151.pictorial puzzle
151.pictorial puzzle
151.
152. My second will be better as my first, if careful and energetic as my whole.
153. Why is a drummer the greatest person of the times?
154. When is a sewing-machine a very great comfort?
155. My first is a preposition; my second an animal; my third, in Saxon, means a meadow; my whole we all should be.
156. Three men—A, B, and C—traveling with their wives, come to a river which they must cross. The only boat they can have will carry but two persons at once. How can they all get to the opposite side, no lady being left without her husband in company with the other gentlemen?
157. Straight as an arrow, swift as the lightning, and bright as a sunbeam, I take my flight to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Red riding hood and the wolf
158. My first is a color; my second an agreeable exercise; my third an article of clothing; and my whole a celebrated character.
159. What two female names express a chemist?
160.
I’m pretty, I’m useful in various ways,But if often you kiss me, ’twill shorten your days;I part with one letter, and then I appearWhat young men are fond of all days in the year;I part with two letters, and then without doubt,I’m just what you are if you can’t find me out.
I’m pretty, I’m useful in various ways,But if often you kiss me, ’twill shorten your days;I part with one letter, and then I appearWhat young men are fond of all days in the year;I part with two letters, and then without doubt,I’m just what you are if you can’t find me out.
I’m pretty, I’m useful in various ways,
But if often you kiss me, ’twill shorten your days;
I part with one letter, and then I appear
What young men are fond of all days in the year;
I part with two letters, and then without doubt,
I’m just what you are if you can’t find me out.
(Fill the blanks in each with the same word, differently accented.)
161. The — to Fingal’s cave would — a stranger.
162. Men sometimes — travelers fainting in a —.
163. To select — often — a writer to annoyance.
164. As an excuse for illiberality, persons sometimes — to the —.