2. 'To his black forge vindictive Vulcan flies.'

3. 'His whole life and character might be summed up by describing him as the victim of a passion for horses, a passion for travelling, a passion for literature, and a passion for independence.'

4.

'Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong, flaming from the ethereal sky,

To bottomless perdition!'

153.

TWO NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES.

1. The little space before our life is past; Yes, with my hand I've circled it at last.

2. What you say when you wish to make a horse stay,

Add an e, and you'll mourn it many a day.

3. Two I've possessed ever since I was born, But many more has a field of corn.

4. Grateful to thirsty meadows, vales and hills, Which morn and eve with soft white mist it fills.

5. An English female name that's short and nice,

I pray you, let one meaning here suffice.

6. A negative, and yet your horse you'd say

Does something like it when he wants his hay

154.

TWO BRITISH TRIBES.

1. A domestic animal.

2. A fisher.

3. A street in Paris.

4. A hard metal.

5. Makes good sauce.

6. Beginning of the alphabet.
7. An opera.

8. By the roadside.

9. Not present.

10. On the face.

11. Those who can't find this out.

155.

While there's my First, there is my Second,
Thus by the proverb it is reckoned;
If so, how much are they accurst
Who lose my Last before my First!

1. In ladies' dresses found, and feet.
2. A sculpture hollow, sharp, and neat.
3. A beverage sometimes made with eggs.
4. A useful thing for mind or legs.

1.

156.

'The Angel of Death.'
'The icy wind of death.'

I Within the walls then view
The schools of ancient sages.'

2. Fond maid, the sorrow of her soul was such, E'en reason sunk blighted beneath its touch.'

3.

6 A pipe

Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.'

4. ‘And all our city calls him The man of seventy fights.' 5. His spirit seem'd to melt

With ardent yearnings of increasing love.' 6. Whom I have ever honoured as my king, Loved as my father, as my master followed.'

157.

1. A party watchword redolent of strife.
2. A Roman lady of unblemished life;
3. A decoration on a noble's breast.

4. That which a weak mind never can resist.

These, ranged in order due, may surely claim
To show the loveliest flower, the sweetest name;
And when their charms together we unite,
An aromatic shrub we bring to light.

158.

OUR TWO DEFENCES.

1. She ever sitteth in the sun.
2. A mighty land extending far.

3. Within that land you'll find this town.
4. Our country's sons equipped for war.

159.

See how, with lofty head and stately stride,
His bright eye glist'ning with defiant pride,
He stalks along his way;

While many a favourite and female friend,
In plainer garb their Sultan's steps attend,
And his behests obey.

1. What reck they of the vile and sordid spoil, For which incessantly the many toil;

2. And of the wisdom of Dodona's grove,

Where hoary priests declare the will of Jove? 3. With them a simple grain of wheat outweighs The wealth of modern,-lore of ancient days; 4. And dearer than the touch of pouting lips, To them is the pure water which they sip.

160.

A traveller and his inner life

His journey, burden, hopes, and strife.

1. The staff the traveller used to help him on his way:

2. It was at his house the traveller did stay. 3. The word that issued from his lips, when first He spoke of sights that on his vision burst.

4. A giant, not the one that did our traveller beset.

5. The last of all the dangers that on his course he met.

6. A fellow-traveller whom he met with on the road.

7. Were called 'delectable,' and milk and honey on us flowed.

8. The traveller stayed with us, and there

He listened, talked, and breathed the mountain air,

161.

A subject still of much debate

Both for the learned and the great.

1. Much used,―oft abused,
Short or long,—right or wrong.
2. Among great orators I'm classed,
And to this day am unsurpassed.
3. A flower of varied form and hue,
Red, white, or brown, I'm seen by you.
4. It often speaks what's said by you,
Revealing every word quite true.

162.

Softly soothing, strangely sweet,
Strains of ever even flow,-
To the music that they make,
Round the giddy waltzers go.

1. Beauties concealed with jealous care and pains.

2. A many-fountained mount in Trojan plains. 3. Abroad in the meadow, young, sportive, and

gay.

4. Oft on our coasts of old their galleys lay.
5. Where the bee sucks, there lurk I,
In a cowslip's bell I lie.'

163.

I bade the cook to make it, and to serve it nice and hot,

With a sprinkling of white pepper, and a morsel of shalot,

Oh! the First from off the dresser whereon it did

repose,

She took and threw it (bless her!) and it hit me on the nose.