Robert Merry to his friendsA kindly greeting sends,With a general assortment of questions,Conundrums, Charades,Puzzles, Riddles of all shades,And Rebuses, as aidsTo intellectual and social digestion.If the young Merry hostAcquaintance should boast,Or kindred, or authorship pat,With some of our jokes,We confess—(’tis no hoax)—To amuse other folks,We haveriddledthe Museum “Chat.”Now we beg you will show,If you happen to know,Why the Editor, painstaking soul?Is like the cold stormWhich, in climates bright and warm,Where gallinippers swarm,Come shivering down from the pole?
Robert Merry to his friendsA kindly greeting sends,With a general assortment of questions,Conundrums, Charades,Puzzles, Riddles of all shades,And Rebuses, as aidsTo intellectual and social digestion.If the young Merry hostAcquaintance should boast,Or kindred, or authorship pat,With some of our jokes,We confess—(’tis no hoax)—To amuse other folks,We haveriddledthe Museum “Chat.”Now we beg you will show,If you happen to know,Why the Editor, painstaking soul?Is like the cold stormWhich, in climates bright and warm,Where gallinippers swarm,Come shivering down from the pole?
Robert Merry to his friendsA kindly greeting sends,With a general assortment of questions,Conundrums, Charades,Puzzles, Riddles of all shades,And Rebuses, as aidsTo intellectual and social digestion.
Robert Merry to his friends
A kindly greeting sends,
With a general assortment of questions,
Conundrums, Charades,
Puzzles, Riddles of all shades,
And Rebuses, as aids
To intellectual and social digestion.
If the young Merry hostAcquaintance should boast,Or kindred, or authorship pat,With some of our jokes,We confess—(’tis no hoax)—To amuse other folks,We haveriddledthe Museum “Chat.”
If the young Merry host
Acquaintance should boast,
Or kindred, or authorship pat,
With some of our jokes,
We confess—(’tis no hoax)—
To amuse other folks,
We haveriddledthe Museum “Chat.”
Now we beg you will show,If you happen to know,Why the Editor, painstaking soul?Is like the cold stormWhich, in climates bright and warm,Where gallinippers swarm,Come shivering down from the pole?
Now we beg you will show,
If you happen to know,
Why the Editor, painstaking soul?
Is like the cold storm
Which, in climates bright and warm,
Where gallinippers swarm,
Come shivering down from the pole?