Part 2 — THE KEY.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.

Cobweb.M. A. R. Back to puzzle

Thanks. Back to puzzle

Of course I can! (Of Corsican.) Back to puzzle

Maid of Orleans. Back to puzzle

Because they have studded the heavens for centuries. Back to puzzle

The winds blue, and the waves rose. Back to puzzle

In violet. Back to puzzle

They leave out their summer dress. Back to puzzle

Because I am the querist. Back to puzzle

Penmanship.English Paper. Back to puzzle

Heather: weather.Hearth and Home. Back to puzzle

Nothing. Back to puzzle

It contains all the letters of the alphabet. Back to puzzle

A lawsuit. Back to puzzle

His father was Enoch, who did not die. Back to puzzle

Yes: he was the Daughter-of-Pharaoh’s son. Back to puzzle

When Autumn is turning the leaves. Back to puzzle

Bud-dhism. Back to puzzle

Starch. (Star, sac, scar, tar, trash, act, arc, arch, art, ash, rat, rash, chart, cart, cat, car, chat, cash, cast, crash, hart, hat.) Back to puzzle

Ague. (Hague; league; plague.) Back to puzzle

Lettuce, alone. (Let us alone!) Back to puzzle

The moon. Back to puzzle

A human being.The Sphinx Riddle. Back to puzzle

Noah. Back to puzzle

Macaulay.Rural New Yorker. Back to puzzle

N R G. Back to puzzle

M T. Back to puzzle

O B C T. Back to puzzle

X L N C. Back to puzzle

L E G. Back to puzzle

Dutch S. Back to puzzle

French L. Back to puzzle

K. Back to puzzle

In the days of no A (Noah,) before U and I were born. Back to puzzle

T. Back to puzzle

Q. Back to puzzle

It’s laudin’ ’em. Back to puzzle

No man has three feet; a man has two feet more than no man: therefore, a man has five feet. Back to puzzle

A branch.M. L. C. Back to puzzle

Love Me Little: Love Me Long. Back to puzzle

Ma mère.E. P. Back to puzzle

Amiable (Am I able?) Back to puzzle

Conundrum. Back to puzzle

Purcell.M. D. Back to puzzle

You sigh for a cipher, but I sigh for thee; Oh, sigh for no cipher, but, oh, sigh for me; And O, let my sigh for no cipher go, But give sigh for sigh, for I sigh for you so! Back to puzzle

Because they axed him whether he would or no. (Horrid!) Back to puzzle

He was out at midnight, on a bust. Back to puzzle

99⁹⁄₉. Back to puzzle

The season is backward for potatoes. Back to puzzle

One “wouldn’t do:” one “would do.” Back to puzzle

When he owed (Oh’d) “for a lodge in some vast wilderness.” Back to puzzle

The reindeer (The rain, dear!) Back to puzzle

Red Wing.M. A. R. Back to puzzle

Insert a semicolon after “peacock,” after “comet,” after “cloud,” &c.; finally, after “sun.” Back to puzzle

Semicolon after “talked.” Back to puzzle

Absence of body! Back to puzzle

The year before was 1870; the year following was 1870, too. Back to puzzle

Because they’d fall out, if they didn’t. Back to puzzle

Io died (iodide) of potassium. Back to puzzle

He named it Robinson for Robinson crew so! Back to puzzle

They’ve been to sea. Back to puzzle

By the Sound. Back to puzzle

He wears his collar and pants. Back to puzzle

Veil; vile or evil; Levi, live. Back to puzzle

A pair of spurs. Back to puzzle

The letter A. Back to puzzle

Translate the fourth and fifth “suis,” follow. “Suis” comes from suivre, as well as from être. Back to puzzle

A mouse ran, full but, Against my big to. Back to puzzle

Mind your I! Back to puzzle

Campbell’s Poems. Back to puzzle

Thou tea-chest! Back to puzzle

J’aime en silence (six lances.) Back to puzzle

Who raw for (the) read, white, and blew! Back to puzzle

G a. (G, grand; a, petit.) Back to puzzle

Toad (to ad.) Back to puzzle

Noon. Back to puzzle

Insatiate (in sat I ate.) Back to puzzle

Follow the English pronunciation of the syllables, allowing for the cockneyish displacement of the letter h. Thus: TONY’S ADDRESS TO MARY. O Mary! Heave a sigh for me, For me, your Tony true; I am become as a man dumb,— Oh, let Hymen prompt you! etc. The eighth line is “Or eat a bit of pie.” Back to puzzle

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XIII. (X, ^VIII.) Back to puzzle

