174. Because without it life is a lie, or it makes life a lie.
It is but D _sent_, as you see, If you 500 send, But truly XL _lent_ 'twill be, When you the 40 lend.
210. The one is careless and happy, the other is hairless and cappy.
230. Because she shows her flowing sheets.
234. The lion, because he roars, and has a flowing mane (main).
Leviathan, because he swallows up the rivers.
Dr. Pott's horse, because a _Pott he carries_.
237. The rooster, because he _picks_ and crows.
238. 1, 3, 9, 27, are the weights of the several pieces.
240. It is generally patronized by gobblers.
245. Because we can not make them here (hear).
The weapon's _a steel pen_, I think, Unless I've made a blunder; When Hatchet dips it in the ink, I'd like to stand from under. "Old lady"--quotha! think of that. My goodness--heart-alive! I tell you, Mr. Hatchet--flat! I'm scarcely sixty-five.
253. Because it is a _certain tie_ (certainty).
257. Because he makes faces and busts (bursts).
258. Because they "devoured widows' houses."
Cross you are, cross you be, Cross, too cross, you are for me.
261. Because the lions could not eat him.
264. It places the present (see) before the past (saw).
266. _Obscurity_, in which may be found sour, city, sty, sot, buoy, tour, story, orb, orbit, rust, rut, bust, crust.
274. If he told the truth, he lied; if he lied, he told the truth.
He lied. If he did lie, he would not say so.
276. He _chases_ the deer (dear) and is never chased (chaste).
278. He must be born on the 29th of February.
Come, ye ingenious ones, this riddle guess, It is not difficult, you will confess. What is that number which, if you divide, You then will nothing leave on either side? The number -8-.
291. The year, 12 months, 30 days, night and morning, black and white.
1. The Tea tree. 2. Hop vine. 3. Beech. 4. Bee. 5. India-rubber. 6. Bay. 7. Pine. 8. Yew (You, not I). 9. Fig. 10. Date. 11. Bass. 12. Honeysuckle. 13. Judas. 14. Peach. 15. Fir. 16. Bon Chretien. 17. Broom. 18. Cypress. 19. Nightshade. 20. Breadfruit. 21. O r a n g e (O-range). 22. Olive (O-live). 23. Hound. 24. Lime. 25. Linden. 26. Box. 27. Dogwood. 28. Aspen. 29. Rose. 30. Sloe. 31. Plane. 32. Tulip. 33. Spruce. 34. Tiller-tree or elm (helm). 35. Sycamore. 36. Poplar. 37. Southernwood. 38. Ivy. 39. Scrub oak. 40. Burning bush. 41. Hazel. 42. Lilac. 43. Elder. 44. Cork. 45. Smoke tree, or maid o' the mist. 46. Boneset. 47. Birch. 48. Damson. 49. Slippery elm. 50. Medlar. 51. Will-o! 52. Man-go. 53. Sandal. 54. Holly. 55. Clove. 56. Coffee (cof-_fee_). 57. Palm. 58. A s p e n (as pen). 59. Arbor Vitæ (tree of life). 60. Tallow, snowball. 61. The ashes. 62. Laurel. 63. Locust. 64. Silver. 65. Woodbine. 66. Mace. 67. Vine.