the introductory note to the Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE No. 45 for
the reason why your requests for exchange are not published. Such
collections as yours are very pretty and interesting, but as our
Post-office Box is not large enough to contain every pretty thing, we
can only print those requests for exchanges of articles which we
consider in some way instructive.
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PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
No. 1.
WORD SQUARES.
1. First, a household pet. Second, a surface. Third, an animal. Fourth,
a measure.
WINNIE.
2. First, a narrow board. Second, vitality. Third, at a distance.
Fourth, a portion of time.
H. N. T.
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No. 2.
MALTESE CROSS.
Central letter.--In valetudinarianism.
Top.--A vegetable. Something found in nearly every newspaper. An
untruth. Snug. A metal. A letter.
Right.--Having many names. A register of deaths. Having two ways. One
who assumes a part. Excommunication. A letter.
Left.--A root. Decrease. An officer of a university. Pertaining to a
wall. A loud noise. A letter.
Down.--To personify. Dimly. A violent revolutionist. A cone-bearing
tree. A small cask. A letter.
Centrals read downward spell a word applied to certain species of
minerals; read across, a word signifying a counter-accusation.
RIP VAN WINKLE.
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No. 3.
DROP-LETTER PUZZLE--FOR LITTLE READERS.
A familiar verse:
M--r--h--d--l--t--l--l--m--,
I--s--l--e--e--a--w--i--e--s--n--w;
A--d--v--r--w--e--e--h--t--a--y--e--t
T--e--a--b--a--s--r--t--g--.
LITTLE ROSIE.
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 49.
No. 1.
S P A R E H E A T H
P A N E L E X T R A
A N G L E A T L A S
R E L I C T R A C T
E L E C T H A S T E
No. 2.
O
F R O
F E T I D
O R T O L A N
O I L E D
D A D
N
No. 3.
D I R E F U L
N O M A D
Y E A
R
A S S
D R O L L
Q U I N I N E
No. 4.
October.
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[Illustration]
THE BABY-MOUSE.
Oh, rock-a-by, baby-mouse, rock-a-by, so!
When baby's asleep to the baker's I'll go,
And while he's not looking I'll pop from a hole,
And bring to my baby a fresh penny roll.
IMITATION STAINED GLASS.
BY FRANK BELLEW.
[Illustration: Fig. 1.]
A very pretty and cheap imitation of stained glass can be made by any
one possessing a little ingenuity, a pair of scissors, a few sheets of
colored tissue-paper, and a paste-pot, and the humblest cottage window
can be made resplendent as those of a cathedral--more or less.
[Illustration: Fig. 2.]
[Illustration: Fig. 3.]
Take a sheet of white or yellow tissue-paper of the exact size of your
window-pane, and with some very fine boiled paste paste it thereon. When
this is dry, take two sheets of another color, and fold them; then cut
from these folded sheets a form like Fig. 1. You will now, on opening
them, have two shields, as in Fig. 2. Now paste one of these shields in
the centre of your yellow window-pane. When this is perfectly dry, paste
the second shield over the first, only a little to one side and lower
down, as represented in Fig. 3, and you will have an effect much
resembling stained glass. If you choose you can cut out some design from
a fourth sheet to resemble a crest--say, the head of a lion--and paste
that in the centre of the shield; this should be of some other colored
paper. Or, to produce another effect, you may, after first neatly
outlining the design with a pencil, cut and scrape away all the paper
within the limits of the design with a sharp-pointed knife, so as to
leave the plain glass, which will have a very pretty effect,
particularly if you shade the design on the edges with Indian ink. Or,
again, you may fill in this space with some bright contrasting color;
say, red on blue, or blue on red.
[Illustration: Fig. 4.]
[Illustration: Fig. 5.]
Of course, in decorating your window, it will be desirable to have a
different design on every pane, or at least a great variety. To obtain
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will, when pasted over each other, produce a rich effect.
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=Bravery is of no Nation.=--It is admitted on all hands that the
Afghans, of whom we are hearing so much just now, fought bravely, and
the same as to the Zulus. In Sir Charles James Napier's _History of the
Administration in Scinde_ there is a story relating to the brave
hills-men of Trukkee, which is well worth repeating. It was their
custom, when their friends fell fighting bravely, face to the foe, to
strip them and leave them unburied, but to tie round the right wrist a
thread either of green or red. The red thread was the very highest honor
that a brave man slain could receive. In the course of one of Sir
Charles James Napier's campaigns eleven out of an army of English
soldiers lost their way in the mountain gorges, and came "full butt"
upon a fort guarded by forty of these formidable mountaineers. The
little band of eleven English soldiers at once attacked the fort, and
reduced the number of the mountaineers to sixteen. They themselves were
all slain, as might be expected. When the English came for the dead
bodies of their comrades they found them naked, under the open sky, with
a red thread tied round the wrist of every man. The savage hills-men had
bestowed upon the corpses of their enemies the highest honor in their
code of homage to the brave.
[Illustration: No. 1.--FALL SPORTS.]
[Illustration: No. 2.--THE SPORT.]
[Illustration: No. 3.--THE FALL.]
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880, by Various