Our Correspondence.A subscribersends us the following pretty solution of the enigma in the November number of theMuseum:—When walking by the water’s edge,We often find the modestsedge;The lamp that guides our weary feet,Without awick, is incomplete:But these, united, form the nameOfSedgwick, worthy of her fame.Several of our little friends have also sent us a correct solution of the same.The following will speak foritself:—Mr. Robert Merry,I like your riddles and charades very much. My mother says it sharpens the mind to guess them. So, I guess that the answer to the first riddle, in the November number of the Museum, is the letterR, and that the answer to the second is the letterA. He says that he “is also with a party of five.” Does this mean that he is one of the five vowels?I think your Twenty Geographical Questions were very interesting, but I did not know enough of geography to answer them.I am your true friend,John L——n.The following letter is interesting in itself, and it derives additional value from the fact that it has travelled about a thousand miles to find us. It was accompanied by correct answers to our Twenty Geographical Questions; thus showing that our little friends in Illinois know as much as our Yankee girls and boys. We shall be happy to be made acquainted with more of them.Mr. Merry:In this month’s Museum, we find an invitation to answer twenty questions which you have proposed, and our indulgent father has consented to pay the postage if we will find correct answers and send to you. But how can you expect children, who live on Rock River, Illinois, to know a great deal? So, Mr. Merry, if the answers are not all correct, you must not laugh at us, but please to tell us, in the next Museum, what the right answers are; and, when it is convenient, will you tell us a little something about the two New Holland animals?We have been threatening you with a letter for a month past; for you must know that, the 23d of October, the numbers for September and October arrived, and we verily thought you had forgotten us, and we should never see the Museum again. Now, Mr. Merry, you know we cannot get as many books to read as the children who live east, so we depend upon the Museum, for both pleasure and profit, more than many of your black-eyed and blue-eyed readers; so, if you please, we would like the Museum every month, certainly by the tenth of the month.We like the story of Inquisitive Jack very much, and hope he will not forget, very soon,how to ask questions; we also are very much interested in Jumping Rabbit’s story.Blue-eyedEdward E. P——.Black-eyedS. Adaline P——.Nov. 1st, 1843.Holliston, Nov. 23.Mr. Merry:I take this opportunity to write a few lines. I have taken your Museum for the year, and I like it very much. I think if you put in a piece of music it would be much more interesting. I have always taken an interest in your Puzzles; and, as you have had none in your last numbers, I thought I would make one, and if you think it deserves insertion, you can insert it.I am composed of fourteen letters.My 1, 6, 10, 5, 2, 7, is a town in Massachusetts.My 11, 5, 9, 4, is a place in Boston.My 5, 9, 7, is a metal.My 3, 6, 12, 13, 14, 4, is a city in Europe.My 6, 10, 5, is an insect.My 4, 6, 1, 11, is a river in New England.My 12, 9, 7, 14, is a kind of wood.My 2, 7, 9, 11, 10, is a vegetable.My 10, 6, 9, 13, is a very useful article.My 6, 1, 8, 11, 3, is a town in Massachusetts.My 14, 5, 10, 6, is a burning mountain.My 13, 14, 6, 4, 8, is an adjective.My 14, 6, 4, 8, is a point of the compass.My 9, 13, 13, 9, 3, 11, 9, 4, is one of the States.My whole is a city on the eastern continent.From a black-eyed friend,H. P——.The following letter from Washington is very acceptable, and we hope our little friend will continue his interestingcorrespondence:—Mr. Merry:I have come on to Washington with my father, to spend the winter here, and I thought I would write, and tell you something about Washington. It is a pretty large place, but it is scattered about, and looks like a great city broken into a great many pieces. The capitol is situated on the brow of a hill, and is a very fine building, of white freestone. It is the handsomest building I ever saw. The grounds around it are so neat, and have such fine walks! And then there are so many pretty trees scattered about in groups! And then there are beautiful fountains, out of which the water is spouting as bright as flowing silver!The capitol is twice as large as the Boston state-house, and has a vast number of rooms, and passages, and staircases. I got quite lost and bewildered in it several times, but I can find my way pretty well now. There is a large circular room in the middle of the building, called the Rotunda. It is lighted at the top, by the dome or cupola.Around the sides of the rotunda are several