"Messrs. Stebbings and Hubbard two stockbrokers were."
The fourth player has to compose a line, not necessarily containing the same number of syllables as No. 3, but it must rhyme.
"We went to the orchard and found a large pear."
We will now finish the rhyme as each player might perform his part.
"I came to the city on Wednesday night."
"The dog was returned in a terrible plight."
"In the store-room or cupboard you're sure to find mice."
The guesser would probably find out this at once by the introduction of the word "Hubbard," but you can, of course, select more difficult lines (viz., those which give less clue to the nursery rhyme) according to requirement.
Winter Puzzle, No. 1.
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n these Puzzles the idea we have propounded will be found carried out with slight modification. In each four lines will be found hidden the first two lines of various Nursery Rhymes. Thus, supposing the lines already given were those we wished to conceal, the four-line verse might run thus—
Messrs. Hutton and Hubbard once went to reside
In a house that was old, on the hill;
In each room was a cupboard, a sight very rare,
And my mother was constantly ill.
With this explanation our Competitors will, we think, have little difficulty in finding out the following Puzzles. In sending in Solutions it will only be necessary to write out the two first lines of the Nursery Rhymes hidden in each four lines given below.