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A Key to "Dublin Acrostics"Source: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 28, No. 327 (Sep., 1900), p. 562Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499651 .

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A KEY TO " DUBLIN ACROSTIOS."l

37HE acrostic which we proposed for last month-by Judge O'Hagan-turns on the word cashmere, with the cleverly

disguised lights, Grim, axe, silver, and hose. We leave now unsolved No. 120, by the same brilliant acrostician.

No. 120.

Renowned of old for power to charm,

In many a classic hail of pleasure

As famous now for power to harm,

And dealing death in murderous measure.

Say, who between us shall decide,

Which is the deadlier, which the dearer,

The more remorseless homicide.

The sunken heart's more potent cheerer?

1. Smooth, but superficial.

2. Squatting in the prairie.

3. Garment sacrificial.

4. Useful in the dairy.

5. Drink of which be wary.

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