Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book / Three Parts in One Volume

by Unknown

Can you disentangle the eight-line verse which is scattered over these 64 squares? You must leap always from square to square, as a knight moves on the chess-board.

	tle	to	a	cat-	life	and	live	In
	By	tle	ow-	bro wse	of	non	tle	fall
	ter	tur-	gain	like	land	one’s	quiet	And
	of	ar m	Bet-	me ad-	and	Than	a-	bat-
	bask	Be t-	lau-	or	tle	ness	done	wan-
	rel	let	Than	die	With	der	of	smo ke
	ter	in	brain	myr-	on	and	har-	un-
	Ch ap-	or	to	sun	with	work	In	heat

The verses begin with “Better to die,” and end with “tle” in the top left-hand corner.

[Solution]

51. WISDOM WHILE YOU WAIT

As a ———— ———— of facts you’ll find
Our Encyclopedia ———— the mind.

The three missing words are spelt with the same seven letters.

[Solution]

52. MISSING WORDS

You drink that ———, ——— wine, too lavishly at night,
And say a ——— or a swim next morning puts you right,
When night brings you a sudden ———, and morning devils blue,
Then you’ll ——— your careless boast, and own my warning true.