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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Pictured Puzzles and Word Play - A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book - -Author: Cyril Pearson - -Release Date: April 20, 2022 [eBook #67886] - -Language: English - -Produced by: MFR, Branden Aldridge, Harry Lamé and the Online - Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD -PLAY *** - - - - Transcriber’s Notes - - Text printed in italics have been transcribed _between underscores_, - underlined text =between equal signs=, and spaced out text ~between - tildes~. Small capitals have been changed to ALL CAPITALS. - - More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text. - - - - -PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY - - - - - _=BY THE SAME AUTHOR=_ - - UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME - - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - STANDARD PUZZLE BOOK - - Crown 8vo. Cloth Extra. Gilt. - - -[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE - -Can you discover by anagram what the ape is saying to the elephant, from -this descriptive sentence? - - A sly tree-ape, he tries a rum telephone. - -_Exactly the same letters must be used._] - - - - - PICTURED PUZZLES - AND - WORD PLAY - - A COMPANION TO - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY STANDARD - PUZZLE BOOK - - EDITED BY - A. CYRIL PEARSON, M.A. - AUTHOR OF - “100 CHESS PROBLEMS,” “ANAGRAMS, ANCIENT AND MODERN,” ETC. - - _PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED_ - - [Illustration] - - LONDON - GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD. - NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. - - - - -CONTENTS. - - - FRONTISPIECE PUZZLE - - PAGE - PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY 1 - ENIGMAS, CHARADES, PUZZLES, &C., &C. 130 - ODDS AND ENDS 188 - SOLUTIONS TO PICTURED PUZZLES 202 - „ „ WORD PLAY 283 - „ „ ODDS AND ENDS 375 - - - - -PICTURED PUZZLES - - -No. I.--A GOOD SPECIMEN - -Here is a nest of magic squares, seven of them within the four corners -of one diagram:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║149│ 16│ 33│196│ 47│197│ 44│208│ 42│203│ 57│194│ 38│ 54│217║ - ╟───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╢ - ║177┃ 62│183│ 52│213│ 59│160│ 15│161│ 85│156│190│105│ 28┃ 49║ - ╟───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╢ - ║ 56┃147┃201│146│ 75│155│ 2│220│ 3│153│ 53│ 26│209┃ 79┃170║ - ╟───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╢ - ║162┃ 76┃148┃180│ 83│187│ 41│104│ 22│195│145│ 60┃ 78┃150┃ 64║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 74┃176┃ 4┃124┃119│ 37│154│ 48│186│138│109┃102┃222┃ 50┃152║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║221┃ 24┃175┃ 63┃ 86┃116│ 93│135│ 94│127┃140┃163┃ 51┃202┃ 5║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 10┃215┃ 69┃159┃134┃ 95┃ 98│126│115┃131┃ 92┃ 67┃157┃ 11┃216║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───┼───┼───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║219┃ 19┃165┃ 1┃136┃ 97┃130│113│ 96┃129┃ 90┃225┃ 61┃207┃ 7║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───┼───┼───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 8┃205┃ 84┃191┃ 87┃158┃111│100│128┃ 68┃139┃ 35┃142┃ 21┃218║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║214┃ 34┃144┃ 27┃112┃ 99│133│ 91│132│110┃114┃199┃ 82┃192┃ 12║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 14┃123┃ 55┃106┃117│189│ 72│178│ 40│ 88│107┃120┃171┃103┃212║ - ╟───╂───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╂───╢ - ║206┃ 89┃181┃166│143│ 39│185│122│204│ 31│ 81│ 46┃ 45┃137┃ 20║ - ╟───╂───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╂───╢ - ║ 58┃101┃ 17│ 80│151│ 71│224│ 6│223│ 73│173│200│ 25┃125┃168║ - ╟───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───╢ - ║118┃198│ 43│174│ 13│167│ 66│211│ 65│141│ 70│ 36│121│164┃108║ - ╟───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╢ - ║ 9│210│193│ 30│179│ 29│182│ 18│184│ 23│169│ 32│188│172│ 77║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -As each border is removed a fresh magic square remains, in which the -numbers in the cells of each row, column, and diagonal add up to the -same sum, while each of these sums is a multiple of the central 113. - - -No. II.--A BORDERED DIAMOND - -By G. Slater - - ┌ - │ - ┌───┘ - │ 91 - ┌───┘ ┌ - │ 3 │ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │ 27 │ 25 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌ - │156 │154 │ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │161 │ 15 │138 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌ - │130 │153 │136 │ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │162 │147 │120 │ 69 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │ 39 │ 22 │ 55 │112 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │ 4 │152 │ 76 │ 57 56 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │168 │146 │139 │100 99 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │ 6 │ 21 │ 29 │ 45 44 43 - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - │157 │ 80 │ 30 │ 88 87 86 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 53 │ 41 │134 │123 122 121 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 10 │132 │ 89 │ 74 73 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │105 │ 67 │ 35 │109 108 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 5 │116 │137 │ 60 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │144 │ 19 │107 │ 95 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 11 │106 │ 68 │ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └ - │118 │ 77 │ 37 - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - │ 92 │ 38 │ - └───┐ └───┐ └ - │163 │148 - └───┐ └───┐ - │ 12 │ - └───┐ └ - │ 66 - └───┐ - │ - └ - - ───┐ - 1│ - └───┐ - 117│ - ───┐ └───┐ - 20│ 160│ - └───┐ └───┐ - 129│ 65│ - ───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 42│ 38│ 165│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 36│ 103│ 26│ - ───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 124│ 81│ 54│ 159│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 75│ 135│ 151│ 52│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 111 110│ 33│ 64│ 78│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 62 61│ 63│ 93│ 7│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 98 97 96│ 102│ 142│ 158│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 49 48 47│ 133│ 51│ 104│ - └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ └───┐ - 85 84 83 82│ 140│ 90│ 13│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 127 126 125│ 52│ 145│ 79│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 72 71 70│ 34│ 16│ 167│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 114 113│ 50│ 155│ 143│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 59 58│ 115│ 17│ 14│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 101│ 94│ 23│ 9│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 46│ 31│ 148│ 40│ - ───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 41│ 18│ 8│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 128│ 24│ 131│ - ───┘ ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 149│ 166│ - ┌───┘ ┌───┘ - 130│ 2│ - ───┘ ┌───┘ - 164│ - ┌───┘ - 169│ - ───┘ - -It is a perfect magic diamond as it stands, and equally perfect are the -diamonds that remain when each border of cells is removed, as is -indicated by the lines. - - - - -WORD PLAY - - -1. A PARADOX - - Two words in our region of puzzledom pose, - And claim, through the passage of years - That neither the pages of Johnson disclose, - While either in Murray appears. - - -No. III.--A MULTIFOLD MAGIC SQUARE - -Here is a magic square of 81 cells. - - ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ - │ 53│ 8│ 71│ 28│ 73│ 10│ 51│ 6│ 69│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 62│ 44│ 26│ 19│ 37│ 55│ 60│ 42│ 24│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 17│ 80│ 35│ 61│ 1│ 46│ 15│ 78│ 33│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 66│ 21│ 30│ 14│ 59│ 50│ 34│ 79│ 16│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 3│ 39│ 75│ 77│ 41│ 5│ 25│ 43│ 61│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 48│ 57│ 12│ 32│ 23│ 68│ 70│ 7│ 52│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 31│ 76│ 13│ 72│ 27│ 36│ 11│ 56│ 47│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 22│ 40│ 58│ 9│ 45│ 81│ 74│ 38│ 2│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 67│ 4│ 49│ 54│ 63│ 18│ 29│ 20│ 65│ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - -If divided, as is shown, into 9 small squares, each of these is also a -magic square, and yet another magic square is formed by the totals of -these 9 squares arranged thus:-- - - ┌───┬───┬───┐ - │396│333│378│ - ├───┼───┼───┤ - │351│369│387│ - ├───┼───┼───┤ - │360│405│342│ - └───┴───┴───┘ - - -No. IV.--A MODEL MAGIC SQUARE - -This magic square, which has in its cells the first sixteen numbers, is -so constructed that these add up to 34 in very many ways. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 4│ 15│ 14│ 1║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 9│ 6│ 7│ 12║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 5│ 10│ 11│ 8║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 16│ 3│ 2│ 13║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -How many of these, in addition to the usual rows, columns, and -diagonals, can you discover? They must, of course, be in some sort -symmetrical. - - -2. A PREDOMINANT VOWEL - -Can you fill in the missing letters which are needed to turn the -oft-repeated “u” below into rhyming verse:-- - - .u.. .u.u. .u..u.., ..u...u. .u.. u..u.., - .u... .u.., .u. .u..u.. .u..u... ..u...u. ..u..; - ...u.. .u...., .u.. .u..u.. ..u... .u... .u... u..u.., - U. .u...., .u.. ..u..-.u.u., .u..u.’. .u...u. .u.. - - -No. V.--TESSELATED DIAMOND - -By G. Slater - - ┏ - ┃ - ┏━━━╃ - ┃ 13│ - ┏━━━╃───┼ - ┃113│ │ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼ - ┃ 12│ │110│ - ┌───╄━━━╅───┼───┼ - │ 42│ ┃ 9│ │ - ┌───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┼ - │ 74│ │ 81│ ┃112│ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━╅ - │ 67│ │ 53│ │ 87│ ┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄ - ┃ 27┃ │ 49│ │ 50│ │ 35│ - ┏━━━╃───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆ - ┃ 96│ │ 26┃ │ 46│ │ 72│ ┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───╆━━━╃ - ┃ 30│ │ 95│ │ 97┃ │ 76│ ┃ 75│ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───╆━━━╃───┼ - ┃ 91│ │ 31│ │ 28│ │ 94┃ ┃ 40│ │ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╅━━━╃───╄━━━╅───┼ - ┃ 92│ │ 90│ │ 25┃ │ 64│ ┃ 89│ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━╅ - ┃ 29│ │ 93┃ │ 58│ │ 62│ ┃ - ┗━━━╅───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄ - ┃ 32┃ │ 66│ │ 60│ │ 57│ - ┗━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆ - │ 44│ │ 79│ │ 65│ ┃ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━╃ - │ 51│ │ 38│ ┃104│ - └───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┼ - │ 88│ ┃ 22│ │ - └───╆━━━╃───┼───┼ - ┃ 99│ │ 23│ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼ - ┃100│ │ - ┗━━━╅───┼ - ┃ 21│ - ┗━━━╅ - ┃ - ┗ - - ━━━┓ - 106┃ - ───╄━━━┓ - │109┃ - ───┼───╄━━━┓ - 16│ │ 14┃ - ───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - │107│ │ 15┃ - ───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┐ - 11│ │100┃ │ 78│ - ───┼───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┐ - │ 10┃ │ 56│ │ 71│ - ───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - 111┃ │ 83│ │43 │ │ 34│ - ━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┓ - │ 59│ │ 63│ │ 84│ ┃ 6┃ - ━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───╄━━━┓ - 68┃ │ 39│ │ 37│ ┃115│ │ 7┃ - ───╄━━━┓───┼───┼───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - │ 33┃ │ 85│ ┃ 3│ │116│ │114┃ - ───┼───╄━━━╅───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - 61│ │ 82┃ ┃120│ │ 2│ │ 5│ │117┃ - ───┼───╆━━━╃───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - │ 47┃ │ 41│ ┃119│ │121│ │ 8┃ - ───╆━━━╃───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - 54┃ │ 69│ │ 86│ ┃ 4│ │118┃ - ━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───╈━━━┛ - │ 73│ │ 52│ │ 80│ ┃ 1┃ - ━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┛ - 19┃ │ 45│ │ 48│ │ 36│ - ───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ 18┃ │ 55│ │ 70│ - ───┼───╄━━━╅───┼───┼───┘ - 103│ │105┃ │ 77│ - ───┼───┼───╄━━━╅───┘ - │ 20│ │102┃ - ───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - 98│ │ 17┃ - ───┼───╆━━━┛ - │101┃ - ───╆━━━┛ - 24┃ - ━━━┛ - -In this ingenious diamond all rows and both diagonals add up to 671; in -the four corner diamonds all add up to 244; and in the central diamond, -and the 16 rows of threes surrounding it, to 183. - - -3. AN ENIGMA - - I see my first, I see my next, - And both I sigh and see - Joined to my third, which much perplexed - And sorely puzzled me. - ’Twas fifty, and ’twas something more, - Reversed ’twas scarce an ell, - With first and next it forms a whole - Clear as a crystal bell. - What is my whole? A splendid tear - Upheld in cruel thrall; - Blow soft, ye gales, bright sun appear! - And bid me gently fall. - - -No. VI.--MAGIC SQUARE BY MULTIPLICATION - -Here is a magic square, in which the rows, columns, and diagonals yield -the same product, 4096, by multiplication:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║128| 1 | 32║ - ╟───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 4 | 16| 64║ - ╟───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 8 |256| 2 ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -It will be seen that the numbers in this square, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, -128, 256, are in regular progression, and 4096 is also the cube of the -central 16. - - -No. VII.--ANOTHER BORDERED MAGIC SQUARE - -Here is quite a good example of a bordered magic square of sixty-four -cells:-- - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃ 1│ 56│ 55│ 11│ 53│ 13│ 14│ 57┃ - ┠───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───┨ - ┃ 63┃ 15│ 47│ 22│ 42│ 24│ 45┃ 2┃ - ┠───╂───╆━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╅───╂───┨ - ┃ 62┃ 49┃ 25│ 40│ 34│ 31┃ 16┃ 3┃ - ┠───╂───╂───┼───┼───┼───╂───╂───┨ - ┃ 4┃ 48┃ 28│ 37│ 35│ 30┃ 17┃ 61┃ - ┠───╂───╂───┼───┼───┼───╂───╂───┨ - ┃ 5┃ 44┃ 39│ 26│ 32│ 33┃ 21┃ 60┃ - ┠───╂───╂───┼───┼───┼───╂───╂───┨ - ┃ 59┃ 19┃ 38│ 27│ 29│ 36┃ 46┃ 6┃ - ┠───╂───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───╂───┨ - ┃ 58┃ 20│ 18│ 43│ 23│ 41│ 50┃ 7┃ - ┠───╄━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━┿━━━╃───┨ - ┃ 8│ 9│ 10│ 54│ 12│ 52│ 51│ 64┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - - -It is a perfect specimen itself, and as each border is removed a fresh -perfect magic square is revealed. - - -4. A CHARADE - - Take for my first a quadruped, - Transpose one for my second; - My whole, a biped, quick or dead, - Is dainty reckoned. - - -5. BYRON’S ENIGMA - - I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age, - But in infancy ever am known; - I’m a stranger alike to the fool and the sage, - And though I’m distinguish’d in history’s page - I always am greatest alone. - - I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon; - You may search all the sky--I’m not there; - In the morning and evening--though not in the noon-- - You may plainly perceive me--for, like a balloon, - I am midway suspended in air. - - Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain, - I am never in sorrow nor gloom; - Though in wit and in wisdom I equally reign, - I’m the heart of all sin, and have long lived in vain, - Yet I ne’er shall be found in the tomb! - - -No. VIII.--A HARDY ANNUAL - -A magic square can be formed with the 81 numbers from 172 to 252 -inclusive, which in all its rows, columns, and diagonals will total -1908. It may interest our solvers to complete the square. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║216│175│224│ │ │ │240│199│248║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║247│215│174│ │ │ │190│239│207║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║206│246│214│ │ │ │230│198│238║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │213│172│221│ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │244│212│180│ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │203│252│211│ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║186│226│194│ │ │ │210│178│218║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║217│185│234│ │ │ │250│209│177║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║176│225│184│ │ │ │200│249│208║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -We have filled in, as a solid start, 45 of the 81 cells. - - -No. IX.--ANOTHER “ANNO DOMINI” - -This magic square adds up in rows, columns, and diagonals to 1908:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║469│484│472│483║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║481│474│478│475║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║482│471│485│470║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║476│479│473│480║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Can you decide in how many other symmetrical ways the same total is to -be made? - - -No. X.--A DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE - -In this magic square the rows, columns, and diagonals add up always to -33. - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - -Can you rearrange it so that the first stone (three-ace) shall occupy -the centre, now filled by the double six, and it shall still add up in -all ways to 33? - - -6. SHIFTING LETTERS - - I am bright as a whole - Till you cut off my head; - Then as black as a coal, - Or a mortal instead. - - Shaken up and recast - We with science are found, - Read us back from the last - And we live underground. - - -No. XI.--CHESS AND NUMBERS - -The arrangement of numbers in the 36 cells of this square discloses a -very close affinity between chess and arithmetic. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 30│ 21│ 6│ 15│ 28│ 19║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 7│ 16│ 29│ 20│ 5│ 14║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 22│ 31│ 8│ 35│ 18│ 27║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 9│ 36│ 17│ 26│ 13│ 4║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 32│ 23│ 2│ 11│ 34│ 25║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 1│ 10│ 33│ 24│ 3│ 12║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Can you follow this out? - - -7. A GOOD CHARADE - - _By Horace Smith, one of the authors of_ - “_Rejected Addresses._” - - In arts and sciences behold my first the watchword still, - All prejudice must bend the knee before its iron will; - Yet “Onward!” is the Briton’s cry--a cry that doth express - A holy work but half begun, and speaks of hopefulness. - - In palace or in lonely cot its name alike is heard, - And in the Senate’s lordly halls sit my second and my third. - Strange paradox, though for my first my total is designed, - Sad marks of vice and ignorance we in that whole may find. - - -No. XII.--NUMBERS PATIENCE - -Those who combine a fancy for “Patience” with some skill in numbers will -find amusement in filling the empty cells of this diagram with -appropriate numbers, each of which must consist of two figures:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 17│ │ │ │ 24║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ 32│ │ 46│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ 14│ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ 19│ │ 16│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 22│ │ │ │ 20║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -It is required that each of the rows across from side to side shall add -up, when all the cells are filled, to 143 exactly. No number must be -used more than once. - - -No. XIII.--THE WINDMILL - -[Illustration] - -Can you divide a square into 15 parts, which can be built up into this -windmill? - - -8. THRICE BEHEADED - - Untouched I tell of budding growth and life; - Beheaded I lead upward more or less; - Again--with varied fragrance I am rife; - Again--but little value I express. - - -No. XIV.--A NEST OF RECTANGLES - -In this nest of 49 squares it is possible to count a great number of -distinct and interlacing figures, whose opposite sides are equal, and -whose angles are all right angles. - - ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - -Can you decide exactly the number of these rectangles, and say how many -of them are square? - - -9. AN ENIGMA - - Search Holy Writ and you will see - A victory was won by me. - Behead me, and I may be found - In water or on hilly ground. - Behead again, and then transpose, - A snare my letters now disclose. - If yet again my head you sever, - No matter how sharp-set or clever - ’Tis all in vain you look about, - For no one yet has found me out. - - -No. XV.--ANOTHER DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE - -Can you, using all the dominoes except double five, five-six, and double -six, construct with the twenty-five stones a magic square that adds up -in all rows, columns, and diagonals to 27, and in which the stones in -the cells marked by the same figures in this diagram also add up to that -number? - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 2 │ │ 1 │ │ 2 ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ 4 │ 3 │ 4 │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 1 │ 3 │ │ 3 │ 1 ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ 4 │ 3 │ 4 │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 2 │ │ 1 │ │ 2 ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - -No. XVI.--DOMINO PATIENCE - -The problem is to construct, with all the twenty-eight stones, a domino -pyramid of seven stages, starting with a single stone, and adding one -stone on each successive stage. - -The stones must be so arranged that the number of pips in any row or -column are in all cases exactly three times the number of half-dominoes -of which that line or column is composed. There are many solutions to -exercise the solver’s patience. - - -10. LEGAL PLEASANTRIES - - Said a lawyer aside to his friend in the court, - “Now I’d bet, were we not in this place, - That my first is my second a bottle of port,” - Then bright with my whole shone his face. - - -11. RIVALS ON THE ROAD - -Six horse buses and four motor buses travel each hour from Temple Bar to -the Bank. The horses take 15 minutes, and the motors 10 minutes on the -journey. - -If I come to Temple Bar, and wish to reach the Bank as soon as possible, -shall I take the first horse bus that turns up, or wait for a motor? It -must be assumed that I can only see a bus as it actually passes me. - - -No. XVII.--A FRIENDLY HINT - -The father of this venturesome lad, who was on the point of breaking out -of bounds, came on the scene just in time to warn him in a sentence of -nine words, five of which were “Never throw a leg, lad.” - -[Illustration] - -Can you supply the other four words, which are spelt with _exactly the -same letters?_ - - -No. XVIII.--CATASTROPHE - -In this picture we see that a cat has sprung upon the table to interview -the parrot. - -[Illustration] - -The title “Catastrophe” recast by anagram, tells the parrot’s happy -thought at this critical moment, and the appropriate sentence, - - “New parrot-stand in a house,” - -tells, also by anagram, how he put this into instant operation. - - -12. A HISTORICAL CHARADE - - My first, if foolishly or rashly taken, - May mar the future prospects of your life. - My second, by her fickle lord forsaken - (Sad type of many a gentle, patient wife), - May toil and moil to feed his many babies, - While he goes flirting off with other ladies. - The thrifty monarch of a former age - My whole a place in Britain’s history fills. - Immortalised in Shakespeare’s magic pages - As one who’d fain reform his tailor’s bills! - - -No. XIX.--A PRECOCIOUS BOY - -This is the picture of the first prize boy at a baby show. The judge, -noticing the position of one chubby fist, said to the proud mother, -“Your lad Tommy likes such tit-bits.” - -[Illustration] - -To his amazement the baby, removing the comforting hand, replied in -eight words composed of _exactly the same letters_, “So to-day, sir, . -.... .. ...... .....” Can you complete the sentence? - - -No. XX.--AGAINST THE COLLAR - -The lady who is sitting at the back of this overloaded waggonette cries -out, in her sympathy with the struggling horse, “This big load quite -hinders his pull.” - -[Illustration] - -Her husband, full of holiday spirits and energy, answers her in a -sentence of mingled reproof and determination, which forms a perfect -anagram of the words of his wife, and describes his feelings and action. -Can you recast the letters? - - -No. XXI.--IN A BILLIARD-ROOM - -At the moment when a burly and keen player was in this strange and -striking attitude, - -[Illustration] - -a bystander whispered to the marker, “Eh! what a stout player is -striking!” - -Can you, using exactly the same letters, put into the mouth of the -marker a reply appropriate to the position? - - -13. A SAUCY MAIDEN - - My _second_, worn with pompous pride, - My _first_ had dangling at his side, - On chain securely hooked. - My _first_ he came from o’er the sea, - A bundle of conceit looked he, - And he was all he looked. - - She led him to the village green, - Where in desponding mood was seen - My _whole_, with drooping head. - “Behold,” she said, “a perfect, true, - And striking likeness, sir, of you!” - And, laughing, gaily fled. - - -No. XXII.--EVOLVING A PAINTER - -There are two English words which are appropriate to this picture-- - -[Illustration] - -One of them has as its anagram the very apposite sentence, “Or not a man -first;” the other treated in similar fashion becomes, “O I love nuts!” -What are the two words? - - -14. DOUBLETS - -Who can turn WHEAT into BREAD with six links, changing one letter each -time, and preserving the general order of the letters throughout? - - -No. XXIII.--THE PICK OF THE PACK - -How can we decide by anagram whether this is a fancy portrait of -“William or dear Jack?” - -[Illustration] - -Shake up and recast the words in inverted commas. - - -15. AN OLD ENIGMA - -Can our readers solve this enigma, which was published in 1811, and to -which no answer seems to be known? - - I’m one among a numerous host, - And very useful in my post; - There’s not a house in all the land - Without me properly can stand. - Though men disputed long ago - Whether I did exist or no, - Once more some thousands have been slain - Because they could not me attain. - - -No. XXIV.--A PICTURE PUZZLE - -Take this picture in connection with the lines below it, and find out -what it represents. - -[Illustration] - - Begin with the end of my first, - then you will find out the rest; - For it all will appeal to your thirst, - Or point to a ponderous guest. - - -No. XXV.--AN ANXIOUS POSE - -His wife, who chanced to see Jiggers at the trying moment here depicted, -said that he seemed to be in a “sad pet.” - -[Illustration] - -How was this literally true? - - -No. XXVI.--TOSS NEITHER HEAD NOR TAIL - -Never was a cow so troublesome at milking-time. - -[Illustration] - -Our picture was taken at the moment when Farmer Hayseed was exclaiming, -as he held on behind, “See, we hold this cow’s horns and tail!” - -The same letters, recast by anagram, form this sentence spoken by his -foreman-- - -“She cannot toss, ... .... .... .. ..” - -Can you fill in the five missing words? - - -16. ANAGRAM PROVERBS - - These grave lips chatter no ill. - - or - - Elephants, all to richest giver! - -Can you recast the letters of these sentences so that either of them -forms the same homely proverb, to which the first anagram is most akin? - - -No. XXVII.--ACTION AND PASSION - -This very resolute horse and his anxious driver take quite different -views of the situation shown in this picture. - -[Illustration] - -We can fancy that the fast trotter, if he could be endowed with speech, -would say, “I’m a train’d stepper!” - -Can you take these same letters, and recast them into a sentence which -would seem to express the driver’s point of view? - - -17. A SHORT CHARADE - - My first of rudeness has a sound; - The rest is in a city found; - My whole to win its way is bound. - - -No. XXVIII.--A FEAT WITHOUT ARMS - -In this picture a clever artist who has no arms is seen calmly painting -with his feet. - -[Illustration] - -One onlooker says to another, “Why, now I see this fine artist has no -hand!” The other replies in a sentence which contains exactly the same -letters: - -“He draws in any fashion .... ... ... ... .” - -Can you fill in the four missing words? - - -No. XXIX.--NOT TAKING ANY - -“This is a wine bottle, dear, on a lure,” said a crafty fisher of men to -his better half, who was helping him, as he showed her this illustration -of their aims. - -[Illustration: 1834 PORT] - -She knew, however, that the fish he sought to catch was not to be -tempted in this way, and she replied in words spelt with exactly the -same letters, “And see, he will not .... .. ... ....!” - -Can you fill in the four missing words? - - -No. XXX.--MUSIC HATH CHARMS - -This sturdy musical enthusiast, as he settled himself upon his chair, -said, “What shall I play?” and some one replied, “Any strains of -Beethoven, he charms all!” - -[Illustration] - -This suggestion, however, was not acceptable, and he, as he struck up a -piece after his own heart, exclaimed, in a sentence composed of exactly -the same letters-- - -“Nay, for this ’cello ...... .... . ......!” - -Can you supply the missing words? - - -No. XXXI - -This picture represents a parsnip lying across a sturdy swede. - -[Illustration] - -Can you so readjust them that they seem to suggest a successful -dramatist of the day? We give this broad hint by anagram-- - - “Here is our parsnip on swede.” - - ANAGRAM - - _Wise and superior person he!_ - - -No. XXXII.--A GOOD LETTER PUZZLE - -Can you fill the places of these 21 asterisks with only three different -letters, arranging them so that they spell a common English word in -twelve different directions? - - ● ● ● ● ● - ● ● ● ● - ● ● ● - ● ● ● ● - ● ● ● ● ● - - -18. A BURIED POTENTATE - - My first is in cake, but not in bun; - My second in light, but not in sun; - My third is in night, but not in day; - My fourth is in game, but not in play; - My fifth is in head, but not in tail, - My sixth is in wind, but not in sail; - My seventh in wrong, but not in right, - My eighth is in battle, but not in fight; - My ninth is in sword, but not in knife, - My tenth is in lady, but not in wife; - My whole is a monarch at war with strife. - - -No. XXXIII.--ANAGRAM ARITHMETIC - -First form a short sentence with the ten letters that are above the line -in this diagram:-- - - S B - R E - Y D - O T - U O - ------- - O E E - ======= - -Next number the letters of the sentence consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, -7, 8, 9, 0, and then work out a sum in addition with these numbers -substituted for the letters with which they correspond. - - -No. XXXIV.--A BUNCH OF FLOWERS - - -Find within these borders twelve specimens of flowers and foliage:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ 7 ║ - ║ L│ L│ B│ H│ P│ E│ F║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 8 │ 9 │10 │11 │12 │13 │14 ║ - ║ L│ Y│ E│ L│ O│ R│ N║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║15 │16 │17 │18 │19 │20 │21 ║ - ║ I│ V│ B│ R│ I│ V│ K║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║22 │23 │24 │25 │26 │27 │28 ║ - ║ A│ L│ E│ T│ O│ N│ I║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║29 │30 │31 │32 │33 │34 │35 ║ - ║ C│ N│ A│ S│ U│ L│ P║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Move in any direction one square at a time, and so spell out their -names, using the same square only once in each case. - - -19. A CHARADE - - My first except when it is old - Is never seen or heard; - When it is heard the sound is tolled - Out of a Jewish beard. - My next was in Imperial Rome, - It was her power and might; - Then you had but to write _you wish_, - And straightway ’twas in sight. - - My whole was Frank - Of royal rank. - - -No. XXXV.--ON A BLACKBOARD - -To test the powers of his young pupils, Dr Puzzlewitz set the following -little problem on his blackboard:-- - - ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ - ┃ ┃ - ┃ A - B = 4 ┃ - ┃ ┃ - ┃ A ÷ B = 4 ┃ - ┃ ┃ - ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ - -What are the values of A and of B, when 4 is the result of dividing A by -B, or of subtracting B from A? - - -20. RECAST - - How great in olden days my power! - Oft have I saved a castle tower - From war’s invading tide. - Transpose me, and how great my fall! - I am then the smallest of the small, - That nothing can divide. - - -21. WORD-BUILDING - - This compact Enigma take, - All apart its letters shake. - Let your 6, 3, 5 be high, - Like 5, 1, 2 do or die. - Who 4, 6, 5, 1 enjoys - More than 5, 6, 2 by boys? - While 5, 3, 2, 1 are mine, - May 4, 6, 3, 2 be thine. - 4, 1, 5 is rich and rare, - 6, 5, 1, 2 ends my prayer. - -The figures indicate the position of the letters, which spell new words, -in the original six-letter word. - - -No. XXXVI.