ater, oatmeal same way, dry barley or oats. You need not use
all, but vary now and then. Give beside every day a moderate quantity of
fresh green leaves, kept first long enough to dry off all dew or rain,
and begin slightly to wither.]

PARTHENOPE would be glad to know what would be the best food for a
starling in the winter?--[A sort of stock food is made of the
fine-ground oats called "fig-dust," made into a stiff dough with milk
and water, adding every day a pinch of soaked currants or a little
fine-shredded raw beef. Give a little fruit now and then, and a few odd
worms, insects, or snails. A little sopped bread will be taken as a
change, but there must be a little animal food.]

MARY BRAZIER asks what is the best food for a dormouse. She knows that a
little Indian corn is often given.--[You should vary the diet with
wheat, Indian corn, bits of bread-crust, bread-and-milk squeezed dry,
with any kind of nut occasionally, and a few blades of grass or field
weeds.]

ANSWERS TO OUR LITTLE FOLKS' OWN PUZZLES (_p. 317_).

POETICAL ACROSTIC.--CAMPBELL.

1. C hateaubriand. 2. A lfieri. 3. M ilton.
4. P etraria. 5. B yron. 6. E ulla.
7. L eopardi. 8. L amartine.

MISSING VOWEL PUZZLE.

"Break, break, break,
On thy cold grey stones, O sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me."

DOUBLE GEOGRAPHICAL ACROSTIC.

ITALY--GARDA.

1. I ou G. 2. T arif A.
3. A nadi R. 4. L ichfiel D.
5. Y andill A.

MENTAL HISTORICAL SCENE.

Epaminondas, at the battle of Mantinea.

NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

"O what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!"

1. Lear. 2. Train. 3. Drain. 4. Weep. 5. Character.
6. Brew. 7. Goad. 8. What. 9. Wife. 10. Drove. 11. Wander.
12. Save. 13. Stew. 14. Sleep. 15. It.

FOUR PICTORIAL PROVERBS.

1. "All are not thieves that dogs bark at."
2. "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
3. "Count not your chickens before they are hatched."
4. "When the cat is away the mice do play."

To My Readers.

"What are you going to give us in the next Volume?" is, I dare say, the
question which is in some of your minds to ask me; so, as usual on
reaching the end of a half-year, I will tell you of a few of the
arrangements made for the New Volume, beginning with the JANUARY Number.
These include:--

A SERIAL STORY by the Author of "A Little Too Clever," "Margaret's
Enemy," "Maid Marjory," &c., to