carvings and pictures. One of the latter represents the marriage of Pocahontas to Rolfe, the Englishman. It is a very large picture indeed, the figures being as large as life. It is very interesting.The House of Representatives and the Senate, being called Congress, meet in two different rooms in the capitol. The United States Court also meet every winter in a room in the capitol.I have only been to the House of Representatives yet. The room is a half circle, very lofty, and supported by beautiful pillars of many-colored marble. There are about two hundred and thirty members; and what strikes me as very odd is, that they sit with their hats on. If they were boys, they would have to take their hats off; for boys are expected to observe good manners, but men and members of Congress, I suppose, may do as they please.The Speaker is Mr. Jones, of Virginia; a man of dark complexion, and plain appearance. He is also a little lame. Yet he seems to be a mild and good man. But there is one thing that he ought to pay attention to. He being chairman, the members must address their speeches to him. When they begin, they sayMr. Chairman; and sometimes they speak of addressing thechair. Now, what I notice as wrong is this, that many of the members saycheerandcheerman! Would you believe, Mr. Merry, that such things would be tolerated in the Congress of the United States? Why, any school-boy would get a striped jacket for talking through his nose, and murdering the English tongue in this fashion; but I suppose members of Congress may do as they please.I had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Adams, of Massachusetts, make a speech. He is very old, and his hand trembles, and his voice breaks. I was sorry to see that he got very angry—very angry indeed. It seems to me that such an old man should not get angry; but perhaps I am wrong, for I am only a boy. I should have loved him, if he had been mild, and calm, and dignified.I must now close my letter: perhaps I shall write you again. Good bye.Yours, truly,James Norton.
A subscribersends us the following pretty solution of the enigma in the November number of theMuseum:—
When walking by the water’s edge,We often find the modestsedge;The lamp that guides our weary feet,Without awick, is incomplete:But these, united, form the nameOfSedgwick, worthy of her fame.
When walking by the water’s edge,We often find the modestsedge;The lamp that guides our weary feet,Without awick, is incomplete:But these, united, form the nameOfSedgwick, worthy of her fame.
When walking by the water’s edge,
We often find the modestsedge;
The lamp that guides our weary feet,
Without awick, is incomplete:
But these, united, form the name
OfSedgwick, worthy of her fame.
Several of our little friends have also sent us a correct solution of the same.
The following will speak foritself:—
Mr. Robert Merry,
I like your riddles and charades very much. My mother says it sharpens the mind to guess them. So, I guess that the answer to the first riddle, in the November number of the Museum, is the letterR, and that the answer to the second is the letterA. He says that he “is also with a party of five.” Does this mean that he is one of the five vowels?
I think your Twenty Geographical Questions were very interesting, but I did not know enough of geography to answer them.
I am your true friend,
John L——n.
The following letter is interesting in itself, and it derives additional value from the fact that it has travelled about a thousand miles to find us. It was accompanied by correct answers to our Twenty Geographical Questions; thus showing that our little friends in Illinois know as much as our Yankee girls and boys. We shall be happy to be made acquainted with more of them.
Mr. Merry:
In this month’s Museum, we find an invitation to answer twenty questions which you have proposed, and our indulgent father has consented to pay the postage if we will find correct answers and send to you. But how can you expect children, who live on Rock River, Illinois, to know a great deal? So, Mr. Merry, if the answers are not all correct, you must not laugh at us, but please to tell us, in the next Museum, what the right answers are; and, when it is convenient, will you tell us a little something about the two New Holland animals?
We have been threatening you with a letter for a month past; for you must know that, the 23d of October, the numbers for September and October arrived, and we verily thought you had forgotten us, and we should never see the Museum again. Now, Mr. Merry, you know we cannot get as many books to read as the children who live east, so we depend upon the Museum, for both pleasure and profit, more than many of your black-eyed and blue-eyed readers; so, if you please, we would like the Museum every month, certainly by the tenth of the month.
