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Clavis Acrostica. A Key to "Dublin Acrostics". Part XIVSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 26, No. 298 (Apr., 1898), p. 219Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499273 .

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CLAYIS ACR(OSTICA.

A KEY TO " DUBLIN ACROSTICS."

PART XIV.

3 HE answer to No. 27, as we have it in the handwriting of the author of it, Mr. Robert Reeves, Q.C., is pestle and

mortar. The poet alludes to more than one meaning of each word-to the " Song of Pestle," to mace and Mace (whilome prize fighter) and to many other persons and things. The first letters of the two words are P. M. -post meridiem; but the "light"

throws no light on the subject, for which of us remembers now the celebrated sea-song ?

'Twas post meridian half past one

By signal I from Nancy statted."

Let the reader who cares for this ingenious game refer back to our instalment for last month, to see how Mr. Rieeves makes use of

this, and how he obscures the other " lights " which run thus in

order: electro, Stowrr, tot, Lavinia, eager. " Electro-plate " is with

us still, but I do not know if Storr and Mortimer are still famous

London jewellers. " The young Lavinia " figures in Thomson's i' Seasons " which are hardly as familiar now as in Mr. Reeves'

schoolboy days. The last " light'" seems so weak that we can hardly have read it aright.

We leave to the ingenious reader till next month No. 28 which is by no less eminent a man than " F."

No. 2b.

Fleeting, fierce, of brief endutance,

We're united in assurance.

1. Loud and joyous is the chorus!

2. Opera goers all adore us.

3. Steady, boys! There's death before us.

4. I describe the power of Porus.

F.

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