a
considerable time.

It lives in little bands of five or ten in number, each troop being
under command of an old male, and preserving admirable order among
themselves. Their sentinel is ever on the watch, and at the slightest
suspicious sound, scent, or object, the warning whistle is blown, and
the whole troop make instantly for the highest attainable point.

OLD SCOTTISH COINS.

The Edinburgh _Scotsman_ reports a somewhat remarkable discovery made in
the pretty little burgh of Fortrose, in Scotland. In raising the clay
floor in the kitchen of an old house on the margin of the Cathedral
Green, occupied by Mr. Donald Junor, for the purpose of replacing it
with a floor of cement, the soil below was penetrated for some little
depth, and the spout of what appeared to be a tea-kettle was exposed. On
removing the earth from around it, a vessel, apparently of tarnished
copper, was uncovered. It was some ten or eleven inches in height, of
the familiar shape of the water ewer or flagon in use in Scottish
families in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the water being
poured from it over the hands of guests and others previous to meals.
The top was closed with a lid, formed of a piece of lead three-quarters
of an inch in thickness, and apparently soldered to the flagon.

The vessel was remarkably heavy, and on removing the lead it was found
to be filled with old silver coins. There was a quantity of dark-looking
liquid in the vessel, and on this being poured out, the coins were left,
with one or two exceptions, quite white and clean. They were over a
thousand in number, and were all of the time of King Robert III. of
Scotland, who reigned from 1390 to 1406. They are very thin, as is the
general character of the silver coinage of that time, and larger than a
shilling in the surface.

THE STUMP PUZZLE.

[Illustration]

With two straight cuts of the scissors restore this old stump to life.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC CHARADE.

BY H.

INITIALS AND FINALS.

First friends, then foes, my first and last are reckoned,
My first called great, and really great my second;
Eager for fame, each led a soldier's life,
Each fell a victim to the assassin's knife.
My first died first; but when my second fell,
He fell before my first, by some strange spell.

CROSS WORDS.

1.

My first an Indian chief, who vainly sought
To exterminate the foe 'gainst whom he fought.

2.

Another Indian ch