Chess Puzzle.—Begin at the word "Bind." The stanza reads:
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"Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines; Curl me about, ye gadding vines; And oh, so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place; But lest your fetters prove too weak, Ere I your silken bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through."—Marvell. |
(Quoted by Elia in essay entitled "Blakesmoor in H—— shire.")
Easy Numerical Enigma.—Lowell. L, lo, low, owe, we, well, ell.
A Plea for Santa Claus.—Merry Christmas. Take the third letter from the beginning of each line, and read downward.
Magic Domino Square.—The diagram shows one method of arranging the dominoes. But the puzzle can be solved by two or three other arrangements.
Broken Words.—1. Inquires—in quires. 2. Western—we stern. 3. Ashantee—a shanty.
Pictorial Quadruple Acrostic.—Stalagmites, Stalactites, Natural Cave, Underground, 1. SNUfferS. 2. TANgenT. 3. ATDA. 3. LaUrEL. 4. AuRoRA. 5. GGAC. 6. MeaL RaT. 7. IOdide CuprI. 8. TrUAnT. 9 ENVelopE. 10. SpaDES. Christmas Enigma.—"He has more business than an English oven at Christmas."
Authors' Names.—1. Mulock (mew, loch). 2. Edgeworth (edge worth). 3. Thackeray (T hack ray). 4. Carlyle (Carl isle). 5. Charles Reade (Charles read). 6. Ruskin (rusk inn). 7. Gaskell (gas K ell). 8. Hale. 9. Macaulay (Mac awl ay). 10. Victor Hugo (victor hug O). 11. Prescott (press cot). 12. Whitney (whit neigh). 13. Braddon (brad don). 14. Alcott (Al cot). 15. Disraeli (D Israel I). 16. Rossetti (Rose Ettie).