--SQUARING A DIAMOND - -Can you fill in the empty cells with letters, so that they form English -words which read alike from top to bottom and from left to right? - - ┌───┐ - │ s │ - ┌───┼───┼───┐ - │ │ │ │ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ │ │ │ │ │ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ s │ │ │ u │ │ │ s │ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ │ │ │ │ │ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ │ │ │ - └───┼───┼───┘ - │ s │ - └───┘ - - -22. AN ENIGMA - - “Charles the First walked and talked, - Half an hour after his head was cut off.” - _Old Couplet_. - - Cut off my head, I’m every inch a King, - A warrior formed to deal a heavy blow. - Halve what remains, my second is a thing - Which nothing but my third can e’er make go. - My third will vary as you take your line. - This less than human, that way all divine! - - -No. XXXVII. - -Taking the letters as arranged on this diagram for a starting point, can -you place in some of the unoccupied cells five more of A, five of E, -five of I, and five of O, making eight in all of each letter, so that in -no case shall the same vowel be in the same row, column, or diagonal? - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | A | I | E | O | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | O | | | A | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | I | | | E | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | E | O | A | I | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Each vowel is to be regarded without any reference to the other vowels, -and, of course, only one may be placed in a cell. - - -No. XXXVIII.--AN ANAGRAM SQUARE - -Mix together the letters which form the eight words on this draught -board-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║###│ V │###│ O │###│ T │###│ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ W │###│ O │###│ V │###│ E │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ P │###│ R │###│ O │###│ W ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ C │###│ A │###│ L │###│ L │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ S │###│ T │###│ E │###│ W ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ N │###│ E │###│ W │###│ S │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ C │###│ O │###│ R │###│ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ N │###│ A │###│ P │###│ E │###║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -and recast them so that they form eight fresh words, which when placed -in proper order on the white squares, are a word square in which each -word reads alike from left to right, or from top to bottom. The first of -the fresh words is CROW. - - -No. XXXIX.--ARITHMETIC BY ANAGRAM - -Form a short sentence with the letters above the line in this diagram:-- - - D U - E H - E D - A P - S T - ───── - D E A - ═════ - -Number the letters consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and then -work a sum in addition, substituting these numbers for the letter with -which they correspond. - - -23. A LOGOGRAPH - - Touch me not, I’m firm and sure; - Behead, I’m used by rich and poor; - In house and cottage, hut and hall, - I stand of service to them all. - Behead again, in time of need - I tell that strength and skill succeed. - - -No. XL.--ANAGRAMS SQUARED - -Shake up the sixteen letters of these four words, and recast them into -four other words:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║###│ S │###│ E │###│ E │###│ K ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S │###│ L │###│ A │###│ B │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ L │###│ E │###│ E │###│ K ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ M │###│ O │###│ A │###│ N │###║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -These fresh words, placed on the white squares, must read alike from -side to side, and zigzag from top to bottom. The first word is MASK. - - -24. A SINGLE ACROSTIC - - What river is that, where it is found, - Which Pope says does with eels abound? - What Scottish lake, by high hills bounded, - Is with bright birch and oak surrounded? - What stream is said in Devon to run - Into the sea near Otterton? - What bay on Cuba’s distant coast - Is justly deemed its pride and boast? - The initials of these names will show - A Scotch reformer, who, we know, - Flourished three hundred years ago. - - -No. XLI.--A WORD SQUARE BY ANAGRAM - -Take the letters which form the words in these sixteen cells-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ A │ F │ A │ R ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T │ A │ S │ K ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S │ E │ A │ T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ L │ E │ A │ L ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -and recast them so that they form a perfect word square. - - -25. A CHARADE - - My whole may be a mother, not a dad, - So former may, or latter; - But twist my tail, and I become as mad - As any hatter! - - Behead me, and behold I am a man, - Who never was called mister; - Cut off my tail, and instantly I can - Become a sister! - - -No. XLII.--QUITE A NOVELTY - -There are five English words in this square:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ c │ h │ e │ s │ s ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ g │ r │ e │ e │ d ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ c │ a │ n │ e │ s ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ r │ e │ a │ r │ s ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ c │ h │ e │ e │ r ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Can you shake up their letters, and recast them into five other words -which form a perfect word square, and read alike from top to bottom and -from left to right? The first fresh word is CRESS. - - -No. XLIII.--HIDDEN PROVERBS - -Five familiar proverbs are hidden in this square of 169 letters, - - R E N O W N E D T H A N W - S Y O U R C A K E A N D A - S T E T O B E F E A R H R - E A R K S S P O I L E A F - L E O O H E R S N T D V O - O T M O T L I N O H T E U - N O S C A L A G M E H I R - S N I Y G O R S O B A T S - E N G N E N O T S R N P A - I A O A M O O T S O A E W - R C D E V I L A H T D A S - O U O Y N O I L D A E C A - T C I V R E H H T A H E Z - -The proverbs are arranged in a regular sequence. - - -26. RINGING SWEET CHANGES - -We are familiar with the anagram that so charmingly points to the -ministrations on the battle-field of Florence Nightingale--_Flit on, -cheering angel_--but it is not so well known that her name can also be -recast with an appropriate wish for her continuance in our loving -memory. Can you frame this? - - -No. XLIV.--A CLEVER CRYPTOGRAM - -A French sentence of 100 letters in twenty-two words is concealed in -these 100 cells. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ D │ L │ A │ N │ N │ E │ S │ M │ P │ A ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ L │ I │ R │ D │ L │ E │ E │ M │ L │ H ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I │ L │ U │ E │ E │ A │ I │ N │ T │ J ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ C │ U │ R │ S │ E │ M │ N │ T │ U │ P ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ E │ U │ É │ S │ N │ P │ R │ E │ O │ S ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O │ L │ I │ É │ D │ X │ S │ M │ A │ N ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ U │ D │ E │ A │ E │ É │ I │ X │ N │ T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T │ E │ T │ P │ E │ D │ N │ U │ Q │ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ B │ U │ U │ U │ F │ L │ I │ J │ I │ N ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ Z │ U │ E │ J │ I │ O │ E │ U │ N │ R ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -It can be deciphered by means of a cardboard mask of similar size, with -circular holes cut out in some of its cells. This is placed squarely -over the diagram, turned round in four successive positions. And thus -the sequence of letters is found, and falls into words. - - -No. XLV.--SAM LOYD’S PONY PUZZLE - -The instant popularity of this clever puzzle was amazing, and its sale -is said to have run into millions years ago in America. - -[Illustration: The Pony Puzzle] - -Cut the pony into six pieces, as is indicated in the picture, and -rearrange these so that they show a trotting horse. - - -27. A REBUS - - I am - a man - I rate you - a beast - You know me. - -Can you put this into shape? - - -No. XLVI.--A CLEVER PUZZLE - -Here is another of Sam Loyd’s famous trick pictures:-- - -[Illustration] - -Can you rearrange the parts to show jockeys and horses in racing trim? - - -28. A CHARADE - -(_With Latin parts._) - - My first, thou knowest, was in ancient Rome, - Rome’s fate my next, and one that all may dread. - Long may it be before that fate shall come, - And sever with my whole thy life’s last thread! - - -No. XLVII.--A NICE BALANCE - -This boy is sure that if he takes his time, and watches his opportunity, -he will be able to reach and secure with his mouth the sugar on the -chair. Will he? - -[Illustration] - - -29. BURIED POETS - -The names of eight famous British poets are buried in these lines--that -is to say, the letters that spell the names form in their proper order -parts of different words:-- - - The sun is darting rays of gold - Upon the moor, enchanting spot, - Whose purpled heights, by Ronald loved, - Up open to his shepherd cot. - - And sundry denizens of air - Are flying--aye, each to his nest; - And eager make at such an hour - All haste to reach the mansions blest. - -Can you dig them up? - - -No. XLVIII.--LEAF-FROG - -Here are six little hoptoads, as our cousins across the water call them, -three white and three black, going in opposite directions. A frog may -jump, one, two, or three steps, but no two may be together at any time. - -[Illustration] - -In how few jumps can the black frogs be seated to the left of their -white brothers? It is obvious that one of the white frogs must jump -first to the stool marked 1. - - -30. AN ENIGMA - - This multiplies me, I declare, - Though it reduces one; - A sty is foul if it is there, - By it a deed is done. - - -31. MISSING WORDS - - Lennie ...... the words he read, - Studying ...... fable; - Lennie’s mother ...... the bread, - Sophy ...... the table. - “Work while you are ......,” they said - “...... while you are able!” - - -No. XLIX.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -A very curious old print, of which this might well be the title, was -picked up on a bookstall. This picture shows clever designs for two of -the digits: - -[Illustration: - -1 - - _Se Pierot or Lun, - A Figure of One._ - -2 - - _Again he’s to view, - A Figure of Two._] - - -32. A CHARADE - - When I write with my first in my second, - My whole is quite sure to be in. - Divided afresh, there is reckoned - A wit, or a something that’s thin. - Prefix a letter, and, as dear as paint, - You see the name of an old English Saint. - - -No. L.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -Here is the second pair of this queer company:-- - -[Illustration: - -3 - - _Now ’tis plain you may see, - He’s a Figure of Three._ - -4 - - _Behold him once more, - A Figure of Four._] - - -33. ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER - - My first, though half a noisy bird, - To a slight noise may turn; - My second twist, a stately word, - And it will bend we learn. - - -34. AN ENIGMA - - To half of ten add one, - Then half a score. - When this is duly done - Almost ten more. - This can be good for none, - But trial sore. - - -No. LI.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -Here is the third pair of these quaint characters:-- - -[Illustration: - -5 - - _Now here we contrive - To make him a Five_ - -6 - - _He’s a Six here complete, - With his hands to his feet_.] - - -35. A BURIED PROVERB - -A proverb of eight words is buried here:-- - -I fancy this Tory outcry, this weary outrageous attempt to show -illegality, is as a cat chasing snow-flakes. I must be forgiven if I -shun his example. - - -36. MISSING WORDS - - Quick ....... in action, now timid, now bold, - Like ....... of ropes far too rotten to hold, - ....... a ....... ....... and disasters - For a State that ....... not incapable masters. - -The six missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -No. LII.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -Here is another pair of these quaint figures:-- - -[Illustration: - -7 - - _With some alteration, - A Seven’s his station._ - -8 - - _Here not being strait, - He forms a good eight._] - - -37. A CHARADE - - My first as an heir, - My second a snare, - My whole is the offspring of fancy, - Which I sent on its way - Last Valentine’s Day, - As a token of love to my Nancy. - - -38. A LOVER’S VOW - - My love shall never know my first, - Shall never be my second; - It shall my all, come best, come worst, - Be surely reckoned. - - -No. LIII.--DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS - -Here is the final pair:-- - -[Illustration: - -9 - - _While drinking his Wine, - He appears like a nine._ - -0 - - _Nine Forms having past - He’s a Cypher at last._] - - -39. AN ENIGMA - - I am a letter, and a word, - I am a tree, I am a name, - Cut me in pieces with a sword, - You and your act would be the same. - Thrice you must leave the aspirate in doubt, - And use it twice if you would find me out. - - -40. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -If you “resist disasters,” how may this affect one of your home circle? - - -No. LIV.--A FREAK OF FIGURES - - 1 × 8 + 1 = 9 - 12 × 8 + 2 = 98 - 123 × 8 + 3 = 987 - 1234 × 8 + 4 = 9876 - 12345 × 8 + 5 = 98765 - 123456 × 8 + 6 = 987654 - 1234567 × 8 + 7 = 9876543 - 12345678 × 8 + 8 = 98765432 - 123456789 × 8 + 9 = 987654321 - - -41. A CHARADE - - My first the rainbow shows - When in rich hues it glows. - My next has vowels three; - My third was once a tree. - My fourth begins the year, - My whole the past makes clear. - - -42. ASK A SCHOOLBOY - -If you tell a schoolboy that the longest side of a triangular field -measures 100 rods, and that each of the other sides measures 50 rods, -and ask him to estimate the value of its grass at £1 per acre, how -should he answer? - - -43. A WHOLE LESS THAN ITS PART - - Less than my last, my whole has place - Between my first and second: - Second has body, arms and face; - First is by inches reckoned. - - -No. LV.--SPINNING WHEELS - -What is the smallest number of straight lines which can be drawn within -this square so as to enclose each of the wheels within separate -boundaries? - -[Illustration] - -While solving this, rotate the paper in your hand, and see the wheels -spin. - - -44. A HISTORICAL CHARADE - - My first at early morn the camp alarms, - And at its sound the soldier springs to arms; - My second nowadays fair ladies scorn, - Though in less dainty days it oft was worn. - My whole, a battle fought on Scottish ground, - With victory the rebel forces crowned. - - -No. LVI.--FOUR QUARTERS AMONG FIVE - -A market gardener who has a large square plot of ground wishes to -reserve a fourth of it in the shape of a triangle for himself, as is -shown in the diagram-- - -[Illustration] - -and to divide the remainder among his four sons, so that each shares -equally, with plots of similar shape. How did he mark it out for them? - -This appears in a less perfect form in “The Twentieth Century Standard -Puzzle Book.” - - -No. LVII.--USE YOUR PENCIL - -Here is a simple little puzzle which may amuse anyone who has paper and -pencil at hand:-- - -[Illustration] - -Can you combine three figures similar to Fig. A with two similar to Fig. -B, so that a perfect Latin cross is formed? - -It is, of course, an easier matter to cut out five such pieces in paper -or cardboard, and arrange them in the form required. - - -45. MISSING WORDS - - I love strolling ....... that wander around, - Each ....... a ....... in versatile skill; - Each ....... so quaint, each idea so profound, - My barn’s at their service, whenever they will. - A company played there last night, but to-day - Ducks ......., and poultry have vanished away! - -The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -No. LVIII.--SUBTLE SELFISHNESS - -Four poor men were living in the cottages shown in this diagram, round a -central lake well stocked with fish. Four rich men built their houses -further afield, and selfishly determined to exclude their neighbours -from access to the water. - -[Illustration] - -How could they do this effectually without cutting themselves off from -the lake? - - -46. AN ARITHMOREM - - 150 hat robe or tent - -Can you form from this the name of a famous British author, treating the -150 as Roman numerals? - - -No. LIX.--FOR THE CHILDREN - -Cut out in cardboard four pieces of the shape and size of each of the -large patterns, and two pieces of the small one:-- - -[Illustration] - -Now arrange these ten pieces so that they form a perfect square. - - -47. SHEDDING LETTERS - - I’m a worker most active, most useful, most known, - Of all that are busy in country and town. - Take from me one letter, and yet my good name - In spite of this loss will continue the same. - Take from me two letters, and still you will see - That precisely the same in effect I shall be. - Take from me three letters, or even take more, - Yet still I continue as sound as before. - - -No. LX. - -The dotted lines in this diagram show how the figure can be divided into -nine parts by four straight cuts - -[Illustration] - -which can be reunited to form a perfect cross. - - -48. A SHARP BOY - -Tom Larkins, proud of his prize for arithmetic, challenged his sisters -to show on a blackboard that if 50 is subtracted from the sum of the -nine digits, the result is equal to the number obtained by dividing -their sum by 3. How did he prove his point? - - -No. LXI.--AN EASY ONE - -Take in paper or cardboard a figure made up of a square and half of a -similar square, thus:-- - -[Illustration] - -How can you, in the simplest way, divide it into four equal and similar -parts by four straight cuts? - - -49. GEESE TO MARKET - - B drove a goodly flock of geese, - And met with Farmer A; - Said Farmer A, “How much apiece - For this lot did you pay?” - Said B, “I paid for all I drive - Just six pounds and a crown, - And I am selling all but five - At the next market town. - If fifteen pence a head I charge - Beyond the price I paid. - I shall secure a sum as large - As he who sold all made.” - - -No. LXII - -Can you draw twenty-two straight lines within this circle so that they -divide it into four similar parts, each having three of the dots within -its borders? - -[Illustration] - -Each line must be at right angles to another. - - -50. A QUAINT CHARADE - - When second held first - For best or for worst, - I thought myself happy to win her. - But what could I say - When the very next day - She gave me the whole for my dinner? - - -No. LXIII - -[Illustration: _Cut up this triangle into 5 parts_,] - -[Illustration: _which can be reassembled to form this triangle_.] - - -No. LXIV.--ARITHMETICAL TRIANGLE - -The peculiar series of numbers, as arranged in this triangular form, is -said to have been perfected by Pascal. - - ┌───┐ - │ 1│ - ├───┼───┐ - │ 2│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┐ - │ 3│ 3│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 4│ 6│ 4│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 5│ 10│ 10│ 5│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 6│ 15│ 20│ 15│ 6│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 7│ 21│ 35│ 35│ 21│ 7│ 1│ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ 8│ 28│ 56│ 70│ 56│ 28│ 8│ 1│ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - -It has the property of showing, without calculation, how many selections -or combinations can be made at a time out of a larger number. Thus to -find how many selections of 3 at a time can be made out of 8 we look for -the third number on the horizontal row that commences with 8, and find -the answer 56. - -The series is formed thus: Set down the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., as far as -you please, in a vertical row. To the right of 2 place 1, add them -together, and set 3 under the 1. Then add 3 to 3, and set the result -below, and so on, always placing the sum of two numbers that are side by -side below the one on the right. - - -No. LXV.--MULTIPLICATION NO VEXATION - -This diagram shows an ancient and curious method of multiplication, -which will be novel to most of our readers. - - ^ - ╱│╲ - 2╱ │ ╲5 - ╱ │ ╲ - ╱ 1 │ 0 ╲ - ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ - 4╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲3 - ╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲ - ╱ 2 │ 0 ╳ 0 │ 6 ╲ - ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ - 3╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲4 - ╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲ - │ 1 │ 5 ╳ 1 │ 2 ╳ 0 │ 8 │ - ╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱ - ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ - ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ - ╲ 0 │ 9 ╳ 1 │ 6 ╱ - ╲ │ ╱│╲ │ ╱ - ╲ │ ╱ │ ╲ │ ╱ - ╲│╱ │ ╲│╱ - ╲ 1 │ 2 ╱ - ╲ │ ╱ - ╲ │ ╱ - ╲│╱ - v - ───────────────────────── - 1 8 2 6 2 8 - ───────────────────────── - -In this instance 534 is multiplied by 342. Draw a square of nine cells -with diagonals, fill the three top cells, as is shown, by multiplying -the 5 by the 3, the 4 and the 2. Then multiply in similar way the 3 and -the 4 by these same figures. Turn the square round so that the diagonals -are upright, and add. Of course, placing the numbers thus is the same -practically as carrying them by our ordinary rule. - - -No. LXVI - -In this diagram 27 counters are arranged in 9 rows, with 6 in each row. - - * - ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ - * * - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ * ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ - *───────*───────*───────*───────*───────* - ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╱ - * ╱ ╲ * - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ * * ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - *───────*───────*───────────────*───────*───────* - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - *───────*───────────────*───────*───────────────*───────* - ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ - * - -Can you rearrange them so that with similar conditions they all fall -within the borders of one equilateral triangle? - - -51. A BURIED ADAGE - - The bees’ blithe vernal love-songs softly hum, - Blending so sweetly with the restful air; - The noiseless, deep-laced twilight shadows come, - And well I ken the lass who meets me there. - -Can you discover a very familiar saying that is buried in these lines? - - -No. LXVII.--AN EIGHT-CARD PUZZLE - -Place eight cards of two different colours alternately in one row, then -with four moves bring all of one colour together. - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ A │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │ │ 8 │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♠ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♡ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - -Two cards (without altering their relative position) are to be moved at -a time, and placed somewhere in the same line, one of them at least -touching another card. - - -52. MUTILATIONS - - A little beast without its head - Becomes a mighty beast instead; - But then the subject of my riddle - Is cut asunder in the middle; - And nothing this division gains, - Though unknown quantity remains. - - -53. MISSING WORDS - - Mary sat with ..... in hand - Writing ..... dramatic. - Did she ..... the plots she planned? - Negative emphatic! - ..... to us the ..... may be - But at ..... they’re new to she! - -The missing words are spelt with the same five letters. - - -No. LXVIII.--THOUGHT READING - -Cut out this diagram, and paste it on a card. Hand it to anyone, and ask -him to fix upon whichever number he pleases, and merely to tell you in -which columns this appears. - - ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐║ - ║│ I. ││ II. ││ III. ││ IV. │║ - ║│ ││ ││ ││ │║ - ║│ 1 33 65 97││ 2 34 66 98││ 4 36 68 100││ 8 40 72 104│║ - ║│ 3 35 67 99││ 3 35 67 99││ 5 37 69 101││ 9 41 73 105│║ - ║│ 5 37 69 101││ 6 38 70 102││ 6 38 70 102││ 10 42 74 106│║ - ║│ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 11 43 75 107│║ - ║│ 9 41 73 105││ 10 42 74 106││ 12 44 76 108││ 12 44 76 108│║ - ║│ 11 43 75 107││ 11 43 75 107││ 13 45 77 109││ 13 45 77 109│║ - ║│ 13 45 77 109││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110│║ - ║│ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111│║ - ║│ 17 49 81 113││ 18 50 82 114││ 20 52 84 116││ 24 56 88 120│║ - ║│ 19 51 83 115││ 19 51 83 115││ 21 53 85 117││ 25 57 89 121│║ - ║│ 21 53 85 117││ 22 54 86 118││ 22 54 86 118││ 26 58 90 122│║ - ║│ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 27 59 91 123│║ - ║│ 25 57 89 121││ 26 58 90 122││ 28 60 92 124││ 28 60 92 124│║ - ║│ 27 59 91 123││ 27 59 91 123││ 29 61 93 125││ 29 61 93 125│║ - ║│ 29 61 93 125││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126│║ - ║│ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127│║ - ║└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘║ - ║ ┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐ ║ - ║ │ V. ││ VI. ││ VII. │ ║ - ║ │ ││ ││ │ ║ - ║ │ 16 48 80 112││ 32 48 96 112││ 64 80 96 112│ ║ - ║ │ 17 49 81 113││ 33 49 97 113││ 65 81 97 113│ ║ - ║ │ 18 50 82 114││ 34 50 98 114││ 66 82 98 114│ ║ - ║ │ 19 51 83 115││ 35 51 99 115││ 67 83 99 115│ ║ - ║ │ 20 52 84 116││ 36 52 100 116││ 68 84 100 116│ ║ - ║ │ 21 53 85 117││ 37 53 101 117││ 69 85 101 117│ ║ - ║ │ 22 54 86 118││ 38 54 102 118││ 70 86 102 118│ ║ - ║ │ 23 55 87 119││ 39 55 103 119││ 71 87 103 119│ ║ - ║ │ 24 56 88 120││ 40 56 104 120││ 72 88 104 120│ ║ - ║ │ 25 57 89 121││ 41 57 105 121││ 73 89 105 121│ ║ - ║ │ 26 58 90 122││ 42 58 106 122││ 74 90 106 122│ ║ - ║ │ 27 59 91 123││ 43 59 107 123││ 75 91 107 123│ ║ - ║ │ 28 60 92 124││ 44 60 108 124││ 76 92 108 124│ ║ - ║ │ 29 61 93 125││ 45 61 109 125││ 77 93 109 125│ ║ - ║ │ 30 62 94 126││ 46 62 110 126││ 78 94 110 126│ ║ - ║ │ 31 63 95 127││ 47 63 111 127││ 79 95 111 127│ ║ - ║ └───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘ ║ - ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -You can then in a moment, and at a glance, pick out the number that is -chosen. - - -No. LXIX.--FROM PILLAR TO POST - -Let us suppose that these black dots represent a succession of pillar -boxes. It will be seen that a postman, starting from the circle, and -going along the dotted lines, turns round 18 corners. - - ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ●┅┅┅● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ○ ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ●┅┅┅● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅● - -Can he take a course which involves fewer turnings? - - -No. LXX.--TRANSFORMATIONS - -Here is an ingenious paper and scissors puzzle:-- - -[Illustration: 1.] - -[Illustration: 2.] - -[Illustration: 3.] - -Divide a square card into three pieces, so that these can be reunited to -form No. 2 or No. 3 of this diagram. - - -54. COUNTING THE GEESE - -(_From an old Sanscrit source, quoted by Longfellow in his “Kavanagh.”_) - -Ten times the square root of a flock of geese, seeing the clouds -collect, flew to the Manus lake. One-eighth of the whole flew from the -edge of the water among a tangle of water lilies, and three couples were -seen playing in the water. Tell me, my young girl with beautiful locks, -what was the whole number of geese? - - -55. A THIRD IS A HALF - - Six hundred and sixty so ordered may be - That if you divide the whole number by three - You find the result will exactly express - The half of six hundred and sixty, no less. - - -No. LXXI.--A PUZZLE WITH CHESS PIECES - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │#♚#│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃#♖#│ │###│ │###│ │#♘#│#♖#┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - -Leaving the Black King in his position, place the three white men so -that he stands checkmated. - - -56. PRESS PARODIES - -An American paper published the following:-- - - There was a young damsel, oh, bless her! - It cost very little to dress her; - She was sweet as a rose - In her everyday clothes, - But had no young man to caress her. - -Next day this parody appeared in a rival paper:-- - - There was a young ......, oh, bless her! - It cost very little to dress her; - Some ........... and ..... - About Thanksgiving time, - And they ... the last bit from the ....... . - -Can you fill in the missing words? - - -No. LXXII.--HEXAGONAL ILLUSIONS - -If we look with one eye only, or with eyes half-closed, at these groups -of circular dots, they assume the appearance familiar to us in -honeycomb. This is an effect of the contrast and opposition of the black -and white in the sensation of the retina. - -[Illustration] - -Although the black and the white circles are of the same diameter the -irradiation is in their case so intense that the white circles appear to -be larger than the black. - - -No. LXXIII.--AN ILLUSION OF ARCHES - -This excellent illusion appeared in a recent number of the “Strand -Magazine”:-- - -[Illustration] - -Most persons will at first see the passages under these arches as -running upwards from left to right, but presently, as their line of -vision shifts, the arches will take a downward course from right to -left. This very curious effect will well repay a little patience, if it -is not realised at once. - - -57. WHERE WAS THE WEDDING? - - She loses her head when she joins the brides, - He joins them after tea; - But both are swept by ruthless tides - Away on the western sea. - - -58. ON A BANANA BARROW - -I have 91 bananas on my barrow, of two qualities; some I sell at four a -penny, and the better sort at three a penny. If I had sold them in mixed -lots at seven for twopence, I should have made a penny more. How many -were there of each quality? - - -No. LXXIV.--IN THE TRAIN - -The Puzzle Problem-- - - A passenger in a first-class railway carriage notices that the top of - a factory window due S.W. of him coincides with a mark on the carriage - window, and does not move from it while the train is running five and - a half miles. - - [Illustration] - - At the end of that distance the compass bearing of the chimney is due - N.W. How far was the passenger from the chimney when he first noticed - it? - -is solved by 3¹⁄₂ miles. - -We give a diagram to make the points clear. - -As the chimney top does not move from its place on the window, it is -clear that the train is running on a segment of a circle having the -chimney for its centre. It follows that the observer’s distance -throughout is equal to the radius of that circle, and the radius of a -circle of which the quadrant measures 5¹⁄₂ miles is 3¹⁄₂ miles within -about 11 ft. - - -No. LXXV.--MENDING THE FLAG - -The cross had been taken out from the centre of this flag, and its -owner, who had an ingenious turn of mind, found that by cutting what -remained into two pieces, and rejoining them, he could make it into a -perfect flag without any waste of material. - -[Illustration] - -How did he accomplish this? - - -No. LXXVI.--FOR THE CHILDREN - -Add two more pieces similar in shape and size to that marked A, and one -similar to B, C, and D respectively, and then readjust the eleven parts -so that they form a perfect square. - -[Illustration] - - -59. MISSING WORDS - - How does the sluggard’s garden grow? - When ..... are high results are low. - His borders ..... and bindweed spoil, - No careful culture ..... the soil; - But weeds that ..... are all alive - Where ..... pink or rose should thrive. - -The missing words are spelt with the same letters. - - -No. LXXVII.--AN EASY MATCH PUZZLE - -This is a simple arrangement of eight matches, by which two squares and -four similar triangles are formed. - -[Illustration] - - -60. WHAT AM I? - - Correctly drawn results I yield. - Varied, but welcome everywhere; - But met with in the open field - I’m banned if frequent, blest if rare. - To this peculiar difference the clue - Is called with much significance the cue. - - -61. BURIED TOWNS - - Wait while I think the matter over, - On holiday intent; - The best I’ve seen is surely Dover, - That pretty port of Kent. - -Three towns are buried in these lines. - - -No. LXXVIII.--WALKING THE ROUNDS - -A hospital was built in six detached blocks, and it was the duty of the -night watchman to go completely round every block at fixed hours to see -that all was safe. - -[Illustration] - -What was his shortest course? - - -62. THE ARAB AND HIS ASS - - An Arab came to the river side - With a donkey bearing an obelisk, - But he did not venture to ford the tide, - For he had too good an *. - - So he camped all night by that river side, - Secure till the tide had ceased to swell, - For he knew that whenever the donkey died - No other could be its ‖. - - -No. LXXIX - -Can you rearrange the twelve counters on this board of 36 squares so -that there are two counters on each row, column, and diagonal? - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ ◎ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -There must not be more than these two counters in the same straight -line. - - -63. A CHARADE - - What ho, my jolly _second!