No. XCIX.—FROM THE MATCHBOX

The diagram below shows how eight matches can be removed from the nine-square arrangement so as to leave two squares on the table.

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MISSING WORDS SOLUTIONS

1

What tempting sprite beguiled the boy to sample
Fruit that hung ripest on the parson’s trees?
Stripe upon stripe shall make him an example
When the stern priest has brought him to his knees.

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2

Man of the dark room, traces none I find
Upon these cartes of likeness to my features.
Carest thou naught, O man of evil mind,
Who racest thus to libel fellow creatures?