We have always been accustomed to regard The Girl's Own Paper with much veneration, but the idea of its having first seen the light something like fourteen thousand years before Adam is somewhat startling.
In the next line, "G. O. P." often took the place of "magazine." Our dislike of such irritating abbreviations did not prevent us from doing justice to the reading which is rhythmically correct.
The number of solvers who wrote "barque" for "bark" was amazing. The latter was in the puzzle and signifies any small vessel. The former was not in the puzzle and defines a vessel of a particular rig. And there is really no need for more.
[IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE.]
By RUTH LAMB.
PART III.
HOW TO GROW OLD.
"They shall still bring forth fruit in old age" (Psalm xcii. 14).