How long do little Harry and Tommy remain perched up in the swing before
they get their ride?
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Brook Green has for dinner on Monday a beautiful sirloin of beef (B),
which he flatters himself will last all the week.
[Illustration: B]
On Tuesday he is told there is not a bit of it left. Brook Green is
thunderstruck. He cannot understand it. He asks to see the landlady. She
"is extremely sorry, but her bothersome cat (C) has eaten it all."
[Illustration: B C]
You are requested to put the two together, and to state candidly if you
think it very likely; and, if you have any doubt, you are to find out
who really is (C) the cat?
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Mrs. Large (of Wapping) has a private box (A) sent to her at Christmas,
for the Adelphi, by her obliging friend Mr. Sams. The box is in the
upper tier, over the proscenium. Mrs. Large (of Wapping) does not like
any of her dear children to lose such a treat, so she takes all her
family (B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K), besides one or two friends from
Panton Square, who are stopping, for change of air, with her.
[Illustration: A B C D E F G H I J K]
You are to find out how many the box was to admit; and how you are to
get Mrs. Large and her party into it without having a single one over.
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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—We see a book advertised called "_The Cornet Made
Easy_." We are very glad to hear this, and hope the poor fellow will
make himself comfortable; only we should like to know what it is that
has lately made the Cornet uneasy.
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FIRST LOVE.—The conversation at Holland House turned upon first love.
Tom Moore compared it to a potato, "Because it shoots from the eyes."
"Or, rather," exclaimed Byron, "because it becomes all the less by
_paring_."