3. "I had rather forsooth go before you

Than follow him like a dwarf.”

like a man

4. "Hence from Verond thou art banished; Be patient, for the world is broad and wide." 5. "Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged are stood upon."

6. "Twenty to one, then, he is shipped already, And I have played the sheep in losing him." G. M.

234.

Opposites these in nature are,
Though often named together;
The First is wild, the Last is tame,
Their skins will both make leather.

1. After the storm there comes a calm,
Which will free you from alarm.
2. Imagination pure, I'm certain sure.
3. Rather than this I'd pick all day
Roses or sweet-scented May.

4. Catch him unawares

Going down the stairs.

X. R. H.

235.

Latin orator. Roman philosopher.

1. Chinese writer.
2. Goddess of peace.
3. Saxon writer.

4. Goddess of music.

5. Education at Athens.

6. Mount of Thessaly.

G. M.

236.

Shakesperian heroines.

1. Italian bard! Jerusalem thy fame.

2. Village of Oxford! scholars know thy name. 3. Sunk in a well. Oh! how can that e'er be? 4. Maiden, thy lover sails across the sea.

5. One of the twelve and of the chosen few. 6. Hispania's wild and mountain crew.

7. For this the conqueror's child will do.

G.M.

237.

When men embark on board a ship
To seek some foreign strand,
How oft my First my Last becomes
Before they reach the land.

1. Here a hottish town we see.
2. With these I never wish to be.
3. A painter who's to nature true.
4. A river swift I now give you.

5. And here a town of France you view.

238.

H. F. G.

Cause. Effect.

1. When young this thing can scarcely stand.

2. A river in a snowy land.

3. Here was destroyed a Gallic fleet.

4. And this is dry beneath your feet.

239.

H. F. G.

My friends, if perchance as you're walking abroad,

My Second you happen to meet,

If you wish that my First shall remain safe and

sound,

I advise you to take to your feet.

1. Here Moses with Jehovah speaks.
2. A county in the land of leeks.
3. An Indian province now you see.
4. And here a town in Lombardy.
5. This is a river in Brazil.

6. Don't eat too much, or you'll be ill.

240.

H. F. G.

Two pronouns possessive which, between you and I,

Mean the same thing to many, when nobody's by.

1. Can be spelt with two letters.

2. These are children or fetters.
3. A troublesome vowel.

4. Brings up thoughts of a cowl.

241.

Circumgyration,

Here we shall find

Movement and motion
Of ev'ry kind.

1. An uninvited visitor.

2. A brave but foolish boaster.
3. A kinsman of Brabantio.

4. By Romans borne to meet the foe.

242.

Affirmation

And negation.

1. Oscitation.

2. One day's duration.

3. Pacification.

L.M.

L. M.

243.

Here we behold the sunny morn,
And here the waning day ;
Each has great beauties of its own,
Which most has, who shall say?

1. Dangerous water here we see.
2. And here a town of Italy.
3. This reminds one of the ice.
4. And this outruns you in a trice.
5. A very well-known Spanish river.
6. Of laws of gravity the giver.

H. F. G.