Part 9 (1/2)

Catalogues..............Got as a clue.

Elegant ................Neat leg.

Impatient...............Tim in a pet.

Immediately.............I met my Delia.

Masquerade .............Queer as mad.

Matrimony...............Into my arm.

Melodrama...............Made moral.

Mids.h.i.+pman..............Mind his map.

Old England.............Golden land.

Paris.h.i.+oners............I hire parsons.

Parliament..............Partial men.

Penitentiary............Nay I repeat it.

Presbyterian............Best in prayer.

Radical Reform..........Rare mad frolic.

Revolution..............To love ruin.

Sir Robert Peel.........Terrible poser.

Sweetheart..............There we sat.

Telegraphs..............Great helps.

51. Arithmorems.

This cla.s.s of riddle is of recent introduction. The Arithmorem is made by subst.i.tuting figures in a part of the word indicated, for Roman numerals. The nature of the riddle--from the Greek _arithmos_, number, and the Latin _remanere_, back again--will be easily seen from the following example, which is a double Arithmorem:

H 51 and _a tub_--a fine large fish.

A 100 and _gore_--a sprightly movement in music.

R 5 and _be_--a part of speech.

U 551 and _as and_--a Spanish province.

To 201 and _ran_--a stupefying drug.

R 102 and _nt_--an acid.

OU 250 and _pap_--a Mexican town.

The answer is Havanna--Tobacco.

_H_alibu_t_, _A_llegr_o_, _V_er_b_, _A_ndalusi_a_, _N_arcoti_c_, _N_itri_c_, _A_capulc_o_.

52. Charades

are compositions, poetical or otherwise, founded upon words, each syllable of which const.i.tutes a _noun_, the whole of each word const.i.tuting another noun of a somewhat different meaning from those supplied by its separate syllables. Words which fully answer these conditions are the best for the purposes of charades; though many other words are employed. In writing, the first syllable is termed ”_My first_,” the second syllable ”_My second_,” and the complete word ”_My whole_.” The following is an example of a Poetical Charade:

The breath of the morning is sweet; The earth is bespangled with flowers, And buds in a countless array Have ope'd at the touch of the showers.