--_Love's Labor Lost_, Act. v., Sc. 2. PI. At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by, And brings, you know not why, A feeling as when eager crowds await Before a palace gate Some wondrous pageant; and you scarce would start, If from a beech's heart A blue-eyed Dryad, stepping forth, should say, "Behold me! I am May!" _Henry Timrod._ CENTRAL ACROSTIC. Rowena. 1. sh-O-ne. 2. sh-E-ll. 3. to-W-er. 4. cr-A-te. 5. pa-R-ry. 6. pa-N-ic. GREEK CROSS. Upper Square: 1. Start. 2. Tabor. 3. Above. 4. Roves. 5. Tress. Left-hand Square; 1. Tract. 2. Rumor. 3. Ample. 4. Coles. 5. Tress. Central Square: 1. Tress. 2. Raven. 3. Evade. 4. Sedge. 5. Sneer. Right-hand Square: 1. Sneer. 2. Noble. 3. Ebbed. 4. Elegy. 5. Redye. Lower Square: 1. Sneer. 2. Nacre. 3. Eclat. 4. Erato. 5. Retop. TRIPLE ACROSTIC. Primals, centrals, and finals, mist-rust-less. Across: 1. MonaRchaL. 2. IntrUsivE. 3. SpinSterS. 4. TrusTlesS. INVERTED PYRAMID. Across: 1. Dimension. 2. Devours. 3. Nitre. 4. Lee. 5. D. CONNECTED SQUARES: Centrals, downward, house-w-right; centrals, across, heart-w-heels. I. 1. Echos. 2. Croup. 3. House. 4. Ousel. 5. Spell. II. 1. Ashes. 2. Siege. 3. Heart. 4. Egret. 5. Setto. III. 1. Pshaw. 2. Stela. 3. Heels. 4. Allot. 5. Waste. IV. 1. Carom. 2. Amice. 3. Right. 4. Ochre. 5. Meter. FINAL ACROSTIC. Finals, Plantagenet. Cross-words: 1. shrimP. 2. symboL. 3. salviA. 4. spraiN. 5. spiriT. 6. siestA. 7. sprinG. 8. simplE. 9. straiN. 10. satirE. 11. straiT. WORD-SQUARES IN DIAMONDS. I. 1. S. 2. Pat. 3. Sates. 4. Tea. 5. S. II. 1. F. 2. Tap. 3. Fares. 4. Pen. 5. S. III. 1. F. 2. Baa. 3. Fairy. 4 Art. 5. Y. DECORATION DAY PUZZLE. Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest, Your truth and valor wearing; The bravest are the tenderest,-- The loving are the daring. HOUR-GLASS. Centrals, Cleveland; Cross-words: 1. deliCious. 2. sheLlac. 3. fiEnd. 4. EVa. 5. E. 6. iLl. 7. meAns. 8. misName. 9. overDoses. WORD-SQUARE. 1. Anna. 2. Near. 3. Name. 4. Area. Transcriber's Note: All apparent printer's errors, dialect, and other (deliberate) mis-spellings have been retained. Transcriber's Note: Irish characters have been marked in braces, such as {A} for an Irish letter "A", etc. The proper symbols can be found in the HTML version of this book. End of Project Gutenberg's St. Nicholas Vol XIII. No. 8 June 1886, by Various