Fannie and Emma Pearson
(aged 9 and 7 years).
PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
A great many puzzlers entered into competition for The History of a Mountain, by Elisee Reclus, offered in No. 105 as a prize for the best puzzle which should be sent in before December 7, 1881. After careful consideration, the book has been awarded to Miss Ethel J. Stokes, of Richmond, Virginia, for her arithmetical puzzles, which follow this announcement:
No. 1.
ADDITION.
1. Add a poet to a hint, and make to blind.
2. Add an exploit to a personal pronoun, and make a plume.
3. Add a covering for the head, a vowel, and a part of the body, and make a monk of the Order of St. Francis.
4. Add a man's name to a tree, and make islands.