Coming with merry feet to young and old, Where snow and ice would block his onward way; Strive they in vain his eager step to stay, For Santa Claus is curious as bold. Why should he _not_ know what the ovens hold? Such odors tempt him, and he must obey! School-boys and matrons, grandsires, maidens gay, Forgive him if he warm his fingers cold While waiting: Arrows from his mystic pack-- Wise fellow! see him choose! "_These_ (from _my_ bows), With shaft of silver, tipped with jewel rare, Aimed with the skill which Love can well impart, Shall strike the center of the coyest heart! Lest Santa Claus be slighted, then, beware!" B. BROKEN WORDS. In each sentence, fill the first two blanks with two words which, joined together, will form a word to fill the remaining blank. 1. "Do you buy paper ---- ---- or reams?" ---- one school-girl of another. 2. ---- ---- Puritans do not regard it as you free ---- men might. 3. He built ---- ---- when in ----, and lived like the natives themselves. B. PICTORIAL QUADRUPLE-ACROSTIC. The initials and finals of the words represented by the small pictures name two objects to be seen in the central picture. Two other words relating to the central picture may also be found in succession, by taking one letter from each of the words represented by the small pictures. L.J. [Illustration] CHRISTMAS ENIGMA. The answer is a proverb relating to Christmas. Forty-four letters. My 2 30 9 8 24 38 15 22 32 27, and also 25 20 11 38 31 25, and 6 13 17 35 25 9 18 29 2 are used in Christmas decorations. 36 1 26 42 9 16 are rung, 44 41 7 38 39 31 16 are told, 24 4 6 2 12 are played, 10 11 33 26 21 2 5 12 is laid aside, 19 9 43 38 35 37 16 are brightened by yule logs, 34 23 14 11 20 25 salutations are exchanged, 28 22 4 8 35 44 gladdened, and 3 7 11 38 27 winged, all at the good old Christmas-time. B. AUTHORS' NAMES. The answers will give respectively the names of sixteen authors. 1. A cat's cry and a Scotch lake. 2. The value of the rim 3. A rough or clumsy cut between a sunbeam and the old ladies' beverage. 4. A man's name and an island. 5. A teacher commanding one of his male scholars to perform his task. 6. A bun and a hotel. 7. A light, and a "k," and a measure of length. 8. Strong and well. 9. Two-thirds of an eye; a Scotch title prefixed; With a shoe-maker's tool nicely put in betwixt: If you look at it closely, I think you will find An essayist, poet, historian, combined. 10. Conqueror, embrace O. 11. Indispensable to printers, and a little bed. 12. A bit, and a horse's cry. 13. A small nail and a Spanish title. 14. A boy's nickname and an humble dwelling. 15. The patriarch Jacob between "D" and myself. 16. If two pretty girl-names together you tie (Some E's you must lose, for "I can't tell a lie"), The name of two poets at once you'll descry. M.M. A RIMLESS WHEEL.