Political Economy Reading Book

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...call ' the Home Savings Bank.' To give the others time for considering what they would propose, he would wait till nearer the close of the year, when a good sum would certainly have accumulated. We have not heard the results of his family council, but have no doubt that the money was voted for objects as unselfish and as praiseworthy as that proposed by Jeannette. Rev. James Flem1ng's Readings. XXXIV. AN ENIGMA.1 1. A Needle small as small can be, In bulk and use surpasses me, Nor is my purchase dear; For little, and almost for nought, As many of my kind are bought, As days are in the year. 2. Yet though but little use we boast, And are procured at little cost, The labour is not light; Nor few artificers it asks, All skilful in their several tasks, To fashion us aright. 1 Enigma, a riddle. One fuses metal o'er the fire, A second draws it into wire, The shears another plies, Who clips in lengths the brazen thread For him, who, chafing every shred, Gives all an equal size. A fifth prepares, exact and round, The knob, with which it must be crowned. His follower makes it fast: And, with his mallet and his file, To shape the point, employs a while The seventh and the last. Now, therefore, CEdipus!1 declare, What creature, wonderful and rare, A process, that obtains Its purpose with so much ado At last produces!--tell me true, And take me for your pains! Solution of the Enigma--A Pin. CowrER. XXXV. 'CHALK YOUR OWN DOOR.' PART 1. 1. His proper name was Jeremiah Marden; but he had not been in the village a week before everybody called him Jerry Marden, and within six months he was known as Jerry Muddler. But why Muddler? 1 CEdipus, a King of Thebes who was skilful in guessing riddles. Who gave him that name, and why was it given? The giver is...