_ never say my _first_ - While my final you can find in Amsterdam. - Think how a sound _whole_ stays your hunger and your thirst, - Deftly readjusting bread and meat and jam. - - -No. LXXX.--THE QUEEN’S TOUR - -This is a course by which the queen on a chessboard, starting from K R -sq., passes over every square in fourteen moves. - -[Illustration] - - -64. AFTER THE MATCH - -“Did you score a score?” said Funniman to his schoolboy nephew, after a -local cricket match. “No, uncle,” said the youngster, “but if I had made -as many more runs, half as many more, and two runs and a half, I should -have made my twenty.” How many runs did he get? - - -No. LXXXI.--A NEST OF TRIANGLES - -In the “Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book” we gave a figure similar -to this, in which there were 653 interlacing triangles in four tiers of -this character. - -[Illustration] - -We now add a fifth tier at the base, and ask our solvers to determine -how many triangles of all shapes and sizes can be counted within its -enlarged borders. - - -65. AN ENIGMA - - Six letters spell the happy state - Of two in love made one. - The same six letters tell the fate - Of marriage ties undone. - - -No. LXXXII.--A SIMPLE MATCH PUZZLE - -Place eight matches in a row, about an inch apart, as indicated in the -diagram. - - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - -The puzzle is to form these into four pairs in four moves, by moving one -match clear over two matches every time. - - -66. A TOPICAL RIDDLE - - My First’s a bond, my Seconds weigh; - These own the Rest of all my lay; - Busy my Third; Fourth like the Pole, - Whose opposite my Fifth makes goal. - - -67. MISSING WORDS - - For two months at the .... we played, - Ere we were .... to Lord’s; - Alas! the score our champion made - Was what a .... affords! - The crowd in .... of thousands came - But took scant notice of the game. - - -No. LXXXIII.--A MATCH PUZZLE - -Place twelve matches, as is shown in the diagram, so that they form four -squares. - - ══════ ══════ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ═══════ ══════ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ══════ ══════ - -Now remove three of the matches, and readjust the nine that remain so -that they represent three squares. - - -68. MARCONIGRAMS - -Edwin and Angelina were far apart, when this message, with its touch of -jealous resentment, reached her on the wings of a Marconigram-- - - “No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind!” - -Quite equal to the occasion, she flashed back the reply-- - - “In love inconstant I no pleasure find!” - -How did these messages reveal the places from which they were -despatched? - - -No. LXXXIV.--MATHEMATICS WITH MATCHES - -In the four corner and four central cells of this nest of squares four -matches are so placed as to represent ¹⁄₂, 1, 4, ¹⁄₅₀, 11, 12, 41, and -49. - - │ ╲ ╱ │ - │ ╳ │ = 1 - │ ╱ ╲ │ - - - │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ = 4 - │ │ │ │ - - - │ │ - │ │ - │ │ - ─── = 11 - │ - │ - │ - - ╲ ╱ │ │ - ╳ │ │ = 12 - ╱ ╲ │ │ - - ╱│ │ - ─+─ │ = 41 - │ │ - - │ │ - │ ─── │ = 49 - │___ │ - -Can you, still using only four matches in each case, fit different whole -numbers or fractions in similar fashion into the other 28 cells? - - -69. EASY MENTAL ARITHMETIC - - Set down three figures in a line, - Then multiply by four; - This, if you use the proper sign, - Makes five and nothing more. - - -No. LXXXV.--MANY READINGS - -Can you complete the top and bottom rows, the two side columns, and the -two diagonals of this square by forming in each of them the same -sentence so that it can be read in twenty different directions? - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ R | I | | | | | V | | | | | I | R ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | I | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ V | | | | | | V | | | | | | V ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ | | | | | | | | | | | | ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | | | | | | V | | | | | I | R ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -There are four words in the sentence of thirteen letters. - - -No. LXXXVI.--TOLD AT A GLANCE - -Ask anyone to fix upon a number between 1 and 60 inclusive, and to point -out to you the square or squares in which it appears:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 3│ 5│ 7│ 9│ 11│ 1║ ║ 9│ 10│ 11│ 12│ 13│ 8║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 13│ 15│ 17│ 19│ 21│ 23║ ║ 14│ 15│ 24│ 25│ 26│ 27║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 25│ 27│ 29│ 31│ 33│ 35║ ║ 28│ 29│ 30│ 31│ 40│ 41║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 37│ 39│ 41│ 43│ 45│ 47║ ║ 42│ 43│ 44│ 45│ 46│ 47║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 49│ 51│ 53│ 55│ 57│ 59║ ║ 56│ 57│ 58│ 59│ 60│ 13║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 17│ 18│ 19│ 20│ 21│ 16║ ║ 5│ 6│ 7│ 13│ 12│ 4║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 22│ 23│ 24│ 25│ 26│ 27║ ║ 14│ 15│ 20│ 21│ 22│ 23║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 28│ 29│ 30│ 31│ 48│ 49║ ║ 28│ 29│ 30│ 31│ 36│ 37║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 50│ 51│ 52│ 53│ 54│ 55║ ║ 52│ 38│ 39│ 44│ 45│ 46║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 56│ 57│ 58│ 59│ 30│ 60║ ║ 47│ 53│ 54│ 55│ 60│ 13║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 3│ 6│ 7│ 10│ 11│ 2║ ║ 33│ 34│ 35│ 36│ 37│ 32║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 14│ 15│ 18│ 19│ 22│ 23║ ║ 38│ 39│ 40│ 41│ 42│ 43║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 26│ 27│ 30│ 31│ 34│ 35║ ║ 44│ 45│ 46│ 47│ 48│ 49║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 38│ 39│ 42│ 43│ 46│ 47║ ║ 50│ 51│ 52│ 53│ 54│ 55║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 50│ 51│ 54│ 55│ 58│ 59║ ║ 56│ 57│ 58│ 59│ 60│ 41║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -You can find the number at a glance, by simply adding together the -numbers in _the right-hand top corner cells_ of the square indicated. -Thus, if 45 has been chosen, 32 + 8 + 4 + 1 = 45. - - -No. LXXXVII. - -Here is a little subtraction sum, which is not quite so simple as it -appears to be:-- - - ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║miles furlongs rods yards feet inches║ - ║ 1 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 ║ - ║ 7 „ 39 „ 5 „ 1 „ 5 ║ - ║ ─────────────────────────────────────────── ║ - ║ ║ - ║ ═══════════════════════════════════════════ ║ - ║ ║ - ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -Try it as it stands, without reducing the distance to inches. - - -70. A DOUBLET BY MISSING WORDS - -Can you, by supplying the missing words, turn a grilse into a salmon? -One letter is changed each time, and, except in one case, the order of -the letters varies:-- - - To silver Tweed, or broader Spey, - The _grilse_ of ......, ...... gay, - Glides on; the ...... ...... draws - When _salmon_ follows Nature’s laws. - - -71. AN ENIGMA - - I never move, and yet I run - From place to place all day; - Some loving swain, hot foot for fun, - Sees Dora in my way. - - -No. LXXXVIII.--RANGING THE DIGITS - -These are the arrangements of the nine digits, by which they add up -alike in rows, columns, and diagonals in a square; on all sides in a -triangle; and from top to bottom and from side to side in a cross:-- - - ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║ ┌───┬───┬───┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ║ - ║ │ 8 │ 1 │ 6 │ │ 5 │ │ 5 │ ║ - ║ ├───┼───┼───┤ │ 3 7 │ │ 4 │ ║ - ║ │ 3 │ 5 │ 7 │ │ 4 6 │ │ 3 6 9 7 2 │ ║ - ║ ├───┼───┼───┤ │ 8 1 9 2 │ │ 8 │ ║ - ║ │ 4 │ 9 │ 2 │ │ │ │ 1 │ ║ - ║ └───┴───┴───┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ ║ - ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -The totals are 15, 20, and 27 respectively. - - -72. WHAT IS THIS WORD? - - HAATTCEUMSSSS - - -73. MULTUM IN PARVO - - Seven words in one of letters five we fix, - Five English, and one Latin; - No need to twist them, or afresh to mix, - If puzzles you are pat in. - - -74. THE GENTLE CRAFT - -The question was asked in a puzzle competition--“Why is every angler -ipso facto an Ananias?” Although no such method was asked for or -expected, we find that the very letters of the question can be recast -into a most apposite reply. Our answer by anagram runs thus-- - -A liar, .. ..... gay fancies to a ..... .... - -Can you complete the sentence by filling in the missing words? - - -No. LXXXIX.--NO TWO IN A ROW - -On a board of sixty-seven squares, arranged as is shown in the diagram, -place nine counters, so that no two are in the same row, column, or -diagonal. - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ |###| |###| |###| |###| ┃ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - ┃ |###| |###| |###| ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - ┃###| |###| |###┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ |###| |###| |###| ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###| |###┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - -The indentations do not affect the simple conditions. - - -75. A QUAINT RIDDLE - - Peter White - Will never go right; - Shall I tell you the reason why? - Wherever he goes, - He follows his nose; - And that stands all awry! - If this appendage had slanted more - Why would it serve a hole to bore? - - -No. XC.--EXACT ALIGNMENT - -Can you arrange these nine cards so that they form ten rows with three -cards in each row? - - ┌───┐ - │ A │ - │ │ - │ ♣ │ - └───┘ - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ A │ │ 1 │ │ A │ - │ │ │ 0 │ │ │ - │ ♢ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♠ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ Q │ │ K │ │ K │ │ J │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♠ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♢ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - ┌───┐ - │ K │ - │ │ - │ ♡ │ - └───┘ - -This may, of course, be done with any nine cards. - - -76. A MISSING LETTER - - Thieaonunhinemileuchtormapa - Aitutoaeucceorlo; - Pringweetnetillpoeemoygra, - Aummertreemaofthadeacro. - -Separate these strings of letters into words that scan and rhyme, adding -the same missing letter in 55 places. - - -No. XCI.--AT A FANCY BALL - -Two ladies and their squires, here represented by the White Knights and -the Black, were dressed to impersonate Light, Liberty, Love, and -Learning, and took their places on the corners of a pavement chequered -to represent a chessboard, as is shown below:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ ♘ │###│ │###│ │###│ │#♞#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║#♞#│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ♘ ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -They undertook to step a figure which should exhibit at each pause a -revolving square, and in three paces bring them together in the centre, -by a course traced upon the lines of their combined monograms. What were -their successive steps? - - -No. XCII.--PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY IN CELLS - -Can you disentangle all this good advice? - - ╔════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╗ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ he ║ - ║ tell │you know│ tells │ knows │ tells │ should ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ not ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ you │ │ thinks │ │ is ║ - ║ do │ think │ does │ of │ does │ not ║ - ║ │ of │ │ │ │ good ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ believe│you hear│believes│ hears │believes│is false║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ spend │you have│ spends │ has │ spends │he needs║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ is ║ - ║ judge │ you see│ judges │ sees │ judges │ not ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ there ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ never │ all │ he who │ all he │ often │ what ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╚════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╝ - -It forms 5 excellent maxims in its 36 cells. - - -77. THRICE DOCKED - - Protected, open, plain, - Without my tail I’m flat; - I’m round curtailed again; - Again, you have me pat. - - -No. XCIII.--A DISLOCATED CIRCLE - -Study this quaint figure carefully, and try to discover how it can be -divided into two pieces, so that these can be reunited to form a perfect -circle. - -[Illustration] - - -78. A LOGOGRIPH - - When all are gay this holds the sway, - But take a letter out, - That change of fare is ruling there, - You see, without a doubt. - Behead me twice; it is not nice - To have this in your skin; - Lop head and tail, and find a nail - Or tack to drive it in. - Behind his right, and in your sight - A little word you find; - But you will never make it out, - Though it is in your mind. - - -No. XCIV. - -When Tommy was offered all the money by his uncle if he could place 15 -half-crowns and 15 pennies in such order in a circle that, counting -always by nines, and starting at a fixed point, he came always upon a -penny, and removed it from the circle, he found the key to success in -this Latin line, given to him by a school friend, who shared the -spoil--“Populeam virgam mater regina ferebat.” The vowels, from a to u, -are numbered from 1 to 5, and when they are thus marked in the -sentence-- - - “Populeam virgam mater regina ferebat,” - 4 5 21 3 1 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 1 - -they show the necessary sequence of half-crowns and pennies. - -[Illustration] - -Start counting with the half-crown marked _a_, and remove each penny as -you come to it on counting up to nine, and the conditions are fulfilled. - - -No. XCV.--A BUSINESS ANAGRAM - -This smart advertisement of a polish known as “Old Dutch Cleanser” -appeared in an American paper:-- - -[Illustration: - - Cleans - Scrubs - Scours - Polishes - -Old Dutch Cleanser] - -If the eyes of the proprietor should fall upon this column, he will be -surprised to find that his catch words _Cleans_, _Scrubs_, _Scours_, -_Polishes_, can be recast into a perfect anagram, singularly appropriate -to the powder advertised. - -The opening words of the anagram are “O rub on, sir.”--Can our solvers -complete the sentence? - - -No. XCVI.--A NEW CHESS PUZZLE - -By Henry E. Dudeney. - -Replace all these 51 pieces on the chessboard, so that no Queen attacks -another Queen, no Rook another Rook, no Bishop another Bishop, and no -Knight another Knight. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ Q │#Q#│ Q │#Q#│ Q │#Q#│ Q │#Q#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │#B#│ │###│ │###│ B │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ B │#B#│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ R │#R#│ R │#R#│ R │#R#│ R │#R#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │###│ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N │#N#│ N ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -No account is to be taken of the intervening pieces, but each type of -piece is to be considered as if it stood alone upon the board. - - -No. XCVII.--A GOOD KNIGHT’S TOUR - -Here is a beautifully symmetrical specimen of the Knight’s tour:-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. XCVIII.--A KNIGHT’S TOUR - -Here is another beautifully symmetrical Knight’s tour:-- - -[Illustration] - -It starts from the corner square, and the second half of the course has -dotted lines. - - -79. MISSING WORDS - - He ...... himself much on his skill, - In many a burglary tried; - But when he ...... open the till - There was only a ...... inside. - -The missing words are spelt with the same six letters. - - -No. XCIX.--A KNIGHT’S TOUR - -Here is quite a curious pattern described by another Knight’s tour:-- - -[Illustration] - - -80. AN ENIGMA - - Three-fourths of me an act display, - Three-fourths a bed for man; - Three-fourths have legs that cannot stray, - Three-fourths have legs that can. - I have a back without a spine; - An arm without a bone is mine. - - -81. A CHARADE - - My first is the French for my second, - My whole a narcotic is reckoned. - - -No. C.--A GOOD PATTERN - -Here is a very symmetrical Knight’s tour, in which half of the moves are -indicated by dotted, and half by unbroken lines:-- - -[Illustration] - - -82. PALINDROME WORDS - -The letters of this sentence “Arrive to vote at it,” can be so recast as -to form two palindrome words, or words that read alike from either end. -What are they? - - -No. CI.--A KNIGHT’S TOUR - -Here is another specimen of the Knight’s tour, which is beautifully -symmetrical-- - -[Illustration] - -Half of the course is marked with dotted lines. - - -83. AN ENIGMA - - Sweet till I lose my head, - Sweet-hearted then I show; - Decapitate again, I spread, - And cannot be below. - Served so once more, I am not dead, - But with fresh beauty glow. - - -No. CII.--A KNIGHT’S POETIC TOUR - -On the board below a verse of eight lines runs on the course of a -Knight’s move from square to square:-- - - ╔══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╗ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ sor │ to │ king │ good │ say │ luck │ loy │ eth ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ and │ moth │ a │ soon │ dis │ our │ to │ bad ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ place│ ry │church│ his │ force│ is │ hat │ al ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ er │ queen│ him │ wight│ he │ to │ may │ truth║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ man │ his │ and │ and │ chess│ es │knight│ op’s ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ a │ sneer│ the │ and │ un │ lawn │ of │ tates║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ cas │ that │ at │ less │ pawn │ no │ bish │ lant ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ eth │ faith│ tles │ hath │ the │ gal │ in │ love ║ - ╚══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╝ - -Can you disentangle the little poem? - - -84. TOMMY’S MONEY BOX - -“Dad,” said little Tommy, “give me as much as I have in my purse, and I -will put a shilling in my money-box.” This was done, and the process was -repeated for three more days. How much had Tommy originally in his -purse, which was now quite empty? - - -No. CIII.--THE MANX RABBITS - -This is the way to draw three rabbits so that they have but three ears -among them all:-- - -[Illustration] - - -85. AN ENIGMA - - Two articles of English make, - And three from foreign source. - All these together you must take - Where dramas run their course. - - -No. CIV.--SCORING A CENTURY - -On this table is shown in ten different ways how exactly 100 can be -arrived at by the use of the nine digits, each appearing only once. - - ╔══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╗ - ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ 7 │ 8 │ 9 ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 1 │ 1 │ 4 │ 95³⁄₇│ 56 │ 98 │ 6 │ 15 │ 15 ║ - ║ 3 │ 45 │ 53 │4¹⁶⁄₂₈│ 34 │ 1 │ 2 │ 2 │ 36 ║ - ║ 5 │ 7 │ 6 │ │ 7 │ ³⁄₆ │ -- │ 79 │ 47 ║ - ║ 8 │ 9 │ 8 │ │ 1 │ ²⁷⁄₅₄│ 8 │ ⁸⁄₄ │ -- ║ - ║ 9 │ -- │ -- │ │ -- │ │ 9 │ ⁶⁄₃ │ 98 ║ - ║ -- │ 62 │ 71 │ │ 98 │ │ 1 │ │ 2 ║ - ║ 26 │ 38 │ 29 │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ ║ - ║ 74 │ │ │ │ │ │ 4 │ │ ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ 75 │ │ ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 │ 100 ║ - ╠══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╣ - ║9 × 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 100. ║ - ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - - -86. IF WE COULD CHOOSE - -“If it were possible, I should choose,” said young Hopeful, “a life -double as long.” - -“Yes,” said old Sobersides, “and you might turn it to better account if -it was also begun old.” - -How did their actual words bear this out? - - -No. CV.--SEEING THROUGH A VEIL - -On a piece of clear tracing paper draw with pen and ink a close network -of lines, such as is shown in this diagram, near enough together to -conceal type of ordinary size. - -[Illustration] - -Place this on the page of a book, and challenge any one to read a -sentence, or even a word, through it, saying that you can do so easily. -How can you succeed? - - -87. A CHARADE - - Lop head and tail, and you will find - I have both tail and head. - Or if for spirits you’ve a mind - Set my tail first instead. - - Life, as “a vapour full of woes,” - With many a darker page, - My whole in picture will disclose, - For “all the world’s a stage!” - - -No. CVI.--THE PAPER RINGS - -In the diagram a strip of paper is shown (1), with its ends simply -gummed together; (2), with a single twist; and (3), with a double twist. -Can you decide, without actual experiment, what will be the result in -each case if these are cut completely round, as is indicated by the -dotted lines? - -[Illustration] - - -88. MISSING WORDS - - A glowing ........ window, graced - With ........ that true art has traced. - - -89. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -How do the actual letters of these words in their union prove that -anæsthetics are “blessed in pain?” - - -No. CVII.--THE MAGIC BUTTONS - -Make two parallel cuts with a penknife along the centre of a slip of -leather or other material, and below them a hole of the same width. Pass -a piece of string under the slit, and through the hole, and tie two -buttons, each much larger than the hole, to the ends of the string. - -[Illustration] - -How can the string be released without removing either of the buttons? - - -No. CVIII.--THE CAPTIVE SCISSORS - -Fasten a pair of scissors securely with a piece of string to some -convenient article, as is shown in this diagram:-- - -[Illustration] - -Can you release them without cutting or unfastening the string? - - -90. A BURIED QUOTATION - -“What sin was it, sonny?” said an American negress to her lover, when -she sat on his best hat, which was flattened. Wearily he heard her -musical laugh, and arose to go. His hobby was botany, but not hers, for -she was then a merry girl. “Bother the flowers! I would prefer this -mellow pine-apple, Leonidas,” she said; “I guess we Ethiopians just love -fruit!” - - -No. CIX.--A PRIMITIVE TRAP - -This diagram represents in the simplest outline a primitive wolf-trap. - -[Illustration] - -The dotted line is a gate opening into a circular enclosure. How was the -trap set and the wolf caught? - - -91. LADIES AT A SALE - - They .... the dress with grip so keen - That half the .... gives way; - And home return with purses lean - To .... of “bargain-day!” - -What are the missing words? - - -No. CX.--A SPINNING NEEDLE - -To balance a needle on the head of a pin, push the pin into the cork of -a wine bottle, and the needle into a separate cork. - -[Illustration] - -With the aid of three forks, as is shown in the picture, the needle may -be balanced and spun round on the head of the pin. - - -92. MISSING WORDS - -Air--“_Three fishers went sailing_.” - - Three ...... went sailing out into the west, - Out into the west as the sun sank low; - Each thought as they ...... of the lad she loved best, - For they all had ......, and each had a beau. - But seas will rise, and spirits will sink, - And they all were too ill of ...... to think, - So these ...... ...... back moaning. - -Each missing word has the same six letters. - - -No. CXI.--AFTER DINNER - -This diagram shows how, as an after-dinner trick, four similar -wineglasses can be placed on the table - -[Illustration] - -so that the centres of the lowest parts of their stems are equidistant -from each other. - - -93. A CHARADE - - Lurking in riddles oft my first is found; - My second should in ample stores abound, - Or help to make the sweetest songster heard. - Peculiar, and quite proper, is my third. - My whole has found with England’s monarch grace, - The verdant home of many a goodly race. - - -No. CXII.--SECOND SIGHT - -Ask any one, with this diagram to work upon, to think of any number -between 5 and 15, and, while your back is turned, to count up to it, -beginning at the lowest step, and saying one, two, three, four, and so -on, as each step of cards or single card is reached in the direction -indicated by the arrow. When the number thought of has been thus arrived -at, tell him to stop, and beginning afresh on that card, to count one, -two, three, etc., _backwards_, this time _skipping over the double six_ -and the 3 steps until he again reaches the number thought of, and -notices which card he has touched last. - -[Illustration] - -How can you, without having seen any of his movements, at once find that -card? - - -No. CXIII.--AN AFTER DINNER TRICK - -Cut a wedge out of an apple, as is indicated in the diagram, and make -six gashes as is shown. - -[Illustration] - -When this has been done, challenge anyone to divide the apple into six -pieces by only two straight cuts, so that there shall be one of the -gashes in each piece. - - -94. ALIKE TO THE EYE - - Accent my head, - An opening I appear - In other fashions said - I charm all far and near. - - -No. CXIV.--A TOY BOOMERANG - -Cut out in cardboard a boomerang as nearly as possible of the size and -pattern given here:-- - -[Illustration: BOOMERANG] - -Place it flat on the back of the first three fingers of the left hand, -sloping them upward; then flick it smartly with the second finger of the -right hand. It will fly off and return to your lap. Try it. - - -95. LONDON BY ANAGRAM - -Here are two simple sentences:-- - - A lamp shines out for thee. - Win me best by tears. - -Can you recast the letters, so that they form the names of two of the -most important buildings in London? - - -96. HEARD ON THE BRIGHTON BEACH - -It was low tide; two children were throwing pebbles into the sea, and -sending their excited collie in pursuit of them. The Puzzle Editor, who -was on holiday, quickened perhaps by the salt air, bethought him of this -appropriate riddle:--What is the difference between that dog and a -hungry man? - - -No. CXV.--IN THE GRIP OF A RADISH - -Cut a radish in half, press the lower surface firmly against a plate, as -is shown in the diagram:-- - -[Illustration] - -and you can lift the plate, to which it clings as closely as a boy’s wet -leather disc to the pavement. - - -97. FIND THE ANIMAL - - A part of me in rain, - A part in hail must be, - A part belongs to pain, - A part in bones we see, - A part in gleaming gold, - A part in common copper. - A part in peace behold, - A part in any topper; - Two parts are heard in sound, - And in our finals found. - - -No. CXVI.--ELASTIC PAPER - -The countryman who cut one hole in his door for the cat and another for -the kitten would find it difficult to pass a penny through a hole the -size of a shilling cut in a stout piece of paper. - -This diagram shows how easily it can be done:-- - -[Illustration] - -Fold the paper across the centre of the hole, place the penny in the -fold, and bend the lower corners of the paper upwards. This elongates -the opening, and the coin falls through. - - -98. A SMART ENIGMA - - Men commonly say I am clever, - Book-learning I never could boast; - Yet I turn the leaves inside the cover, - And when I am found I am lost. - - -99. MISSING WORDS - - .... is like a ..... or what is most - Comparative, a ..... is like a . ...; - For when their substances in liquor sink - Both properly are said to be in drink. - -One of the letters of the two short words is used twice in the longer -word. - - -No. CXVII.--THE NIMBLE SIXPENCE - -Place a sixpence on the tablecloth, and over it set a tumbler, as is -shown in the picture below. - -[Illustration] - -How can you pocket the sixpence without removing the glass, or having it -removed? - - -100. A PIED PROVERB - - ~abdeefiinnnoopprrrsssttuw~ - - -101. SELF-DEFINED - - A wordy warfare waged with wit, - In youth its joys none need descry; - But where our elders take to it - Its name points loss of dignity. - - -No. CXVIII.--HOW TO DRAW A SPIRAL - -How can you draw such a spiral as this with very simple appliances? - -[Illustration] - -This spiral is drawn rapidly without removing the pencil from the paper. - - -102. FIND THE HERO - - My first’s in garb, but not in dress; - My next’s in praise, but not in bliss; - My third’s in man, but not in miss; - My fourth’s in we. - - My fifth’s in boar, but not in hog; - My sixth’s in cat, but not in dog; - My next’s in calm, but not in fog; - My eighth’s in we. - - My ninth’s in rope, but not in twine; - My tenth’s in light, but not in shine; - My next’s in four, but not in nine; - My twelfth’s in we. - - -No. CXIX.--FOR HANDY FINGERS - -Take a piece of stout paper or thin cardboard, about 10 in. by 8 in., -and cut it as is shown below, removing the parts that are shaded in the -diagram. - -[Illustration] - -If you hold this between a plain wall, or other surface, and a strong -light, you will, with a little practice, be able to cast a shadow -similar to one or other of these Madonna heads, which will vary in -intensity and expression with the positions of the paper and the light. - - -No. CXX.--THE FOUR KINGS - -This excellent and easy little card trick will commend itself for -fireside use in the long evenings. - -Take the four Kings from a pack, and two other cards. Hold the Kings -thus, in the form of a fan-- - -[Illustration] - -hiding the two other cards behind the King of Diamonds. - -After showing them, place the six cards at the bottom of the pack. Now -move the lowest card to the top, and the two next cards to any part of -the pack, apparently leaving but one King at the bottom. Ask some one to -cut the pack, and all the Kings will be found together. Some appropriate -patter will help the effect. - - -103. PROVERB BY ANAGRAM - -Can you recast this sentence-- - - A defeat whose test is very sure-- - -so that the same letters form an appropriate proverb? - - -No. CXXI.--DOMINO SQUARE - -Its cells add up in columns and rows to 22, and those of the corner -squares add up to 10 and 12 respectively. - - ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ - │ 6 │ 2 2 │ 0 6 │ 5 1 │ - ├ ┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ 1 │ 5 │ 4 │ │ 3 │ 3 │ 6 │ - ├───┼ ┼ ┤ ├ ┼ ┼ ┤ - │ 3 │ 3 │ 4 │ │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ - ├ ┼───┴───┘ └───┴───┼───┤ - │ 0 │ │ 0 │ - ├───┼───┬───┐ ┌───┬───┼ ┤ - │ 2 4 │ 6 │ │ 5 4 │ 1 │ - ├───┼───┼ ┤ ├───┼───┼───┤ - │ 4 │ 2 │ 6 │ │ 2 5 │ 3 │ - ├ ┼ ┼───┼───┼───┼───┼ ┤ - │ 6 │ 6 │ 0 0 │ 3 1 │ 6 │ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - - -104. PHONETIC MISSING WORDS - - ’Tis ..... that no one takes a ..... - To .... a .... of ....s; - A .... may often take a .... - To .... away the ....s. - - -No. CXXII.--THE TALKING HEAD - -This, though quite an old illusion, may be a mystery to some of our -readers, so we give it a place among our many curiosities. - -[Illustration] - -The table is placed on the middle of a platform, well away from the -background, and the head, which is very much alive, is prepared to -answer questions, or to whistle, or to sing, at the will of the -audience. “How it is done” will be explained. - - -105. A QUEER OBSTACLE - - I’m in everyone’s way, - Yet no one I stop. - My four horns each day - Horizontally play, - And my head is nailed on at the top. - - -No. CXXIII.--A GENERAL OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - -[Illustration] - -With a little ingenuity, and by slightly warming the wax, and shredding -the matches for some effects, all sorts of comical figures can be -contrived, similar in character to this dignified general on his -high-stepping charger. - - -106. AN OLD ENIGMA - -(By a former Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.) - - Take five from five, and then - Put fifty in the middle; - Twice ten times five times ten - Will finish off my riddle, - And bring it to your ken - As fit as any fiddle! - - -No. CXXIV.--ANOTHER BOOMERANG - -Cut out in cardboard a cross similar to that shown in this diagram:-- - -[Illustration] - -Place one of its limbs under the thumbnail of the left hand, and give -the next projecting limb a sharp flick with the middle finger of the -right hand. The little boomerang will fly sharply forward, and -invariably return rapidly on its tracks. Try it. - - -107. PHONETIC GAPS - -Can you fill these gaps with words of similar sound? - - No ..... will ..... before the wind - A ..... will ... before it; - We cannot .... the ...., or find - That earthly powers ..... o’er it. - -The gaps in line 1 take words that sound alike; so do those in line 2; -and so do the other three in lines 3 and 4. - - -No. CXXV.