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Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin Acrostics". No. 55Source: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 27, No. 314 (Aug., 1899), pp. 436-437Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499481 .

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436 The Irish Month4.

do not know which (4 the two, prose or verse, came first. Notes and Queries, January 23, 1886, gives no date for the Cottingham epitaph. The book we have quoted appeared in 1882.

"Who plucked these flowers ?" the careful gardener cried,

"These lovely flowers which graced the border side P"

"His Lordship," said the labourer at the door.

The gardener silent bowed and said no more.

OLAVIS ACROSTICA.

A KEY TO " DUBLIN AcROSTICS.

No. 655.

Before submitting No. 55 to the ingenuity of our readers, let us

give the answers to No. 53 and No. 54. Hob-nob is the answer to No.

53, with Bamnpdn, olio, and Bab-el-IfMandeb as the lights' "Heirloom"

is the answer to No. 54, and the last three lights are ergo, Inigo

(namely, the famous architect Inigo Jones) and ram; but the

first light is somewhat doubtful. Mr. Robert Reeves, Q 0., in the

official key which he furnished to me sets down hot well as checking

the gout, whereas J. W. A. suggests -lermodactyl. This last in

Worcester's Dictionary takes a final e and is described as a bulbous

root imported from the East and formerly used as a cathartic. J. G.

and J. 0. fix on kovel, "because (says the former) as luxurious living

promotes gout, living in a hovel and of course on meagre fare ought

to check it." The same 3. 'G. has solved No. 53 correctly in all

particulars, and No. 54 also except that he -makes the third light to

be ncognito. J. 0. triumphs all through and he very acutely suggests that in "I battered -stones" the past tense is used because at present

not walls but ships are rammed. By the way this valued correspondent

notices that fausta begins by mistake with a capital in page 381,

L C. and many others have been much iuterested by that little paper,

"Judge Lawson among the Satints."

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C0avisi Acrostica. 437

The acrostic for next month will, we fear, find very few solvers.

It is by Jadge O'Hagan.

No. 56.

My second-I haVe seen him oft

And heard his plaintive note,

When from his airy perch aloft,

He poured his little throat.

But one thing I have never seen,

And, should I chance to see,

It were a curious sight I ween

That he my first should be.

And yet the union must exist,

Because, however strange,

I've seen it figure in the list

Of many a threatened change.

And many an oracle t've known,

Proolaiming it as doom,

Who now ia riper years has grown

To shudder at the broom.

-1. To sailors dear, to members very dear.

2. The startled waiting woman's glad surprise.

3. That rogue the Major lies in hiding here.

4, A captain given to languish and to lies.

6. A fallen fortune sure once more to rise.

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