TRANSPOSITIONS.
In each of the following sentences, fill the first blank, or set of blanks, with an appropriate word, or set of words, the letters of which may be transposed to fill the remaining blanks, as often as these blanks occur.
Thus, in No. 1, the first blank may be appropriately filled with the word "warned." The letters of this word, when transposed once, give "warden" for the second blank, and, transposed again, "wander" for the third.
1. Though —— before setting forth, the church —— lost his way and continued to —— helplessly for some time.
2. If a ——, or even a —— had —— at will through that well-kept ——, the plants would have been in great ——.
3. If —— grow in the Levantine island of ——, at least ——and —— are to be found there. This was told me as a —— fact.
4. Neither a precious stone such as a ——, nor a —— —— of pealed willow, nor even a —— of the sweet-pea vine, is of much account to an animal so savage as the ——. W.