3.

My first is in mica, but not in stone.
My second is in meat, but not in bone.
My third is in mice, but not in rats.
My fourth is in rugs, but not in mats.
My fifth is in might, but not in power.
My sixth is in lilac, but not in flower.
My seventh is in wrapped, but not in furled.
My whole belongs to the great New World.

R. B. Beales.


ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 140.

No. 1.

Ice-cream. Needle-work. Dough-nut. Eglantine. Pot-pourri. Elf. Nubia. Dimples. Easy-chair. Narcotic. Caramel. Eyrie. Dogstar. Albatross. Youth. Independence-day.