174. When it is _a raining_ (arraigning).
Be not too wise nor over nice For if you be, you little see, How like an idiot you be.
178. It will be ten to one if he catches it.
185. While it can not move without a head of water, it never gets ahead of the water, and yet is always moving.
192. Patience and perseverance will perform wonders.
221. First be sure you are right, then go ahead.
222. Lake, sake, Jake, bake, wake, make, rake, hake, cake, fake, take.
228. BOOK-CASE. Baltic, Odessa, Olympus, Killanaule.
239. Once upon a time a horrid, cross, overbearing man undertook to beat his wife upon a very small provocation indeed; but she understood and overcame his evil intention, for before he could injure her, she demolished him in a little time with a cudgel.
243. Weed, need, meed, feed, deed, heed, reed, seed.
249. C low shoe r heart against awl vice, butt open the door to wall t root h. (Close your heart against all vice, but open the door to all truth.)
250. When they are candidates (candied dates).
260. One is an analyzer (Ann Eliza), the other a charlatan (Charlotte Ann).
266. Because his works are wicked, and all his wicked works come to light.
270. Independence. (Inn, deep, pendants.)
272. Yes, when he is tired of one place he can go to another.
282. Long or short, he only gets ahead one foot at a time.
_To remove the shears._--Take the loop end of the string; put it through the right handle, and carry the loop around to _a_, as shown by the dotted line here given. Let the loop be carried still further toward _b_, until it has passed entirely around the whole shoars, and you can then remove them, as they will slip out through the handles.
305. One may be barred and the other bolted.
340. Beam, hairs (hares), temples a cur sup on his meals, tenants, eggs salted (exalted), a narrow mind.
342. Root, moot, foot, boot, hoot, toot, soot.
344. A little (t) will change pain into paint.
378. One is a rail-sitter, the other a rail-splitter.
379. When he travels on a trail (T rail).
389. Because "i" is in the midst of bliss, "e" is in hell, and all the others in purgatory.
390. From San Jacinto to corner of the fort, 1,843 66-100 yards.
From San Jacinto to center of the fort, 1,971 10-100 yards.