Robert Merry's museum, Volumes III-IV (1842)Various
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Robert Merry's museum, Volumes III-IV (1842)
Various
Children's literature -- Periodicals
H. E. H. suggests _Admiral Nelson_, as a solution of the puzzle of
thirteen letters in the May number of the Museum. He is right.
The following puzzles are among the great number sent for insertion.
I am a word of 16 letters.
My 1, 2, 7 is a witty fellow.
My 12, 9, 13, 5, 15, 7 is often applied to a wanderer.
My 13, 11, 12, 7, 14, 6, 5, 2 is one of the United States.
My 4, 2, 12, 12, 9, 1 is an agricultural instrument.
My 2, 12, 8, 5, 3, 2, 10 is a workman.
My 16, 14, 6 is a sort of snare.
My whole is the name of a distinguished American writer.
Yours respectfully,
F.
I am a word of 13 letters.
My 10, 11, 2, 1 is the name of a furious animal.
My 9, 11, 10 is a liquid.
My 6, 2, 3, 12 is a very valuable product.
My 7, 6, 4, 9, 1 is a town of Massachusetts.
My 5, 13, 4 forms a part of a gentleman’s apparel.
My 13, 12, 4 is the name of a female.
My 8, 7, 4 is what my 6, 7, 4 very much desires.
My 12 and 9 is a word of refusal.
My 6, 2, 4 is a small house.
I am composed of 15 letters.
My 1, 2, 7, 6 is a medicine.
My 3, 6, 8 is a quadruped.
My 9, 13, 14, 5, 3 is an author.
My 13, 5, 2 is an herb.
My 1, 4, 7, 8 is a plant.
My 14, 9, 15 is a part of the foot.
My 2, 7, 8 is an insect.
My 6, 7, 11, 12 is a name.
My 13, 4, 7 is an ore.
My 10, 9, 7, 4, 6, 11 is a group of islands.
My 11, 10, 7, 5 is a number.
My whole is a celebrated queen.
_Charleston, S. C., June 4th, 1842._
MR. MERRY:
Dear Sir,--Your Museum affords much amusement and
instruction to your few subscribers here. I have made out
the following answers to some of your puzzles, which it will
be gratifying to me to know are correct.
Very respectfully,
LOUISA.
To the third, of thirteen letters--Daniel Webster.
To the seventh, of eleven letters--Robert Merry.
To the sixth, of nine letters--Wooden Leg.
To the fourth, of eleven letters--Peter Parley.
The above answers are right.
R. M.
ON the death of King William IV., a council of Indians was held in
Canada, where it was announced that they had no longer a “great
father,” but a “great mother!”--meaning the queen.
MERRY’S MUSEUM.
VOLUME IV.--No. 3.
[Illustration]
Seeing.
Of all the senses, that of seeing is the most noble, commanding and
useful. It enables us to perceive thousands of objects at a glance,
with their forms, colors, and distance.
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