--A PICTURE CHARADE - -Can you fill in the missing words so as to complete this picture -charade? - -[Illustration] - - My first may .... candle ..., - My second then ..... ..; - My whole in ..... moves ..... - ....... an oar or ... - - -108. SOUND SENSE - - We seem to sound a note of lavish bounty; - Reverse us, and we indicate a county. - - -109. A CRYPTOGRAM - - ~FTHNMLKBRNGSLLCTTN~ - ~LLSKMTMXTTLLTSTHN!~ - -Can you so deal with this as to form a rhyming couplet? - - -No. CXXVI.--WALNUTS AND COBS - -_A good after dinner trick_ - -Place four walnuts and four cobnuts in a row, as indicated on the -diagram. - -[Illustration] - -Now, moving always two that stand together, transfer them to some other -positions along the line, and in four such moves leave them so that the -large and small nuts range alternately. It may, of course, be done with -large and small coins, or with other things that are at hand. - - -110. A BURIED PROVERB - - Yet I see them all! on golden wings that fly - Old memories steal anew; - With a tear, with a sigh, with an old, old cry - They return in ghostly hue! - - -111. DOUBLETS - -Here is another exercise in Doublets, from Lewis Carroll’s book on the -subject:-- - -Turn ELM into OAK by seven links, introducing the name of another tree -as one of them. - - -No. CXXVII.--A PICTURE RIDDLE - -Can you read in this picture the question of our riddle? - -[Illustration] - - -112. TWO POSERS - -1. - - My dear Mr Bird, - We are giving a ball; - First second we third, - Pray give us your all. - -2. - - Second, I did my first and last, - Till I became my whole; - And told the tale of my repast, - A sad and greedy soul. - - -No. CXXVIII.--BUY A BROOM - -Here is an excellent example of how a characteristic figure may be -contrived by shredding, warming, and uniting a few wax matches:-- - -[Illustration] - -Many similar figures can be made by handy fingers. - - -113. A CHARADE - - My whole, industrious, wends his way - His daily task to meet; - Behead, transpose, and lo! a sound - Of music soft and sweet; - Behead again, I make my way - With swiftness past belief; - Again, and where the fields are gay - My bounty brings relief. - - -No. CXXIX.--JEU DE PARQUET - -(_For the children_) - -An old book, published more than 100 years ago, gives the following -samples of patterns which may be formed with very simple materials:-- - -[Illustration] - -All that is needed for this pastime is a set of 128 coloured triangles, -64 of each colour, with which an endless variety of patterns can be -arranged by the exercise of taste and ingenuity. - - -114. LINES BY AN OLD OXBRIDGE DON - - ’Tis an absurdity to say - Women should try for a B.A. - To College honours forward looking; - They’d best confine themselves to cooking! - -How could a Girton girl retort, using the same words? - - -115. LESS AND MORE - - Eight letters (start with b) - Three syllables contain; - Take one away, and see - Four syllables remain! - - -116. BURIED BEASTS - -Can you dig out nineteen beasts that are buried in these lines?-- - -Ireland’s lot heals slowly. Troubles came long ago--at times in -battalions--to attack and harass her. Ambitious democrats now -countermine famous enthusiasts nearly akin to heroes. Anarchy enables -cowards to sow hot terror and all amazement. - - -117. PALINDROMIC VERSE - -Can you recast the following sentences so that their words form a verse -of four lines, which makes good sense, with lines that rhyme -alternately, when read from either end?:-- - -Fading slowly day dies, mournful winds sigh, Stars are waking brightly; -owlet holding high revel flies hooting, breaking nightly silence. - - -118. AN ANAGRAM IN THE MAKING - -“The Observatory at Greenwich, in England,” has been turned into an -excellent anagram, which starts--_On landing here begin_--Can you -complete it? - - -119. AN ENIGMA - - No man at all am I - And, if you turn me round, - To hear my warning cry - Not any men are found. - - -120. ASK A SAILOR - - How can our sailors fare the best - When times are harder? - How do they greet with merry jest - An empty larder? - - -121. AN ENIGMA - - I lose my head when I am here, - Transpose me I am three; - Look in a book, you find me there, - And with me her and he. - - -122. MISSING WORDS - - Jack did ....... that he could square - The circle to a .......; - His friends ....... that a brain so rare - Required attention ........ - -The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -123. A HUMAN PRODIGY - - My father is my son, - And I’m my mother’s mother; - My daughter and sister are one, - I’m grandam to my brother! - -How was this? - - -124. A CHARADE - - Catch my first with nimble wit, - Add a simple word; - Then my whole may help a bit - Opportunely heard. - - -125. A PARADOX - - My mate and I from home did start, - Some little space we were apart. - When we had run a mile or more - We kept our distance, as before; - Shade of Colenso! could this be, - When twice as fast as I ran he? - - -126. AN ENIGMA - -(_From Lewis Carroll’s Papers_.) - - A monument all men agree - Am I in all sincerity, - Half cat, half hindrance made. - If head and tail removed should be, - Then most of all you strengthen me. - Replace my head, the stand you see - On which my tail is laid. - - -127. A CHARADE - - I’m known to the poorest and worst, - And my worth by a child may be reckoned; - The least thing in nature is double my first, - And my whole is just half of my second. - - -128. WHAT IS IT? - - My first without its head and tail - Is one and undivided; - My second shows its teeth, is frail, - And as a rule one-sided. - The two to hold my first avail, - My busy toil provided. - - -129. BURIED TOWNS - -In each of these sentences a town is buried:-- - - His sister played the piano while we sang. - - I saw Nell out here last evening. - - The general rode a large black mare. - - I have ordered a cab at half-past one. - - Meet me in the lane at half-past nine. - -Can you dig them out? - - -130. A GOOD ANAGRAM - -“The leaning tower of Pisa, in Tuscany, Italy.” The first seven words of -its anagram are “A funny spot in a sweet city.” Can you complete the -anagram by adding four more appropriate words? - - -131. MISSING WORDS - - When they found that catacomb - Near the ....... at Rome - ’Twas the ....... discussion of the season; - But the ....... effect - Of the skeletons select - Deprived the poor Professor of his reason! - - -132. A CHARADE - - My first is pretence, - My second a dandy; - When fogs are most dense - My whole will be handy. - - -133. A DECISIVE ANAGRAM - -Can you prove by anagram that, whatever may be true of other plays -accredited to Shakespeare, Bacon had certainly no hand in “Much Ado -About Nothinge,” if we adopt the old spelling of the final word? - - -134. RATHER OBSCURE - - Use all your wits to guess my all, - Can any guess it right? - Transposed, and never seen at all, - It still is felt in sight. - Behead, transpose, then let it be, - And you at last a clue may see. - - -135. SHUFFLE THE LETTERS - -Can you recast “Insanitary” and “Sanitary Reform” so as to form two very -appropriate anagrams? - - -136. A CHARADE - - Let my second cut my first - When I come to table; - Though I cannot quench your thirst - Eat me--you are able. - - -137. MISSING LETTERS - - whtmrslndsosdlyswr? - whtdyssdrksdysthtwrslrm? - lssknyskthndfr, - llshllcllwrhrssndhrm. - whycllsblldstlkthtghstlyrt - llgllntctsgrndndmntyprt? - -Can you supply the missing letters? - - -138. A CHARADE - - To me when whole, for I am sweet, - The moon fresh brightness brings; - Cut off my tail, I’m blunt, but meet - To sharpen other things. - - Behead me twice, and I have led - Soldiers to face the foe; - Headless and tailless, one remains - Though all the rest may go. - - -139. IS IT BANTING? - - We start when the ninth hour is past, - Then there’s an end of you. - A vengeful goddess shows at last - What Antifat will do. - - -140. A CHARADE - - When on charades intent I take my pen, - To seek some hidden goal, - Over my first my second comes, and then - Quite overcomes my whole. - - -141. A PRIZE CRYPTOGRAM - -The following cryptic lines were sent as a reliable tip before a race in -which Petronel was to run:-- - - “Tell me, Ben, who tore it - Seek a plant for it, see Bob.” - -Can you discover their hidden meaning? - - -142. AN ENIGMA - - I have no form, I have no friend, - From me all come, in me all end. - And it is strange but very true - That I am here and nowhere too. - - -143. FACING BOTH WAYS - -Can you fill in this broken sentence, first to describe a curse, and -then to proclaim its cure:-- - - A sed end ought eat ease ain. - -using 16, and then 17, extra letters. - - -144. A CHARADE - - My first is a cover, - My second a city; - The whole you discover - With this if you’re witty. - - -145. BURIED RIVERS - -The deaf and dumb girl began gesticulating with a message, and her -delivery was ever neat, with graceful pose in every attitude. - -Four rivers are buried here. - - -146. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -If the “shingle” on the beach at Brighton could speak, what would be its -boast? - - -147. A SIMPLE RECIPE - - She is as deaf as any post, - Incurable I fear; - She is my guest, I am her host, - How can I make her hear? - - -148. THE PLAINT OF THE REJECTED - -_A May-Day Dirge_ - - Refused, rejected as before! - Yes,[A] ... .. I know of yore. - ..... of youth, and deadly foe - To genius. Eastward then I go - With ..... undaunted, and my name - Through ..... shall yet resound with fame; - And subjects shall be mine by scores - From far ..... to Ganges’ shores. - - [A] More than one word. - - -149. “BETA IN GREEK MEANS LETTER B.” - -The clever play-writer who suggested these words as a phonetic excuse -for wife-beating might in another fashion invite a man to beat his wife -by merely calling him. What would he say? - - -150. A REBUS - - storm? an umbrella with all - a th me who alls mud. - - -151. BONES OF A PALINDROME - - NRNRMMHDLVLDHMMRNRN. - -Can you, keeping these consonants in their order, fill in vowels so as -to form a sentence which is a perfect palindrome, and reads alike from -either end? - - -152. A NICE POINT - -“Can you tell me,” said an undergraduate to his tutor, who was great at -Ecclesiastical Law, “whether the Pope would be allowed to bury the -Archbishop of Canterbury?” As some slight stress was laid on the -syllables _Canterbury_, the tutor for a moment suspected some trick, but -being assured that it was quite a serious question, promised to consider -the point. What should he reply? - - -153. A BURIED PROVERB - -While there are very many as kind as this, they know no task unkind. Can -you dig a proverb out from this sentence? - - -154. IN THE OPEN - - Kate gathers me where children three, - Tom, Jane, and Mary, chatter; - He leads the way, and then we see - The other two come at her! - - -155. A BURIED QUOTATION - -(_From Shakespeare_) - -Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft -breezes, to-day a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, as -floods of fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast. - - -156. PALINDROME ON A BEETROOT - -Fill in the necessary vowels, and form thus with these consonants in -their present order a perfect palindrome:-- - - ~RDRTPTPTRDR~ - -It must read alike from either end. - - -157. A CHARADE - - My _first_ we all do when we fail; - My _next_ is heard in rain or hail; - My _fourth_ a sheep of gender male; - My _third_ is one without its tail; - My _whole_ for foreign countries sail. - - -158. AMBIGUOUS - -On the outer wall of a Western college this was written: “Young women -should set a good example, for young men .... ...... ....!” What three -words will give a most ambiguous sense to the inscription? - - -159. AN ENIGMA - - I’m but a little letter, still - I have my duties to fulfil; - If off you take - My tail, and make - An alteration in my lot, - Though I seem shorter I am not. - - -160. DIABOLUS! - - Says Tom to Bill, “Pray tell me, sir, - Why is it that the devil, - In spite of all his naughty ways, - Can never be uncivil?” - - Says Bill to Tom, “The answer’s plain - To any mind that’s bright; - Because the ... .’ ........, sir, - Cannot be ... .’ .....!” - -Can you supply the missing words? - - -161. MISSING WORDS - - Beneath the ..... which shade the lawn - Her bicycle she mounted, - And with a ....., ere she had gone - An hour, ten ..... she counted. - It rained, it snowed, but nought could stop her, - Till in the ..... she came a cropper! - - -162. AN INSCRIPTION WITH A POINT - -On the comparatively new organ at Ober Ammergau, on a brass plate above -the keyboard, is the following Latin inscription:-- - - QVI CHRISTI LAVDES CANTANT - SANCTÆ PASSIONIS SVÆ VIRTVTE - IN IPSO ET PATRE VNVM SINT - -which may be freely rendered--“May those who sing the praises of Christ -be, by virtue of His Sacred Passion, one in the Father and in Him.” - -These lines contain a hidden point, beyond their obvious interpretation. -Can you discover it? - - -163. BY ANAGRAM - - A woman’s name - Of foreign fame, - Hers was a noble mind. - Now, sir, transpose, - And I suppose - No smaller thing you’ll find. - - -164. A FRENCH CHARADE - - Pour avoir mon _premier_ - Femme qui cache mon _dernier_ - Manque souvent mon _entier_. - - -165. A CHARADE - - Let go! let go! you naughty first, - Or you will make my second; - A stream of words will then outburst, - Swift as my whole is reckoned. - - -166. OUT OF DATE - - My first is first when cruisers charge in line, - And oft in frosty skies is seen to shine. - - Don’t spare my second if you would suggest - To an impulsive child the way that’s best. - - My sporting whole, though now neglected grown, - Travelled by tube before the tube was known. - - -167. AN ENIGMA - - First of men we lead a measure, - Last we end the same. - Starting merrily, our pleasure - Is to finish lame. - - -168. TESTED BY DICTATION - -Tom, home for the holidays, and in teasing mood, declared that he could -give his sister quite a simple sentence of seven common words of one -syllable, which she could not produce with her new typewriter. What was -his sentence? - - -169. ASCRIBED TO VOLTAIRE - -This French charade, ascribed by some to Lady Waterford, and by others -to Voltaire, has neat points:-- - - Mon premier est un tyran, mon second un horreur, - Mon tout est le diable lui-même. - Mais si mon premier est bon, mon second ne fait rien, - Et mon tout est le bonheur suprême. - - -170. AT THE GUILDHALL - -Sydney Smith, when questioned as to the value and satisfaction of a City -feast, said: “I cannot wholly value a dinner by the .... ... ..” Can you -supply the finish of his witty reply? - - -171. - - In youth exalted high in air, - Or bathing in the streamlet fair, - Nature to form me took delight - And clothed my body all in white; - My person tall and slender waist - On either side with fringes graced; - Till me that tyrant Man espied, - And dragg’d me from my mother’s side. - No wonder that I look so thin, - The monster stripp’d me to the skin; - My body flay’d, my hair he cropp’d, - And head and foot both off he lopp’d; - And then, with heart more hard than stone, - Pick’d all the marrow from my bone. - To vex me more, he took a freak - To slit my tongue, and make me speak. - But that which wonderful appears, - I speak to eyes and not to ears. - All languages I now command - Yet not a word I understand. - - -172. A YOUNG SHAVER - -Happy in the possession of a KEEN KUT, the newest form of safety razor, -and meeting a friend whose chin bore painful traces of a less trusty -blade, an undergraduate who had a turn for puzzles propounded this -riddle: “What is the difference between my razor and yours?” Can you -answer it? - - -173. DECAPITATIONS - - The ship rode in an ....... bay, - Asleep ...... the master lay. - A ..... and rugged man was he - And, like a .... at home at sea. - Like swooping ... he caught his prey - Whene’er an .. came his way. - But while due . the needle kept - He in his cabin lay and slept. - -The missing word in the first line has seven letters; its first letter -is cut off to form the second missing word, and this process is repeated -throughout the seven lines. - - -174. A CHARADE - - When the tempest roars the loudest - Oft my first a shelter proves. - Say what fair one, though the proudest, - Spurns my next from one she loves? - When the storms of life are past - Earth provides my whole at last. - - -175. SHUFFLE THE LETTERS - - One syllable, I help to turn the scale - Of party strife or faction; - Recast me, and two syllables avail - To stop all further action. - - -176. FILL IN THE VOWELS - -Lines to an owl:-- - - ~HNLDTWRSTHGLMWL~ - ~THLVSTTHTTHLVSTTHWL~ - ~RNLDKSRHLLWTN~ - ~SLSTSSLMNSNDSLN~ - ~SMRNFLNNLVSTG~ - ~RFRHTNGHWLSTKNW~ - -As a hint, the last line is:-- - - Or of your hooting howls to know. - - -177. ARMY ANAGRAMS - -Here is an excellent little exercise for patient or quick-witted -solvers:-- - - I’m free to-day, the _old sire_ said, - _O no cell_ now have I to dread; - For this one happy day to me - _Are glen_ and hill and forest free. - I, if I will, can ride, or fish, - _A pit can_ enter, if I wish, - In search of chalk or sand. - In peace alone I now can dine, - And sing to Anna’s _lute at nine_, - Nor fear a reprimand. - -Each word or group of words in italics forms, when the letters are -shuffled and recast as an anagram, a military title. Can you decipher -them? - - -178. A CHARADE - - My first transposed becomes a name - Which may quite mean be reckoned, - Two syllables combine the same, - With one or two for second. - - My whole when fields are fresh and green, - And softly blows the wind, - Where the first signs of spring are seen - Within the woods we find. - - -179. AN ANAGRAM ENIGMA - - Silent long is the wood-bird’s song, - Bare is the woodland bough; - For waving trees in wintry breeze - Have “no buds now.” - -Can you recast the three words at the end, so that their letters form a -word descriptive of the scene? - - -180. A QUESTION OF TIME - - A farmer with children sixteen - Killed the fattest young lamb of his flock. - To divide it these children between, - What must be the time by the clock? - - -181. A DONKEY DRIVE - - To the far end of any train - Hitch on a pair of neddies; - Then you will hear, like steps of Cain, - The threat that in their tread is. - - -182. EATING BY ALPHABET - - Take all the alphabet and cast - Its final letter out; - Then set the first where was the last, - And this you bring about: - Without a cook, without a fire, - A dainty dish which men desire. - - -183. A CHARADE - - My second with my first we greet; - My whole in earlier days - Gave understanding to the feet - That moved in tragic plays. - - -184. PROVERB ANAGRAM - -Here is another proverb in anagram:-- - - Behest on thy lips, Society! - -Can you recast it, and so recover the proverb, with which it is quite in -keeping? - - -185. WHAT’S IN A NAME? - -An epidemic of anagrams broke out in a public school, and eight of the -prefects, having turned their Christian names into other words, -fashioned from them this sentence, which contains them all in order. - -“I, thy Tom, am sober and lie or live in dew, but her brain sinned.” - -Can you decipher them? - - -186. AN ENIGMA - - In any coward’s company you find - That I have place. - Cut off my head, and from your mind - All wrong erase. - - -187. A DOUBLE ACROSTIC - -(From _Punch_, 1875) - - My first elect among the few, - Chooses my second to expose his view. - - 1. Of various colours, changed at will, - I sit or stand for good or ill. - - 2. I rule alone from noon till night, - And when I am not am is right. - - -188. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Why should a man in a rage go to a “shooting gallery?” Each word has its -complete anagram. - - -189. QUITE A BEATITUDE - - Let her be or beat her, - Give her little ease; - Then in safety seat her - All among the bees! - - -190. CLEARING IT UP - - “We,” cried my first and second, - “Are not quite satisfied.” - “The story may be reckoned - Imperfect,” fourth replied. - Said third, “The fact indeed I tell,” - And so at last all ended well. - - -191. PROVERB IN ANAGRAM - - “I dare not admit faint women.” - -Can you recast these words so that their letters form a well-known -proverb? - - -192. A CHARADE - - My first and second are as best they should be, - My third in Latin mouth is what it would be. - My whole would soon be ashes if it could be. - - -193. MISSING WORDS - - Since Spooks, a ...... man is he, - ...... this haunted house to me, - In ...... funk I ...... round, - And fear a ghost in every sound! - -The missing words are spelt with the same letters. - - -194. WHAT IS IT? - -What is that which is found in the centre of Australia and of America, -and in no other place? - - -195. GRANDFATHER’S TURN - -“It’s grandfather’s turn,” cried the children at a Christmas party where -jokes and riddles have been rife. - -With a quiet twinkle in his eye, the old man said, “Do you know why is -the fourth of July?” Not one of them could understand or answer his -question, which seemed to lack finish and grammar. Can you? - - -196. A CHARADE - - My _first_ is never far away, - My _next_ in Latin found; - My _third_ may rage by night or day; - _All_ make melodious sound. - - -197. MISSING WORDS - - Through the ...... trees - Softly coo the doves; - Let a ...... breeze - ...... youthful loves! - - -198. AN ENIGMA - - At starting, half your income take, - Then for my second write; - And let your table help to make - The total cosy quite. - - -199. A CHARADE - - My whole is a circle complete, - Beheaded I fall to your feet. - Behead me again and I fry, - Or am baked in a savoury pie. - - -200. ANAGRAM WORDS - -Can you recast these short sentences into six single words? - - See a pug dog. Red paper. - Fat reward. - Stay, O morn. Set on a dish. - - -201. AN ENIGMA - - If my whole by my second and first you divide, - One more than ten thousand it gives. - In the land of my birth I have dwindled and died, - In museums my memory lives. - - -202. A PARADOX - - Though never present, I appear, - Of perfect form a token; - And all that centres round my ear - Is heard, though never spoken. - - -203. BEST WHEN BEHEADED - - Behead me twice, and it shall be - That I my perfect self regain; - Restore both heads and you shall see - That most perfect I remain. - - -204. MISSING WORDS - - Grant, lady, grant your ..... his whim, - And give the coming ..... to him, - For this will ..... his jealous heart, - Stricken so sore by Cupid’s dart. - If not he ..... his hands of you, - To seek fresh ..... and pastures new. - - -205. A SEASONABLE PUZZLE - -(_Quite an ice one_) - - “Yes, yes, I know,” said Jack to Jill, - “That thirty-two is freezing-point; - And I can tell you, if you will, - Exactly what is squeezing-point!” - - -206. ILLUMINATING FIGURES - - To fifty add a third of one, - A third to five attach; - You have the means, when this is done, - To kindle any match. - - -207. MISSING WORDS - - The untrained .......... in the City - Is robbed by .......... without pity. - -The missing words are spelt with the same ten letters. - - -208. A CHRISTMAS CRACKER - -Comes Christmas merry? Hungry birds; no bright berries; rents high, not -paid; long bills; empty barns; no peace and prosperity. - -How can we amend this gloomy forecast? - - -209. ANAGRAM FLOWERS - -Six common plants are concealed by anagram in the following sentence. -The letters which spell each plant follow each other, but are in -disorder. - -O rise love it lad never let this lamb chase trains. - - -210. AN ENIGMA - - My first is quite a sin by name, - My third its simple cure; - My second puts an end to fame, - My whole of ease is sure. - - -211. A PARADOX - - Cut off my head, it is unshaken, - Cut off my tail, you turn it round; - But if both head and tail are taken, - Unconquered still I hold my ground. - - -212. WHAT ARE THEY? - - Why should we quarrel, First and Third, - With nought between us but a word? - - Let Third leave Second unessayed - To heal the breach these letters made. - - If your solution be but fair - You find my whole disjointed there. - - -213. A CRYPTIC ADDRESS - -“Next week,” wrote Funniboy from Naples to his friend, “I am going to -‘plant onions, etc.’ Let me hear from you.” How did his friend gather -his destination from these words? - - -214. AMONG THE GHOSTS - - In haunted house to sleep I tried - My dread _first_ was my chum. - “With _second_ of my _first_,” I cried, - “My _whole_ I should become.” - - -215. AN ENIGMA - - My first is possessive and second; - My second possessive and first. - Such banks most attractive are reckoned - By those for rich treasure athirst. - - -216. BONES OF A PALINDROME - - ~RPLVLSLVLPR~ - -Can you insert the missing letters, and complete the palindrome so that -it reads alike from either end? - - -217. A WORD AND A BLOW - -“Now, dad,” said Tom Pickles to his father in the Christmas holidays, -“take this bottle in your left hand, and when I say ‘three!’ try how far -you can blow the cork into it.” - -The cork, smaller than the neck of the bottle, was placed just inside, -and as Tom cried, “One, two, three!” his father gave a lusty blow. What -was the result? - - -218. A GOOD RIDDLE - -When are acorns as strong as oaken posts? - - -219. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME - - PTTPBTNTNTBPTTPBTNTNTBPTTP. - -Can you add the vowels, and make a palindrome that reads alike from -either end? - - -220. MISSING WORDS - - The ..... of Shakespeare and of song - Have fair and dainty features; - But she I ..... my hopes upon - Excels those lovely creatures. - From ..... she ..... her name so dear, - She lives on ..... and honey; - She cannot ..... but she can steer, - And Madeline has money. - - -221. A NOVEL ANAGRAM - -A politician used a high-flown phrase, which implied inaccurate wording, -though some spoke of it as dust thrown in people’s eyes. Can you recover -the _two long words_ which he used, by anagram, from this sentence? - - Axiomatic intelligence, or dust. - - -222. A CHARADE - - My first your bosom friend, or man or maid, - Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid. - - My second, sounded double, tells of fate, - Or sounded single puts an end to hate. - - My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard, - That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d. - - -223. IS THIS TRUE? - -Woman without her man would be helpless. - - -224. SOME ANAGRAMS - -Can you recast these short sentences so that each of them forms a single -word? - - A moment’s cure. The old rocks. - Cod is nice. It lures a cat. - - -225. AN ENIGMA - - Without my head I circulate - With speed and inclination; - Without my tail, at any rate, - I still have circulation. - - Transpose three letters, in unbroken state, - I then receive the ashes of the great. - - -226. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Many will remember how often the great tenor, Sims Reeves, was prevented -from singing by his delicate throat. An excellent anagram can be evolved -from his name which, with some exaggeration, proclaims this. Can you -discover it? - - -227. MISSING WORDS - - Consuming lust for ....., now so rife, - Like ..... ..... mars both love and life. - - -228. FROM BEDLAM - -Here are the bones of a palindrome sentence that might be spoken by some -unhappy criminal lunatic. Can you clothe them with their vowels, so that -the sentence reads alike from either end? - - ~MNCLVDDVLCNM.~ - - -229. FRUITS AND FLOWERS. - - And as trim bees rise or go, - A long aim I’d say, a libel O! - -Fruit and flowers are hidden here in anagrams, each in its order -separately. - - -230. ANSWERS BY ANAGRAM - - NOW ONE OLD FORT. - -What place is this? - - RABID OWL. - -Change this bird into a beast. - - -231. CHARADE - -By W. M. Praed - - Alas, for that forgotten day - When chivalry was nourish’d, - When none but friars learn’d to pray, - And beef and beauty flourish’d; - And fraud in kings was held accursed, - And falsehood sin was reckon’d, - And mighty chargers bore my _first_, - And fat monks wore my _second_! - - Ah, then I carried sword and shield - And casque with flaunting feather, - And earn’d my spurs in battle-field, - In winter and rough weather; - And polish’d many a sonnet up - To ladies’ eyes and tresses; - And learn’d to drain my father’s cup, - And loose my falcon’s jesses! - - But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam, - The mongrel mob grows prouder; - And everything is done by steam, - And men are kill’d by powder; - And now I feel my swift decay, - And give unheeded orders; - And rot in paltry state away - With sheriffs and recorders. - - -232 - - My _first_ you oft savagely pierce through and through; - My _next_ harbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust; - But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue, - Should my _whole_, from my _second_, step into my _first_! - - -233. DECAPITATION - - My whole describes the action of a gale, - Decapitation makes an organ play. - Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale; - Again, it tells of what we do not pay. - Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail. - Again behead, and half a string denote; - Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail; - And last of all on music’s notes I float. - - -234. A BURIED PROVERB - -Society--how her enthusiasts worship at her Juggernaut car. Cases exist -here, proving how illogical are these eagle-sighted, place-hunting -beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet striving to get her smile. - -A well-known proverb is buried in this sentence. Can you dig it out? - - -235. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch it without a _steel trap_? - - -236. AN ENIGMA - -By Praed - - Across my _first_, with flash and roar, - The stately vessel glides alone. - And mournful on the crowded shore - There stands an aged crone, - Watching my _second’s_ parting smile, - As he bids farewell to his native isle. - - My _whole_ comes back to other eyes, - With beauteous change of fruit and flowers, - But dim to her are those bright skies, - And sad those joyous hours; - For, alas! my _first_ is dark and deep, - And my _second_ cannot hear her weep. - - -237. THE ARAB AND HIS ASS - -THE SEQUEL - - When morning dawned, and the tide was out, - The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s .........., - And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt, - For he had the best donkey in all that §. - - You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over, - Though the donkey was bravest of all his ....; - He luxuriates now in perpetual clover, - And his master has gone to the prophet’s em⏞. - - -238. MISSING WORDS - - A ..... ..... on ....’. strands - Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes; - He left the ..... in Cupid’s hands, - And watched her ..... her tresses; - Tresses of ..... coloured gold, - Veiling, like any frock, - A tail which, as it did unfold, - Gave to poor Pat a shock. - - -239. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Where can you be “in a stone-pine garden”? - - -240. MISSING WORDS - - No ..... sympathy was ever shown, - Than when ..... news from Kingston ..... was known. - -The three missing words are spelt with the same five letters. - - -241. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What bodily discomfort follows an _ague-fit_? - - -242. A TANGLED SQUARE - -Can you readjust the 16 letters in this square so that they form a -perfect word square? - - I E I T - I S A S - A S I S - E D E D - - -243. RIVERS IN ANAGRAM - -What European rivers are concealed in these eight anagrams:--Set in red -robe Henri Le Roi O sell me red pine nerves biter. - - -244. A PIED PALINDROME - -Rearrange these letters so that they form a palindrome, or sentence that -reads alike from either end:-- - - F PPPP RRRR SSSS TT - EEEEII OOOO - - -245 - -What political parrot cry can be evolved by anagram from this sentence, -which condemns it? - - O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe! - - -246. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What statesman’s name was a “terrible poser?” - - -247. A PROVERB IN ANAGRAM - -Can you recast the letters of this sentence into a well-known English -proverb? - - Yea, a glad sun rose red. - - -248. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Has there been a poet of unusual _solemnity?_ - - -249. ANAGRAM ENIGMA - - No, no, I hardly ever touch - The thing which many love so much. - It has a place within these lines, - But is taboo where Delia dines. - - -250. HE SQUARED THE CIRCLE - -“Yes,” said young Biceps of St Boniface, who had failed to satisfy the -examiners, “they have ploughed me in Euclid, and yet if I had half a -chance I could teach them how to square a circle!” - -“Bravo, Biceps!” cried his chum, who was helping him to drown dull care -in fruity port, “don’t keep the great secret to yourself!” And so he -told him--what? - - -251. TO EXTRACT A CIRCLE FROM A GIVEN SQUARE - -When his friend had recovered from the shock of the atrocity described -in our last, he retaliated by assuring Biceps that he could extract a -circle from a given square. What was his method? - - -252. MISSING WORDS - - He said, “You ......” when one lied, - He said, “Don’t ......” when one sped, - His glass held ...... at his side; - He can ...... what he denied. - As all your wits “entranced” you bend - To find the key omit the end. - - -253. A CHARADE - - My captive _second_, sulking in my _first_, - Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst; - Bemoan, or as alternative you find - My _whole_ the word that fits his state of mind. - For meet enclosure, you can take a score - Of captive _seconds_, first deducting four. - - -254. A CIPHER ADVERTISEMENT - - ~THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT,~ - ~MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.