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Ebook has 1060 lines and 71621 words, and 22 pages
CLUBS 85
CONCEALED MEANINGS 129
CONCEITS OF COMPOSITION: When the September eves 152 Oh! come to-night 153 Thweetly murmurth the breethe 154
CONTRIBUTION TO AN ALBUM 125
DIALECTS: Yankee 116 London Exquisite's 116 Legal 118 Wiltshire 118
ENEID, The Newly Translated 122
EPIGRAM 129
ETIQUETTE OF EQUITATION 88
EXTEMPORE SPEAKING 147
FACETLAE 84, 105
FRENCH SONG 139
GEOGRAPHICAL PROPRIETY 102
GEORGE AND HIS POPPAR 121
HISTORY 133
INSTRUCTIVE FABLES 141
LATIN POEM 139
MACARONIC POETRY: Felis et Mures 137 Ego nunquam audivi 138 Tres fratres stolidi 138 The Rhine 138 Ich Bin Dein 139 In questa casa 140
MACARONIC PROSE 136
MEDLEYS: I only know 159 The curfew tolls 160 The moon was shining 161 Life 162
NAMES: Fantastic 98 Ladies', their Sound 100 " their Signification 101
ODE TO SPRING 127
OTHER WORLDS 86
OUR MODERN HUMORISTS 148
PALINDROME 132
PARODIES: Song of the Recent Rebellion 89 Come out in the garden, Jane 91 Brown has pockets running over 93 When I think of him I love so 94 Never jumps a sheep that's frightened 95 How the water comes down at Lodore 96 Tell me, my secret soul 97
PRINTER'S SHORT-HAND 119
PRONUNCIATION 142
RHYME 122
RHYTHM 127
SECRET CORRESPONDENCE 130
SEEING IS BELIEVING 97
SOUND AND UNSOUND: See the fragrant twilight 151 Brightly blue the stars 152
SORROWS OF WERTHER 84
STANZAS from J. F. CRAWFORD'S Poems 128
STILTS 87
ST. ANTHONY'S FISH-SERMON 135
THE CAPTURE 103
THE NIMBLE BANK-NOTE 154
THE QUESTION 144
THE RATIONALISTIC CHICKEN 158
WORD PYRAMID 132
PUZZLES AND ODDITIES.
My FIRST the heats of July pack With rows of milk-pans down the back; September fills them all with starch, And, though they neither drill nor march, Each has a warlike name: October plucks my honors off, And down I'm thrown to floor or trough: Perchance the mill to powder turns Or smouldering fire to ashes burns My rough and useless frame.
A weaver's loom my SECOND fills In dozens of tall cotton mills, Before the shuttle, o'er and through, Has thrown the filling straight and true, And made each ending fast. My WHOLE a house in corners set, Has swung as long as time, and yet A trap for foolish folk shall swing, And lessons to the wiser bring, As long as time shall last.
What is that which we often return, but never borrow?
Can you tell me of what parentage Napoleon the First was?
What was Joan of Arc made of?
Why ought stars to be the best Astronomers?
What colors were the winds and the waves in the last violent storm?
In what color should a secret be kept?
How do trees get at their summer dress without opening their trunks?
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