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Merry's Book of Puzzles

Chapter 34: NAMES OF PLACES.
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A three-part compilation of riddles, charades, rebuses, pictorial puzzles and conundrums presented for children and young readers. Arranged as short challenges and illustrated teasers, the pieces mix wordplay, logic problems, simple arithmetic puzzles and playful questions that invite group play or solitary amusement. Brief introductions and occasional light commentary frame the items, which range from single-line riddles to multi-step brainteasers, all intended to entertain while sharpening observation, verbal wit and reasoning skills.

321.

My first, in distant lands

Full many a temple stands,

Once builded by his hands;

The marble from the mine,

His hand hath caused to shine

In beauty half divine;

My next in tropic lands

Grows where the roving bands

Roam o’er the desert sands;

My whole went forth—the world,

From chaos rudely hurled,

Along its orbit whirled.

322. Take a letter from a piece of kitchen furniture, and make something furious.

323. Divide a sensibility, and leave a reward and a fish.

324. Divide a measure, and leave something much worn and to desire.

325. Divide something enormous, and leave a plant and to rave.

326. Curtail an unenviable state of mind to be in, and leave a path.

327. Why is a hog just purchased like 120 pounds of steel?

NAMES OF PLACES.

328. The name of a race of men, a vowel, and a Greek word signifying a city.

329. A state of equality and a verb.

330. A letter on a title.

331. Behead part of a vessel, and leave a fish; curtail, and leave tranquility.

332.

My first is a domestic animal.

My second is a very useful article.

My third in sound is a Hebrew measure of liquids.

My whole is a list of names or things.

333. Resolve what made Jackson a President into a household article.

334. My first is a nickname; my second, in sound, asks a question; my third is an article; my fourth is an adverb, and my whole is a flower.

335. My first is a verb; my second is seen in a hat; my third is often used for a signal; my fourth is the same as my second, and my whole is the given name of the writer.

336.

I am composed of 10 letters:

My 7, 5, 10 is a medicine.

My 6, 9, 1 is an adverb.

My 4, 2, 8, 3 may always be seen on Broadway.

My whole is a city.

337. Transpose a tree into a hollow vessel.

338. D written off for air, hinge learn a channel.

339. XA100T.

Explain the sentences in italics in the following puzzle:

340.

I knew a man, not many years gone by,

Who had a block of timber in each eye,

Without impairing, in the least, his sight,

Or filling those who saw him with affright.

And what was more amazing, free to roam,

Fur-covered thousands made his head their home;

Two heavy buildings also rested there,

By them unnoticed, and no less his care.

A curse upon his meals he often had,

And saw with joy it made another glad.

Strangest of all, for every house he let,

A half a score of insects did beset.

At length he did become a seasoned dish,

To grace a throne, which suited well his wish;

And all this while an arrow, mind, was in him,

Which to the things he loved did firmly pin him.

341.

My first’s a maiden’s Scripture name,

My second’s less than me,

My whole—ah! so unmerciful

I hope I ne’er shall be.

342. Change my head several times, and make (1) the cause for some things, (2) to debate, (3) a foundation, (4) that which often covers it, (5 and 6) two different noises, and (7) part of the soil of America.