~ - -Add two vowels alternately to complete the couplet. - - -255. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -Can you discover by anagram what his brother was when he put “Tim in a -pet?” - - -256. MISSING WORDS - - Who knows the .... a land may know - Famed for its ...., and long ago - A .... of sage and seer. - The native there, so full of tricks, - To .... his hunger .... with sticks, - Nor knows his ways are queer! - - -257. A CHARADE - - If doubled you would see my first - Let third and second be reversed. - But if my last you would behold - Increase my first a hundredfold. - Combine them all, and you can trace - The four within an empty space. - - -258. IN THE HAY-FIELD - -In the words welcome to a thirsty toiler, “Mower, I will tap the cask!” -are hidden by anagram the names of an English poet and of one of his -poems. Can you discover them? - - -259. A CHARADE - - My _first_ is small, and seldom reverential; - My next not large enough to heed or prize; - My _whole_ is altogether consequential; - My third, though small, is counted very wise. - - -260. A LETTER PUZZLE - - To be - a a a a a a a a a a - t C r I i O f U l S e s - standing - is the mark of a mean - - -261. WITH IVORY LETTERS - -Can you recast the letters that spell RED NUTS AND GIN so that they form -one long word? - - -262. A HIDDEN NOVEL - -Can you rearrange these letters so that they form the title of a -well-known novel by Charles Dickens? - - ~CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY~ - - -263. “COME OUT, ’TIS NOW SEPTEMBER!” - - --_Old Song._ - - In swift ...... the beaters add - Fresh ...... to the heaps of slain; - And still, with lust of slaughter mad, - The ...... plies his hand amain! - -The missing words are spelt with the same six letters. - - -264. A CHARADE - - My first is nothing but a name, - My second still more small, - My whole shows such a lack of fame - It has no name at all. - - -265. A BREAKFAST TABLE PUZZLE - -“If father gives us a new dog, it will wake the lazy ones!” Can you -discover from these words which of his children were often late for -breakfast? - - -266. A CIPHER - - ~NGOTRDSREAOHR - ETNSVEENUDOEO~ - -Can you decipher the common proverb here concealed? - - -267. AN UNKNOWN NAME - - Well known by story, not by name, - I died a death unknown before, - Nor ever to corruption came; - My shroud the waves cast on the shore. - - -268. UNDA WATER - -How might an oyster, if it could speak, and knew that unda is Latin for -wave or water, complain in similar phonetic iteration when disturbed by -thunder under unda? - - -269. MISSING WORDS - - When ....., our puppy, sets out for a run, - Over ..... he ....., all frolic and fun; - For no whistle ..... he in his desperate hurry, - The slow sheep to ....., and the old cow to worry. - -The five missing words are spelt with the same five letters. - - -270. FIND THE GIRLS - -Bad hero set by thy door hurt me ma. Army may get ruder daily. - -Ten girls’ names are here in anagrams. - - -271. A GOOD DESCRIPTION - - Lord Beaconsfield’s statue, - True as old -- -- -- - -Can you can complete this anagram? - - -272. SHAKESPEARE ANAGRAMS - -These three lines are perfect anagrams of three consecutive lines in -“Romeo and Juliet,” Act II., Scene V.:-- - - The tub sold has old rough shelves. - And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts. - A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow! - -Can you discover the original lines? - - -273. MISSING WORDS - - That mystical gnome never flinches from toil - Who ...... the ...... in Orient soil; - Yet ...... mortals will ever abound - To ...... all the soil till the treasure is found. - - -274. A PUZZLE ACROSTIC - - My feathered first has wings and sings, - Unfledged my second swings its wings; - My third on blackest pinions flies, - My fourth can float beneath the skies. - The letters to my first that fall - Are the initials of them all. - - ◯ ◯ ◯ ◯ - ◯ ● ● ● - ◯ ● ● ● - ◯ ● ● ● - -Can you substitute words which fulfil the conditions? - - -275. DROP LETTER PUZZLE - - My first was of the ...... breed, - Their ..... captain, hot and riled, - To .... his men found vain indeed, - They only ... and smoked, and smiled! - -One letter is dropped each time. - - -276. DOUBLETS - -Can you convert HARE into SOUP, using not more than six links, changing -only one letter with each link, and preserving the order of the letters -from link to link? - - -277. A NEW ENIGMA - - Putting two small beasts that you take - To the beginning of an end, - A pointed weapon you will make - To wound a foe or praise a friend. - - -278. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -If a “newspaper” could speak, what might it say of the general work of -its staff? - - -279. BY RULE OF THUMB - -How can you turn the positive quantity 1011 into a negative? - - -280. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What one word can you form from the sentence-- - - “O, I’m man’s trial!” - - -281. A REBUS - - EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee. - - -282. A RIDDLE - -Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell his timber? - - -283. MISSING WORDS - - He ....... to be ....... as a wonderful shot - But he potted the dog, and ....... was his lot! - -The missing words are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -284. DOUBLETS - -Can you change ARMY into NAVY with seven links, changing one letter -every time, and preserving their sequence? - - -285. BY ANAGRAM - - ‘I excel not by a pun’-- - Turn these six words into one. - - -286. CAN SUCH THINGS BE? - -When is an onion like music? - - -287. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM - -What is the bitter cry of “Christianity?” - - -288. NO TURNCOAT - -Show by anagram that a Conservative is constant to his cause. - - -289. WHY NOT? - -Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall as a rule upon the same day of the -week. Can any ingenious reader discover why they will not fall upon the -same day of the week in the year 1910. - - -290 - - “War is a game which, were their subjects wise, - Kings would not play at,” wrote the poet’s pen; - But in war’s issue will be staked the prize, - While kings and subjects are but erring men; - So Britain--native empress of the seas-- - On ocean cradled, by her storm-king nursed-- - Friend of the fallen, guardian of the free, - Rests on her well-tried _last_ and trusty _first_. - Her _first_ alone can well maintain her right, - Unscathed by any threat or mutinous blast; - And though, when needed, foremost in the fight, - Her _first_ (strange paradox!) is always _last_! - But should the tide of war approach the shore - And threaten to engulf her island seat, - My _whole_, replying with defiant roar, - Would crash the audacious foe beneath her feet! - - -291. AN EASY CHARADE - - My first is flogged to make it move the faster, - And turns at once to satisfy its master. - My next will ripen as a pleasant fruit, - For those whose simple taste its flavours suit. - My whole, when breezes blow and pennons fly, - Stands up aloft and points us to the sky. - - -292. NOT BY CANNING - - A noun there is, of plural number, - In daily use from here to Humber. - Now almost any noun you take - By adding “S” you plural make; - But if you add an “S” to this, - Strange is the metamorphosis! - Plural is plural now no more; - Useless what useful was before. - - -293 - - First, a semi-circle make, - Add to this another - Figure of two little lines - Meeting with each other; - Then a perfect circle form, - Truly, neat, compactly, - Add another form to these, - Like the first exactly; - Then, to make it all complete, - Form a kind of angle, - With a straight line, that should meet - In a kind of tangle; - When you this have rightly done - (’Tis the truth I’m telling), - You will get an article - Useful in a dwelling: - Should you this decapitate, - You may have another - Article, which, in its place, - Is useful as the other. - - -294. A CHARADE - - Veiling the leas, my first may steep - Late autumn’s listless air; - And with my tainting second creep - On idle spade and share. - - When happy days link soul to soul, - And sunny faces shine, - May both combined, a subtle whole, - Be far from me and mine! - - -295. A CHARADE - -By Mark Lemon - - Old Charlie Brown, who a big rogue was reckoned, - Was brought up at my first for making my second; - He was fined, and because he no money would pay - Had to work with my whole on the King’s highway. - - -296 - - Complete, I grow within a field - And pleasant pasture often yield; - Behead me once, a suitor then - Is quickly brought before your ken; - Behead again, I am a word - That on the cricket-ground is heard. - Restore my heads, cut off my tail, - To name a spice you’ll not then fail; - Behead me now, and you will find - The master passion left behind. - Put on my head, my tail restore, - Complete me as I was before, - My second letter take away, - An envelope I am, you’ll say; - But now curtail me just once more, - I am an inlet on the shore. - - -297 - - My _second_ is double my _first_, - My _first_ is but half of my _second_; - And I’m sure you’ll admit that my _whole_ - Is ten times the latter when reckon’d. - - -298 - - My _first_ I went the other day, - And pretty surely reckon’d - A basket of fine fish to catch, - With hook and rod and _second_. - - But I was out in reckoning; - A very pretty she - Of her fair face show’d just my _whole_-- - And pretty soon hook’d _me_. - - -299 - - Of mirth the parent, though the child of art, - A stranger to myself in every part; - Each India has a native in my breast, - The West my sweetness, and my fire the East. - While milder climes my virtue to complete, - Quicken my softness, and correct my heat; - My dearest friends upon my vitals prey, - And as they see me sinking, grow more gay. - - -300. A FLIGHT OF FANCY - - When my whole takes a flight in the air you will find - That my next is not left a great distance behind; - But join them together, and plain to your view - It all is as firm and as tight as a screw. - - -301 - - To three-fourths of a cross, add a circle complete; - Then, let two semi-circles a perpendicular meet; - Next, add a triangle that stands on two feet; - Then, two semi-circles, and a circle complete. - - -302. A CHARADE - - Leader of Vandals and of vice - My head is reckoned; - A Turkish captain will suffice - To be my second. - My third is firm if well selected; - My whole a wanderer neglected. - - -303 - - One thousand, two hundred, - Nothing, and one, - Transposed, give a word - Expressive of fun. - - -304. A CHARADE - -By Praed - - My _first_ was creeping on his way - Through the mists of a dull October day, - When a minstrel came to its muddy bed, - With a harp on his shoulder, a wreath on his head; - “And how shall I reach,” the poor boy cried, - “To the courts and the cloisters on t’other side?” - - Old Euclid came, and he frown’d a frown, - And he dash’d the harp and the garland down; - Then he led the bard, with a stately march, - O’er my _second’s_ long and cellar’d arch;-- - “And see,” said the sage, “how every ass - Over the sacred stream must pass!” - - The youth was mournful, the youth was mute, - He sigh’d for his laurel, he sobb’d for his lute;-- - The youth took comfort, the youth took snuff, - And follow’d the lead of that teacher gruff; - And he sits, ever since, in my _whole’s_ kind lap, - In a silken gown and a trencher cap. - - -305 - - Upright and honest is my _first_; - My _second_ you may see - Upon the frozen lake or stream; - My _whole_ is equity. - - -306 - - Never wearied, see us stand, - A glittering and a stately band-- - Of sturdy stuff, but graceful form, - In summer cold, in winter warm; - From hottest duty never swerving, - Night and day our place preserving; - Each serving to a different use, - Not to be changed without abuse. - And, pray, mark well another fact-- - In unison we never act, - Except, as on occasion dread, - We watch the ashes of the dead; - When we are ranged, as you may see - As awful sentries, one, two, three. - - -307. A CHARADE - - My first, though naught, with others is a fruit, - My next is vital to both man and brute. - It should be dear to all who hate the devil, - For it is ever the reverse of evil. - My all, when whole, is eloquent of peace, - Divided it invokes to life that will not cease. - - -308. A CHARADE - -_In English Sapphics_ - - Guess at my first, ’tis easy to discover, - Covered with rings, and whiskered like a dandy. - Wrapped up in furs, ’tis often on the housetop, - Oft in the chimney! - - See where my second, scorning to be hidden, - Stands at the head of quite a band of others, - Like a virago, straddling with feet apart, - And arms akimbo. - - Surely my next is happy in its office, - Parting the lovelocks on Neæra’s forehead; - Setting the golden lines wherewith she angles - For the unwary. - - If by my whole at any time you pass, you - Tread on the dust of holy saints and martyrs, - Holy the place, may holy thoughts attend you, - Peacefully dreaming! - - -309 - - Offspring of nature and of art, I stand - Chief ’midst the monuments of every land; - I may not lengthen life, but I - For centuries forbid to die. - The greatest truth in me you meet - Is but deception most complete. - Unchanged I last the changing crowds among, - And as I older grow, I grow too young. - - -310 - - Pronounced as one letter, and written with three, - Two letters there are, and two only in me; - I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and gray, - I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. - - -311 - - My _first_ is false as false can be; - My _next_ old ladies wear; - My _whole’s_ my _first_, as you will see, - As false, I do declare. - - -312. SHUFFLED LETTERS - - When whole I am indeed a thing - To puzzle you a bit; - Though parts of me are hard, at Bridge - The others make a hit; - Or you may make a car of some, - And fix a head to it. - - -313. FIVE VOWELS - - A word of nine letters explains - How to mitigate bodily pains; - The five vowels are there, - And four consonants share - This function for medical brains. - - -314. A CHARADE - - My second guides my first and third - For pleasure, trade, and war; - My first and second by my third - Are oft transported far. - But when my first my third doth pull, - ’Tis then his lot is worst; - And should my second lack my whole, - He’s apt to leave my first. - - -315. MISSING WORDS - -It is a ...... fact that neither ...... nor ...... grow .. ..... - - -316. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME - - ~DRWNDRRDNWRD~. - -Insert the missing letters, and so form a perfect palindrome, which -reads alike from either end. - - -317 - - The schoolboy likes me well, - For healthful sport I bring, - Yet I can harm create, - Though such a little thing: - Connubial bliss is form’d by me; - My nature is equality. - - -318. A RIDDLE - -What person’s name is doubly evil? - -The answer may be given in a line that rhymes. - - -319 - - I’m a district near London; - If made wrong, I come undone; - O’er sweet strings I swift run, - Or appear with the bright sun, - And though by me fights were won, - I can greet you every one. - - -320. A CHARADE - - I am my first when seen with you, - My next is always bad. - A rogue in grain much harm may do - And make the farmer mad. - - -321. A CHARADE - - When winter comes with frost and cold, - My first is welcome, as of old; - And though its grip may make you thinner, - It helps to cook your Christmas dinner. - - Let me but hear my next rejoice - At early dawn with cheerful voice, - I haste to find, with eager pleasure, - Some specimen of hidden treasure. - - A traveller my whole may find - Far from his English kith and kind; - Though some at home, to England’s shame, - Are this in fact, if not in name. - - -322. - - It was to-morrow, and - It will be yesterday; - Now it is near at hand - What is it? Who can say? - - -323. A CHARADE - - My first doth fill with light his father’s eyes, - The second shadows all the mother’s brow; - My whole all men, all women, girls and boys, - Have had, and long to lose, and lost for ever now; - But know not, nor can know, when it was lost, and how. - - -324. ON THE BLOCK - - Complete, though not of human race, - A soul in me may dwell; - Behead, I held a higher place, - Until, like man, I fell. - - Again behead, and in the song - Of Burns I’m all your own; - Behead once more, it would be wrong - To find me out when known. - - -325. AN ENIGMA - - With head good for naught, - And with tail always drunk, - You know well what to say - Of the worth of my trunk. - First cut off my tail, - I am Greek, and I’m not; - Then cut off my head, - And some Latin you’ve got. - Lopping both you know best - What remains, as I said, - For I really am you - If I lose tail and head! - - -326. AN ENIGMA - - One guiding eye I need - In running through the gaps; - My tail, as on I speed, - Is caught in many traps. - - -327. A CHESS CHARADE - -By H. J. C. Andrews - -In the ’seventies no one was more popular at Simpson’s Chess Room in the -Strand than the gentle and brilliant subject of these lines, a clever -water-colourist. The charade is by his friend, the well-known problem -composer. Both have passed away, but they are not forgotten by those who -had the happiness to know them:-- - - Of all the birds that ever sought a mate, - My first is to but one appropriate, - So speak the word! nor silence shyly woo. - To find my next, go! wander in the Zoo! - My whole is a magician of the squares, - But Art, with Chess, his best affections shares, - So this, indeed, to him may be a law - When _winning_’s hopeless, grandly still to _draw_. - - -328. WHAT AM I? - - Though poor and humble was my birth - I sit enthroned on high; - My footsteps far above the earth, - My canopy the sky. - - O’er toiling subjects thus in state - I bear despotic sway; - Yet on them hand and foot I wait - At break and close of day. - - -329. - - I am not of flesh and blood, - Yet have I many a bone; - No limbs, except one leg, - And can’t stand on that alone. - - My friends are many, and dwell - In all lands of the human race; - But they poke my poor nose into the mud, - And shamefully spatter my face. - - Thrust me into each other’s ribs, - Stick me in gutter and rut; - I have never a window, and never a door, - Yet I often open and shut. - - -330. AN ENIGMA - - Before the crown descended on - The head of England’s Queen, - Four Kings upon that royal throne - Of the same name had been. - Now if the signs which marked their name - Be joined unto a beast, - We have a food on which the same - (A quadruped) will feast. - - -331. AN OLD ENIGMA - -By _Charles James Fox_ - - I am pretty, and useful in various ways, - Though I tempt some poor mortals to shorten their days; - Behead me, and then in my place will appear - What youngsters admire every day in the year; - Behead me once more, and without any doubt, - You must be what is left if you don’t find it out. - - -332. A CHARADE - - My first, when skilfully performed - (Its doer by applauses warmed), - Bespeaks both skill and vigour. - When with my whole, so soft and light, - I saw my second gay bedight, - She made a splendid figure. - - -333. MISSING WORDS - - The man who ..... the common ..... - Above the ..... chaste, - ..... as he may, the world declares - Is not a man of taste. - And though my sympathy he shares, - No ..... on him I waste! - - -334. A CHARADE - - When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated, - Endangered the peace of his soul, - To atone for my second my first he repeated - Quite ten times a day on my whole. - - -335. AN ENIGMA - - An insect small and fell - Makes a weird sound, - If, as its name you spell, - You turn it round. - - One letter cast, and still - Shift what remains, - Another insect will - Reward your pains. - - -336. A DECAPITATION - - Where head and body duly meet - I am as slender as a bee; - Whether I stand on head or feet - My figure shows its symmetry. - - But when my head is cut away - The metamorphosis is strange; - Though both of them unaltered stay, - Body and head to nothing change. - - -337. A NUT TO CRACK - - First is in coast, second in ghost, - Third must be reckoned part of second; - Fourth in boat, fifth in float, - Sixth you will find within your mind. - Seventh in blue, eighth in true, - These letters tell a fruit that they spell. - - -338. - - The hunter and his steed are known - My first to see. - Though men may call my next a stone, - Wood it may be. - My whole, an exile from his home, - Is doomed from place to place to roam. - - -339. A CHARADE - - My first expresses power to do, - My next that it is done. - To be my whole belongs to few, - And perfectly to none. - - -340. A CHARADE - - In my first, as in a shell, - All the sweetest sounds may dwell; - In my second, shells abound - That can catch no sort of sound; - In my whole securely rest - Those who neither jeer nor jest. - - -341. A CHARADE - - My first, though of the feathered kind - Is never known to fly; - My next all who improve their mind - Seize as it passes by. - My whole may much occasion find - To make the truthful lie. - - -342. AN ENIGMA - - Divide a piece of beef or pork - Without the aid of knife and fork; - It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill, - Where you may set this if you will. - Strike off instead the end, its place - Is plain as nose upon your face. - Cut this asunder in your mind, - And what is first put now behind; - Part of our foot you thus discover, - And in a measure all is over. - - -343. A CHARADE - - Seen as a whole, my form is now - Akin to strife and malice; - Split, it may grace a princely brow, - Or crown the curls of Alice. - - Recast my letters, and I tell - That nourishment is lacking; - Stir them afresh until they spell - The needle’s help in tacking. - - -344. AN ENIGMA - - If I write with my first in my second - My whole you can never find out; - Add a letter, and all will be reckoned - A patron of water devout. - - -345. WHAT DID THE COLONEL SAY? - -After officers’ mess, when cigars were well alight, the old conundrum -was propounded, “What is most like a cornet of horse?” A sharp sub. was -ready with the reply, “A hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by -this variant which occurred to a married captain, “a corset of horn”; -and yet another reading was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How much -did you say the ..............” Can you complete this? - - -346. WHERE WAS IT? - - Loss of love between us - Never can be nice; - Yet we live where Venus - Changes us to ice. - - -347. A LOVER TO HIS LASS - - Tell me, my sweet, - Why are your feet - Like fairy tales? - - -348. MISSING WORDS - - Our parson ....... every man who has leisure - To study ....... windows, the glory of fanes; - And ....... of devoting his income to pleasure, - Our ....... old dean spends his money on panes. - - -349. AN EASY ONE - - Though much attached to merriment, - Or crime for a variety, - To prison I am never sent, - But sparkle in society. - - -350. A CHARADE - - Without my first and second’s aid - No pudding worth its sauce is made. - Take on my third, my fourth I am, - My fifth includes myself and Sam. - My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero, - And shows him as an unheroic hero. - - -351. BURIED PLACES - -What geographical names are buried in these lines? - - He has my R. N. as a monogram - I am her stupid sister. - The calmest man is sometimes made irate. - - -352. - - My first’s a fruit of foreign clime, - Sweet to the taste, in price not dear; - My second does my first produce, - And yet my whole my first doth bear. - - -353. AN ENIGMA - - A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath, - My firm embrace is harbinger of death; - Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art, - Complete and perfected in every part; - Crush me to-day with all-determined care, - Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there! - - -354. AN ENIGMA - - Six letters in my name are found, - Though only three we see and sound; - The shepherd by the running river - May hear me where the rushes quiver; - And should a stroke my whole divide, - Leaving but half on either side, - These, backward read, will surely tell - What many a toper loves too well. - - -355. A RIDDLE - - Upon a battle-field of learned men - Hundred and fifty were by none divided. - “Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of ten - And so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.” - - -356. - - Though the stations of mortals are many - And the _last_ is the head of his race; - Yet he, just as often as any, - Is won by my _first’s_ fell embrace; - Yet we most of us apt are to fall, - When our heads cease our hearts to control, - Let us hope that not one of us all - May be e’er in the state of my _whole_. - - -357. WHAT IS IT? - - My whole is no matter, - And light as the air, - Yet it is good on the platter, - And excellent fare. - Curtail and transpose, - And a lady you see, - Who will flatter and pose, - And with many do me. - - -358. WHAT IS IT? - - My first, for ages out of mind, - All men have always worn behind; - And yet alike by sea and land - They carry it upon their hand. - My second, carefully matured, - Is never ill but often cured. - My whole, within unchanging lines - Black men and white alike confines. - - -359. WHAT IS THIS? - - “We westand fall.” - - -360. A CHARADE - - My second is pressed tightly round - To guard from any ill; - And when preparing to engage, - Men find it useful still. - My first against attraction set - Will neutralise its power; - Aided by it, with bargains, some - May spend a happy hour. - You find my whole by careful search - Which must not be forsaken; - It stands before what comes beyond, - Which may from it be taken. - - -361. A GOOD ANAGRAM - -George Thompson, the zealous anti-slavery advocate, was asked to go into -Parliament, the better to press his point and cause. When he hesitated a -friend produced, as a conclusive reason, this anagram, spelt with the -letters of his name--“O go, the negro’s M.P.!” - - -362. WHAT AM I? - - Scorned by the meek and humble mind, - And often by the vain possessed, - Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind, - I give the troubled spirit rest. - - - - -ODDS AND ENDS - - -1. A SUM WITHOUT FIGURES - -Here is a long-division sum without figures:-- - - UGI)GEVPPNDO(IDTPO - GVNI - ---- - DNTP - UGI - ----- - NETN - NEOT - ------ - DUDO - DUDO - ===== - -These letters form a sentence of three words .... .... .., and represent -the figures 1234 5678 90; the puzzle is to discover this key sentence, -by working out the sum in the corresponding figures. - - -2. A DAY’S SPORT - -At the invitation of a farmer in the country I went out with my gun for -a day’s shooting on his farm. “What sport had you?” said a friend -afterwards at the Club. “I shot only birds and rabbits,” was my reply, -“and the bag showed 36 heads and 100 feet.” How many birds were there, -and how many bunnies? - - -3. THE SQUAREST WORD - - D E L F - E V I L - L I V E - F L E D - -How many distinct readings of these four words can you find, taking -their letters in any “go as you please” direction, without jumping over -any letter? - - -4. A CROSS PURPOSE - -Can our readers rearrange these letters in the form of a similar cross, -so that they form two words familiar to us all? - - A - A - E - D N R E G D N - I - T - V - S - -One of the letters, to be placed where the lower E now stands, is common -to both words. - - -5. - -“Take this sovereign, my boy,” said a man to his son who had a turn for -arithmetic, “and buy for yourself and for your three sisters the best -present possible for each, of different values, expending in each case -an aliquot part of the pound, that is to say, a fraction of it whose -numerator is one. If there is any change you can give it to the Fresh -Air Fund.” How was this commission carried out? - - -6. A WORD SQUARE - -Can you complete this word-square? - - . E . A . - E . A . E - . A . . E - A . . E . - . E E . . - - -7. VERBAL ARITHMETIC - -First find a word that is spelt with the ten letters above the line, and -number its letters consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. - - A I - L C - P R - U N - B E - _____ - E C C - -Substitute the corresponding figures for the letters, and then work out -the addition sum which they represent. - - -8. A WORD SQUARE - -Can you complete this word square? - - T . . . T - . T . . . - . . O . . - . E . S . - T . . . S - - -9. - -Take the twelve first prime numbers, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, -29, 31, which have no factors but themselves and unity, and write down -the value of their product, using no figures but 0, 1, 2, and 3, and of -these using 2 and 3 only once. - - -10. AT THE WASH - - Six collars seven cuffs there be - When pence we charge you thirty-three; - Seven collars and six cuffs to do - The charge is only thirty-two; - The work is good and up-to-date, - So figure out in pence the rate. - - -11. GAPS TO FILL - -Can you complete this word square? - - W . E . S - . . . . . - E . U . E - . . . . . - S . E . R - - -12. IS IT POSSIBLE? - -Fill a wineglass with water to the brim, and set it on the corner of a -table-napkin, which should be in immediate contact with the polished -surface of a table, allowing the rest of the napkin to fall over the -edge. Can you remove the napkin without touching the glass or spilling -any of the water? - - -13. A NICE CALCULATION - -My third and fourth are a quarter of my first and second; my fourth is -half of them, and my third is half. What am I? - - -14. FOR THE CHILDREN - -A London firm, having sent an order by telegram to a manufacturer in -Paris for 480 sets of Diabolo, received to their amazement a huge -consignment of 6336 sets. How did this mistake arise? - - -15. A WINTER VALENTINE - - Thy heart is like some icy lake - On whose cold brink I stand; - On my sore plight sweet pity take, - And lead me by the hand. - Then buckle on my spirit’s skate - Where all the ice is thin, - That it may break beneath my weight, - And let a lover in! - - -16. A QUESTION OF AGES - -“My husband’s age,” said Mrs Evergreen, “is represented by the figures -of my age reversed. He is older than I am, and the difference between -our ages is one-eleventh of their sum.” What were their respective ages? - - -17. MISSING FIGURES - -Can you complete this multiplication sum? - - 4 * * - 3 * - ------- - 3 6 * * - * * 7 * * - --------- - * * 3 * * - - -18. STRANGE ADDITION - - Add 3 to 10, and then divide - Till 8 the sum has satisfied. - - -19. BEDDING OUT - -I bought less than 100 plants for my new rosery, and found that if I set -them 3 in a row there would be one over; if 4 in a row there would be -two over; if 5 in a row, three over; and if 6 in a row, four over. How -many rose trees did I buy? - - -20. - -Can you arrange three nines so that they represent exactly 20? - - -21. - -A house has nine windows on its front. How many signals can be given by -merely leaving one or more of them open? - - -22. ON MY BIRTHDAY - -(By Sir John Evans) - - “Reader, whether man or woman, - Write my age in figures Roman. - My first divided by my second - Will make my third, if rightly reckoned; - Ten times the whole, and then you see - My university degree.” - - -23. MOSAIC VERSE - - The heath this night must be my bed, (Scott) - Ye vales, ye streams, ye groves, adieu! (Pope) - Farewell for aye; e’en love is dead; (Proctor) - Would I could add remembrance too! (Byron) - - -24. SIGNS AND SEASONS - - The springs spring forth in spring, and shoots - Shoot forward one and all; - Though summer kills the flowers, it leaves - The leaves to fall in fall! - - -25. THE TEN DIGITS - -This arrangement of the digits represents 20, one being a whole number, -the others a fraction:-- - - 13258 - 6----- = 20 - 947 - - -26. CHRONOGRAM - -The battle of Montl’héry was fought in 1465. Its date can be committed -to memory in the sentence which might have been a battle-cry--“A cheval, -à cheval, gendarmes, à cheval!” For it is arrived at by the addition of -the Roman numerals which this contains, thus:-- - - C = 100 - V = 5 - L = 50 - C = 100 - V = 5 - L = 50 - M = 1000 - C = 100 - V = 5 - L = 50 - ---- - Total = 1465 - - -27. A TOUR DE FORCE - -In this most remarkable sentence of only twenty-eight letters, every -letter of the alphabet is used-- - - IF JACK QUIZ BALD NYMPHS GROW VEXT. - - -28. AN OLD TALE OF A TUB - -Tom Hood, seeing over the door of a public-house BEAR SOLD HERE, said -that it was rightly spelt if it was the landlord’s _own bruin_! - - -29. ALL THE ALPHABET - -Here is an ingenious rhyming couplet of only 33 letters, in which every -letter of the alphabet is used-- - - Quick! go on, Jim! why - Stop lazy fox? Drive by! - - -30. AN IMPERIAL ANAGRAM - - A sa Majesté impériale le Tsar Nicolas, souverain et autocrate de - toutes les Russies. - -The same letters exactly spell-- - - O, ta vanité sera ta perte. O, elle isole la Russie; tes successeurs - te maudiront à jamais! - -This most remarkable anagram was published in the early days of the -Crimean war. - - -31. A FOURFOLD ANAGRAM - -“Notes and Queries.” - - _A question sender. - Enquires on dates. - Reasoned inquest. - I send on a request._ - - -32. A GOOD ANAGRAM - -The name of John Abernethy, a very brusque doctor of bygone days, lends -itself to this most apposite anagram--_Johnny the bear!