In this printer’s pie the words are in their proper sequence, but the letters are tangled.
BURIED PLACES
38. In the following short sentences five names of places are buried—that is to say, the letters which spell them in proper order form parts of more words than one. Thus, for example “Paris” might be buried in the words “go up a rise:”
“The men could ride all on donkeys, the skipper, though, came to a bad end.”
When you have discovered these places, try to find out what very unexpected word of more than four letters is buried in the sentence, “On Christmas Eve you rang out angel peals.”
TREASON CONDONED
39. According to an old poet, Sir John Harrington (1561-1612):—
“Treason doth never flourish; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper none dare call it treason!”