. Our young folks [serial]. ly three. I am often blackall over; but sometimes my head, neck,and forelegs are yellow. I sleep stand-ing, and live a great many years. I thinknaturalists might trace my ancestry to theiron age, when I chanced to originate. Iam a beast of burden. I can bear a heavyload of wood and bark without openingmy mouth. Strange temperature winter I am usually hot, and in sum-mer cold. One bright boy looking at mesays, now that he has guessed me, that hedoes not see anything very marvellous inme. Let me answer, Nor I. D. N. Wisp. ANSWERS. 1. ConchoiD,Hourl,Ars
. Our young folks [serial]. ly three. I am often blackall over; but sometimes my head, neck,and forelegs are yellow. I sleep stand-ing, and live a great many years. I thinknaturalists might trace my ancestry to theiron age, when I chanced to originate. Iam a beast of burden. I can bear a heavyload of wood and bark without openingmy mouth. Strange temperature winter I am usually hot, and in sum-mer cold. One bright boy looking at mesays, now that he has guessed me, that hedoes not see anything very marvellous inme. Let me answer, Nor I. D. N. Wisp. ANSWERS. 1. ConchoiD,Hourl,ArseniC,RacK,LetliE,EndymioN,SemiramiS. 2. Miss-(h)our-i(eye). 3. Concealing faults is but adding to them. [(C onseal in G) (fall) t s i s (butt adding) 2 t (he) m.] 4. Speech is silvern, silence golden. [S (peaches)(sill) v (urns) (eye) (lens) (goal) (den).] 5. William the Conqueror. 6. Mother. 7. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in mal-ice. [(Knot) (hinge) x (ten) (ewe) a (ten) (oars)e (tea) dow (naught in mal) (ice). J. Contadina sends us a letter all the way fromItaly, and for a reward she shall have it all print-ed, especially as she gives us good help in it: —Dear Editors : Last December I neglected to send for OurYoung Folks, forgetting how far from home we |are; and when in January I wrote to a friend ask-ing to have it sent to me, some misfortune musthave happened to the letter, for I waited till Maywithout any answer to it and then wrote to a cousin,and on returning from a pleasant journey in beauti-ful Switzerland, I found waiting for me all thenumbers from last January down to this cannot tell you how delighted I was to see theirdear faces—or backs, rather — once more. Theyreminded me so much of the good old times athome when they were read aloud in the the Letter Box of the September number Inotice that a family of children wish to knowwho can make the largest and most splendid soap-bubbles. I do not know how to make the largest,but I
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