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13 15. My second of my first takes care,

Yet first and second, I declare,

United make but one, and she

Provides for all the family.

16. My first attends the pleasures of the chase,

My second's very useful in its place,

My whole's a sailor's pride, in which you'll see,

A joyous throng praise his activity.

17. My first is company, my second shuns company, my third collects company, and my whole amuses company.

18. With my second I should like very much to do my first,

But my pocket don't admit such a mode of quenching thirst.

So my second and my third I'm obliged to patronise,

Till my funds and railway stock get a little on the rise.

19. Within my first to take the air

Sometimes the rich and great repair;

My second on the verdant plain

Is seen to tend his fleecy train;

My whole upon the stormy seas

Now bravely toils, now lolls at ease.

20. My first is where you place your child, my second is what you make your child, and my whole is part of your headdress.

21. My first is a plaything, my second none would play with, and my whole is a poisonous animal.

22. A mischievous urchin may soon do my first,

If he meet with a tea-pot or ewer;

My second brings on us both hunger and thirst,

And my whole thirst and hunger can cure.

23. My first shows time, my second spends time, and my whole reports time.

ARITHMETICAL PUZZLES.

These are endless, but we have taken great care to select the best and newest.

1. How can you make nineteen more by taking from it?