Start from the most central E, and you will be able to trace the proverb.
60. MISSING WORDS
Mr Snip, the ————, was ———— a hill,
With a bag of new ———— for stock;
When a runaway motor-car gave him a spill
Which scattered his doubts with the shock.
Each missing word is spelt with the same eight letters.
No. XXXVIII.—A WORD SQUARE
The pupils of Dr Puzzlewitz found one morning these vowels printed boldly on the blackboard:—
| E | * | A | * | E |
| * | A | * | E | * |
| A | * | E | * | * |
| * | E | * | * | E |
| E | * | * | E | * |
Under it the doctor had written “Fill in the consonants, so that the words read alike from top to bottom, and from side to side.” How is this to be done?