I remain your faithful subscriber, a blue-eyed friend, T. S. McC. MR. MERRY: In answer to Bertha’s charade in your May number, I can do no less than send you the following, hoping you will notice it in your next, and oblige B. Dear Bertha, if I don’t intrude, The _truth_ that’s in your story Is what you mean by “earthly good,” Likewise the “path to glory.” The _first_ is _T_, the end of Lot; The _second’s_ _r_,--you know it; That stands for rest, and every jot As plain as words can show it. And if the end of malt be _t_, As I do now conceive it, It doubtless must the fourth one be-- In truth, I do believe it. The third is _u_, I do believe, In fact you’ll not deny it; And if I do the right conceive, The fifth is _h_--let’s try it. There is an _h_ in spelling _h_eaven, Likewise in spelling _h_ell; Now, if I am not much mistaken, There’s one in spelling s_h_ell. If now I make them all combined, Your anxious heart ’twill soothe-- Likewise ’twill ease my weary mind, So let us call them TRUTH! M. _Lancaster, May 5th, 1842._ DEAR MR. MERRY: Permit me, although an unknown friend, to address a few lines to you concerning your interesting little Magazine. I have taken it for more than one year, and I must say, the more numbers I get of it, the better I like them. I hope you will not discontinue the story of Thomas Trotter’s Voyages and Travels very shortly, as it is, in my estimation, the most interesting story I ever read. Your Magazine has become very popular, and I hope it may continue and increase in popularity, as I am certain there is no one, that is more worthy of a liberal patronage than Robert Merry’s Museum. If you will be kind enough to insert in your next month’s Magazine the enigma that I have composed, (which you will find on the other side,) you will oblige your true friend, VIRGINIA. ENIGMA. I am a word composed of six letters. My 4, 3, 4, 6 is what everybody was once. My 4, 3, 2 is the name of a bird that flies all night. My 4, 3, 5, 6 is an article used by merchants. My 5, 3, 1, 2 is used by the shoemakers. My 6, 6, 5 is an animal that inhabits rivers. My 4, 3, 2, 2, 5, 6 is a thing that was done in the revolution. My 3, 5, 6 is a pleasant beverage. My 3, 2, 3, 5, 6 is what the little folks like. My 1, 3, 5, 6 is a thing often done. And my last, 4, 6, 3, 2, is what Paddy gave the drum. And my whole is in every town.