You'll find a recompense—it is no fable.
Answer: Drawer, Reward.
A portion if 'tis backwards read,
Will prove to be a snare instead.
Answer: Part, Trap.
HIDDEN WORDS.
This puzzle is very similar in principle to many of the other word puzzles previously described; but in that it has peculiarities and merits of its own, we give it a place by itself. It is like in many respects to the old-fashioned word puzzle known as "Discoveries," indeed, "Hidden Words" is a modification of and an improvement upon "Discoveries." In the older and now almost obsolete puzzle, it was the practice for the riddler to propound some sentence in which certain words might be made by piecing together here and there certain letters or combinations of letters formed in the sentence, and which letters, when duly pieced together, would give the designation of some person or persons, place or places, or other object. The following is an illustration of the puzzle in question, and for the better information of the reader the letters to be discovered have been printed in italics; in the actual puzzle, however, it is to be understood that the letters to be discovered are not to be marked in any manner different from the remainder of the text.
Example: Find the name of a great warrior, and a battle he fought, in the following sentence:—
You are looking quite well since you came from Brighton; no doubt the fresh air and sea water were very beneficial to you.