Lively and exciting, and has, incidentally, much first-hand information about the far Northwest.—Outlook, N. Y.
Capital story of adventure.—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York
THAT MYSTERY TRIP.
Answers and Money Awards in that Exciting Contest about a Queer Journey.
The Mystery Trip story proved a mystery indeed to many, for while the puzzle was rather easy, it scared out not a few contestants by its looks—like the famous animal in the Bunyan narrative. And the questions thought by most solvers to be the hardest proved to the successful ones the easiest. For example, the great majority could not find "Tidbottom's spectacles," nor guess the riddles. The first-prize winner failed on one of the easy questions—What was the sea of darkness?—but answered everything else. His name is Herbert Wiswell, and he lives in Melrose, Mass.; and since he did so much better than any one else he is awarded a big prize—$25 in cash. The next two winners are girls. One is Anna Whitall James, of Riverton, N. J., and the other Bessie Steele, of Chicago. They did almost equally well, but not quite the same. So to the former is given $5 and the latter $3. To the other eight of the best ten—in addition to the first big prize—the offer was to divide $40 among the best ten—$1 each is awarded. Their names follow in order: De F. Porter Rudd, of Connecticut; Franklin A. Johnston, New York; Bryant K. Hussey, of Illinois; J. Lawrence Hyde, of Washington; W. Putnam, of New York; Fred P. Moore, of Massachusetts; J. Lurie, of New York; and G. Edwin Taylor, of Pennsylvania.
The following are placed on the honor list. All found at least 33 of the 37 questions: Freida G. Vroom, of New Jersey; Nannie R. Nevins, of New York; Maud G. Corcoran, of Maryland; Robert Meiklejohn, Jr., of Ohio; Ernest Haines, of New York; Frank J. and S. N. Hallett, of Rhode Island; Robert C. Hatfield and William J. Culp, of Pennsylvania; Margaret A. Bulkley and Rose G. Wood, of Michigan; and Claude S. Smith, of New York.
Here are the answers to the questions: 1. A travelling-rug that would transport its owner anywhere he wished to go. 2. A golden arrow given him by the gods which rendered him invisible as he rode through the air. 3. Vulcan. 4. Spectacles that enabled their wearers to see real character beneath an assumed one. (See George Wm. Curtis's Prue and I.) 5. A broom which he put at his ship's mast-head to indicate he intended to sweep all before him. 6. A Druid monument near Aylesford, in England. 7. Don Quixote. 8. Rosinante. 9. Dean Swift. 10. John Brown's dog "Rab." 11. One that could cover an army and yet be carried, when desired, in one's pocket. 12. An offering given to the priest at Whitsuntide according to the number of chimneys in his parish. 13. Roman coins dug up at Silchester, in England. 14. Old German coins made to unscrew; inscriptions were placed inside. 15. The Gate of Dreams. 16. An old name for the Atlantic Ocean. 17. A ship made by the dwarfs, large enough to hold all the gods, which always commanded a prosperous gale; it could be folded up like a sheet of paper and put into a purse when not in use. 18. The flying island, inhabited by scientific quacks, visited by Gulliver in his travels. 19. A mountain which drew all of the nails out of any ship which came within reach of its magnetic influence. 20. Scotland. 21. Roger Bacon. 22. Charles II. 23. Garibaldi. 24. Robert Southey. 25. Should have been "budge," not "bridge." The question is therefore ruled out—that is, none who missed it had the error counted against them. The answer is: a company of men dressed in long gowns, lined with budge or lamb's wool, who used to accompany the Lord Mayor of London on his inauguration. 26. Something made of all the scraps in the larder. (See Merry Wives of Windsor.) 27. An imaginary land of plenty, where roast pigs ran about squealing "Who'll eat me?" 28. The Escurial. 29. Caverns in the chalk cliffs of Essex, England. 30. An old jail in Edinburgh, Scotland. 31. A curious stone in Mexico cut with figures denoting time. 32. Corea. 33. December 13, 1688. 34. Simple people in the time of King John who danced about a thorn-bush to keep captive a cuckoo. 35. A badge worn by those who received parish relief in the reign of William III.; it consisted of the letter P, with the initial of the parish where the owner belonged in red or blue cloth, on the shoulder of the right sleeve. 36. The paper that enclosed the cartridges which were used in the Civil War. 37. A bookworm.