Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-25
THE PRIZE CHARADES.

THE PRIZE CHARADES.
90l. Prize charade by Augusta Blake,
HOLSTER:
One evening as Sol was descending
(His reiulgent beams most glOriously did shine),
lily way across woodland was vending,
And towards vale did my steps incline.
The evening being fine, stopped while
To view the flowers that around me lay,
The music of the feathered rgsters did rue beguile
As they caro!ed their hymns at the close of day.
The scene was lovely, sublime and grand,
With flowers Flora had decked hill aud dell,
Sols gold 4n-tinted rays appeared 10 stand,
AS if reluctant t. say farewell.
In pensive mood towards home did rove,
just as the night her veil began to spread,
| saw my first when passing by grove
over the verdaDt fields it like lightning fled
My second sounding far DER the plain,
saw afar steeple gainst the sky,
Ny whole beauteous flower will name,
In mystic form tangiers it is before your eyes.
902. Prize charade, by E. c. D.:
Ny whole is the home OF my first and next,
Where my first is rarely found
But when last comes on, and the soul is vexed,
First and second may wish first around.
For final of second put final OF first,
When my second and third Will chow
What the couded spirit that builds my whole
Can make OF LIES strong, rich glow.
903. Prize charade, by Rose:
Sometimes my first, with lavish hand,
Showers blessings your head
Sometimes she turns her fairy wand,
And curses you with Ills instead.
grim-faced goddess my last,
With her weapons keen and bright,
Wreakiug vengeance for the past,
Injuring mOrtalS for very spite.
pray that you may ever be whole,
Dear friends of the Quiet Hour
That with good first Time may dole
Not q hint OF seconds power.
THE PRIZE METRICAL RIDDLES.
$685.. Prize riddle, by E. c. D.;
an rich in varied meaning, often rich in things
more fair,
Tho nv poverty has driven many strong men to
despair.
The printer knows my meaning; in the slaye-trade
used
The laws strong hand extends me 10 save from
power abused
All navigators dread me strengthen what is weak.
hold the N ghty waters when with angry voice
they speak.
am used in haughty heraldry lure men to their
death;
Yet to own me, bright and lovely they will yield all
but their breath.
904 Prize riddle, by Rose
Through the forest bound with the deer,
Or I'm found il the gleen depths below.
Then measure Of length appear
And an instrument sall-makers know.
In the tropical forests I'm seen,
And the sibyl aid IN her art;
''To impose by fraud is what mean,
But the tangier who bears me is smart"
9041l. Prize riddle, by Hattie Heath
am free as the wind that sweeps
Across the desert plain,
And open as the yawning deep
OF the ever changing main.
am one OF an ancient race,
| travel free when new,
NV check is always on my face,
am silver money too.
Afix fall, or pool
And find an honored SIRE
One whose hand steady and cool
Wrote his name with pen Of fire.
INGENIOUS PUZZLES BY MALE CONTRIBUTORS.
905. Prize puzzle, by Utah.
H. II, II go IOOaLLD
80
500 HA 5 0O1
J 100 1000
B5o 500 Run
sos. Prize word puzzle of II letters, by
Trinity
O 100 3 50
906l. Prize puzzle, by F. NJ s.:
Section one. a dogma. IS( BIZ
Section two. Three words. l our loophole