A NOVEL CHEMICAL QUIZ* CORA MORTON. NORWOOD HIGHSCHOOL, NORWOOD, Orno (Theletters in each italicized unit will, if rearranged, form the name of one chemical element. The elements are correctly spelled though some of the phrases in the puzzle are purely phonetic. Any punctuation occurring within a phrase is to be disregarded.) The dog Henry Watkins gave me I wanted to caU Sport or Toodles or something like that, but Anne, my wife, bestowed on him the poetic name of Colii. He really is my dog, but Anne invariably calls him her Colin. When she feeds him scraps from the breakfast table I butter my toast and pretend I don't see what she is doing. Last summer we went camping in a dale at the foot of Mount Rist. We had a snug tent and Anne borrowed her cousin Mamie's gun. The night before we left we had a farewell game of bridge with our neighbors. I don't care much for bridge, I prefer Mwic and such things, but Anne's game is very scientific and often. I as dummy, pore over her fine play. I make a noble dummy. I'm no crab when it comes to appreciating my own or other people's specialties. Anne won a prize that night; it was a hideous piece of bric-a-brac that looked like a heathen idol i n a mug. It was a murcie our tent had a good roof, for early one morning it rained so hard that when we looked out afterward the ground about us was nothing but mire. We were not i n the worst of it but things were bad enough and at first we thought that we could neither leave the tent nor get i n again if we once got out. I n a near-by field I saw a nise mule eating a farmer's pe crop. "Hi, mule!" I called. At once a man appeared around the comer of the tent. He had a long rope i n coils about his arm and he tried to lasso the mule. Unfortunately, he slipped in the mud and went down with a groan. "May I n-not help you?" I asked, stammering because I was trying not to laugh. "My name is Crane--Paul Verlis Crane. We evidently belong to the same lodge, for I see your emblem-a tin plum." And I laid a plum in his palm as our ritual demands. "Nit," snorted the farmer, on his feet by this time. "I don' understand none o' that nonsense. I told Mark sum bad luck would come o' my findin' that badge, but all she said was, I must soap the heel o' my shoe to keep the bad luck away. Huh?" He looked a t me belligerently. I, i n mud to my ankles, grinned. "I thought you was tryin' to steal my mule," he explained half-apologetically; "to rob me i n broad daylight. 1'11 not let any one do that; I'll give him a foul rein if he tries." With that he departed. Ever since I have wondered what a foul rein can be. I think he must have meant a licken. 'EDITOR'S NOT%-The author, in submitting this quiz, apologizes for its "foolishness," but suggests that it may prove useful on the day before a long holiday or on some other demoralized occasion, when the usual lesson would be but ill received.
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Answers Hydrogen, Chlorine, Ytterbium, Lead, Strontium, Tungsten, Magnesium, Scandium, Manganese, Praseodymium, Molybdenum, Carbon, Gadolinium, Cerium, Terbium, Niton, Nitrogen, Selenium, Copper, Helium, Silicon, Argon, Antimony, Arsenic, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Tin, Neon, Samarium. Potassium, Indium. Bromine, Fluorine, Nickel.
