crown

8. That your amendment will be nothing more Or less to-day than on the day before!

130.

TWO TREES.

1. The city of the sun.
2. A Danish port.

3. The conqueror of Wales.
4. The recent seat of war.

5. A river of Yorkshire.

131.

"The meeting-points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head for ever and for ever.' 1. This is a little sparkling stream. 2. And this a river fair doth seem. 3. An English fête champêtre is here. 4. This horned beast's a kind of deer.

132.

'His song was now of battlefield,
Of brave men dying under shield;
And at the sound each warrior's eye
Like lightning flashed from darkest sky.'
'Through the night my songs adjure thee,
Hear, oh hear, my prayer!"

1. And robed in Nature's simplest weed,
Could there a flower that rose exceed ?'
2. In lonely dale, fast by a river's side,

With woody hill o'er hill encompassed round,

A most enchanting wizard does abide,

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Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found.'

3. And thou most reverend for thy stretchedout life!'

4. Fear not, good fellow, for your hoardI come to lodge, and not to board.'

5. And he lifted high his brawny hand, On the iron glowing clear,

'Till the sparks rushed out in scarlet showers, As he fashioned the sword and spear.'

6. Fortress of falling empire.'

7. And many passed, but none regarded her, For in that realm of lawless turbulence,

A woman weeping for her murder'd mate, Was cared as much for as a summer shower.' 8. The pair had but one inmate in their house, An only child, who had been born to them When Michael, telling o'er his years, began To deem that he was old.'

133.

The 'knowledge' of our First 'from heaven descended,'

So sang the Roman satirist; 'tis plain,

Since human nature hath but little mended,

That 'knowledge' hath returned to heaven
again.

The Second's heaven itself,—so sings the poet,
And, gazing on fair Laura's eyes, we know it.
But ah! the whole's a failing very common
In man, but specially in lovely woman.

1. Delia, they said, was rich-young Jones was poor;

But wealth he doted on, and so he swore
He loved her dearly-praised her nose, her
Et cetera and thought he'd got a prize;

eyes,