Cross-word Enigma.
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1. In brook, but not in sea; 2. In slave, but not in free; 3. In lose, but not in find; 4. In heed, but not in mind; 5. In barn, but not in shed; 6. In black, but not in red; 7. In hill, but not in mound; 8. In held, but not in bound. What's the answer?—can you say? 'Tis something boys much like to play. |
CYRIL DEANE.
GEOGRAPHICAL TRANSPOSITIONS.
1. —— —— a good post at ——. 2. Did you notice the carved —— in that old cathedral door in — —? 3. —— —— with pleasure from Geneva, for ——. 4. I took great —— to witness these national games, when in ——. 5. I found —— gold in a mine in ——. 6. I could stand —— in the entrance to the cave in ——. 7. I have —— interest in —— than in any other foreign city.
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OMNIBUS WORD.
In a word of five letters find: 1st. An hour-glass puzzle, the central letters of which, read downward, signify to perform again; horizontally, a symbol often used in writing, a beverage, a vowel, a performance, to provide. 2d. A word-square containing a unit, a vehicle, an epoch. 3d. Words to each of which one letter may be prefixed so as to form another word: a preposition, an animal; a verb, a weed; a study, a vehicle; a part of the body, a sign of sorrow. 4th. Words to fill appropriately the blanks in each stanza below, by prefixing a letter to the first word, when found to form the second, and by prefixing a letter to the second to form the third:
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I would not heed so small an ——, When dealing with one of his ——, Or of my temper leave a ——. We asked him in; he sat and —— Of the ripe fruit at such a ——, He lowered well the heaped up ——. |
H. H. D.