IMENT.

ADA,(_on the morning of her birthday party, looking at the clock and
feeling her pulse_). "Oh dear! I wonder if I will be well enough for the
party to-night?"

[Illustration]

Search, if you like, the wide world over,
Barnum's the very best fellow that's known;
Now that we young ones are left here in clover,
Here's for a jolly good show of our own.

BROKEN RHYMES.

[Behead the word that completes the first line, and you have the word
necessary to complete the second. This in turn beheaded gives the word
that will complete the third line.]

"Beware the ice!" I heard him ____,
"Which is not safe unless 'tis ____:
Take my advice, for I am ____,
And do not venture here."
"But, oh! we want so much to ____.
He's like the dog," said saucy ____,
"Who could not eat what others ____,
Yet barked when they came near."

"But do not go so near the ____;
'Tis safer far within the ____;
The water here's as dark as ____:
To go would be a sin."
They heeded not, and in a ____,
Like little birds that feed on ____,
The merry girls flew o'er the ____;
And now, alas! they're in.

But when he heard the dreadful ____,
And saw the drowning maidens ____,
He hurried with his stick of ____
Along the slippery ground.
And others came, and with a ____
They crept around the dangerous ____,
And lifted dripping o'er the ____
The maids so nearly drowned.

[Illustration]

SHADOWS OF GREAT MEN.

Who can turn this old woman into the Duke of Wellington, and the
rough-looking man with a broken nose into Napoleon III.? You will not
need any fairy wand nor magic sentence to do it; just trace the heads
upon a piece of thick paper, and cut them out carefully with a pair of
sharp scissors; then place them so that their shadows may fall clearly
upon a sheet of paper, and the change is complete. You can make many
different surprises of the same kind by drawing other heads yourselves.

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1880, by Various

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