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The anagram enigma—

Silent long is the wood-bird’s song,
Bare is the woodland bough;
For waving trees in wintry breeze
Have “no buds now.”

is solved by snowbound, which contains exactly the same letters as “no buds now.”

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The question of time—

A farmer with children sixteen
Killed the fattest young lamb of his flock.
To divide it these children between,
What must be the time by the clock?

is solved by a quarter to four.

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