the country
church-yard, for many would like to see me in Westminster Abbey, where
there is a fine monument to me.

THE ABSURD PENGUIN PUZZLE.

[Illustration: Fig. 1.]

[Illustration: Fig. 2.]

This Puzzle appeared in No. 25, page 344. It was, with two straight cuts
of the scissors, to change the fish, Fig. 1, into an absurd penguin
catching a herring, as is shown in Fig. 2.

* * * * *

=A Spider's Instinct.=--Spiders crawling more abundantly and
conspicuously than usual upon the in-door walls of houses foretell the
near approach of rain; but the following anecdote shows that some of
their habits are the equally certain indication of frost being at hand.
Quartermaster Disjouval, seeking to beguile the tedium of his eight
years of prison life at Utrecht, had studied attentively the habits of
the spider. In December of 1794 the French army, on whose success his
restoration to liberty depended, was in Holland, and victory seemed
certain if the frost, then of unprecedented severity, continued. The
Dutch Envoy had failed to negotiate a peace, and Holland was despairing,
when the frost suddenly broke. The Dutch were now exulting, and the
French Generals prepared to retreat; but the spider warned Disjouval
that the thaw would be of short duration. He contrived to communicate
with the army of his countrymen, and its Generals relied upon his
assurance that within a few days the water would again be passable by
troops. They delayed their retreat. Within twelve days the frost had
returned, and the French army triumphed.

[Illustration: "WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND CHARMING, I PRACTICED
BABY-FARMING."]

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