NEW RIDDLES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1461, 15 November 1879, Page 20

NEW RIDDLES.

$79. Diamond Puzzle. —By Bedding Hill, Otepopo :— My first is 1000 ; my second is a protection for the head; should any unmarried lady read nay third, let her remember to yield my fifth ; my fourth is useful to hairdressers; my sixth is a rich colour ; my seventh is a weapon ; my «ighth is an insect ; and my last is always found n youth. The centrals read vertically give a holy estate, and horizontally a wife's chief duty to her husband.

880; : ChabADE."— Seipcted : 'by Colinslie,- Dun.- ■•'• - - •• edin: — " . True to fb c. trumpet call' of fame and duty, 1 ' The soldier arms 'and hastens to depart ; : Nor casts a look behind, tho' love and beauty r Whisper my' first in tone 3 that thrill ' the heart. Tho war ia o'er— with wealth and honour laden The Eoldier seeks the well remembered hail j. He woos and wins the unreluotant maiden, And bids my second o'er her blushes fall. He takes her hand— a mist of rapture thickens Before her eyes ; such blis3 succeeding pain Out- tasks her strength, and fainting nature sickenf, Until my wnole is rudely snapt in' twain. 881. Squahe Word.— By Ruske, Shotover :— Thro' sunny France my first does roll, A river broad and beautiful ; . A scent my second I may call ; My third an American animal ; My fourth does signify harmony ; ' . My fifth and last will upright be. 882.' Riddle. — Selected by Floral Association, Herbert :— 'One .morning in winter, as I well remember — It was on the ; twenty fifth day of December — • When Folly the milkmaid, brisk und light as a fairy, With milk in her hand crossed the yard to the - -*• dairy, On a'place strewed with ashes she caught' a rude fall, When down came the milk-pan, Polly, and , &U> . . ■But nothing dismayed at the terrible bump, .With alertness 'she took all her milk to the

• pump, ' . Where, tho' covered with -ashes, she washed it ■ ' quite clean,' Until not a particle of dirt could be t een. ; Readers, how this was managed by you be it shown, ; And make Polly's secret of milk- washing known. r ' * 883. Chabade.— By D. M. W., Oamaru :— . My first is a cape, my second is a preposition, my. third is a fish, and my whole is a town in Ireland. 884. Asiatic-.Tu»kby Diamond Puzzlb.— By - ' ' ■ lemay, Dunedin:-- "'" 1, A" consonant ; 2ja town in Asiatic-Turkey ; •3, -a-town -in .Asiatic-Turkey j 4, .a . town in . Aeiatic-Turkey ji,6J' a' f to'^riiu^Asiatio. Turkey ; 6, Ta-'town in-Aiiatic-Tufkey; ,7,^atown in ■Asiatic-Turkey,; 8, the three last letters of the town ; 9,{%.joynAi'^y\^ V'V 1 ' "' - v m.;^J&X™ s -^%W*ss}> :— "~" — "Ffom'whenrse-'l'cime'tirhard to*t«ll ; But this, I'm sure, is known full well, That naughty' boys for me do cry, ' " From me the dunce to school doth, hie ; :, • Tbat with the poor I always stay," And am what misers give away, 886., , Bnigka. — Selected by Colinelie, Dun- "{; \. ;'.'"• 1 e4m:—. '• " /, ' ,'Twaa whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in ,;< hell, „,.1' .-■ . -, - :• The echo caught faintly the sound as it fell ; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to w.. .retfe,'s j/, '.. < , .■ ■ -. . And "the .depths of the ocean it* presence con- <'■ fessedi . m - _ , Twill be. found in the sphere" when -riven ■■ • asunder,' . , , , Be seen in the ..lightning; and heard in. the thunder* :'■'■■■' \ ■ J 'Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath, It assists at his birth, and attends him in

death; . *> •,• •. ',■ ._• Presides o'er his happiness, honour, and health, Is, the prop of his house, and the end of his 'wealth: In the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care

But U Bare to be loßt by his prodigal heir ! ,It begins every hope/ every wish it must bound, It praye with the hermit, with , monarche is crow. d. Without it the soldier and sailor may roam, But woe to the wretch who expels it from

hou.oi In the whisper of conscience 'tis sure to be

founu, Nor c'en ia the whirlwind of passion' be drowned ; 'Twill soften the heart, and tho' deaf be the

ear, It will make it acutely and instantly bear : In the shade let it reßt, like a delicate flower ; O ! breathe on it softly : it dies in an hour ! 887. Hour.Glass Puzzle. —By Delight.

Oamaru : —

1, A clump of trees; 2, to adorn ; 3, to peep closely ; 4, consonant ; 5, to mingle ; 6, a West Indian bird j7» a river in New Zealand. Centres, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. 888. Decapitation. — By Hook, Waimate : — Complete, I am a woman's name ; Behead and curtail, I am the same ; Curtail again, and you will see A woman's name I still will be.