They say the fault was first with a woman.
'Tis a little word, but its power was great,
To change the course of a happy fate.

My _third_ is seen in many a land,
Where ancient temples ruined stand,
Like a grim sentry, placed before,
To guard an open palace door.

My _whole_, with slow and measured grace,
Among the lowly takes its place:
Nor dreams its future yet shall be
A wondrous thing of mystery.

[Illustration]

SOLUTION OF CHICKEN PUZZLE.

The Chicken Puzzle given on page 216 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, No. 17,
has proved too difficult for any of our readers to solve, and not a
single correct answer to it has been sent us. The puzzle was to make a
chicken out of an orange with four cuts of the scissors and the prick of
a pin. In Fig. 1 of the above diagram the dotted lines on the stalk and
the white lines on the orange show where the cuts with the scissors are
to be made, and Fig. 2 shows the pieces put together, and the chicken
complete.

[Illustration: LITTLE TOMMY'S NIGHTMARE, AFTER SPENDING AN UNUSUALLY
BUSY DAY KITE-FLYING.]

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