We like the story of Inquisitive Jack very much, and hope he will not forget, very soon,how to ask questions; we also are very much interested in Jumping Rabbit’s story.
Blue-eyedEdward E. P——.
Black-eyedS. Adaline P——.
Nov. 1st, 1843.
Holliston, Nov. 23.
Mr. Merry:
I take this opportunity to write a few lines. I have taken your Museum for the year, and I like it very much. I think if you put in a piece of music it would be much more interesting. I have always taken an interest in your Puzzles; and, as you have had none in your last numbers, I thought I would make one, and if you think it deserves insertion, you can insert it.
I am composed of fourteen letters.My 1, 6, 10, 5, 2, 7, is a town in Massachusetts.My 11, 5, 9, 4, is a place in Boston.My 5, 9, 7, is a metal.My 3, 6, 12, 13, 14, 4, is a city in Europe.My 6, 10, 5, is an insect.My 4, 6, 1, 11, is a river in New England.My 12, 9, 7, 14, is a kind of wood.My 2, 7, 9, 11, 10, is a vegetable.My 10, 6, 9, 13, is a very useful article.My 6, 1, 8, 11, 3, is a town in Massachusetts.My 14, 5, 10, 6, is a burning mountain.My 13, 14, 6, 4, 8, is an adjective.My 14, 6, 4, 8, is a point of the compass.My 9, 13, 13, 9, 3, 11, 9, 4, is one of the States.My whole is a city on the eastern continent.
From a black-eyed friend,
H. P——.
The following letter from Washington is very acceptable, and we hope our little friend will continue his interestingcorrespondence:—
Mr. Merry:
I have come on to Washington with my father, to spend the winter here, and I thought I would write, and tell you something about Washington. It is a pretty large place, but it is scattered about, and looks like a great city broken into a great many pieces. The capitol is situated on the brow of a hill, and is a very fine building, of white freestone. It is the handsomest building I ever saw. The grounds around it are so neat, and have such fine walks! And then there are so many pretty trees scattered about in groups! And then there are beautiful fountains, out of which the water is spouting as bright as flowing silver!
The capitol is twice as large as the Boston state-house, and has a vast number of rooms, and passages, and staircases. I got quite lost and bewildered in it several times, but I can find my way pretty well now. There is a large circular room in the middle of the building, called the Rotunda. It is lighted at the top, by the dome or cupola.
Around the sides of the rotunda are several carvings and pictures. One of the latter represents the marriage of Pocahontas to Rolfe, the Englishman. It is a very large picture indeed, the figures being as large as life. It is very interesting.
The House of Representatives and the Senate, being called Congress, meet in two different rooms in the capitol. The United States Court also meet every winter in a room in the capitol.
I have only been to the House of Representatives yet. The room is a half circle, very lofty, and supported by beautiful pillars of many-colored marble. There are about two hundred and thirty members; and what strikes me as very odd is, that they sit with their hats on. If they were boys, they would have to take their hats off; for boys are expected to observe good manners, but men and members of Congress, I suppose, may do as they please.
The Speaker is Mr. Jones, of Virginia; a man of dark complexion, and plain appearance. He is also a little lame. Yet he seems to be a mild and good man. But there is one thing that he ought to pay attention to. He being chairman, the members must address their speeches to him. When they begin, they sayMr. Chairman; and sometimes they speak of addressing thechair. Now, what I notice as wrong is this, that many of the members saycheerandcheerman! Would you believe, Mr. Merry, that such things would be tolerated in the Congress of the United States? Why, any school-boy would get a striped jacket for talking through his nose, and murdering the English tongue in this fashion; but I suppose members of Congress may do as they please.
I had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Adams, of Massachusetts, make a speech. He is very old, and his hand trembles, and his voice breaks. I was sorry to see that he got very angry—very angry indeed. It seems to me that such an old man should not get angry; but perhaps I am wrong, for I am only a boy. I should have loved him, if he had been mild, and calm, and dignified.
I must now close my letter: perhaps I shall write you again. Good bye.
Yours, truly,
James Norton.