He who .... may .... at last,
How to .... we show;
Take a sixpence, hold it fast,
Press the .... and blow!
Each missing word has the same four letters.
No. XLVIII.—A BROKEN SQUARE
We give as clues the complete border, and a diagonal in which the same letter persists. Can you construct the whole square?
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ANAGRAMS
Anagrams, as a method of divining and illustrating personal destiny and character, were quite a craze in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. No specimens of this word juggling have ever been more apt than the perfect pair of political anagrams evolved from the names of two of our greatest statesmen.