No. C.—LIFT NINE WITH ONE
To arrange ten matches on a table, so that with one hand you can lift nine of them with the tenth, lay them, as is shown in Fig. 1, with the heads of eight pillowed on one, and pointing in opposite directions, and the tenth placed across the ridge at the top.
Fig. 1 Fig. 2
Then lift all, as shown in Fig. 2.
A MAN HIS OWN ANAGRAM
The enigma—
Behold in me a man forlorn,
Who, though with sound limbs he was born,
His anagram alas is!
For he has found out to his cost,
While all his nimbleness is lost,
How slippery wet grass is!
is solved by Male, lame.
The answer by anagram to the question, “Whom do ‘our big hens’ frequently annoy?” is neighbours.