_ - - -33. TWO EXCELLENT ANAGRAMS - -(After the Irish famine.) - - Duchess of Marlborough. - _She labours much for God._ - - Or, - - The Duchess of Marlborough. - _Lo, she sought much for bread._ - - -34. “ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE” - -French guest to his host after a big shoot:-- - -“How many braces have you to your bags?” - - -35. A PRIZE ANAGRAM - -It would be difficult to find a more ingenious and appropriate anagram -than this, which took a prize in “Truth” in 1902, and connects the -King’s recovery with the Coronation. - -The sentence set was-- - -“God save our newly crowned King and Queen! Long life to Edward and -Alexandra!” - -The letters of this were recast thus-- - -Can we wonder an anxious devoted England followed drear danger -quakingly? - - -36. A PRIZE ANAGRAM - -“Truth” offered a prize for the best anagram on the sentence--“‘Truth’ -Toy and Doll Fund, Christmas, nineteen hundred and seven.” The winning -anagram, by the Editor of these pages, was, “A sunny tender mind -understands that the children do love fun!” - - -37. TAKE CARE OF THE PENCE - -In a moment of economy I told my wife that I would put by a farthing the -first week of the New Year, a halfpenny the second week, a penny the -third, and so on, doubling the sum each week to the end of the year. She -had a turn for figures, and staggered me by showing that I should have -to provide £4,691,249,611,844, 5s. 3³⁄₄d. to carry out my plan! - - -38 - -Now that Ellen Terry has written “The Story of My Life,” this anagram -has a special interest:-- - - LYCEUM THEATRE, STRAND. - _Teach and melt us, Terry!_ - - -38a. RING OUT, WILD BELLS! - -More startling than the well-known calculation of payment by -continuously doubling the farthing given for the first nail in a horse’s -shoe, is the fact that the possible changes on a peal of 24 bells would -not be exhausted if every minute of 4000 years were prolonged to a -period of 10,000 years! - - -39. A SCHOLAR AT PLAY - -Erasmus himself was responsible in one of his lighter moments for the -following ingenious play upon his name:-- - - Quæritur unde mihi sit nomen Erasmus, _eras mus_; - Si _sum mus_ ego, te judice, _summus_ ero! - - -40. QUITE AN EYESORE! - -“Well!” cried an agitated carpenter to his mate, “of all the saws that I -ever saw saw, I never saw a saw saw as this saw saws!” - - -41. THE PUNSTER’S LAMENT - - If I be duly punished - For every foolish pun I shed, - I shall not find one puny shed - In which to hide my punnish head! - - -42. A GOOD ANAGRAM - - CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER. - -The same letters recast spell-- - - _If so, man, refuse poison at once!_ - - -43. A TOUR DE FORCE - -The following curiosity, constructed some years ago for prize purposes -by the Editor, shows how, in word or letter juggling, difficulties can -be overcome:-- - -A sentence in which each letter of the alphabet is used exactly twice: - -“XLV gruff nymphs jerk XLV jaws,” quoth wag B. Dick, Q.C., to Ben Dizzy, -M.P. - - -44. THE MISSING LINK - -If anagrams count, our “ancestor” was not a monkey but a _Norse cat_! - - -45. A STRIKING ANAGRAM - -The name of Randle Holmes, author of a notable book on heraldry, was so -recast that it formed the words: “Lo, men’s herald!” - - -46. A CURIOUS PALINDROME - - Dog as a devil deified lived as a god. - - -47. AFTER THE EVENT - -_An Anagram._ - - The Oxford and Cambridge annual Boat-race. - _Cantab blue had raced in an extra good form._ - - -48. TO FIND THE GOLD - -Tell a person who holds a sovereign in one hand and a shilling in the -other to reckon 4 for the gold, and 3 for the silver. Then bid him -triple what is in the right hand, and double what is in the left, and -give you the added product. If this is an _even_ number the gold is in -the right hand, if _odd_ it is in the left. - - -49. A MUSICAL ANAGRAM - - ADELINA PATTI. - _Adept Italian._ - - -50. A HAPPY THOUGHT - -Sir Charles Napier’s witty despatch, “Peccavi!” “I have Scinde!” is -familiar to us. Not so well known is the happy phrase attributed to Sir -Colin Campbell, “Nunc sum fortunatus!” “I am in Lucknow!” - - -51. A CLEVER TRIPLE ANAGRAM - -Owen, the Welsh epigrammatist, composed this very clever Latin line:-- - - In _verbis, ubi res_ postulat, esto _brevis_. - - (“In words, where the matter requires it, be brief.”) - - The words in italics are spelt with the same six letters. - - -52. CAN SUCH THINGS BE? - -Take a long strip of paper, say 9 in. by 2 in., which will have, of -course, an upper and an under surface and two edges along its length. -How can you arrange this strip, by quite a simple method so that it will -have only _one_ surface and _one_ edge? - - -53. - -Can you divide nine into two parts which are together equal to ten? - - -54. FOLDING A FLOCK - -A shepherd had a flock of sheep in a fold enclosed by 100 hurdles. His -master made a large purchase at the annual fair, and required him to pen -some pigs with 16 of the hurdles, and to arrange the remainder so that -they could accommodate nine times as many sheep as the 100 hurdles had -contained. How was this possible? - - -55. A NEAT TRICK - -Here is a neat final trick, if you have some reputation for sleight of -hand. Place three biscuits on the table in a row, and cover each of them -with a borrowed hat. Raise each hat in turn, gravely eat the biscuit, -and replace the hat. Then undertake that the three biscuits shall be -under whichever hat is selected. How can you contrive this? - - -56. VERY SMALL CHANGE - -In how many different ways can 7s. 3d. be paid away in current coin of -the realm, without ever using exactly the same set of coins a second -time? - - - - -SOLUTIONS - - -FRONTISPIECE - -The words which describe this picture can be recast, letter for letter, -into the perfect anagram-- - -[Illustration: “Please, Mister Elephant, are you there?”] - - -No. IV. - -It is said that there are 86 ways in which the numbers in this model -magic square can be added up so that they make 34. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 4│ 15│ 14│ 1║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 9│ 6│ 7│ 12║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 5│ 10│ 11│ 8║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 16│ 3│ 2│ 13║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -It is not difficult to discover more than half this number that are -symmetrical, including, of course, the 4 rows, 4 columns and 2 -diagonals. Here are a dozen samples, from which others can be seen-- - - 4, 1, 16, 13. - 15, 14, 3, 2. - 14, 12, 5, 3. - 6, 7, 10, 11. - 15, 8, 9, 2. - 1, 6, 11, 16. - 14, 8, 9, 3. - 9, 15, 2, 8. - 4, 5, 12, 13. - 4, 5, 11, 14. - 4, 9, 8, 13. - 9, 14, 3, 8. - - -No. VIII - -Here is the completed magic square-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║216│175│224│183│232│191│240│199│248║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║247│215│174│223│182│231│190│239│207║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║206│246│214│173│222│181│230│198│238║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║237│205│245│213│172│221│189│229│197║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║196│236│204│244│212│180│220│188│228║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║227│195│235│203│252│211│179│219│187║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║186│226│194│243│202│251│210│178│218║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║217│185│234│193│242│201│250│209│177║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║176│225│184│233│192│241│200│249│208║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Every row, column and diagonal adds up to exactly 1908. - - -No. IX - -This up-to-date magic square adds up to 1908 in quite 56 different -symmetrical ways. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║469│484│472│483║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║481│474│478│475║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║482│471│485│470║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║476│479│473│480║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Here are 44 of them-- - - Rows 4 - Columns 4 - Diagonals 2 - The corners 1 - Corners of squares of 9 cells 4 - Squares of 4 cells 9 - Opposite pairs of outside cells 6 - Opposite pairs of short diagonals - Such combinations as 469, 481, 485, 473 8 - Such combinations as 482, 484, 472, 470 - -- - Total 44 - -There are a dozen other ways, more or less symmetrical, such as 481, -474, 483, 470; or 474, 485, 470, 479. - - -No. X - -This is the rearrangement of the domino magic square-- - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - -The three-ace, which was a corner stone in the former diagram now -occupies the centre, and the rearrangement was effected by first -transferring the two bottom rows to the top, and then the fourth and -fifth columns to the extreme left. This method of shifting the stones -does not affect the magic quality of the square. - - -No. XI - -The affinity between chess and numbers is well illustrated by the -Knight’s tour on this diagram-- - -[Illustration] - -The Knight starts from the square marked 1, and returns at last to it. -The constant difference between any opposite and corresponding numbers -in cells that are equidistant from the centre is 18. - - -No. XII - -Here are the cells in the diagram of our Numbers Patience, so filled in -that each of the rows across from side to side adds up exactly to 143. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 17│ 30│ 41│ 31│ 24║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 18│ 32│ 13│ 46│ 34║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 11│ 12│ 14│ 50│ 56║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 51│ 19│ 42│ 16│ 15║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 22│ 21│ 35│ 45│ 20║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Each cell contains, in accordance with the conditions, a different -number. - - -No. XIII - -This is the division of a square into fifteen parts, which will form the -windmill:-- - -[Illustration] - -This puzzle may, of course, be reversed, the parts of the square being -given, and the solver asked to form with them a symmetrical windmill. - - -No. XIV - -In this nest of 49 squares it is possible to count 784 distinct -interlacing figures, whose opposite sides are equal, and whose angles -are all right angles. - - ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ - -Of these 784 rectangles 140 are squares. - - -No. XV - -This is the domino magic square, in which all the stones are used except -double-six, double-five and six-five. - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - - ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ - │ ● ● │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ - ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ ├─────┤ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - │ │ │ ● │ │ │ │ │ │ ● │ - │ ● ● │ │ │ │ ● ● │ │ ● │ │ ● ● │ - └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ - -All rows, columns and diagonals add up to 27, as do the stones in the -four corner cells and the four central border cells of the full square, -and of the square of nine cells in the middle. - - -No. XVI - -Those to whom games of Patience appeal will find an interesting and -pretty form of it in the construction of a pyramid with a complete set -of dominoes. - - ┌───┬───┐ - │ 5 1 │ - └───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 3 1 ║ 5 3 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 2 ║ 3 3 ║ 6 4 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 2 1 ║ 5 6 ║ 1 ║ 5 4 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 3 4 ║ 2 6 ║ 6 ║ 4 ║ 2 3 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ ║ 5 5 ║ 2 2 ║ 4 4 ║ 1 1 ║ 6 6 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - ┌───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───╥───┬───┐ - │ 3 6 ║ 6 1 ║ 5 2 ║ 4 2 ║ 4 ║ 5 ║ 3 │ - └───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───╨───┴───┘ - -Solvers may like to study the position given, which is one of many that -are possible, and to discover for themselves the ruling conditions which -are its characteristics. - - -No. XVII - -When the boy’s father came up just in time to stop him from breaking out -of bounds, and said, “Never throw a leg, lad,” - -[Illustration] - -the rest of the sentence, spelt with _exactly the same letters_, was -“over the garden wall!” - - -No. XVIII - -“Catastrophe,” the title of the tragedy foreshadowed, can be recast into -“_A cat! stop her!_” By similar process the words, “New parrot stand in -a house,” become “_He turns on a soda-water tap!_” - -[Illustration] - -The parrot’s ready resource and triumph is depicted here with striking -effect. - - -No. XIX - -When the judge at a baby show said to the mother of the small boy whose -thumb was in his mouth, “Your lad Tommy likes such tit-bits,” the -precocious child replied, as he removed his comforting hand, in a -sentence spelt with _exactly the same letters_, “So to-day, sir, I suck -my little thumb.” - -[Illustration] - - -No. XX - -When the lady sitting at the back of this overloaded wagonette said to -her husband, “This big load quite hinders his pull,” in her sympathy -with the struggling horse, - -[Illustration] - -he made this very practical reply, in a sentence spelt with _exactly the -same letters_: “Do sit quiet, girl; I shall push behind!” - - -No. XXI - -When a bystander whispered to the marker, “Eh! what a stout player is -striking!” - -[Illustration] - -an appropriate reply, spelt with _exactly the same letters_, would have -been: “He plays without taking a rest, sir.” - - -No. XXII - -The two English words appropriate to this picture-- - -[Illustration] - -which have as their anagrams “Or not a man first,” and “O I love nuts!” -are _Transformation and Evolutions_. - - -No. XXIII - -This is a fancy portrait of William-- - -[Illustration] - -We decide by anagram whether this is _William or dear Jack_, for these -words, when recast, spell “I am Will, a card joker!” - - -No. XXIV - -The word indicated by this picture in combination with the lines below -it-- - -[Illustration] - - Begin with the end of my first, - And then you will find out the rest; - For it all will appeal to your thirst, - Or point to a ponderous guest. - -is _Stout_. - - -No. XXV - -The words of Jigger’s wife, when she said that he seemed to be in a “sad -pet,” were true by anagram. - -[Illustration] - -His ball hugs the cushion so closely as to be completely _pasted_. - - -No. XXVI - -When, as they held on to the fractious cow, the farmer exclaimed, “See, -we hold this cow’s horns and tail,” - -[Illustration] - -his foreman, using exactly the same letters in his sentence, said-- - - “She cannot toss, her wild head is low.” - - -No. XXVII - -While the horse shown in this picture might be saying, if it could -speak, “I’m a train’d stepper!”-- - -[Illustration] - -the driver, from his point of view, might say, as he held him in check, -“Spirit and a temper!” making use in his words of _exactly the same -letters_. - - -No. XXVIII - -When one onlooker, seeing the artist working with his feet, said-- - - “Why, now I see this fine artist has no hand!” - -[Illustration] - -the other replied, using exactly the same letters, - - “He draws in any fashion with his ten toes!” - - -No. XXIX - -When her husband, showing this picture - -[Illustration] - -said to his wife, “This is a wine bottle, dear, on a lure,” she, knowing -that temptation in this form would fail, said, as she glanced at his -illustration of their aims, in words spelt with exactly the same -letters:-- - - “And see, he will not rise at our bait!” - - -No. XXX - -The sturdy musician, who had said, “What shall I play?” to which some -one replied, “Any strains of Beethoven, he charms all!” as this was not -an acceptable suggestion, struck up a piece after his own heart. - -[Illustration] - -He said, as he struck the strings, in a sentence composed of exactly the -same letters--“Nay, for this ’cello heaven sent a Brahms!” - - -No. XXXI - -Here is the picture of a parsnip lying across a swede readjusted and -reversed. - -[Illustration] - -We gave as a clue the anagram-- - - “Here is our parsnip on swede.” - - ANAGRAM - - _Wise and superior person he!_ - -but this is now hardly needed to show who is thus represented in -friendly caricature: (With apologies to G. B. S.) - - -No. XXXII - -The letter puzzle is solved thus-- - - L E V E L - E E E E - V V V - E E E E - L E V E L - -Within this square the word LEVEL runs in twelve different directions, -being itself a palindrome. - - -No. XXXIII - -The sentence formed with the ten letters above the line, which is the -key to this sum, is _Do your best_. If these letters are numbered -consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the corresponding -figures are substituted for the letters, the sum works out as is shown -in the second diagram-- - - S B 9 7 - R E 6 8 - Y D 3 1 - O T 4 0 - U O 5 2 - ------ ----- - O E E 2 8 8 - ===== ===== - - -No. XXXIV - -The twelve names of flowers and foliage that may be gathered within -these borders, by moving in any direction one square at a time, - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ 7 ║ - ║ L│ L│ B│ H│ P│ E│ F║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ 8 │ 9 │10 │11 │12 │13 │14 ║ - ║ L│ Y│ E│ L│ O│ R│ N║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║15 │16 │17 │18 │19 │20 │21 ║ - ║ I│ V│ B│ R│ I│ V│ K║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║22 │23 │24 │25 │26 │27 │28 ║ - ║ A│ L│ E│ T│ O│ N│ I║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║29 │30 │31 │32 │33 │34 │35 ║ - ║ C│ N│ A│ S│ U│ L│ P║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -are 18, 26, 32, 24, _Rose_; 25, 33, 34, 28, 35, _Tulip_; 35, 28, 27, 21, -_Pink_; 31, 32, 25, 24, 18, _Aster_; and, in similar ways, _Verbena_; -_Salvia_; _Ivy_; _Lily_; _Lilac_; _Heliotrope_; _Fern_; and _Bell_. - - -No. XXXV - -The solution of this little problem, set by Dr Puzzlewitz on his -blackboard to test the powers of his young pupils--“What are the values -of A and B, when 4 is the result of dividing A by B, or of subtracting B -from A?”-- - - ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ - ┃ ┃ - ┃ A - B = 4 ┃ - ┃ ┃ - ┃ A ÷ B = 4 ┃ - ┃ ┃ - ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ - -is that A = 5¹⁄₃ and B = 1¹⁄₃. - - -No. XXXVI - -This is the diamond squared:-- - - ┌───┐ - │ s │ - ┌───┼───┼───┐ - │ h │ i │ s │ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ h │ i │ n │ t │ s │ - ┌───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┐ - │ s │ i │ n │ u │ o │ u │ s │ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ s │ t │ o │ r │ m │ - └───┼───┼───┼───┼───┘ - │ s │ u │ m │ - └───┼───┼───┘ - │ s │ - └───┘ - -in which the words read alike from top to bottom, and from left to -right. - - -No. XXXVII - -This is the arrangement of the 32 letters in the 64 cells-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ │ A │ │ E │ I │ │ O │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ E │ O │ │ │ │ │ A │ I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ A │ I │ E │ O │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I │ │ O │ │ │ A │ │ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O │ │ I │ │ │ E │ │ A ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ E │ O │ A │ I │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ A │ I │ │ │ │ │ E │ O ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ E │ │ A │ O │ │ │ I ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -No A is in the same column, row, or diagonal with another A, no E with -another E, no I with another I, and no O with another O. - - -No. XXXVIII - -This is the anagram square, with the letters, which in the former -diagram spelt the words _vote_, _wove_, _prow_, _call_, _stew_, _news_, -_core_, _nape_, recast into fresh words which now read alike from top to -bottom and from left to right of the square. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║###│ C │###│ R │###│ O │###│ W ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ C │###│ L │###│ A │###│ W │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ L │###│ O │###│ V │###│ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ R │###│ O │###│ P │###│ E │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ A │###│ P │###│ E │###│ S ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O │###│ V │###│ E │###│ N │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ W │###│ E │###│ N │###│ T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ W │###│ E │###│ S │###│ T │###║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -The empty squares and diagonal setting are necessary for this particular -puzzle, as the words would not form a word square if their letters were -placed below one another in the usual way. - - -No. XXXIX - -The sentence formed with the ten letters above the line, which is the -key to this sum, is--_Add these up_. If these letters are numbered -consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the corresponding -figures are substituted for the numbers, the sum works out as is shown -below. - - D U 2 9 - E H 6 5 - E D 8 3 - A P 1 0 - S T 7 4 - ----- ----- - D E A 2 6 1 - ===== ===== - - -No. XL - -The four words, seek, slab, leek, moan, which were placed on the white -squares when recast form the following combination:-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║###│ M │###│ A │###│ S │###│ K ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ A │###│ B │###│ L │###│ E │###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║###│ S │###│ L │###│ O │###│ E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ K │###│ E │###│ E │###│ N │###║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -These fresh words read alike from side to side, and zigzag from top to -bottom. - - -No. XLI - -These are the four words, recast by anagram from afar, task, seat, leal, -and which now form a perfect word square. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ F │ A │ S │ T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ A │ R │ E │ A ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S │ E │ A │ L ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T │ A │ L │ K ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - -No. XLII - -The word square is recast thus-- - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ c │ r │ e │ s │ s ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ r │ e │ a │ c │ h ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ e │ a │ g │ e │ r ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ s │ c │ e │ n │ e ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ s │ h │ r │ e │ d ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Its words are spelt with the same letters as the words _chess_, _greed_, -_canes_, _rears_, _cheer_, which formed the original square, but did not -read alike from top to bottom, and from left to right, as these do. - - -No. XLIII - -The five familiar proverbs hidden in this square of 169 letters are: A -rolling stone gathers no moss. Too many cooks spoil the broth. A live -dog is more to be feared than a dead lion. You cannot eat your cake and -have it. Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. - - R E N O W N E D T H A N W - S Y O U R C A K E A N D A - S T E T O B E F E A R H R - E A R K S S P O I L E A F - L E O O H E R S N T D V O - O T M O T L I N O H T E U - N O S C A L A G M E H I R - S N I Y G O R S O B A T S - E N G N E N O T S R N P A - I A O A M O O T S O A E W - R C D E V I L A H T D A S - O U O Y N O I L D A E C A - T C I V R E H H T A H E Z - - -No. XLIV - -[Illustration] - -If the shaded circles are cut out and the diagram is placed squarely -over the jumbled letters, with the I., II., III., IV. in turn at the top -left-hand corner, this sentence is disclosed-- - - Le premier Supplément du Journal de la Jeunesse a été publié dans le - Numéro du Dix-neuf Juin Mil huit cent soixante-quinze. - - -No. XLV - -This is the way to reconstruct Sam Loyd’s black pony--so that, while its -legs and tail are strangely misplaced, they form the spirited outline of -a white galloping horse. - -[Illustration] - - -No. XLVI - -Here is the key to Sam Loyd’s ingenious puzzle-- - -[Illustration] - -which shows the jockeys and horses in full racing trim. - - -No. XLVII - -This is the inevitable result of the boy’s attempt to annex with his -mouth the sugar on the chair-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. XLVIII - -The leap-frog puzzle is solved in nine hops thus:-- - -[Illustration] - -First jump from stool 2, then from 5, 3, 6, 7, 1, 3, and 6 in turn to -the vacant stools. - - -No. LV - -This diagram shows that the seven wheels, which spin so merrily when the -paper is rotated in the hand, can be divided off into separate -enclosures by only three straight lines-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. LVI - -The diagram below shows how the market-gardener, keeping one-fourth of -his square field for himself in the shape of a triangle, was able to -divide the remainder so that each of his four sons had an equal portion -of similar shape-- - -[Illustation] - - -No. LVII - -Here is a drawing of the perfect Latin cross-- - -[Illustation] - -The position of the two long pieces does not readily suggest itself to -those who try to arrange the five on paper with a pencil. - - -No. LVIII - -This diagram shows the effectual means taken by four rich men, whose -houses were further afield, to exclude four poor men from all access to -a central lake, that they might reserve the fishing for themselves. - -[Illustration] - -They built a high wall on the lines that are indicated which, while it -left a way for each of them to the water, altogether shut it away from -their poor neighbours. - - -No. LIX - -This is the square that can be formed with the ten pattern pieces -given-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. LX - -The dotted lines in this diagram show how the figure can be divided into -nine parts by four straight cuts - -[Illustration] - -which can be reunited to form a perfect cross. - - -No. LXI - -This is a simple way by which the figure given can be divided by four -straight cuts into four equal and similar parts-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. LXII - -This is the way to draw twenty-two straight lines within the circle at -right-angles to each other, so that they divide it into four similar -parts-- - -[Illustration] - -and each part has three dots within its borders. - - -No. LXIII - -These diagrams show how the upper triangle is divided into five parts, -which can be rearranged to form the equilateral triangle below. - -[Illustration] - -The originator of this ingenious novelty says, “The method of -construction is not shown, but its application is general, and the -result is easily verified by measurement.” - - -No. LXVI - -This is an arrangement of the twenty-seven counters in nine rows, six in -a row, within the borders of an equilateral triangle. - - * - ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ - * * - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - * * * - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - ╱ * * ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ * ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - *─────*─────*───────*─────*─────* - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - *─────*─────*───────────*─────*─────* - ╱ ╱ ╱ ╲ ╲ ╲ - *─────*─────*───────────────*─────*─────* - - -No. LXVII - -All the cards of one colour, when placed alternately, can be brought -together in four moves, two at a time, thus-- - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ A │ │ 2 │ │ 3 │ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │ │ 8 │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♠ │ │ ♡ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♡ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - Place two and three beyond eight; Place five and six between one and - four; Place eight and two between four and seven; Place one and five - between seven and three. - - -No. LXVIII - -You can in a moment tell the number chosen on these cards, when you are -told on which of them it appears, - - ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐║ - ║│ I. ││ II. ││ III. ││ IV. │║ - ║│ ││ ││ ││ │║ - ║│ 1 33 65 97││ 2 34 66 98││ 4 36 68 100││ 8 40 72 104│║ - ║│ 3 35 67 99││ 3 35 67 99││ 5 37 69 101││ 9 41 73 105│║ - ║│ 5 37 69 101││ 6 38 70 102││ 6 38 70 102││ 10 42 74 106│║ - ║│ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 7 39 71 103││ 11 43 75 107│║ - ║│ 9 41 73 105││ 10 42 74 106││ 12 44 76 108││ 12 44 76 108│║ - ║│ 11 43 75 107││ 11 43 75 107││ 13 45 77 109││ 13 45 77 109│║ - ║│ 13 45 77 109││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110││ 14 46 78 110│║ - ║│ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111││ 15 47 79 111│║ - ║│ 17 49 81 113││ 18 50 82 114││ 20 52 84 116││ 24 56 88 120│║ - ║│ 19 51 83 115││ 19 51 83 115││ 21 53 85 117││ 25 57 89 121│║ - ║│ 21 53 85 117││ 22 54 86 118││ 22 54 86 118││ 26 58 90 122│║ - ║│ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 23 55 87 119││ 27 59 91 123│║ - ║│ 25 57 89 121││ 26 58 90 122││ 28 60 92 124││ 28 60 92 124│║ - ║│ 27 59 91 123││ 27 59 91 123││ 29 61 93 125││ 29 61 93 125│║ - ║│ 29 61 93 125││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126││ 30 62 94 126│║ - ║│ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127││ 31 63 95 127│║ - ║└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘║ - ║ ┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐┌───────────────┐ ║ - ║ │ V. ││ VI. ││ VII. │ ║ - ║ │ ││ ││ │ ║ - ║ │ 16 48 80 112││ 32 48 96 112││ 64 80 96 112│ ║ - ║ │ 17 49 81 113││ 33 49 97 113││ 65 81 97 113│ ║ - ║ │ 18 50 82 114││ 34 50 98 114││ 66 82 98 114│ ║ - ║ │ 19 51 83 115││ 35 51 99 115││ 67 83 99 115│ ║ - ║ │ 20 52 84 116││ 36 52 100 116││ 68 84 100 116│ ║ - ║ │ 21 53 85 117││ 37 53 101 117││ 69 85 101 117│ ║ - ║ │ 22 54 86 118││ 38 54 102 118││ 70 86 102 118│ ║ - ║ │ 23 55 87 119││ 39 55 103 119││ 71 87 103 119│ ║ - ║ │ 24 56 88 120││ 40 56 104 120││ 72 88 104 120│ ║ - ║ │ 25 57 89 121││ 41 57 105 121││ 73 89 105 121│ ║ - ║ │ 26 58 90 122││ 42 58 106 122││ 74 90 106 122│ ║ - ║ │ 27 59 91 123││ 43 59 107 123││ 75 91 107 123│ ║ - ║ │ 28 60 92 124││ 44 60 108 124││ 76 92 108 124│ ║ - ║ │ 29 61 93 125││ 45 61 109 125││ 77 93 109 125│ ║ - ║ │ 30 62 94 126││ 46 62 110 126││ 78 94 110 126│ ║ - ║ │ 31 63 95 127││ 47 63 111 127││ 79 95 111 127│ ║ - ║ └───────────────┘└───────────────┘└───────────────┘ ║ - ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -by adding together the numbers at the top left-hand corner of these. - - -No. LXIX - -This diagram shows that the postman can take a course which involves -fewer turnings than that indicated, when he had to pass round eighteen -corners. - - ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● - ┇ ┇ - ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ●┅┅┅○ ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ● ● ● ● ● ●┅┅┅● ● - ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ ┇ - ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅● ●┅┅┅●┅┅┅●┅┅┅● - - -It will be seen that he has to turn only fifteen times. - - -No. LXX - -This shows how a square can be divided into three parts, so that these -can be reunited to form No. 2 and No. 3 of the diagram. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration: 1.] - -[Illustration: 2.] - -[Illustration: 3.] - -Try it with scissors and paper or cardboard. - - -No. LXXI - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │#♘#│ ♖ │#♚#│ ♖ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ │###│ │###│ │###│ │###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###│ │###│ │###│ │# #│###┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - -This position fulfils the conditions of the puzzle. Obviously it could -not occur in actual play. - - -No. LXXV - -The dotted lines in this diagram show where the flag with a cross taken -out from its centre must be cut, so that the two pieces can be rejoined -to form a perfect flag. - -[Illustration] - -The piece on the right is moved upward, and to the left. - - -No. LXXVI - -This is a way in which the eleven parts can be readjusted to form a -square:-- - -[Illustration] - - -No. LXXVIII - -This shows the shortest course-- - -[Illustration] - -This track takes him completely round every block, passing only once -round four of them. - - -No. LXXIX - -Here is a very simple and symmetrical arrangement, by which on a board -of 36 squares twelve counters are so placed that there are two, and two -only, on each line, column, and diagonal. