ANSWERS TO LITTLE FOLKS' OWN PUZZLES (p. 189).
MISSING LETTER PUZZLE.
"With fingers weary and worn, with eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, plying her needle and thread:
Stitch! stitch! stitch! in poverty, hunger, and dirt;
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, she sang the 'Song of the Shirt.'"
DOUBLE MESOSTICH.—Oberon—Portia.
1. HOPe.
2. OBOe.
3. HERd.
4. TaRTan.
5. QuOIts.
6. FiNAle.
RIDDLE-ME-REE.—Tiger.
SINGLE GEOGRAPHICAL ACROSTIC—Celebes.
1. C hesterfield.
2. E rne.
3. L iffey.
4. E lba.
5. B lenheim.
6. E uphrates.
7. S hrewsbury.
HIDDEN PROVERBS.