286.
286.
scissors solution
To remove the shears.—Take the loop end of the string; put it through the right handle, and carry the loop around toa, as shown by the dotted line here given. Let the loop be carried still further towardb, until it has passed entirely around the whole shoars, and you can then remove them, as they will slip out through the handles.
287. Wasp.
288. Pine apple.
289. I O U 0 (I owe you nothing).
290. Eleve, levee.
291. The letter A.
292. Stable, table, Able, Abe.
293. Hares, share.
294. Glare, large.
295. Yard, dray.
296. Stake, skate.
297. Lurch, churl.
298. One hug enough.
299. Milk-maid.
300. Maine.
301. Box.
302. Quicksand.
303. Les Miserables.
304. Trade Winds.
305. One may be barred and the other bolted.
306. Printers.
307. Bread and butter—read and utter.
308. Catalpa.
309. Lamas, salam.
310. Friend-ship.
311. Mate, ate, mat, ma, am.
312. Prometheus.
313. Nathaniel P. Banks.
314. The letter I.
315. Bilberry.
316. Larkspur.
317. Heartsease.
318. Sumac.
319. Rue.
320. Lady, lad.
321. Mandate.
322. Range, rage.
323. Feeling.
324. Furlong.
325. Flagrant.
326. Apathy.
327. It is a pig-got.
328. Indianapolis.
329. Paris.
330. London.
331. Keel, eel, E E (ease).
332. Cat-a-logue.
333. Votes, stoves.
334. Polyanthus.
335. Isabella.
336. Washington.
337. Gum, mug.
338. Depend not on fortune, but conduct.
339. Tenacity.
340. Beam, hairs (hares), temples a cur sup on his meals, tenants, eggs salted (exalted), a narrow mind.
341. Ruthless.
342. Root, moot, foot, boot, hoot, toot, soot.
343. Mutton.
344. A little (t) will change pain into paint.
345. Parsimony.
346. Personage.
347. Constantinople.
348. Soldiers.
349. Contrabands.
350. Jurisprudence.
351. Drawer, warder.
352. Crown, crow.
353. March, sham, ash, Sam, has.
354. He is a man of great gravity.
355. Host, shot.
356. Tulips (two lips.)
357. Tyke, key.
358. Sun-flower.
359. Rosemary.
360. Aaron’s rod.
361. Nothing.
362. Ho does not want them made shorter.
363. He is fond of cabbage.
364. He never drinks.
365. Memento mori.
366. Orpheus C. Kerr.
367. Uncle Robert’s Picture.
368. Manhattanville.
369. Hatteras.
370. Cat-o-nine-tails.
371. Catastrophe.
372. Catechism.
373. Catechist, (cat he kissed).
374. Cat-a-comb.
375. Blackburnian Warbler.
376. Slate.
377. Potomac.
378. One is a rail-sitter, the other a rail-splitter.
379. When he travels on a trail (T rail).
380. When they linger round the bars.
381. He pleads at the bar.
382. The letter N.
383. A yard and a quarter.Abe—Abe-L.
384. Chaucer.
385. It holds a gal on.
386. Noise.
387. It weighs anchor.
388. To axe the way.
389. Because “i” is in the midst of bliss, “e” is in hell, and all the others in purgatory.
390. From San Jacinto to corner of the fort, 1,843 66-100 yards.
From San Jacinto to center of the fort, 1,971 10-100 yards.
From Ironsides to corner of the fort, 2,096 53-100 yards.
From Ironsides to center of the fort, 2,304 75-100 yards.
From point equidistant to center of the fort, 1,763 47-100 yards.
391. R U L. (Are you well?)
392. Rampage.
393. The letter E.
394. I, in, pin, spin or pine, spine.
395. Earl, pearl.
396. Iri, iris.
397. B travels ten miles a day.
398. Yesterday.
399. Corkscrew.
400. Peculation, speculation.
401. Her son never sets.
402. The hard shell.
403. It is a good egg sample.
404. Core, score.
405. A flatterer.
406. I ate nothing to-day.
407. Shale, hale, ale.
408. The letter E.
409. Beersheba.
410. Teasing, easing.
411. Penny-royal.
412. Balista, tails.
413. Ridgewood.
414. Bug-bear.
415. Halibut.
416. Bashaw, Wabash.
417. Because the die is cast before they pass it.
418. Canoe (transposed forms “ocean”).
419. CLOWN.
420. Deer, ree.
blind man's bluff
blowing bubbles
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