The questions were more troublesome than the words, and the girls sat frowning and biting their pencil-tops for some minutes before all were done. As the slips were handed in, Katy dropped them into the lid of her work-basket, and thoroughly mixed and stirred them up. "Now," she said, passing it about, "each draw one, read, and write a rhyme in which the word is introduced and the question answered. It needn't be more than two lines, unless you like. Here, Rose, it's your turn first." "Oh, what a hard game!" cried some of the girls; but pretty soon they grew interested, and began to work over their verses. "I should uncommonly like to know who wrote this abominable word," said Rose, in a tone of despair. "Clover, you rascal, I believe it was you." Clover peeped over her shoulder, nodded, and laughed. "Very well then!" snatching up Clover's slip, and putting her own in its place, "you can just write on it yourself,--I shan't! I never heard of such a word in my life! You made it up for the occasion, you know you did!" "I didn't! it's in the Bible," replied Clover, setting to work composedly on the fresh paper. But when Rose opened Clover's slip she groaned again. "It's just as bad as the other!" she cried. "Do change back again, Clovy,--that's a dear." "No, indeed!" said Clover, guarding her paper: "you've changed once, and now you must keep what you have." Rose made a face, chewed her pencil awhile, and then began to write rapidly. For some minutes not a word was spoken. "I've done!" said Esther Dearborn at last, flinging her paper into the basket-lid. "So have I!" said Katy. One by one the papers were collected and jumbled into a heap. Then Katy, giving all a final shake, drew out one, opened it, and read. WORD.--Radishes. QUESTION.--How do you like your clergymen done? How do I like them done? Well, that depends. I like them _done_ on sleepy, drowsy Sundays; I like them under-done on other days; Perhaps a little _over_-done on Mondays. But always I prefer them old as pa, And not like radishes, all red and raw. "Oh, _what_ a rhyme! cried Clover. "Well,--what is one to do?" said Ellen Gray. Then she stopped and bit her lip, remembering that no one was supposed to know who wrote the separate papers. "Aha! it's your, is it, Ellen?" said Rose. "You're an awfully clever girl, and an ornament to the S. S. U. C. Go on, Katy." Katy opened the second slip. WORD.--Anything. QUESTION.--Would you rather be a greater fool than you seem, or seem a greater fool than you are? I wouldn't seem a fool for anything, my dear, If I could help it; but I can't, I fear. "Not bad," said Rose, nodding her head at Sally Alsop, who blushed crimson. The third paper ran,-- WORD.--Mahershahalhashbaz. QUESTION.--Does your mother know you're out? Rose and Clover exchanged looks.