516. Letter U,-it is always in troubles and diffi

culties.

517. It stands between two eyes (iis).

518. U, V, W, X, Y, Z, because they always come after T (tea).

519. F, A, S, H, I, O, N.

520. The fin is (finis).

521. When he makes A poke R and shove L.

522. A, Y, Z, a wise head.

523. A, C, D, T.

524. U and I.

525. D, K.

526. The orphan has ne'er a parent; the queen has an heir apparent; the new born baby has

no hair apparent.

527. Your coat you wear; a babby you was.

528. The men of Cork are light, the men of Ayr are lighter, but there are Lightermen still on the Thames.

Answer to the Picture Charade preceding page 1.

Harrowgate Waters.

ADDITIONAL CONUNDRUMS.

1.

HY does keeping a College gate justify a man in being conceited?

2. Why is an idle Undergraduate like a goose?

3. Why is a fast collegian like the letter Y?

4. What Greek exclamation was uttered by the King of Bavaria in his calamities?

5. When Brutus asked Cæsar how many pancakes he ate for breakfast, what was his answer?

6. Prove that heat travels faster than cold.

7. If a porter or ale drinker were to choose a crystal from the Mineralogical Museum at Cambridge, which would he take?

8. And which if he were a teetotaller?

9. Why is the loaf, (when you have breakfasted on the crust,) like a bad syllogism?

10. "There was an old woman, and she was as deaf as a post."

Required:-To make the above sentence into two measured lines, which shall rhyme and scan without changing the words.

11. Why is thieving like an attempt to prove contraries?

12. Why was the martyrs' imprisonment at Oxford correct in logic?

13.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S PUZZLE (versified).

Ingenious artist, pray disclose

How I, nine trees may so dispose
That just ten rows shall planted be,
And every row contain just three.

14. A hundred and one by fifty divide,

And then to the whole let a nought be applied;
And when this is done, if I rightly divine,

The amount of the sum will be one out of nine.

15. Divide thirteen into two equal numbers without

16.

a fraction.

Or,

Though fourteen divided makes seven and seven,
Yet thirteen divided makes double eleven.

When first the marriage knot was tied
Between my wife and me,

My age exceeded her's as much

As three times three does three:

But when ten years and half ten years

We man and wife had been,

Her age approach'd as near to mine
As eight is to sixteen.