Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 Part 9

No. 5.

NUMERICAL CHARADE.

I am composed of 19 letters.

My 9, 7, 3, 5, 10 is an animal.

My 19, 15, 16 is a problem.

My 2, 4, 6 is to strike.

My 16, 4, 1, 10 are small animals.

My 8, 7, 6 is an article of kitchen furniture.

My 14, 18, 16, 17, 10, 11 is used in building.

My 12, 13, 6 is a small bed.

My whole is the name of an eminent navigator.

GEORGE B.

No. 6.

WORD SQUARE.

First, parts of the fingers. Second, a girl's name. Third, the name of a line of ocean steamers. Fourth, deceivers. Fifth, understanding.

HARRY VAN A.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 20.

No. 1.

Rio do la Plata.

No. 2.

C or D O do R W h Y P lai D E mbrac E R ai N

Cowper, Dryden.

No. 3.

Orion.

No. 4.

F A L L S E A T T R I M K E E P

No. 5.

S T E P T I D E E D I T P E T S

No. 6.

A A P E A P P L E E L I E

A Personation, on page 264--Charles the First of England.

Favors are acknowledged from A. A. Gilmore, Jun., Bessie Comstock, J. A.

Bokee, Roscoe C., Thad and Jennie V., Pearl L. M., Willie MacMahan, Richard Graham, H. B. N., M. H. Tod., Grace Putnam, Bessie T., L. A.

Barry, William B. B., Louis Pomeroy, H. S. T., Mary L. B., Barton Scales, C. D. H., Willie Everett, Bertie Wheeler, S. M. Nelson, Nick O. D., Clara Commons, Maggie Zane, Mary Maxey, Edith Cragg, Abbie Parkhurst, Arthur Ellis, James Penner, Fannie Hartwell, Ada Hathaway, Arthur Jones, Beatrice Gower, Jessie Evans, Vince Applegate, Sallie Walton, H. A. Forster, G. C. Leiber, Beecher Stephens, L. C. M., Fred Anderson, Jessie Kelsey.

Correct answers to puzzles are received from Herbert Parmenter, C. H.

Gilson, H. and B., Lulu Pearce, Mary Nesmith, A. L. Bliss, A. H.

Bechtold, C. F. Langton, "Blind Floretta," Aggie R. H., Charlie A. P., Louise Gates, "Jupiter," Isabel and Marion Copeland, Johnny Glen, May S., John Blake, Fannie and Belle M., Gertrude H., Stella and Harry M., James Smith, E. S. Robinson, F. B., Jennie S., Effie Talboys, C. Frank H., "Sleepy d.i.c.k," Willie Kurtz, Helen Mackay, Florence MacCulley, George Duncan, Fannie MacCulley, Edward Keeler, John G. M., John MacClintock, Stella, William Lewis, Mary Liddy, Mary Randal, Mabel Hatfield, Marguerite Bucknall, G. C., Charlie Rosenberg.

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