SPELLING BEE PUZZLE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2172, 20 December 1875, Page 3

SPELLING BEE PUZZLE.

It i 9 said the following arrangement of words, if.dictated with any degree of rapidity, will stump the best spellers :— The most skilful gauger. I ever sawwas a maligned cobbler, armed_with a poniard, who drove a pedler's waggon, using a mullein stalk as an instrument of coercion to tyranniseover his pony, shod with calse. He was a Galilean Sadducee, and_ he had a phthisicky catarrh, diphtheria, and bilious intermittent erysipelas. A certain libyl, with the sobriquet of Gipsy, went into ecstasies of caohinnation at seeing him measure a bushel of peas, and separate saccharine tomatoes from a heap of peeled potatoes without dyeing or singeing the ignitable cue which he wore, or becoming paralysed with a hemorrhage. Lifting her -yes to the ceiling of the cupola of the Capitol, to conceal hrr unparalleled embarrassment, making a rough and not" hara sing him with mystifying, rarefying, and stupefying innuendos, she gave him a couch, a bouquet of lillies, mignonette, fuchsias, a treatise on mnemonics, and a lithograph copy of the Apocrypha in hieroglyphics, daguerreotypes^ of Mendelssohn and Kosciusko, a kaleidoscope, a dram phial of ipecacuanha, a teaspoonful H^. naptha for deleble purposes, a ferrule, «, clarionet, some liquorice, surcingle, a cornelian of symmetrical proportions, a chronometer with a moveable balancewheel, a box of dominoes, and a catechism. The gauger, who was also a trafficking rectifier and a parishioner of mine preferred a woollen surtout (his choice was referable to vacillating occasionally occurring idiosyncrasies), woefully uttered this apopthegra :—•" Life is chequered, but schism,-* apostasy, heresy, and villany, shall be unpunished." The sibyl apologisingly answered:—"There is notably an allegeable difference'between a conferable ellipsis and a trisyllable diaeresis." We replied in trochees, not impugning her suspicion.