"I will describe a specimen page. Towards the top of the page place a thin streak of gum, lay upon it a tail feather (the quill end downwards), and put one on each side. The best feathers of one wing may be put down, one after the other, till one has sufficiently covered the page, then the other wing feathers may be placed down the other side; the centre may be filled in with the fluffy feathers, and the bottom can be finished off with some breast feathers neatly placed so as to cover all quill ends." * * * * * Kinks. No. 46.--CHARADE. My first has been a friend of man Forever since the world began; It rules by day, and well it might, And is not lost in depths of night. My second is a bank of sand-- 'Tis got from birds of sea and land. My last a pronoun has been made. When letter H has been mislaid. My whole the squatter's heart doth tease, And doth his pocket often squeeze. Whole comes by day and stays by night, In spite of many a scornful slight. * * * * * No. 47.--FOR MATHEMATICIANS. A merchant receives $3 of every $5 owing him on book debts amounting to $15,000 (which debts are five per cent. more than his liabilities), and $3.75 of every $5 on $6000 of running debts his due. Find his liabilities if he pays dollar for dollar. * * * * * No. 48.--WORD SQUARE. 1. Three musketeers of art, and this is one. You'll spot him if you've seen "Trilby" done. 2. If you are this, how many ills you'll shun If you in youth your ways have well begun. 3. If wounded in this by bite or shot of gun, There is no hope, and now your course is run. 4. The fourth is here, the Christian name of son Which indicates a free or candid one. 5. I'm lost now for a terminal "un," And hampered thus is certainly no fun. So take this as it is, dear "Kink"y folks, A synonym you'll find for yellow yolks. * * * * * No. 49.--EASY RIDDLE IN PROSE. We lived in a brook, and were five in number. We were taken out, once on a time, and we never got back again. Four of us were lost--hopelessly lost--and nobody knows what became of us. But the fifth took a rapid journey in the midst of much excitement, brought up at the end of the journey in the queerest place any of our family has ever been before or since, I think, and if I were able to come to you now I would be worth thousands and thousands of dollars. What am I, who were my brothers, and why can't I realize some of these thousands? * * * * * Answers to Kinks. No. 41.--A PROSE CHARADE. A potato gun, made from a goose-quill, a wooden piston, and had "wads" of sliced potato. * * * * * No. 42.--POLITICAL QUESTIONS. 1. Isle of Man. 2. Captain John Smith. 3. Secretary Thompson. 4. Edward Everett. * * * * *