THE OLD TRUNK
For the month of May we will award a year’s subscription to Youth for each of the best three original puzzles submitted to us before June 1st. The names of the successful competitors, together with the prize-winning puzzles, will be published in an early number of the magazine. Of the remaining puzzles, all of those which show merit will also appear in the succeeding issues. This offer is open to every one.
The correct answers for the April puzzles are given below:
| 1. | Herring, ray, carp. |
| Shark, perch, shad. | |
| Sole, bass, eel. | |
| 2. | Ericsson. |
| 3. | Monongahela. |
| Yukon. | |
| Amazon. | |
| Rhine. | |
| Colorado. | |
| 4. | James Russell Lowell. |
| 5. | Thou-sand. |
| 6. | Pear-bear. |
(1) Deprive farewell of head and tail and leave expire; (2) the usual covering of the head, and leave atmosphere; (3) on fire, and leave whim; (4) distant, and leave a note in the musical scale; (5) collections of regulations, and leave song; (6) an image of false worship, and leave a verb of action; (7) employed for money, and leave anger; (8) free from obscurity, and leave meadow.
When the above words have been correctly guessed and then beheaded and abridged, their initials, when placed one above each other in the order given, will spell the name of a well-known garden flower.
—O. T. M.