[Answers on page 339.]


Answers to Puzzles on [Page 263].

12.—

  1. Rigid.
  2. China.
  3. Shovel.
  4. Shrewd.
  5. Stage.
  6. Thanet.

13.—

K
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STARE
SCATTER
BLESSINGS


THE KING OF THE 'PEELERS.'

About the year 1845, a 'Ragged School,' as it was called, was started in a very poor quarter of London, but so turbulent and noisy were the boys that at last the teachers found themselves obliged to engage the services of a policeman to keep order.