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What boy can live on with a prospect of age,
If you cut off his head at an early stage?

[Solution]

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By Lord Macaulay

Here’s plenty of water, you’ll all of you say;
And minus the h a thing used every day;
And here is nice beverage; put them together—
What is it with claws, but with never a feather?

[Solution]

No. XXXVI.—A CHARMING PUZZLE

Here is quite a charming little puzzle, which is by no means easy of accomplishment:—

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Start from one of these nine dots, and without taking the pen from the paper draw four straight lines which pass through them all. Each line, after the first, must start where the preceding one ends.