For convenience let us call the eight-gallon measure, a; the five-gallon, b; and the three-gallon, c. From a fill c, and empty into b. Fill c again; and, from it, fill b. Then empty b into a, and c, (which has in it one gallon,) into b. Fill c again, and empty into b, which now contains four gallons; while a, also, contains four. Back to puzzle

One bushel and one-ninth. Back to puzzle

Nescio. Ik weet niet. Je ne sais pas. No sà. Non so. Ich weiss nicht. Ninis cume. I dinna ken. I DON’T KNOW! Professor Robinson in his Algebra attempts it, but not satisfactorily, so long as letters may be made to represent any number, or any other number, at discretion. Let us call it in this particular phase—(unfortunately it has others),—the Matrimonial Equation: “For, these two are one.” Back to puzzle

The stranger had eaten eight-thirds of a loaf: seven-thirds belonging to one of the Arabs, and only one-third to the other. Back to puzzle

He lost four dollars and the actual cost of the boots. Back to puzzle

5 herring @ 2d. = 10d. 1 “ @ ½ = ½ 6 “ @ ¼ = 1½ ——— 12 “ 12d. Back to puzzle

Endless. Back to puzzle

Cares: caress. Back to puzzle

Onion. Back to puzzle

Advice. Back to puzzle

When he has grounds for complaint. Back to puzzle

For divers reasons. Back to puzzle

For sundry purposes. Back to puzzle

“The quality of Mercy (Mersey) is not strained.” H. B. S. Back to puzzle

“If the grate be empty, put coal on. If the grate be full, stop putting coal on.” So said one, but another replied “How can I put coal on, when there is such a high fender?” Back to puzzle

Because he is no better. Back to puzzle

When it becomes a lady. Back to puzzle

The letters of the alphabet. Back to puzzle

One was going to St. Ives’: he met the others. Back to puzzle

A little too long to wait! (A little 2, long 2, 8.) E. S. D. Back to puzzle

The Image that Michal put in David’s bed. I Samuel, ch. xix. Douay version, xix ch. I Kings. Back to puzzle

His sister. The blind beggar was a woman. Back to puzzle

The man who thanked Heaven was the lady’s father. Back to puzzle

“That man” was the rhymer’s son. Back to puzzle

Hirsute. Back to puzzle

The letter s. Back to puzzle

Because it is always Snowdon. Back to puzzle

They should go to Fall River and Salem. Back to puzzle

Novice. Back to puzzle

Burns.Hearth and Home. Back to puzzle

Crabbe.“““ Back to puzzle

Bryant.“““ Back to puzzle

Gray.“““ Back to puzzle

Beecher.“““ Back to puzzle

Homer. Back to puzzle

Hood. Back to puzzle

Southey. Back to puzzle

Coleridge. Back to puzzle

Goldsmith. Back to puzzle

Humboldt. Back to puzzle

Mulock. Back to puzzle

Lowell. Back to puzzle

Virgil. Back to puzzle

Akenside. Back to puzzle

Wordsworth. Back to puzzle

Steele. Back to puzzle

Shakespeare. Back to puzzle

Cowper. Back to puzzle

WILLis. Back to puzzle

Barry Cornwall. Back to puzzle

Landon. Back to puzzle

Landor. Back to puzzle

Leigh Hunt. Back to puzzle

Walpole. Back to puzzle

Palmerston. Back to puzzle

Russell. Back to puzzle

Lytton. Back to puzzle

Carlyle. Back to puzzle

Seward. Back to puzzle

W(h)ittier. Back to puzzle

Chatter(t)on. Back to puzzle

Because he has tenants. Back to puzzle

It is a step fa(r)ther. Back to puzzle

A draft. Back to puzzle

A pack of cards. Back to puzzle

A cord of wood. Back to puzzle

Taking leave of things as they go. Back to puzzle

His reaper. Back to puzzle

It was Hamlet’s Uncle, who “did murder most foul.” Back to puzzle

The Human Body.—¹ The chest; ² the eye-lids; ³ the knee-caps; ⁴ the ear-drums; ⁵ the nails; ⁶ the soles of the feet; ⁷ the muscles; ⁸ the palms of the hands; ⁹ the limbs; ¹⁰ two lips; ¹¹ the hips; ¹² the calves; ¹³ hairs; ¹⁴ the heart; ¹⁵ the eye-lashes; ¹⁶ the temples; ¹⁷ arms; ¹⁸ veins; ¹⁹ insteps; ²⁰ eyes and nose; ²¹ pupils; ²² tendons. ^a The palate; ^b the roof (of the mouth;) ^c the bridge (of the nose;) ^d the shoulder-blades; ^e the iris (of each eye;) ^f the skull; ^g the spinal column; ^h the tongue; ⁱ the eye-balls, &c., ^jjj the stirrup, anvil and hammer (bones of the ear,) ^k locks (of hair). Back to puzzle

