“I was twice as old as you are
The day that you were born.
You will be just what I was then
When fourteen years are gone.”
How old was Nellie, and how old was her dad?
WORD AND LETTER PUZZLES
A MAGIC COCOON
This Magic Cocoon is so cleverly spun that the word can be traced and read in many ways.
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How many readings can you discover starting from one or other of the Cs, and passing up and down or sideways, but not diagonally, and never over the same letter twice in a reading? There are 756!
THE CHRONOGRAM
The Chronogram, severely classed by Addison as “a species of false wit” is a sentence in which the salient letters represent in Roman numerals some particular year. A good English specimen is this: “My Day Closed Is In Immortality.” The capital letters in these words give MDCIII., or 1603, the year in which Queen Elizabeth died.