The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-03-22
A Literary Puzzle.

..... A Literary Puzzle.
The answer to each of the following
| questions is the name of some we'll
| known author, the solution of which
will afford no little amusement to those
of a literary turn of mind:
l. A darky's description of the en-
emy. .... .g..r aT Il v[aHI
2. What is lighter than air?
3. The side of hog. ##t,~.,.
4. A curse and a paddock. T1
5. A Yankee child's request for its
mother to acoede. .sF.f
6. A fop and mountain.
Z. To plead. fs-'."
s. One who woos ........e IS #Gs
. 9. Used to gain power.
10. What you do when you get his
books. -. ~
II. A river of two letters in Europe.
II. A berry and the tree on which it
grows. .......-
13. To cleave and depart. '-'
IA. A bees note and shaft. .st
Is. Whose middle name counsels
amity. taa l.''
16. Used to secure things with. ~
II. Towed and proposition.
Is. Greater than many and less than
| most. v. ..st. ....,-
10. The garb of clown.
20. Indicates two. aaY1 sHLl
21. Continue to separate.
22. A raw hand, but the keenest Of
wits. .s .:7a.4.ts. 5essr e.
%. A kind of bread and hotel.
| "a. Not so grim as his name and the
author of "Tempereth the wind to the
shorn lamb.'
25. What faithless wives on the Bos-
phorus fear. -....- ..-...
26. What an old man should be.
27. Who took his own life as his last
toll
20. Bad for fish. j6 @tIi"-+'s @+ Z
20. A low female. f.r.-...r., ID.
so. Whose works gave what his name
implies, to the strictly orthodox. =.
81. To find the poets name, do
among names what his suggests.
80. A gratiied hard substance. ,l
SO. A tale in itself. =
81. The extreme suburbs. A well
known correspondent tys.s...-r
35. A part of maize. A popular
| WTlteT O1 GIsiSIy bdlcS.
So. If you have sharp specimen of
his name, you will see it at once.
81. A kind of horn attached to. a place
of abode.
3S. Necessary for newspaper and q
kind of bed. ~ ~ e s a5
80. A people OF Europe and an es-
sential part of a ship. ~ s.
40. A French name, which, pro-
nounced in English, means a neighbor-
hood, or nearly. /. sn .t- .1ffh
Al. A wit, the namesake of an equal
ly famous rocket-maker.
AZ. Novels and barrels are his special
ties.
43. Cuts with heavy ak. The au-
thor of two famous books for youth.
A. The title of a Scotch official.
Famous for only one book of note. -
As. Whose middle name is a church
and whose last one color.
/ 46. What gas companies sell besides
gas. s...... t...
Az. Short weight for 1000 pounds
and law writer. st. ...---...,
48. Also law writer, a dark min
eral. -..a -ty e>t5@ 1913
40. The English Cervantes and the
namesake of living American poll
tician. 4f @l!1 4 HJU4
so. His first name indicates doubter
of old, his second dead American OF
prominence, his last advice to the
would-be literary.
| Asaswers.--1. .Defoe. 2. !Agassiz. 8
Bacon. 4. Bancroft. 5. Dumas. 6.
Beaumont Z. Sue. 8. Lover. 9. Lev
er, the Irish novelist. 10. Reade.l IL.
Poe. II. Hawthorne. Is. Hugo. IA.
Humboldt, 15. William Makepeace
Thackeray. 16. Locke. II. Marryatt.
Is. Moore. 49, Motley. 90. Mark
Twain. 81. Parton. %. Prentice. %.
Ruskin. "a. Sterne. 25. SAKE. 26.
Hale. 27. Hugh Miller, who committed
suicide. %. Hook. 20. Trollope. 80.
Paine. 81. Hunt. 50. Gladstone. 33.
Storey. "a. Townsend. 35. Cobb. So.
4 SOLVER Optie.'1 81. SAKE Holm. 38
Prescott. 80. Swisshelm. 40. Edmund
About Zone correspondent neatly sug.
gests Laplace). Al. Congreve. AZ
Cooper. 43. Hughes. "A. Bailey, the
. author of s.Festus., = As. Kirk White
As. Coke. 47. Littleton. 48. Black
stone. 49, Butler, author of "Hudi
bras.'' 30. Thomas Buchanan Read.
/ Brother MOODY. has got his ideas o.
heaven, and gives themi Il If'fyou were
to take an unregenerate man off the