Truant. Back to puzzle

Scarecrow. Back to puzzle

Intimate. Back to puzzle

Codicil. Back to puzzle

The hair. Back to puzzle

Sixteen (those who were blind of both eyes, were also blind of one eye, &c.) Back to puzzle

Because we have a W(h)ittier. Back to puzzle

Because that was his name! Back to puzzle

Because the other forty are Lent. Back to puzzle

Now here, nowhere. Back to puzzle

Ah no! (Arno.) Back to puzzle

Unquestionably. Back to puzzle

The road. Back to puzzle

Columbus. Back to puzzle

Met-a-physician. Back to puzzle

Sackcloth. Back to puzzle

The one who attends “patients on a monument.” Back to puzzle

Rather he killed the gorilla. Back to puzzle

She is a musing, b coming, d lighting, n chanting. Back to puzzle

She is Sad you see. Back to puzzle

She is Fair I see. Back to puzzle

“The judicious Hooker.” Back to puzzle

Yesterday. Back to puzzle

Sunday; all the rest are week days. Back to puzzle

Campbell.W. M. Praed. Back to puzzle

Seldom, (cell-dumb.) Back to puzzle

His equal. Back to puzzle

Just ice. Back to puzzle

The King’s Highway. Back to puzzle

Postage. Back to puzzle

Baking—a king, b king, a kin. Back to puzzle

Strawberry. Back to puzzle

A Mushroom. Back to puzzle

Fault. Back to puzzle

A ditch. Back to puzzle

When they chatter. Back to puzzle

Short. Back to puzzle

A pillow. Back to puzzle

Advice. Back to puzzle

Heat; you can catch cold. Back to puzzle

Sausage.Rural New Yorker. Back to puzzle

Hemlock. Back to puzzle

Heroine; hero; her; he. Back to puzzle

A blush. Back to puzzle

He took his cup and saucer. Back to puzzle

The cat’ll eat it. Back to puzzle

B natural. Back to puzzle

B sharp. Back to puzzle

If the stairs were a way, I would go down stairs. Back to puzzle

Nameless. Back to puzzle

He “cut it too little”; that is, he did not cut it enough. Back to puzzle

TOBACCO. Back to puzzle

Because of the sandwiches (sand which is) there. Back to puzzle

How did the sandwiches get there? Ans. There Ham dwelt, and there his descendants were bred and mustered (bread and mustard.)

Was there any butter on the sandwiches? Ans. No; Ham took only his wife; he took none of his family BUT her.

His was made of Gophir wood, and they are made to go for wood. Back to puzzle

“Noah went forth.” Back to puzzle

(M) a jest (y). Back to puzzle

“Dreaming often;” dreaming of ten. Back to puzzle

Yes; “perhaps” is most like maybe, or a bee in May. Back to puzzle

The third gave it her ring, which Puss couldn’t eat. Back to puzzle

On the other side. Back to puzzle

Eusebius, (You see by us.) Back to puzzle

Inch; chin. Back to puzzle

Envy; (N. V.) Back to puzzle

Pardon. Back to puzzle

Cape, caper. Back to puzzle

Ten, tenor. Back to puzzle

Foe, four. Back to puzzle

Oak, ochre. Back to puzzle

Sow, soar. Back to puzzle

Fee, fear. Back to puzzle

Roe, roar. Back to puzzle

Sue, sewer. Back to puzzle

Be, beer. Back to puzzle

Lie, lyre. Back to puzzle

Beau, bore. Back to puzzle

Stowe, store. Back to puzzle

Sea, seer. Back to puzzle

Cough, coffer. Back to puzzle

Loaf, loafer. Back to puzzle

Port, porter. Back to puzzle

Pie, pyre. Back to puzzle

Bat, batter. Back to puzzle

Dee, deer. Back to puzzle

Tart, Tartar. Back to puzzle

Tea, tier. Back to puzzle

Ye, year, yeast. Back to puzzle

Bow, boar, boast. Back to puzzle

Fee, fear, feast. Back to puzzle

Pay, pear, paste. Back to puzzle

Lea, Lear, least. Back to puzzle

Bow, rower, roast. Back to puzzle

Bee, bier, beast. Back to puzzle

E, ear, east. Back to puzzle

Co., core, coast. Back to puzzle

Poe, pour, post. Back to puzzle

Go, gore, ghost. Back to puzzle

Weigh, weigher, waste. Back to puzzle

“Dear Nephew; See, my coal on. Uncle John.” “Dear Uncle; Coal on! James.” Back to puzzle

