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5 FIRESIDE AMUSEMENTS.

AMONG the various pastimes by which the long winter evenings are agreeably spent in the family circle, as well as in miscellaneous parties, RIDDLES AND ENIGMAS have always held a favourite place; and therefore in our "Fireside Amusements," which we trust will be to all into whose hands it may fall, the means of passing an evening pleasantly, we shall begin with the most popular.

RIDDLES AND ENIGMAS.

1.What shoemaker makes shoes without leather,

With all the four elements put together,

Fire, water, earth, and air.

And every customer takes two pair?

2.I'm strangely capricious; I'm sour or I'm sweet,

To housewives I'm useful, to children a treat;

Yet I freely confess I more mischief have done

Than any thing else that is under the sun!

3. I have no head, and a tail I lack,

But oft have arms, and legs, and back;

I inhabit the palace, the tavern, the cote

'Tis a beggarly residence where I am not.

Were a monarch now present, (I tell you no fable)

I still should be placed at the head of the table!

4. Three feet I have, but ne'er attempt to go,

And many nails thereon, but not one toe.

5. Perfect with a head, perfect without a head; perfect with a tail, perfect without a tail; perfect with either, neither, or both.