Show Odd ang Word definitions unless otherwise Dinted arr according to Websters International Inter-national Dictionary LJpplncotts Gazetteer Gazet-teer or PhlIllB Dictionary of Blograph cnl Iloferonce Original contributions will be > welcomed communications for this do mrtmcnt to bo addressed to E II Chad bourn Lewiston Me 1S20 K1CIJUS i1I t J r 1 Ei1 6 l 1 > I f r r r I r From Shakespeares Lucrccc C R E t a 1S TRANSPOSITION Where sweetbreathed violets usher in tho spring Where Hummer roses spicy fragrance bring Where autumn blooms in richest colors blend Where winters snowy ONE their beauty lend I pass this way but once Where melting love looks out from beam ing eyes Where sorrows sympathy > brings glad surprise Where mothers with full souls their children chil-dren press Where little hearts give hack the fond caress I pass this way but once Where joy the purest richest most sincere ts soonest followed by the scalding tear Where this warn crimson tldo a breath may chill Where swift disease the rapid pulse may still I stiliI 1 pass this way but once Where TWO silent cities grow apace Beside each noisy town whose beauty grace And strength are taxed tho noiseless growth to aid With stern demand that may not bo gainsaid gain-said I pass this way but once Where pilgrim steps may never backward turn Sweet friends shall not our souls within us burn To scatter as wo go what good we may And pay up treasures for a brighter day Are pass this way but once onceAL S DECAPITATION Remove the first letter oC tho first word and make tho name of something in trio vegetable world for the second word We went out into the orchard 1 where the shadows began to 1 f the turf undor the and plum hoes Every 2 0 of urasH shone told the petals of the were ucalturod about I said 1 Thlu Is the romance of living on a farm tho 3 came when limo slugs ate every 4H I had when I could 1 get no woman to d 1 0 for me Johnny fell out of the U tree and 1 broke his am a hen of ono of our best 5 u stoic her nest among the 011 and HO forth The 61 tt goes about wllh an in tho buttonhole of his T suit putting up every u he can line and 1 looking wall to matters on the farm but I see that he prows 8 n every your and uo can you If you look at him standing under that by the brook Last week a heavy rain came to D I i a copy of Drown infr I had left on n scat under the old and the cold chills run along my 10 u n In winter when 1 hour the wind in that u 1 11 to let my husband know how I hate planting tlmo or to see him and John pulling oif their 11 w 0 to get In the h He baa to keep hlti hand on the 1 n t or affairs would go to smash like that that the lightning otnick lost month Uo Is 11 determined 1 to succeed or us he says be laid to rest under the u bush Vu Mayo to jlvo a large 13 1 u for every pound of sugar or starch Sometimes Some-times 1 10 ton ask him If lie wouldnt after nil prefer to be nlnellng with hlh old city frlfiidn u f in Ida lapel In what ho used to call society 17 u Instead oC paddling about among the u In starch if a lost duck or gosling lie julmHs that It h I IS N that Ufe has Its and wormwood its well oa Its roses and CiLhlmcs but mnintultiH that ho would almost al-most be mi n oun Indian us mon among tho ireaievood and as to go back to city life DOKOT1II3V 1ST2CTJ RTAILM KNT J Down at time gipsy camp we planned to call I and my FIVE Tom TIbballs On Squinteyed StU ONE prophetess of all Those fortunetelling sibyls l i SEVEN SEVEN we whispered warmed by njrmcr Uses To kegs our ways volt hidden Since our rwnnctlvo and rofipccteJ SIXca Phi l > > jourjioy J t hud forbidden < Sal vlowod our FOUl of T1JUo poll some touches PcrlmpB about them Ungorcil But nothing like the grimy TIIKnE wliopt clutches I Our Hhrlnklnp TWO now fingered I She took my quarter and predicted I I Should con it lnly he President But when Ilm found It plugged declared I IM dlu State Priaons oldest resident Voull bo a circus rider Tom was bleat Hut fate IB ever fickle She gadded And youll break your neck onlJSt You pay another nickel I M C S a 3INJTlAk CHANGE I would 1 sly cow for that 2 in tho 3 un at the nlde of tho i I lllf I It lit ro uu whoa saw I began to 0 It was refreshing Itself from a 7 8 from tho forest near bT A T D 1S5J = CHAHAPE The snowflakes are TOTAL fluttering flown Like silent null whltowInBOd bccc Arraying tho earth in n fine limiter Gown With nice brandnew robes for the trees The frollckfiomc wind hi drifting tho snow And l whirling It whither It will Like duties in the desert when the strong slmoono blow Or FJKSTs on the ocean but still But despite the inclemency visiting us now T hear 1 FINAL of svrcotcsltoned bolls For there comes a sleigh with a horse at Ufl prow To navigate those glistening swells Tucked with blankets and robe in the narrowest of scats A youth and atmaldfri arc steering On a voyage that only the parson com rletcH For Into his port they are veering Bcnell tion on you my ruddyfacrd tars IIay hnpplnosM m your venture attend May llfo bo smoothaniline with nothing that mars But good breeze and fair seas to the end TOM A IIAWK 1S35 PALINDROMES Fill the blanks with palindromes 1 Dc quiet Is I the word 2A ft Is a mlechlevou litHo animal 2 t Tho wears a hunt bin cJ tall 4Jhe baby hns a clean a t It Hold the corn nearer the coals and It will fl It was there for I saw It with my own T lie drove past with a brand new 9 E P 1St RIDDLE Let my tones bring happy dreams Dremis of other cars Though athwart the memory gleams Thougbte that bide with tears But Jf fretful mood tipsprlny To silence then Incline Not on that string not on that string Be matjic name of mineTORFIUDA TORFIUDA I December Prize |