No. 21554 Bellamy’s books of Charades
Bellamy wrote a series of books that were riddles, charades in print.
A Century of Charades. (1895)
Harlan H. Ballard responded with Open Sesame: One Hundred Answers in Rhyme to William Bellamy’s Century of Charades.(1896. Ballard was not from Dorchester]
A Second Century of Charades (1896)
A Third Century of Charades (1904)
More Charades (1909)
Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (1911)
In 1900 William Bellamy, his wife Anna, and three children and a servant lived at 17 Bowdoin Avenue.
In 1913, The Dorchester Beacon newspaper described Bellamy as a scholar and writer of books on various subjects and an authority on scientific investigations. He was a member of the Boston Amateur Scientific Society. William Bellamy was the son of William and Ann Maria (Dodd) Bellamy.
A Century of Charades (1895)
No. 15884 Harlan H. Ballard responded in 1896 with Open Sesame: One Hundred Answers in Rhyme to William Bellamy’s Century of Charades.
No. 21555 This illustration has the fourth charade in Bellamy’s first book along with the response from Harlan H. Ballard in his book Open Sesame.
The word on which the charade is based has three syllables. The first couplet is a clue to the first syllable, the second couplet for the second and the third couplet for the third. The fourth couplet is a clue to the whole word. Ballard’s response presents the answers in italics within his own verse.