HANWELLIAN PRIZE COMPETITION.
Conditions.
1. Entrance fee, to defray cost of postage, &c., two guineas.
2. All communications to be written illegibly, and on both sides of the paper only—not on the edges.
3. The Committee do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender; or to start at the time advertised in the Company's tables; or to be in any way responsible for their own actions.
4. Competitors will be prosecuted.
5. A prize of one shilling will be awarded to all competitors who fail; the winners will be able to make their way in life without prizes.
6. Human beings and others are not eligible for this competition.
Subject to the above conditions, it is requested that puzzles or questions may be forwarded to the following solutions:—
First Solution.—Twenty-eight, if before March 17th; one hundred and forty-six, if after that date.
Second Solution.—Put six pigs in the first stye; then go back and fetch the fox from the other side of the river, returning with the remaining cockatrice. Then put yourself in the second stye, never come put any more, and subtract.
Third Solution.—Positive, Regret; Comparative, Regatta; Superlative, Requiescat in pace.
Fourth Solution.—Countesses; because the sun (son) never sets there.
Fifth Solution.—Cut along dotted line to point A. Then fold back, and cross to point C, keeping mark B on the left. Stop, if you can, before getting to remark D. Bad language never does any good.
Sixth Solution.—This is a mere catch, and only suitable for quite young children. Of course, it is obvious that the elephant could not have been on the outside, because there never are two Mondays in the week. Hush! the Bogie Man. Exit.