He is above doing a bad action. Back to puzzle

Because a hen lays only one egg a day, and a ship lays to. Back to puzzle

Because you can. Back to puzzle

¹ corn, ² needles, ³ pins, ⁴ buckles, ⁵ canals, ⁶ combs, ⁷ rivers, ⁸ roses, ⁹ clocks, ¹⁰ potatoes, ¹¹ stars, ¹² shoes. Hearth and Home. Back to puzzle

The whale that swallowed Jonah. Back to puzzle

Bunyan—a bunion. Back to puzzle

A girl is a lass, and alas is an interjection. Back to puzzle

Learning to go alone. Back to puzzle

The door-bell. Back to puzzle

White kids. Back to puzzle

He would want muzzlin’. Back to puzzle

When it lies in a well. Back to puzzle

Three: Sirius and the two pointers. Back to puzzle

Hailing omnibuses. Back to puzzle

All the rest are in audible. Back to puzzle

Because he is not a(p)parent. Back to puzzle

A river. Back to puzzle

Neither: both burn shorter. Back to puzzle

Because it keeps its hands before its face; and, though full of good works, it is wholly unconscious of them, and always running itself down. Back to puzzle

Manslaughter; man’s laughter. Back to puzzle

Monosyllable. Back to puzzle

A bed. Back to puzzle

(P)shaw! Back to puzzle

The sons raise meat there. (The sun’s rays meet there.) Back to puzzle

Innocence Abroad, by Mark Twain (In no sense, a broad). Back to puzzle

Facetiously. Back to puzzle

Philip the Great. Back to puzzle

Bug-bear. Back to puzzle

Wat Tyler Will Rufus. Back to puzzle

Bloomer (err; her; Herr). Back to puzzle

Clio. Back to puzzle

Cheat; heat; eat; at; chat; ache. Back to puzzle

One; none. Back to puzzle

Arrow-head. Back to puzzle

A man of deceit Can best counterfeit; So, as everything goes, He can best count ’er toes. Back to puzzle

Balaam’s Ass. Back to puzzle

A kiss. Back to puzzle

The five vowels. Back to puzzle

Dotage. Back to puzzle

Seaward. Back to puzzle

Mimic. Back to puzzle

Disgraceful. Back to puzzle

The first made musical instruments; the second was a baggage-man; the third was employed in a gas-factory; and the fourth made candles. Back to puzzle

Cod. Back to puzzle

The postman. Back to puzzle

Cowslip. Back to puzzle

Love. Back to puzzle

The axle-tree. Back to puzzle

Because it is farthest from the bark. Back to puzzle

Because his business makes him sell-fish. Back to puzzle

Pearlash. Back to puzzle

If he was a wonder, she was a Tudor. Back to puzzle

LION INTO OTTO NOON. Back to puzzle

A cock. Back to puzzle

Enigma. Back to puzzle

Crabbe, Shelley, Moore. Back to puzzle

Goldsmith, Locke. Back to puzzle

Campbell, Knight, Day, Foote. Back to puzzle

His face. Back to puzzle

BLIND. Back to puzzle

Young, Gay, Hood, Lamb, Field, Gray, Fox, Hunt, Horne, Lingard, Wordsworth, Steele. Back to puzzle

Marvell, Hilarius, Akenside, Manley, Hyde, Pope. Back to puzzle

Aërial. Back to puzzle

Bass, perch, roast pig, turkey, fillet, celery, gooseberry pudding, dates, Hamburg grapes. Back to puzzle

Fire-fly. Back to puzzle

The nose. Back to puzzle

Walnut. Back to puzzle

Pea-nut. Back to puzzle

Butternut. Back to puzzle

Beechnut. Back to puzzle

Chestnut. Back to puzzle

Cocoanut. Back to puzzle

The morning glory. Back to puzzle

Snow drops. Back to puzzle

Spinach. Back to puzzle

The passion flower. Back to puzzle

The spruce tree. Back to puzzle

Because he has Adam’s Needle, Jacob’s Ladder, and Solomon’s Seal. Back to puzzle

Catnip and Henbane. Back to puzzle

Heart-ache. Back to puzzle

Cashmere. Back to puzzle

Season. Back to puzzle

A drum. Back to puzzle

Chain, china, chin. Back to puzzle

Charge, charger. Back to puzzle

Scamp, scamper. Back to puzzle

Lad, ladder. Back to puzzle

Tell, teller. Back to puzzle

Barb, barber. Back to puzzle

Din, dinner. Back to puzzle

I, ire. Back to puzzle

Yew, ewer. Back to puzzle

Owe, oar. Back to puzzle

Crescent, (cress-scent.) Back to puzzle

The 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 30th, in the circle, were Jews. Back to puzzle

