  1. Mimic. 2. Make no friendship with an envious man. 3. Bees put by honey to use in winter. 4. Beware of small expenses, a little leak will sink a ship. 5. Isaiah Bebee, you are too cross, and your ideas are too empty to amuse any one; you are too epicurean to exercise your energies; nothing excuses, nothing extenuates your excesses, for you ought to be wiser. 6. Opium and beer, effeminacy and tears, are usually enemies to energy, and ought to be especially odious to you, dear Ellen. 7. Oh! Emily, benign and effeminate, before you extenuate any excess, see a wise Deity. 8. Our own caprice is more extravagant than the caprice of fortune. 9. FIVE.—V. 10. Cicero’s orations are superior to any orations of other Roman orators extant. 11. Cow. 12. Mandate. 13. Civil. 14. II (Two I’s.—H. A. X. V.) 15. In every land and clime I may be found. In air, in water, also under ground; Of various sorts I am, and various hues, Of various kinds of brown, and various blues; I’m sometimes black or gray, and sometimes red: You’ll surely find me out from what I’ve said. One other hint to aid you in your guess: Without me beauty’s self were valueless. (The eye.) 16. Perverse—preserve. 17. Fiddle. (Take V from FIVE, and insert DDL.) 18. A Chinese. 19. By gently and frequently scratching the table-cloth within three or four inches of the tumbler, the coin will creep from under. 20. Come ye ingenious ones, this riddle guess, It is not difficult, you will confess. What is that number which, if you divide, You then will nothing leave on either side? (The figure 8, divided laterally.) 21. When one will not, two can not quarrel. 22. A great many of our difficulties may be overcome by assiduity and proper diligence. Mischief lurks under dissimulation. 23. Draw a horizontal line from the shoulders of one dog to the tail of the other, and from the fore legs of one to the hind legs of the other. 24. Hasten. (a, an, hat, he, neat, eat, then, at, than, ah!) There are other words out of which may be made all the parts of speech. 25. Facetiously, Abstemiously. 26. Comic. 27. Clod. 28. Ere long expect a great overturning and uprising in Europe. 29. Dim. 30. Og. 31. Ye clever knowing ones read me aright, And bring my subtle meaning into light. ’Twill need some patience, perseverance, tact, To set my dislocations—that’s a fact. 32. Why tedious. 33. Little more than kin, and less than kind. 34. Stop, reader, here, and deign to look On one without a name, Ne’er entered in the ample book Of fortune or of fame. 35. Never put off till to-morrow what can be done to-day. 36. With one cut take off the toe, which will leave three pieces of paper; place these one upon another, and again cut them through. 37. Research. 38. A SMART REPARTEE. Cries Sylvia to a reverend dean, What reason can be given, Since marriage is a holy thing, That there is none in heaven? There are no women, he replied. She quick returns the jest, Women there are, but I’m afraid They cannot find a priest. 39. Handsome is that handsome does. 40. Despair blunts the edge of industry. 41. By forgetfulness of injuries, we show ourselves superior to them. 42.
43. Please (plea, sale, peas, sap, leap, sleep, seal, lease, lee, sea, see, rest.) 44. He had 32 marbles. 45. Great P. D. 46. An X. 47. Brace—ace. |
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