If the wax is slightly melted, and perhaps shredded for some effects, all sorts of fanciful figures can be thus contrived.
ANSWER BY ANAGRAM
What does an editor say to each “ream of paper?” Appear for me.
LEWIS CARROLL’S WILL PUZZLE
Here is a most ingenious will puzzle, by Lewis Carroll, which will be new to most of our readers. Each of the following five questions has to be answered by a different sentence, nine letters long, and each sentence is spelt with the same letters used in varied order:—
When are you going to make your will?
Shall I write it for you in pencil?
When may a man leave all his money to charities?
What did the uncle say when he heard this?
What did the nephew say when the uncle made him his heir?
The anagram answers to the five questions in Lewis Carroll’s will puzzle are as follows:—
When are you going to make your will?
Now I think.
Shall I write it for you in pencil?
No, with ink.
When may a man leave all his money to charities?
With no kin.
What did the uncle say when he heard this?
Hint, I know.
What did the nephew say when the uncle made him his heir?
Think I won!