“Almost anagrams, you should say,” said Bess. “Well, let’s try something else. Shall we try ‘Aunt Sue?’”
“Yes, put it down.”
“I can get—let me see—yes, ‘use-a-nut;’ but that don’t mean anything like ‘Aunt Sue.’”
“Oh, yes, that will do as well as your ‘battle-axes.’ You know, she keeps ‘nuts’ for the 20,000 to crack in her ‘drawer.’”
“Oh, that’s it!—let me send it.”
“Very well; and if I get time, we will try and have two or three more ready by the next number, and every one with a meaning.”
When Bess gave Mary her good-night kiss, she said to herself, “I like to get out puzzles; but I’d rather have Mary’s patience than all the anagrams in the world. I wonder if I should try very hard, if I ever could be like her!”
ANAGRAMS.
100. Tom can pet lions.