The “Knight’s Tour” verses run as follows:—
Better to die with harness on
In smoke and heat of battle,
Than wander and browse, and fall anon
In quiet of meadow-land cattle.
Better to gain, by arm or brain,
Chaplet of laurel or myrtle,
Than bask in sun, with work undone,
And live one’s life like a turtle,
beginning with “Bet,” and ending in the top left-hand corner.
No. XXXII.—A BROKEN SQUARE
The Broken Word Square is made perfect thus—
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No. XXXIII.—A KNIGHT’S TOUR PROVERB
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