The first letter is dropped in each case, so that while the word which ends line 1 has eight letters, the last word of line 4 has but five.
73. ENIGMA WITH MISSING LETTERS
There was no good ... in the d...y, so the klim.
No. XLIV.—A CANINE CHRONOGRAPH
Some years ago a country parson had the following inscription engraved upon the tombstone of a favourite dog that died in 1885:—
CarLo
Dear DoggIe
LoVIng faIthfVL anD trVe
she Lost her sIght
bVt not her LoVe
for
I. e. V.
If the large capital letters are treated as Roman numerals, they add up to the year of the dog’s death, 1885.