The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-04-22
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|. ter you can spell, the letter you viii be
! able 10 play at il; although even those
who cannot yet spell can join In it, II
their ear" is very geod, and they
themselves are very, very smart.
When i mention the name of suy-
thing, want YOU at once to tell me
something that is connected with IL.
for instance: supposing that I say
, cow" yOu will of course at once
shout out "milk;" and to your reply
OF milk" some one may answer,
J "white." - .-fiil
i But this is not all of my idea: the NJ
ply must he in rhyme. So, ~. !.
So, you see, if say eat tie an
swer "milk Twill not tlo-although
pussy is very fond of milk indeed. But
"rat" will hit ii and tit it exactly, TOR
pussy not only lieks her lips over rat,
but it rhymes as well. "Cat, -" rat"
u :, Here's another word: !" Rsou. ~
, There are plenty of things i'm Funm,
but it is no easy matter to find Que that
rhymes with it. Certainly neither "ri-
ano," nor chair" nor /" mirror" nor
carpet" will. So we must set up
big thinking about it. We SWEEP
loom, do we not: Hurrah! I have
found it. We sweep it with a broom.
Excellent rhyme. " Room, "" broom. 80
/ Now, / will give you the word I" starr
to puzzle your brains over. A star
shines; it is bright and it wrinkles,
and it shoots. But none of these viii
do at all But here Is something that
will do to T: a /" star" Is "far.e .,'
This is very easy one: Meat. y !
\ OF course YOU call out "eat," right
away And here is another quite ss
easy, but not quite so pleasant: q Cane"
You know that rhymes terribly with
"pain."
Just ask some young lady Of about
twenty years of age for her idea Of the
most suitable rhyme to marriage"
and see how quick she will be in ans
wering, carriage" She would also
rhyme hall with - ball. '..,.s-.
j To" pie, reply "oh my" or buy"
and To "cake" either make or
bake" You can mention this To
cookey, and you can also at the same
time ask her to give you rhymes to
r" dish +" and "forkn She must be q
very stupid cookey indeed II she does
not tell yoaat once that they are " fish,
and pork III your mother should
happen to be i'm the kitchen, hint to
her how giurioIlsly "ma'am rhymes
very good one, but it is first-rate hint
anyhow. If you live i'm boarding
house explain to the landlady how fear
fully ..hash y rhymes with I" trash" -.
III you have any doubts about
splendid rhyme to "river," just tumble
into one i'm January, and won't you
"shiver y? -.a
4 If there are any farmer children
about, ask them to rhyme to "sow."
They ought to know. When we SOW
seed, il will "grow," and il II is grass
seed, why, when it is ripe, somebody
will have to "mow."
Were you called upon to give a
rhyme to " sailor," at a moments no
tice, YOU would be troubled to answer,
did you not reflect that whales are
caught by the crew'of aship cxfied
"whaler:r also that such sailors
are usually called "whalers."
90 Battle" findsa good rhyme it rat
tle." lou have heard from books and
from brave old soldiers how the musk
cts rattle on a battlefield. Attack
is well rhymed by " sack.p You know
that they sack a town after they have
conquered it. a-.i. :. -
will now give you Il new sort OF
:. rhyme. which will need little more
ingenuity than the Others. For exam
pie. u. i..t..,.,
How are you going to rhyme with
"hayu? Don't dozen of you togeth-
er shout out May ~? 1t won't do fur
the simple reason that no hay Is cut for
at least a month later. Payp Will
not do, because you have not to pay for
, hay more particularly than you have
to nav for other things. Neither COW,
horse, donkey, goat, nor sheep will do,
although hay does very well for them.
But, look herel What does q horse do
when the groom brings him his hay?
WHY, he always "neighs,r which,
funny enough, even though he be =
Quaker's horse, always means yes
. Ask your father to discover the very
excellent old joke mixed up In that.l
However, there you have IL: Hsy,"
neigh" tieu .assai
Now for "nose.p Well, what b
| your pocket-handkerchief for? Why,
Il blows ~ of course !. which. ktslst that
! nobody will ever accuse you Of doing.
Now, try SOM You have heard Of
J !. son of a gum" have you not? AS
there Is not, / think, any other rhyme,
: that must pass muster. With the same
: excuse, "toesn must rhyme with
goes and hope that they will new
! er get a.fI'oze.r There may be other
and fairer rhymes to the above two
words, and if you can discover them 1
.. wish you would let me know, as have
: been considerably bothered about them.
This is a specimen Of n funny oPPo-
site rhyme-"S Snail" You know
what a slow old gentleman MI. .ssSnail Il,
and must acknowledge that am not
lI.<s<x
: I,azyship. But Just think Of an ex-
press train, behiDd time, on "raiiv
!, These oppOsites, when good, are all fair
i in the game. as .i..t..,
!. Here also i a good and fair getout.'
i III any one asks you for u rhyme to
. 'sclock,r answer boldly "knoek."
e Everybody will rebel against that an
/. swer, and cry "Oh. oh" But do
r you stick To your point, and argue tha:
e 'sknoek - and "strike" mean The
: same thing.
n CREAM "a :. dreani.r Most city
h people will admit that rhyme.
= Here is long fellow with very lit
i tie poetry about i'll: ILL., pill.
d And then the doctor will send in his
e "biIl," and if it should happen that il
! be poor papa who is so Ill., there
e NAV, unhappily, be a will" which
ID will be the last of the DOCTORS bill, !"
:, A. far a. he j. concerned. vFl
L lam getting sleepy, 81 will simply
: repeat that the more knowledge you
: have, tho better will he the rhymiDg
!, answers that you make. i have given
- YOU simply the idea of the game. You
|, can make all sorts of additions to u
n yourselves. There are plenty Of good
: : rhymes in one, two, three, and even
four syllables, but i warn You that
they will not jump together of their
: own accord however, you will find
g that out readily enough You will
: soon get used to thinking over every
: thing connected with any wcri the mo-
!. meiIt il Is given, and should not be
: surprised if you manage to puzzle
a growm-up-people.
: want you to be very good children,
and when mamma suggests wash, =
not to practice this game Oh her, and
h say "besh ~
n hope that when you grow up you
n will always have leash" enough To
= cut a decent "dasl,." May, with You,
: "lifer never rhyme with STRIFE" Re
p member that "borrow brings sor.
: row. debt" FRET" and may sil
! Your actions in life prove that Knight =
y rhymes with right"
), And now, little folks, To bed,
r Nuff" eed." y
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