Honesty is the best policy. (On ST, etc.) Back to puzzle

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The Tongue. Back to puzzle

Bothwell.St. Nicholas. Back to puzzle

A little more than kin and less than kind. Back to puzzle

Clink, link, ink, chair, hair, air. Back to puzzle

(1) D-ranged; (2) C-girt; (3) D-lighted; (4) N-hammered; (5) D-tested; (6) R-gone-out: (7) G-owed; (8) K-dense; (9) O-void; (10) S-pied; (11) B-held; (12) C-bored; (13) X-pensive; (14) D-famed. St. Nicholas. Back to puzzle

Wake robin. Back to puzzle

Fill blanks with: straining, training, raining; dashing, plashing, marching, arching. Back to puzzle

Lily. Back to puzzle

Ivanhoe.St. Nicholas. Back to puzzle

Aries,—wearies. The enigma refers to the period when Taurus (the name of whose principal star Aldebaran signifies “He went before, or led the way,”) was First Constellation. Next, Aries, always First Sign, was also First Constellation; and now the Constellation Pisces “leads the year.” Back to puzzle

Tissue. Back to puzzle

Because it is written with great E’s. Back to puzzle

Because it is written with two great E’s—(too great ease.) Back to puzzle

Trace a five-pointed star, and plant a tree at each extreme point, and at each point of intersection. Back to puzzle

In naught extenuate, and set down naught in malice.E. S. D. Back to puzzle

That boy lied. Back to puzzle

Fill the blanks with heart, story, art, tory. Back to puzzle

Fill the blanks with plover, lover, over, ver; glowing, lowing, owing, wing. Back to puzzle

“For thou art as deaf as a p-o-s-t.” Back to puzzle

April: (ape, rill). Back to puzzle

He mispronounced the word “full.” “You’re a fool, Moon,” said he. Back to puzzle

The pronoun “it,” which may stand for anything on earth, or under or above the earth, seems to be the only possible solution. In the first line it stands, perhaps, for the utmost limit of space; in the second, for the centre of the earth, etc. Back to puzzle

Dogmatic. Back to puzzle

Cambyses. Back to puzzle

About 117.7 feet. (Find the radius of a circle whose area is 43,560 square feet.).— Prof. Eaton, of Packer Institute. Back to puzzle

Informal. Back to puzzle

A DINNER PARTY—THE GUESTS. Robert Bruce. Sir Walter Scott. Cleopatra. Leonidas. Napoleon. John Milton. Louis XVI. Artemisia. Michael Angelo. Gustavus of Sweden. Warwick. Anne of Warwick. Christopher Wren. Cardinal Mezzofanti. Nelson. Robert Burns. The Chevalier Bayard. Cromwell. Sir Robert Walpole. Sopor, King of Persia. Death. Schwartz, or Roger Bacon. Alfred the Great. Captain Cook. Johannes Gutenberg. Marshal Ney. Galileo. Blucher. Sir Isaac Newton. Julius Cæsar. Sir Humphrey Davy. Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir James Ross. Alfred Tennyson. William Wordsworth. Geoffrey Chaucer. Charles XII of Sweden. The Black Prince. Sir Francis Drake. Talleyrand. Herodotus. DISHES, ETC. Oysters. Soles. Herring. Crabs. Venison. Turkey. Bacon. Lamb. Goose. Hare. Duck. Woodcock. Partridge. Tongue. Terrapin. Potatoes. Pease. Parsnips. Tomatoes. Beets. Spinach(e). Cabbage. Cauliflower. Salad in. Jelly. Celery. Artichokes. Capers. Cucumbers. Salt. Hominy. Bread. A floating island. Whips. Currants. Gooseberries. Pears. Oranges. Pine apples. Apricots. Medlars. Figs. Grapes (gray apes.) Comfits. Nuts. Back to puzzle

Note.—“A headless man had a letter,” etc., page 78. Was “the letter” the letter O—equivalent to a cipher, to nought, or nothing? If this is the solution, then the headless man had “nothing” to write; “nothing” was read by the blind man; the dumb repeated and the deaf heard “nothing.”