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ ◎ │ │ │ │ │ ◎ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ ◎ │ │ │ ◎ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ ◎ │ │ │ ◎ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ │ │ ◎ │ ◎ │ │ ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ ◎ │ │ │ │ │ ◎ ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - - -There are other arrangements which fulfil the conditions. - - -No. LXXXI - -In this nest of triangles of five tiers there are 1196 separate -triangles, or nearly double the number (653) of a similar nest of four -tiers. - -[Illustration] - -In such a figure with 10,000 tiers there would be 6,992,965,420,332 -different triangles! - - -No. LXXXII - -The match puzzle, in which eight matches set in a row are to be -rearranged in four pairs, by passing one match over two four times-- - - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - -is solved, if the matches are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, by moving -4 to 7, 6 to 2, 1 to 3, and 5 to 8. - - -No. LXXXIII - -The lower diagram shows how, when three matches are removed from the -four squares, the remaining nine can be readjusted to represent three -squares-- - - ══════ ══════ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ═══════ ══════ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ - ══════ ══════ - - /-----\/-----\ - /-----\ - ═════ ═════ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ - ═════ ═════ - - -No. LXXXIV - -This diagram shows how different arrangements of four matches are -possible in all the thirty-six cells of the square. - - │ ╲ ╱ │ - │ ╳ │ = 1 - │ ╱ ╲ │ - - │ │ │ - │ │ ── │ = 1 - │ │ │ - ___ - ╱ │ - ╲ ╱ │ = 1 - V │ - - │ │ │ - │ ──+── │ = 2 - │ │ │ - - │ │ - │ │ - │ │ - ─── = 2 - │ - │ - │ - - │ │ │ │ - │ │ │ │ = 4 - │ │ │ │ - - ╲ ╱ │ - ╲ ╱ ── │ = 4 - V │ - - ╲ ╱ - ╲ ╱ - V - ───── = 5 - │ - │ - │ - - ___ - ╱ │ - ╱ ── │ = 6 - ╱ │ - - ___ - ╱ - ╱ - ╱ - ─── = 7 - │ - │ - │ - - ╲ ╱ │ │ - ╲ ╱ │ │ = 7 - V │ │ - - ╲ ╱ │ - ╳ ── │= 9 - ╱ ╲ │ - - │ │ │ - │ │ ── │ = 10 - │ │ │ - - ╲ ╱ - ╳ - ╱ ╲ - ─── = 10 - │ - │ - │ - - │ │ - │ │ - │ │ - ─── = 11 - │ - │ - │ - - ╲ ╱ │ │ - ╳ │ │ = 12 - ╱ ╲ │ │ - - │ ╱│ - │ ─┼─ = 14 - │ │ - - - ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ - ╳ ╲ ╱ = 15 - ╱ ╲ V - - ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ - ╳ ╳ = 20 - ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ - - ╲ ╱ │ - ╳ │ = 40 - ╱ ╲ │___ - - ╱│ │ - ─+─ │ = 41 - │ │ - - │ │ - │ ─── │ = 49 - │___ │ - - │ - │ - │___ - ───── = 50 - │ - │ - │ - - │ │ │ - │ │ │ = 52 - │___ │ │ - - │ ╲ ╱ - │ ╳ = 60 - │___ ╱ ╲ - - ___ - │ │ ╱ - │ │ ╱ = 117 - │ │ ╱ - - ___ - │ ╱ │ - │ ╱ │ = 171 - │ ╱ │ - - ___ - ╱ │ │ - ╱ │ │ = 711 - ╱ │ │ - - │╲ ╱│ - │ V │ = 1000 - │ │ - - ──── - │ │ - │ │ = 0 - │ │ - ──── - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ─── = ─── - │ │ 2 - │ │ - │ │ - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ───── = ─── - ╲ ╱ 5 - ╲ ╱ - V - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ──── = ─── - ___ 7 - ╱ - ╱ - ╱ - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ─── = ─── - ╲ ╱ 10 - ╳ - ╱ ╲ - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ─── = ─── - │ │ 11 - │ │ - │ │ - - │ - │ - │ 1 - ──── = ─── - │ 50 - │ - │__ - -In every case a whole number or a fraction is represented, with such -signs or lines as are necessary, and only four matches are used. - - -No. LXXXV - -It will be seen from the diagram below that the sentence, when filled in -as required, is “Rise to vote, sir.” - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ R | I | S | E | T | O | V | O | T | E | S | I | R ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | I | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S | | S | | | | | | | | S | | S ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ E | | | E | | | | | | E | | | E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T | | | | T | | | | T | | | | T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O | | | | | O | | O | | | | | O ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ V | | | | | | V | | | | | | V ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ O | | | | | O | | O | | | | | O ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ T | | | | T | | | | T | | | | T ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ E | | | E | | | | | | E | | | E ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ S | | S | | | | | | | | S | | S ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ I | I | | | | | | | | | | I | I ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╢ - ║ R | I | S | E | T | O | V | O | T | E | S | I | R ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -As this sentence is a perfect palindrome, and reads alike from either -end, it can be traced in a great number of different directions. - - -No. LXXXVII - -This subtraction sum may be very neatly worked, without reducing the -distances to inches, thus:-- - - ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗ - ║miles furlongs rods yards feet inches║ - ║ 1 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 ║ - ║ 7 „ 39 „ 5 „ 1 „ 5 ║ - ║ ─────────────────────────────────────────── ║ - ║ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 0 „ 1 ║ - ║ ═══════════════════════════════════════════ ║ - ║ ║ - ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝ - -Instead of borrowing one foot, we borrow half-a-foot--_i.e._, 6 inches; -taking 5 from the 6 we have 1 as a remainder; now carrying the 6 inches -to the 1 foot, and borrowing half a yard, and subtracting, we have 0 as -remainder; carrying the half-yard to the 5 yards, we borrow the full -5¹⁄₂ yards, which are one rod, and proceed in the usual manner -afterwards, with the result that is shown. - - -No. LXXXIX - -This is an arrangement of nine counters on the irregular board of 67 -squares. - - ┏━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┯━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |###| |###| |#●#┃ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - ┃###| |#●#| |###| |###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ ● |###| |###| |###| ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###| |###| |###| ● |###┃ - ┗━━━╅───┼───┼───┼───┼───╆━━━┛ - ┃#●#| |###| |###┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - ┃###| |###| |#●#| |###┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃ |###| |###| |###| ● ┃ - ┏━━━╃───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───╄━━━┓ - ┃ ● │###| |###| |###| |###│ ┃ - ┠───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┨ - ┃###| |###| |#●#| |###| |###┃ - ┗━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┷━━━┛ - -No two counters are in the same row, column, or diagonal. - - -No. XC - -This is the arrangement of nine cards in ten rows, three in each row-- - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ K │ │ Q │ │ K │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♢ │ │ ♠ │ │ ♡ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ A │ │ A │ │ A │ - │ │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ │ ♠ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ - │ 1 │ │ K │ │ J │ - │ 0 │ │ │ │ │ - │ ♡ │ │ ♣ │ │ ♢ │ - └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ - - -No. XCI - -The following diagram shows how the two ladies and their squires -represented by white Knights and black, and dressed to impersonate -Light, Liberty, Love, and Learning, started from the four comer squares, -and stepped a figure which exhibited at each pause a revolving square, -and in three paces came together in the centre, by a course traced upon -the lines of their combined monograms. - -[Illustration] - - -No. XCII - -The 5 maxims in these 36 cells-- - - ╔════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╤════════╗ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ he ║ - ║ tell │you know│ tells │ knows │ tells │ should ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ not ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ you │ │ thinks │ │ is ║ - ║ do │ think │ does │ of │ does │ not ║ - ║ │ of │ │ │ │ good ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ believe│you hear│believes│ hears │believes│is false║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ spend │you have│ spends │ has │ spends │he needs║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ is ║ - ║ judge │ you see│ judges │ sees │ judges │ not ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ there ║ - ╟────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────╢ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ║ never │ all │ he who │ all he │ often │ what ║ - ║ │ │ │ │ │ ║ - ╚════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╝ - -are disentangled by reading the lowest line with each of the upper ones -in turn. Thus the first maxim runs:--“Never tell all you know, he who -tells all he knows often tells what he should not,” and so on -throughout. - - -No. XCIII - -The dislocated circle is solved by making a single cut through the -dotted line shown in the diagram below, and join up the pieces. - -[Illustration] - -The second diagram shows how this figure is arrived at, by drawing three -similar and intersecting circles, which have their centres at the angles -of an equilateral triangle. The piece cut off by the dotted line -corresponds to the section that completes the circle below. - - -No. XCV - -The catch-words Cleans, Scrubs, Scours, Polishes, which proclaim the -merits of an “Old Dutch Cleanser” on the sails of this windmill, - -[Illustration] - -can be recast so that the same letters form the singularly appropriate -sentence-- - - “O rub on, sir, success spells cash!” - - -No. XCVI - -The following diagram shows the solution of this new chess puzzle, and -fulfils its conditions that no Queen should attack a Queen, no Rook a -Rook, no Bishop a Bishop, and no Knight a Knight. - - ╔═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╤═══╗ - ║ B ║#B#║ B ║#B#║ Q ║#R#║ B ║#B#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║###║ N ║#R#║ N ║###║ N ║###║ Q ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║ N ║#R#║ N ║#Q#║ N ║###║ N ║#B#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║#Q#║ N ║###║ N#║ R#║ N ║###║ B ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║ B ║###║ N ║###║ N ║###║ Q ║#R#║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║#B#║ Q ║###║ N ║###║ N ║#R#║ N ║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║ N ║###║ N ║#R#║ N ║#Q#║ N ║###║ - ╟───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───║ - ║#R#║ B ║#Q#║ N ║#B#║ B ║#B#║ N ║ - ╚═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╧═══╝ - -Mr Dudeney explains that only 8 Queens or 8 Rooks can be thus placed -upon the board, while the greatest number of Bishops is fourteen, and of -Knights thirty-two. But as all Knights must be placed on squares of the -same colour, while the Queens occupy four of each colour, and the -bishops seven of each colour, it follows that only twenty-one Knights -can be placed, and the arrangement shown above contains the maximum -number of these pieces under the conditions. - - -No. CII - -This diagram shows the order in which the syllables or words of the -eight-line verse are to be read on the course of a Knight’s moves at -chess-- - - ╔══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╤══════╗ - ║ 14 │ 55 │ 22 │ 37 │ 12 │ 51 │ 18 │ 35 ║ - ║ sor │ to │ king │ good │ say │ luck │ loy │ eth ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 23 │ 38 │ 13 │ 54 │ 17 │ 36 │ 11 │ 50 ║ - ║ and │ moth │ a │ soon │ dis │ our │ to │ bad ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 56 │ 15 │ 40 │ 21 │ 52 │ 9 │ 34 │ 19 ║ - ║ place│ ry │church│ his │ force│ is │ hat │ al ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 39 │ 24 │ 53 │ 16 │ 33 │ 20 │ 49 │ 10 ║ - ║ er │ queen│ him │ wight│ he │ to │ may │ truth║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 2 │ 57 │ 28 │ 41 │ 8 │ 61 │ 32 │ 47 ║ - ║ man │ his │ and │ and │ chess│ es │knight│ op’s ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 25 │ 42 │ 1 │ 60 │ 29 │ 48 │ 7 │ 62 ║ - ║ a │ sneer│ the │ and │ un │ lawn │ of │ tates║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 58 │ 3 │ 44 │ 27 │ 64 │ 5 │ 46 │ 31 ║ - ║ cas │ that │ at │ less │ pawn │ no │ bish │ lant ║ - ╟──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╢ - ║ 44 │ 26 │ 59 │ 4 │ 45 │ 30 │ 63 │ 6 ║ - ║ eth │ faith│ tles │ hath │ the │ gal │ in │ love ║ - ╚══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╝ - -They run thus:-- - - The man that hath no love of chess, - Is, truth to say, a sorry wight; - Disloyal to his King and Queen, - A faithless and ungallant Knight. - He hateth our good mother Church, - And sneereth at the bishop’s lawn; - May bad luck force him soon to place - His castles and estates in pawn! - - -No. CV - -If such a network as is shown in the diagram below is drawn on clear -tracing-paper and placed on the page of a book, it will conceal the -words beneath it. - -[Illustration] - -But if, while lying close to the page, it is moved quickly round and -about, the letters and words will be distinctly seen, just as objects on -the other side of close lattice-work become visible as we pass them -quickly in a train. - - -No. CVI - -These are the results of cutting, in the direction of the dotted lines, -completely round a simple paper ring, a ring with one twist, and a ring -with a double twist. - -[Illustration] - -We have (1) two simple rings; (2) one large-twisted ring; (3) two rings -linked together. If a third twist is given before cutting, a curious -knot is formed. - - -CVII - -The string when it has been placed in the position shown in the diagram, -and two buttons larger than the hole have been fixed upon its ends can -be easily removed if the narrow slip of the leather is drawn through the -hole. - -[Illustration] - - -CVIII - -The scissors, when securely fastened, as is shown in the diagram, - -[Illustration] - -can be easily released by passing the loop upward through the handle, -and then completely over them. - - -CIX - -The primitive wolf-trap consisted of two circular fences higher than a -wolf could scale, with a gate as was shown on the former diagram. To set -the trap a lamb was placed in the safe centre, and the gate was opened -as is shown below-- - -[Illustration] - -Attracted by the bleating of the lamb, the wolf entered the outer -circle, made his way round, and presently pushed aside the gate, which -closed with a spring, and shut off all escape. - - -No. CXII - -When you have told someone to think of a number between 5 and 15, and -while you are not looking, to count upwards from the lowest card step, -and round in the direction indicated by the arrow, until that number is -reached, and then, starting afresh with “one” on that card to count -backwards round the semi-circle, this time _not including the central -upright or the steps below it_, until the number thought of is again -reached, you can tell at once which is the final card arrived at, for it -will be as many places _upwards on the left_ as there are _step cards -and their upright_. - -[Illustration] - -Thus if there are 3 steps, it must always be the fourth card upwards on -the left of the semi-circle. To keep up the puzzle, the number of steps -should each time be changed, on the pretext that their number does not -signify. - - -No. CXIII - -This diagram shows how the apple may be divided into six pieces by two -straight cuts, so that there shall be a gash in each piece. - -[Illustration] - -First cut the apple through the dotted line, then place the upper piece -shown at the side of the larger piece, and make the second cut straight -through, where the line is drawn. - - -No. CXVII - -The sixpence under the middle of the tumbler can be easily removed -thus-- - -[Illustration] - -Slip larger coins under opposite edges of the tumbler to raise it -slightly, and then scratch firmly on the cloth, from just outside the -rim, in the direction you wish the sixpence to take. It will at once -respond, and makes its own way gradually outside the circle that had -surrounded it. - - -No. CXVIII - -This is the way to draw the spiral-- - -[Illustration] - -Tie a piece of strong thread with a loop at its end round the upper part -of the windings of a screw. Drive the screw into a board, through the -middle of a card, wind the thread down the screw so that its loop just -reaches the card, place a pencil in this loop, and draw the spiral -freely, unwinding the thread from the grooves of the screw, and keeping -it always taut. A perfect spiral is the result. - - -No. CXXII. - -The secret of the talking head is simple indeed when you know it. - -[Illustration] - -Between the front and two side legs of the table mirrors are fixed, -which reflect the similar surroundings, so that the performer, kneeling -behind these, and putting his head through a hole in the table top, -completely conceals his body and limbs from the audience. - - -No. CXXV - -The picture charade is completed thus-- - -[Illustration] - - My first may blow the candle out, - My second then comes in; - My whole in water moves about - Without an oar or fin-- - - -and is solved by _Puffin_. - - -No. CXXVI - -When the walnuts and cobnuts have been arranged as is shown on the -diagram-- - -[Illustration] - -they can be shifted so that they stand alternately, by moving two that -are close together at a time, in four moves, as follows:-- - -(1) Move 2 and 3 beyond 8. - -(2) Move 5 and 6 between 1 and 4. - -(3) Move what are now 6th and 7th in the gap. - -(4) Move what are now 1st and 2nd in the gap, and the alternate -arrangement is complete. - - -No. CXXVII - -The question suggested by this picture riddle is: Why is a waiter like a -racehorse? And the solution is: Because he runs for cups and plates. - -[Illustration] - - - - -WORD PLAY SOLUTIONS - - -1 - -The paradox-- - - Two words in our region of puzzledom pose, - And claim, through the passage of years, - That neither the pages of Johnson disclose, - While either in Murray appears. - -is solved by the lines-- - - This key unlocks our puzzle-box, - Johnson and Murray both give “neither,” - While, to complete the paradox, - Murray and Johnson both give “either!” - - -2 - -The verse is completed thus-- - - Rude Eurus murmurs, trustful buds uncurl, - Bulbs push, due culture nurtures fruitful flush; - Thrush builds, full sunhued plumes furze tufts unfurl, - Up bursts, pure flute-fugue, Bulbul’s tuneful gush. - - -3 - -The enigma-- - - I see my first, I see my next, - And both I sigh and see - Joined to my third, which much perplexed - And sorely puzzled me. - ’Twas fifty, and ’twas something more, - Reversed ’twas scarce an ell, - With first and next it forms a whole - Clear as a crystal bell. - What is my whole? A splendid tear - Upheld in cruel thrall; - Blow soft, ye gales, bright sun, appear! - And bid it gently fall. - -is solved by ICICLE. - - -4 - -The charade-- - - Take for my first a quadruped, - Transpose one for my second; - My whole, a biped, quick or dead - Is dainty reckoned. - -is solved by _Pigeon_ (_one_ becomes _eon_). - - -5 - -Byron’s enigma-- - - I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age, - But in infancy ever am known; - I’m a stranger alike to the fool and the sage, - And though I’m distinguish’d in history’s page - I always am greatest alone. - - I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon; - You may search all the sky--I’m not there; - In the morning and evening--though not in the noon-- - You may plainly perceive me--for, like a balloon, - I am midway suspended in air. - - Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain, - I am never in sorrow nor gloom; - Though in wit and in wisdom I equally reign, - I’m the heart of all sin, and have long lived in vain, - Yet I ne’er shall be found in the tomb! - -is solved by the letter I. - - -6 - - I am bright as a whole - Till you cut off my head; - Then as black as a coal, - Or a mortal instead. - Shaken up and recast - We with science are found, - Read us back from the last - And we live underground. - -is solved by _Star_, _tar_, _arts_, _rats_. - - -7 - -Horace Smith’s charade-- - - In arts and sciences behold my first the watchword still, - All prejudice must bend the knee before its iron will; - Yet “Onward!” is the Briton’s cry--a cry that doth express - A holy work but half begun, and speaks of hopefulness. - In palace or in lonely cot its name alike is heard, - And in the Senate’s lordly halls sit my second and my third. - Strange paradox, though for my first my total is designed, - Sad marks of vice and ignorance we in that whole may find. - -is solved by _Reformatory_. - - -8 - - Untouched I tell of budding growth and life; - Beheaded I lead upward more or less; - Again--with varied fragrance I am rife; - Again--but little value I express. - -is solved by _Nascent_, _ascent_, _scent_, _cent_. - - -9 - -The enigma-- - - Search Holy Writ and you will see - A victory was won by me. - Behead me, and I may be found - In water or on hilly ground. - Behead again, and then transpose, - A snare my letters now disclose. - If yet again my head you sever, - No matter how sharp-set or clever, - ’Tis all in vain you look about, - For no one yet has found me out. - -is solved by _Sling_, _ling_, _gin_, _in_. - - -10 - -The charade-- - - Said a lawyer aside to his friend in the court, - “Now I’d bet, were we not in this place, - That my first is my second a bottle of port,” - Then bright with my whole shone his face. - -is solved by _Pleasure_. - - -11 - -The answer to the problem-- - - Six horse ’buses and four motor ’buses travel each hour from Temple - Bar to the Bank. The horses take 15 minutes, and the motors 10 minutes - on the journey. - - If I come to Temple Bar, and wish to reach the Bank as soon as - possible, shall I take the first horse ’bus that turns up, or wait for - a motor? It must be assumed that I can only see a ’bus as it actually - passes me-- - - is (1) Take a motor if it comes first. - - (2) Take a horse ’bus if it comes first, and comes within 2¹⁄₂ minutes - of waiting. - - (3) Wait for a motor if a horse ’bus comes first, but does not come - till after 2¹⁄₂ minutes. - -As I may have to wait 0 minutes or 15 minutes, the average time of -waiting will be 7¹⁄₂ minutes. - -If I wait _x_ min., and a horse ’bus arrives, I should reach the Bank in -15 mins, if I took it. - -If I waited longer for a motor, which, on the average, will now turn up -in 7¹⁄₂ - _x_ mins., I should reach the Bank in 17¹⁄₂ - _x_ mins. - -If, therefore, _x_ is greater than 2¹⁄₂, the motor is the quicker. - - -12 - -The historical charade-- - - My first, if foolishly or rashly taken, - May mar the future prospects of your life. - My second, by her fickle lord forsaken - (Sad type of many a gentle, patient wife). - May toil and moil to feed his many babies, - While he goes flirting off with other ladies. - The thrifty monarch of a former age - My whole a place in Britain’s history fills. - Immortalised in Shakespeare’s magic pages - As one who’d fain reform his tailor’s bills! - -is solved by _Stephen_ (Step-hen). - - -13 - - - My _second_, worn with pompous pride, - My _first_ had dangling at his side, - On chain securely hooked. - My _first_ he came from o’er the sea, - A bundle of conceit looked he, - And he was all he looked. - - She led him to the village green, - Where in desponding mood was seen - My _whole_, with drooping head. - “Behold,” she said, “a perfect, true - And striking likeness, sir, of you!” - And, laughing, gaily fled. - -is solved by _Donkey_. - - -14 - -Lewis Carroll turns WHEAT into BREAD, changing one letter each time, and -preserving their general order throughout, thus-- - - WHEAT; cheat; cheap; cheep; creep; creed; - breed; BREAD. - - -15 - -_Unity_ is a probable solution of the old enigma, part of which -evidently refers to “a house divided against itself”-- - - I’m one among a numerous host, - And very useful in my post; - There’s not a house in all the land - Without me properly can stand. - Though men disputed long ago - Whether I did exist or no, - Once more some thousands have been slain - Because they could not me attain. - - -16 - -The anagram proverbs, “These grave lips chatter no ill,” and “Elephants, -all to richest giver,” are both founded on _Little pitchers have long -ears_, and spelt with exactly the same letters. - - -17 - -The charade-- - - My first of rudeness has a sound; - The rest is in a city found; - My whole to win its way is bound. - -is solved by _Pertinacity_. - - -18 - -The buried potentate in the lines-- - - My first is in cake, but not in bun; - My second in light, but not in sun; - My third is in night, but not in day; - My fourth is in game, but not in play; - My fifth is in head, but not in tail; - My sixth is in wind, but not in sail; - My seventh in wrong, but not in right; - My eighth is in battle, but not in fight; - My ninth is in sword, but not in knife, - My tenth is in lady, but not in wife; - My whole is a monarch at war with strife. - -is _King Edward_. - - -19 - -The charade-- - - My first except when it is old - Is never seen or heard; - When it is heard the sound is tolled - Out of a Jewish beard. - My next was in imperial Rome, - It was her power and might; - Then you had but to write _you wish_, - And straightway ’twas in sight. - - My whole was Frank - Of royal rank. - -is solved by _Clovis_ (_vis_ in Latin is both _power_ and _you wish_). - - -20 - - How great in olden days my power, - Oft have I saved a castle tower - From war’s invading tide. - Transpose me, and how great my fall! - I am then the smallest of the small, - That nothing can divide. - -is solved by _Moat_--_atom_. - - -21 - -The puzzle-- - - This compact Enigma take, - All apart its letters shake. - Let your 6, 3, 5 be high, - Like 5, 1, 2 do or die. - Who 4, 6, 5, 1 enjoys - More than 5, 6, 2 by boys? - While 5, 3, 2, 1 are mine, - May 4, 6, 3, 2 be thine. - 4, 1, 5 is rich and rare, - 6, 5, 1, 2 ends my prayer. - -is solved by the word Enigma, from which are formed, as is indicated, -the words _aim_, _men_, _game_, _man_, _mine_, _gain_, _gem_, and -_amen_. - - -22 - -The enigma-- - - “Charles the First walked and talked, - Half an hour after his head was cut off.” - _Old Couplet_. - - Cut off my head, I’m every inch a King, - A warrior formed to deal a heavy blow. - Halve what remains, my second is a thing - Which nothing but my third can e’er make go, - My third will vary as you take your line, - This less than human, that way all divine! - -is solved by _Dog_ (Og, go, dog, God). - - -23 - -The logograph-- - - Touch me not, I’m firm and sure; - Behead, I’m used by rich and poor; - In house and cottage, hut and hall, - I stand of service to them all. - Behead again, in time of need - I tell that strength and skill succeed. - -is solved by _Stable_, _table_, _able_. - - -24 - -The names that satisfy the conditions of this Single Acrostic-- - - What river is that, where it is found, - Which Pope says does with eels abound? - What Scottish lake, by high hills bounded, - Is with bright birch and oak surrounded? - What stream is said in Devon to run - Into the sea near Otterton? - What bay on Cuba’s distant coast - Is justly deemed its pride and boast? - The initials of these names will show - A Scotch reformer, who, we know, - Flourished three hundred years ago. - -are _Kennet_, _Ness_, _Otter_, _Xagua_, which give _Knox_. - - -25 - -The charade-- - - My whole may be a mother, not a dad, - So former may, or latter; - But twist my tail, and I become as mad - As any hatter! - - Behead me, and behold I am a man, - Who never was called mister; - Cut off my tail, and instantly I can - Become a sister! - -is solved by _Madam_ (_ma_, _dam_, _mad_, _Adam_, _Ada_). - - -26 - -In addition to the singularly appropriate anagram that has been so -happily attached to the name of Florence Nightingale, _Flit on, cheering -angel_, the same group of letters can be recast as an aspiration for her -continuance in our loving memory, so that they form the sentence, _Cling -on, feeling heart_. - - -27 - -The rebus-- - - I am - a man - I rate you - a beast - You know me - -reads thus:--I rate you lower than a man, above a beast. Know between -you and me I am above the rest. - - -28 - -The charade-- - - My first, thou knowest, was in ancient Rome, - Rome’s fate my next, and one that all may dread. - Long may it be before that fate shall come - And sever with my whole thy life’s last thread! - -is solved by _Scissors_ (Lat. _scis_, thou knowest; _sors_, a lot). - - -29 - -The poets’ names buried in the lines-- - - The sun is darting rays of gold - Upon the moor, enchanting spot; - Whose purpled heights, by Ronald loved, - Up open to his shepherd cot. - - And sundry denizens of air - Are flying--aye, each to his nest; - And eager make at such an hour - All haste to reach the mansions blest. - -are Gray, Moore, Byron, Pope, Dryden, Gay, Keats and Hemans. - - -30 - -The enigma-- - - This multiplies me, I declare, - Though it reduces one; - A sty is foul if it is there, - By it a deed is done. - -is solved by the letter _n_ (_me_ becomes _men_; _one_, _none_; _a sty_, -_nasty_.) - - -31 - - Lennie _parsed_ the words he read, - Studying _Praed’s_ fable; - Lennie’s mother _rasped_ the bread, - Sophy _drapes_ the table. - “Work while you are _spared_,” they said, - “_Spread_ while you are able!” - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -32 - -The charade-- - - When I write with my first, in my second, - My whole is quite sure to be in. - Divided afresh, there is reckoned - A wit, or a something that’s thin. - Prefix a letter, and, as clear as paint, - You see the name of an old English Saint, - -is solved by _Within_ (Swithin). - - -33 - -The puzzle lines-- - - My first, though half a noisy bird, - To a slight noise may turn; - My second-twist, a stately word, - And it will bend we learn. - -are solved by _Pardon_ (rap-nod). - - -34 - -The enigma-- - - To half of ten add one - Then half a score. - When this is duly done - Almost ten more. - This can be good for none, - But trial sore. - -is solved by _Vixen_. - - -35 - -The buried proverb-- - - I fancy this Tory outcry, this weary outrageous attempt to show - illegality, is as a cat chasing snow-flakes. I must be forgiven if I - shun his example--is-- - - _If you swear you will catch no fish_. - - -36 - - Quick _veerers_ in action, now timid, now bold, - Like _reevers_ of ropes far too rotten to hold, - _Reserve_ a _severer reverse_ and disasters - For a State that _reveres_ not incapable masters. - -The six words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -37 - - My first is an heir, - My second a snare, - My whole is the offspring of fancy, - Which I sent on its way - Last Valentine’s Day, - As a token of love to my Nancy. - -is solved by _Sonnet_. - - -38 - -The lover’s vow-- - - My love shall never know my first, - Shall never be my second; - It shall my all, come best, come worst, - Be surely reckoned. - -is solved by _Endless_. - - -39 - -The enigma-- - - I am a letter, and a word, - I am a tree, I am a name, - Cut me in pieces with a sword, - You and your act would be the same. - Thrice you must leave the aspirate in doubt, - And use it twice if you would find me out. - -is solved by U, You, Hugh, Yew, How. - - -40 - -If you “resist disasters,” this may, by anagram, _distress a sister_. - - -41 - -The charade-- - - My first the rainbow shows - When in rich hues it glows. - My next has vowels three; - My third was once a tree. - My fourth begins the year, - My whole the past makes clear. - -is solved by _Archæology_. - - -42 - -If you ask a schoolboy to estimate the value of the grass in a -triangular field, of which the longest side measures 100 rods, and each -of the other sides 50 rods, at £1 per acre, it may take him some little -time to see that he is being sold, since the condition is not fulfilled -that any two sides of a triangle _must be greater than the third side_. - - -43 - - Less than my last, my whole has place - Between my first and second: - Second has body, arms and face; - First is by inches reckoned. - -is solved by _waistcoat_. - - -44 - -The historical charade-- - - My first at early morn the camp alarms, - And at its sound the soldier springs to arms; - My second nowadays fair ladies scorn, - Though in less dainty days it oft was worn. - My whole, a battle fought on Scottish ground, - With victory the rebel forces crowned. - -is solved by the battle of _Drumclog_. - - -45 - - I love strolling _troupes_ that go wandering round, - Each _spouter_ a _Proteus_ in versatile skill; - Each _posture_ so quaint, each idea so profound, - My barn’s at their service, whenever they will. - A company played there last night, but to-day - Ducks, _pouters_, and poultry have vanished away! - -The five words in italics are spelt with the same seven letters. - - -46 - -The Arithmorem “150 hat robe or tent” forms the name Charlotte Bronte. - - -47 - -The Shedding Letters enigma-- - - I’m a worker most active, most useful, most known, - Of all that are busy in country and town. - Take from me one letter, and yet my good name - In spite of this loss will continue the same. - Take from me two letters, and still you will see - That precisely the same in effect I shall be. - Take from me three letters, or even take more, - Yet still I continue as sound as before. - -is solved by _The Postman_! - - -48 - -When Tom Larkins challenged his sisters to prove on a blackboard that if -50 is subtracted from the sum of the nine digits the result equals the -number obtained by dividing their sum by 3, he showed them that the sum -of the digits may be written thus: XLV, and that if the L, which -represents 50, is removed, XV, or 15, the third of 45, remains. - - -49 - -In the “Geese to Market” problem-- - - B drove a goodly flock of geese, - And met with Farmer A; - Said Farmer A, “How much apiece - For this lot did you pay?” - Said B, “I paid for all I drive - Just six pounds and a crown, - And I am selling all but five - At the next market town. - If fifteen pence a head I charge - Beyond the price I paid, - I shall secure a sum as large - As he who sold all made.” - -B bought 25 geese at 5s. each, and proposed to sell 20 of them at 6s. -3d. - - -50 - -The charade-- - - When second held first - For best or for worst, - I thought myself happy to win her. - But what could I say - When the very next day - She gave me the whole for my dinner? - -is solved by _Herring_. - - -51 - -In the lines-- - - The bees’ blithe vernal love-songs softly hum, - Blending so sweetly with the restful air; - The noiseless, deep-laced twilight shadows come, - And well I ken the lass who meets me there-- - -the familiar adage, “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home” -is buried. - - -52 - -The mutilations in-- - - A little beast without its head - Becomes a mighty beast instead: - But then the subject of my riddle - Is cut asunder in the middle; - And nothing this division gains, - Though unknown quantity remains. - -are _Fox_, _ox_, _o_, _x_. - - -53 - - Mary sat with _slate_ in hand, - Writing _tales_ dramatic. - Did she _steal_ the plots she planned? - Negative emphatic! - _Stale_ to us the _tales_ may be, - But at _least_ they’re new to she! - - -54 - -The old Sanscrit problem, quoted by Longfellow in his “Kavanagh,” - - Ten times the square root of a flock of geese, seeing the clouds - collect, flew to the Manus lake. One-eighth of the whole flew from the - edge of the water among a tangle of water lilies, and three couple - were seen playing in the water. Tell me, my young girl with beautiful - locks, what was the whole number of geese? - -is solved by 144. - - -55 - -The enigma-- - - Six hundred and sixty so ordered may be - That if you divide the whole number by three - You find the result will exactly express - The half of six hundred and sixty, no less-- - -is solved by turning the sixes of 660 upside down, when it becomes 990, -and satisfies the conditions. - - -56 - -The press parody ran thus-- - - There was a young turkey, oh, bless her! - It cost very little to dress her; - Some breadcrumbs and thyme - About Thanksgiving time, - And they ate every bit from the dresser! - - -57 - - She loses her head when she joins the brides, - He joins them after tea; - But both are swept by ruthless tides - Away on the western sea. - -is solved by _Hebrides_. - - -58 - -If I have 91 bananas on my barrow, and find, when I have sold one -quality at four a penny, and the other at three a penny, that in mixed -lots at seven for twopence I should have made a penny more, I had 64 of -inferior and 27 of better sort. - - -59 - -The words in italics have the same letters-- - - How does the sluggard’s garden grow? - When _rates_ are high, results are low. - His borders _tares_ and bindweed spoil, - No careful culture _tears_ the soil; - What weeds that _stare_ are all alive - Where _aster_, pink, or rose should thrive. - - -60 - - Correctly drawn results I yield, - Varied, but welcome everywhere; - But met with in the open field - I’m banned if frequent, blest if rare. - To this peculiar difference the clue - Is called with much significance the cue. - -is solved by _Cheque_, _check_ (the letter Q). - - -61 - -The three towns buried in the lines-- - - Wait while I think the matter over, - On holiday intent; - The best I’ve seen is surely Dover, - That pretty port of Kent. - -are _Leith_, _Thebes_, _St Ives_. - - -62 - - An Arab came to the river side, - With a donkey bearing an obelisk; - But he did not venture to ford the tide, - For he had to good an ass to risk (_asterisk_). - - So he camped all night by that river side, - Secure till the tide had ceased to swell, - For he knew that whenever the donkey died, - No other could be its _parallel_ (‖). - - -63 - -The charade-- - - What ho, my jolly _second!_ never say my _first_ - While my final you can find in Amsterdam. - Think how a sound _whole_ stays your hunger and your thirst, - Deftly readjusting bread and meat and jam. - -is solved by _Dietary_ (Amsterdam is on the River Y). - - -64 - -The schoolboy who calculated that if he had made as many more runs at a -cricket match, and half as many more, and two runs and a half, he would -have made a score, scored seven runs. - - -65 - -The enigma-- - - Six letters spell the happy state - Of two in love made one. - The same six letters tell the fate - Of marriage ties undone. - -is solved by _United_, _untied_. - - -66 - -The riddle-- - - My first’s a bond, my second’s weigh; - These own the rest of all my lay; - Busy my third; fourth like the pole, - Whose opposite my fifth makes goal. - -is solved by _Shackle_, _Tons_, _Ant_, _Arctic Expedition_. - -[Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackleton, R.N., leader of his South Polar -Expedition.] - - -67 - - For two months at the _nets_ we played, - Ere we were _sent_ to Lord’s; - Alas! the score our champion made - Was what a _nest_ affords. - The crowd in _tens_ of thousands came, - But took scant notice of the game. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -68 - -When Edwin and Angelina received these mutual Marconigrams-- - - “No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind.” - “In love inconstant I no pleasure find,” - -he was at Lisbon and she was at Constantinople, as is indicated by the -fact that the names of these places are “buried” in the messages. - - -69 - -The Mental Arithmetic-- - - Set down three figures in a line, - Then multiply by four; - This, if you use the proper sign, - Makes five, and nothing more. - -is solved by 1.25. In 1¹⁄₄ the figures are not _in a line_. - - -70 - -The doublet by missing words, in which a grilse is turned into a salmon, -is solved thus-- - - To silver Tweed, or broader Spey, - The _grilse_ of _silver_, _sailer_ gay, - Guides on; the _sailor morals_ draws - When _salmon_ follows Nature’s laws. - -One letter is changed in each link. - - -71 - -The enigma-- - - I never move, and yet I run - From place to place all day; - Some loving swain, hot foot for fun, - Sees Dora in my way-- - -is solved by _Road_, which spells also _Dora_. - - -72 - -The Letters-- - - ~HAATTCEUMSSSS~ - -form the name of the State _Massachusetts_. - - -73 - -The enigma-- - - Seven words in one of letters five we fix, - Six English, and one Latin; - No need to twist them, or afresh to mix, - If puzzles you are pat in. - -is solved by _There_: the words are--_there_, _here_, _her_, _the_, -_ere_, _he_, _re_. - - -74 - -The full solution of the answer by anagram to the question, “Why is -every angler ipso facto an Ananias?” is-- - - A liar, he spins gay fancies to a woven yarn. - -Question and answer are spelt with _the same letters_. - - -75 - -The quaint riddle-- - - Peter White - Will never go right; - Shall I tell you the reason why? - Wherever he goes, - He follows his nose, - And that stands all awry! - If this appendage had slanted more. - Why would it serve a hole to bore? - -is solved thus--It would be _Askewer_ (a skewer!) - - -76 - -“S” is the missing letter which occurs 55 times, and these are the four -lines:-- - - This season’s sunshine smiles, such storms as pass - Assist us to assess success or loss. - Spring’s sweetness still possesses mossy grass, - As summer’s tresses mass soft shades across. - - -77 - -The enigma-- - - Protected, open, plain, - Without my tail I’m flat; - I’m round, curtailed again; - Again, you have me pat! - -is solved by _Patent_, _paten_, _pate_, _pat_. - - -78 - -The logogriph-- - - When all are gay this holds the sway, - But take a letter out, - That change of fare is ruling there, - You see, without a doubt. - Behead me twice; it is not nice - To have this in your skin; - Lop head and tail, and find a nail - Or tack to drive it in. - Behead this right, and in your sight - A little word you find; - But you will never make it out, - Though it is in your mind. - -is solved by _feasting_, _fasting_, _sting_, _tin_, _in_. - - -79 - - He _prides_ himself much on his skill, - In many a burglary tried; - But when he _prised_ open the till - There was only a _spider_ inside. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -80 - -The enigma-- - - Three-fourths of me an act display, - Three-fourths a bed for man; - Three-fourths have legs that cannot stray, - Three-fourths have legs that can. - I have a back without a spine, - An arm without a bone is mine. - -is solved by _Coat_. - - -81 - -The charade-- - - My first is the French for my second, - My whole a narcotic is reckoned - -is solved by _Lethe_. - - -82 - -The two palindrome words which can be formed from the letters of the -sentence “Arrive to vote at it,” are _Rotator_ and _Evitative_. - - -83 - -The enigma-- - - Sweet till I lose my head, - Sweet-hearted then I show; - Decapitate again, I spread, - And cannot be below. - Served so once more, I am not dead, - But with fresh beauty glow. - -is solved by _Clover_, _lover_, _over_, _ver_ (Latin for Spring). - - -84 - -When Tommy undertook to put a shilling in his money-box if his father -would give him as much as he had in his purse, and after repeating the -process for three more days found himself penniless, he had elevenpence -farthing in his purse at first. - - -85 - - Two articles of English make, - And three from foreign source. - All these together you must take - Where dramas run their course. - -is solved by _Theatres_ (_tres_, Latin for _three_). - - -86 - -When young Hopeful said, “If it were possible I should choose a life -double as long,” and old Sobersides answered, “Yes, and you might turn -it to better account if it was also begun old,” and the fact that their -actual words “double as long,” and “also begun old,” were spelt with -_exactly the same letters_, gave emphasis to the reply. - - -87 - -The charade-- - - Lop head and tail, and you will find - I have both tail and head. - Or if for spirits you’ve a mind - Set my tail first instead. - - Life, as “a vapour full of woes,” - With many a darker page, - My whole in picture will disclose, - For “all the world’s a stage!” - -is solved by _Drama_, _ram_, _a dram_. - - -88 - - A glowing _transept_ window, graced - With _patterns_ that true art has traced. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -89 - -The proof by anagram that the words of commendation “blessed in pain,” -are properly applied to anæsthetics, is that exactly the same letters -spell _indispensable_. - - -90 - -The quotation buried in the sentence-- - - “What sin was it, sonny?” said an American negress to her lover, when - she sat on his best hat, which was flattened. Wearily he heard her - musical laugh, and arose to go. His hobby was botany, but not hers, - for she was then a merry girl. “Bother the flowers! I would prefer - this mellow pineapple, Leonidas,” she said; “I guess we Ethiopians - just love fruit!” - -is “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would -smell as sweet.” - - -91 - - They _grab_ the dress with grip so keen - That half the _garb_ gives way: - And home return with purses lean - To _brag_ of “bargain-day”! - -The words in italics are spelt with the same four letters. - - -92 - - Three _ladies_ went sailing out into the West, - Out into the West as the sun sank low; - Each thought as she _sailed_ of the lad she loved best - For they all had _ideals_, and each had a beau. - - · · · · · · · - - But seas will rise, and spirits will sink, - And they all were too ill of _ideals_ to think, - So these _ladies sailed_ back moaning! - -The words in italics have the same six letters. - - -93 - -The charade-- - - Lurking in riddles oft my first is found; - My second should in ample stores abound, - Or help to make the sweetest songster heard. - Peculiar, and quite proper, is my third. - My whole has found with England’s monarch grace, - The verdant home of many a goodly race, - -is solved by _Punchestown_. - - -94 - -The enigma-- - - Accent my head, - An opening I appear; - In other fashion said - I charm all far and near-- - -is solved by _Entrance_. - - -95 - -The two sentences-- - - A lamp shines out for thee, - Win me best by tears, - -are anagrams of _The Houses of Parliament_ and _Westminster Abbey_. - - -96 - -When on the Brighton beach an excited collie in pursuit of stones thrown -into the sea, suggested the riddle, “What is the difference between that -dog and a hungry man?” The appropriate answer was, “The one stops and -shakes himself; the other chops and steaks himself!” - - -97 - -The hidden animal in-- - - A part of me in rain, - A part in hail must be, - A part belongs to pain, - A part in bones we see, - A part in gleaming gold, - A part in common copper. - A part in peace behold, - A part in any topper, - Two parts are heard in sound, - And in our finals found. - -is _Rhinoceros_. - - -98 - -The smart enigma-- - - Men commonly say I am clever, - Book-learning I never could boast; - Yet I turn the leaves inside the cover, - And when I am found I am lost. - -is solved by _A Fox_. - - -99 - - _A sot_ is like a _toast_, or what is most - Comparative, a _toast_ is like _a sot_; - For when their substances in liquor sink - Both properly are said to be in drink. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters, the _t_ being -repeated in _toast_. - - -100 - -The pied proverb is “Fine words butter no parsnips.” - - -101 - -The puzzle verse-- - - A wordy warfare waged with wit, - In youth its joys none need descry; - But where our elders take to it - Its name points loss of dignity, - -is solved by _Badinage_ (bad in age). - - -102 - -The hero’s name, hidden in-- - - My first’s in garb, but not in dress; - My next’s in praise, but not in bliss; - My third’s in man, but not in miss; - My fourth’s in we. - - My fifth’s in boar, but not in hog; - My sixth’s in cat, but not in dog; - My next’s in calm, but not in fog; - My eighth’s in we. - - My ninth’s in rope, but not in twine; - My tenth’s in light, but not in shine; - My next’s in four, but not in nine; - My twelfth’s in we. - -is _General Wolfe_. - - -103 - -Here is the sentence given with its appropriate and perfect anagram-- - - A defeat whose test is very sure. - _Sweet are the uses of adversity._ - - -104 - -The phonetic missing words are given in italics:-- - - ’Tis _plain_ that no one takes a _plane_ - To _pare_ a _pair_ of _pears_; - A _rake_ may often take a _rake_ - To _tear_ away the _tares_. - - -105 - -The queer obstacle-- - - I’m in everyone’s way, - Yet no one I stop. - My four horns each day - Horizontally play, - And my head is nailed on at the top. - -is _A turnstile_. - - -106 - -The old enigma-- - - Take five from five, and then - Put fifty in the middle; - Twice ten times five times ten - Will finish off my riddle, - And bring it to your ken - As fit as any fiddle! - -is solved thus-- - - When Jacky Barrett, learned Don, - Composed his famous riddle, - His thoughts, perhaps, were resting on - The strings of his old FIDDLE. - - -107 - -The phonetic gaps are filled thus-- - - No _quail_ will _quail_ before the wind, - A _bough_ will _bow_ before it; - We cannot _rein_ the _rain_, or find - That earthly powers _reign_ o’er it. - - -108 - - We seem to sound a note of lavish bounty; - Reverse us, and we indicate a county-- - -is solved by X S--S X. - - -109 - -The cryptogram-- - - ~FTHNMLKBRNGSLLCTTN - LLSKMTMXTTLLTSTHN!~ - -is solved by inserting the letter “I” throughout, when this rhyming -couplet is formed-- - - If thin milk brings illicit tin, - I’ll skim it, mix it, till it’s thin! - - -110 - -The buried proverb in-- - - Yet I see them all! on golden wings that fly - Old memories steal anew; - With a tear, with a sigh, with an old, old cry - They return in ghostly hue! - -is _’Tis a long lane that has no turning_. - - -111 - -Lewis Carroll’s doublet, which changes ELM into OAK by seven links, -introducing the name of another tree as one of them, is solved thus by -him-- - - ELM, ELL, ALL, AIL, AIR, FIR, FAR, OAR, OAK. - -A shorter solution is by these six links--_Ely_, _sly_, _say_, _bay_, -_bat_, _oat_; and one of these (_bay_) is also a tree, as was _fir_, so -that the conditions given are fulfilled. - - -112 - - My dear Mr Bird, - We are giving a ball; - First second we third, - Pray give us your all. - -is solved by _attendance_. - - Second, I did my first and last, - Till I became my whole, - And told the tale of my repast, - A sad and greedy soul. - -is solved by _satiate_. - - -113 - -The charade-- - - My whole, industrious, wends his way - His daily task to meet; - Behead, transpose a, lo! a sound - Of music soft and sweet; - Behead again, I make my way - With swiftness past belief; - Again, and where the fields are gay - My bounty brings relief. - -is solved by _Artisan_, _strain_, _train_, _rain_. - - -114 - -The lines by an old Oxbridge don-- - - “’Tis an absurdity to say - Women should try for a B.A. - To College honours forward looking; - They’d best confine themselves to cooking!” - -can be happily met by this retort in the same words, recast by a Girton -girl-- - - “Women should try for a B.A., - To College honours forward looking; - ’Tis an absurdity to say - They’d best confine themselves to cooking!” - - -115 - -The enigma-- - - Eight letters (start with b) - Three syllables contain; - Take one away, and see - Four syllables remain! - -is solved by _Beautify_, _Beatify_. - - -116 - -The beasts buried in the lines-- - - Ireland’s lot heals slowly. Troubles came long ago--at times in - battalions--to attack and harass her. Ambitious democrats now - countermine famous enthusiasts nearly akin to heroes. Anarchy enables - cowards to sow hot terror and all amazement, are-- - - eland, sloth, camel, goat, bat, lion, stoat, ass, ram, fat, ermine, - mouse, yak, roe, hyena, cow, sow, otter and llama. - - -117 - -This is the palindrome verse that reads and rhymes from either end-- - - Dies slowly fading day, winds mournful sigh, - Brightly stars are waking; - Flies owlet hooting, holding revel high, - Nightly silence breaking. - - -118 - -The anagram recast from “The Observatory at Greenwich in England” is -completed thus-- - - _On landing here begin to watch every star._ - - -119 - -The enigma-- - - No man at all am I, - And, if you turn me round, - To hear my warning cry - Not any men are found. - -is solved by _Nemo_, _omen_, _o men_. - - -120 - -The question-- - - How can our sailors fare the best - When times are harder? - How do they greet with merry jest - An empty larder? - -is solved thus-- - - FOWL IS FARE. - - Wind that blows foul and chops about, - With lighter puffs, - And finds the thirsty sailor stout, - Brings food enough! - - -121 - -The enigma-- - - I lose my head when I am here, - Transpose me I am three; - Look in a book, you find me there, - And with me her and he-- - -is solved by _There_. - - -122 - - Jack did _declaim_ that he could square - The circle to a _decimal_; - His friends _claimed_ that a brain so rare - Required attention _medical_. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -123 - -A Mr Harwood had two daughters by his first wife, the elder of these was -married to John Coshick. This Coshick had a daughter by his first wife, -whom old Harwood married. Thus Harwood’s daughter could say-- - - My father is my son, - And I’m my mother’s mother; - My daughter and sister are one, - I’m grandam to my brother! - - -124 - -The charade-- - - Catch my first with nimble wit, - Add a simple word; - Then my whole may help a bit - Opportunely heard. - -is solved by _Catchword_. - - -125 - -The paradox-- - - My mate and I from home did start, - Some little space we were apart. - When we had run a mile or more - We kept our distance, as before; - Shade of Colenso! could this be, - When twice as fast as I ran he? - -is solved by the fact that the lines apply to the large and small wheels -of a bicycle. - - -126 - -The enigma from Lewis Carroll’s Papers-- - - A monument all men agree - Am I in all sincerity, - Half cat, half hindrance made. - If head and tail removed should be, - Then most of all you strengthen me. - Replace my head, the stand you see - On which my tail is laid. - -is solved by _Tablet_. - - -127 - -The charade-- - - I’m known to the poorest and worst, - And my worth by a child may be reckoned; - The least thing in nature is double my first, - And my whole is just half of my second. - -is solved by _Halfpenny_. - - -128 - - My first without its head and tail - Is one and undivided; - My second shows its teeth, is frail, - And as a rule one-sided. - The two to hold my first avail, - By busy toil provided. - -is solved by _Honeycomb_. - - -129 - -The towns buried in the sentences-- - - His sister played the piano while we sang. - I saw Nell out here last evening. - The general rode a large black mare. - I have ordered a cab at half-past one. - Meet me in the lane at half-past nine. - -are _Lewes_, _Louth_, _Deal_, _Bath_ and _Neath_. - - -130 - -The anagram on “The leaning tower of Pisa, in Tuscany, Italy,” is -completed thus-- - - A funny spot in a sweet city; _I o’erhang it all_. - - -131 - - When they found that catacomb - Near the _Capitol_ at Rome - ’Twas the _topical_ discussion of the season; - But the _optical_ effect - Of the skeletons select - Deprived the poor Professor of his reason! - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -132 - -The charade-- - - My first is pretence, - My second a dandy; - When fogs are most dense - My whole will be handy. - -is solved by _Flambeau_. - - -133 - -If we adopt the old spelling of the final word, we can prove by anagram -that Bacon had no hand at anyrate in Shakespeare’s play “Much Ado About -Nothinge,” for the same letters exactly spell “_Bacon? O, naught due to -him!_” - - -134 - - Use all your wits to guess my all, - Can any guess it right? - Transposed, and never seen at all, - It still is felt in sight. - Behead, transpose, then let it be, - And you at last a clue may see. - -is solved by _Left_, _felt_, _let_. - - -135 - -“Insanitary” and “sanitary reform” are very happily recast by anagram -thus--_In nasty air; Former air nasty_. - - -136 - -The charade-- - - Let my second cut my first - When I come to table; - Though I cannot quench your thirst - Eat me--you are able. - -is solved by _Cutlet_. - - -137 - -These are the completed lines-- - - What mars a land so sadly as a war? - What days as dark as days that wars alarm? - Alas! ask any, ask at hand, afar, - All shall call war a harass and a harm. - Why call, as ballads talk, that ghastly art - All gallant acts--a grand and manly part? - -It will be seen that “a” was the only missing letter. - - -138 - -The charade-- - - To me when whole, for I am sweet, - The moon fresh brightness brings; - Cut off my tail, I’m blunt, but meet - To sharpen other things. - - Behead me twice, and I have led - Soldiers to face the foe; - Headless and tailless, one remains - Though all the rest may go. - -is solved by Honey (honey-moon; hone; Ney; one). - - -139 - -The enigma-- - - We start when the ninth hour is past, - Then there’s an end of you. - A vengeful goddess shows at last - What Antifat will do. - -is solved by _Attenuate_:--at ten, u, Ate, goddess of Revenge. - - -140 - -The charade-- - - When on charades intent I take my pen, - To seek some hidden goal, - Over my first my second comes, and then - Quite overcomes my whole. - -is solved by _Overcomes_. - - -141 - -The cryptogram which was sent as a reliable tip before a race in which -Petronel was to run-- - - Tell me, Ben, who tore it. - Seek a plant for it, see Bob. - -is deciphered thus-- - - Take every third letter, and you arrive at Lenortepnoteb. Read this - backwards, and you have the tip, “Bet on Petronel!” - - -142 - -The enigma-- - - I have no form, I have no friend, - From me all come, in me all end. - And it is strange but very true - That I am here and nowhere too-- - -is solved by _Nothing_. - - -143 - -The broken sentence-- - - A sed end ought eat ease ain. - -is thus filled in to describe a curse and to proclaim its cure-- - - A cursed fiend brought death, disease and pain; - A blessed friend brought breath and ease again. - - -144 - -The charade-- - - My first is a cover, - My second a city; - The whole you discover - With this if you’re witty. - -is solved by _Capacity_. - - -145 - -The four rivers buried in the sentence-- - - The deaf and dumb girl began gesticulating with a message, and her - delivery was ever neat, with graceful pose in every attitude. - -are _Ganges_, _Thames_, _Severn_ and _Seine_. - - -146 - -If the “shingle” on the Brighton beach could speak, it might boast by -anagram, “I am _English_!” - - -147 - -The enigma-- - - She is as deaf as any post, - Incurable I fear; - She is my guest, I am her host, - How can I make her hear? - -is solved by adding an a to _her_, which becomes _hear_. - - -148 - -The missing words in the “Plaint of the Rejected” are--_The R.A._, -_hater_, _heart_, _earth_, _Herat_. - - -149 - -The man who could attach a phonetic meaning to the words “Beta in Greek -means letter B,” could in another fashion invite others to beat his wife -by merely calling them and saying, “_Hither!_” (hit her). - - -150 - -The rebus-- - - storm? an umbrella with all - a th me who alls mud - -is solved thus--Who follows me under an umbrella, with overalls all over -mud, after a thunderstorm? - - -151 - -This is the completed palindrome:-- - - Nor I nor Emma had level’d a hammer on iron. - -It reads alike from either end. - - -152 - -The tutor came to the conclusion that there is nothing in Ecclesiastical -Law to prevent the Pope from burying the Archbishop of Canterbury, but -the undergraduate who had proposed the question demurred to this reply; -pressed for his reason he said, as his face broke into a smile, “He -cannot do so, because _the Archbishop is not dead_!” - - -153 - -The proverb buried in the sentence, “While there are very many as kind -as this, they know no task unkind,” is, “_Let every man skin his own -skunk_.” - - -154 - - Kate gathers me where children three, - Tom, Jane, and Mary, chatter; - He leads the way and then we see - The other two come at her! - -is solved by _Heather_ (he, at her). - - -155 - -The quotation from Shakespeare buried in-- - - Strange weather! What could equal it? Yesterday sunshine and soft - breezes, to-day a summer cyclone raging noisily; then other changes, - as floods of fiercest rain eddy beneath the blast. - -is “The quality of mercy is not strained.” - - -156 - -The beetroot palindrome, which reads alike from either end is-- - - RED ROOT PUT UP TO ORDER - - -157 - - My _first_ we all do when we fail; - My _next_ is heard in rain or hail; - My _fourth_ a sheep of gender male; - My _third_ is one without its tail; - My _whole_ for foreign countries sail. - -is solved by _Missionaries_. - - -158 - -The words written on the walls of a Western college gained their -ambiguous sense from the three final words, printed in italics--“Young -women should set a good example, for young men _will follow them_!” - - -159 - -The enigma-- - - I’m but a little letter, still - I have my duties to fulfil; - If off you take - My tail, and make - An alteration in my lot, - Though I seem shorter I am not. - -is solved by _Note_. - - -160 - -This is the full text-- - - Says Tom to Bill, “Pray tell me, sir, - Why is it that the devil, - In spite of all his naughty ways - Can never be uncivil?” - - Says Bill to Tom, “The answer’s plain - To any mind that’s bright; - Because the _imp o’ darkness_, sir, - Cannot be _imp o’ light_!” - - -161 - - Beneath the _limes_ which shade the lawn - Her bicycle she mounted; - And with a _smile_, ere she had gone - An hour, ten _miles_ she counted. - It rained, it snowed, but nought could stop her, - Till in the _slime_, she came a cropper! - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -162 - -The date of the new organ given by the English is concealed in the lines -of this inscription above its keyboard at Ober Ammergau-- - - QVI CHRISTI LAVDES CANTANT - SANCTÆ PASSIONIS SVÆ VIRTVTE - IN IPSO ET PATRE VNVM SINT. - -If the Roman numerals that occur in the words are added together, they -amount to 1894, the date of its completion. - - -163 - - A woman’s name - Of foreign fame, - Hers was a noble mind. - Now, sir, transpose, - And I suppose - No smaller thing you’ll find. - -is solved by _Stael_, _least_. - - -164 - -The French charade-- - - Pour avoir mon _premier_ - Femme qui cache mon _dernier_ - Manque souvent mon _entier_. - -is solved by _Mari-age_. - - -165 - -The charade-- - - Let go! let go! you naughty first, - Or you will make my second; - A stream of words will then outburst, - Swift as my whole is reckoned. - -is solved by _Current_. - - -166 - - My first is first when cruisers charge in line, - And oft in frosty skies is seen to shine. - - Don’t spare my second if you would suggest - To an impulsive child the way that’s best. - - My sporting whole, though now neglected grown, - Travelled by tube before the tube was known. - -is solved by _Ramrod_. - - -167 - -The enigma-- - - First of men we lead a measure, - Last we end the same. - Starting merrily, our pleasure - Is to finish lame. - -is solved by the letters _me_. - - -168 - -When Tom declared that he could give his sister quite a simple sentence -of seven common English words of one syllable, which she could not -produce on her typewriter, he had in his mind, “We can spell (to, too, -two) in three ways,” which cannot, of course, be expressed in seven -written words. - - -169 - -The French charade-- - - Mon premier est un tyran, mon second un horreur, - Mon tout est le diable lui-même. - Mais si mon premier est bon, mon second ne fait rien, - Et mon tout est le bonheur suprême. - -is solved by _Mariage_. - - -170 - -Sydney Smith’s conclusion as to the value and satisfaction of a City -dinner was completed thus:--“I cannot wholly value a dinner by the _test -you do_!” (Turtle, in Latin, _testudo_). - - -171 - - DEAN SWIFT’S ENIGMA-- - - In youth exalted high in air, - Or bathing in the streamlet fair, - Nature to form me took delight - And clothed my body all in white; - My person tall and slender waist - On either side with fringes graced; - Till me that tyrant Man espied, - And dragg’d me from my mother’s side. - No wonder that I look so thin, - The monster stripp’d me to the skin; - My body flay’d, my hair he cropp’d, - And head and foot both off he lopp’d; - Pick’d all the marrow from my bone. - And then, with heart more hard than stone, - To vex me more, he took a freak - To slit my tongue, and make me speak. - But that which wonderful appears, - I speak to eyes and not to ears. - All languages I now command - Yet not a word I understand. - -is solved by _A Goose-quill_. - - -172 - -The answer to the riddle propounded by the possessor of a new KEEN KUT -razor to his friend whose chin was disfigured by scars, “What is the -difference between my razor and yours?” is--“Mine cuts thoroughly; yours -also cuts, tho’ roughly!” - - -173 - -The decapitated words are in italics-- - - The ship rode in an _eastern_ bay, - Asleep _astern_ the master lay, - A _stern_ and rugged man was he, - And, like a _tern_, at home at sea. - Like swooping _ern_ he caught his prey - Whene’er an _R.N_. came his way; - But while due _N_. the needle kept - He in his cabin lay and slept. - -The ern, or erne, is the sea-eagle. - - -174 - - When the tempest roars the loudest - Oft my first a shelter proves. - Say what fair one, though the proudest, - Spurns my next from one she loves? - When the storms of life are past - Earth provides my whole at last. - -is solved by _Covering_. - - -175 - - One syllable, I help to turn the scale - Of party strife or faction; - Recast me, and two syllables avail - To stop all further action. - -is solved by _vote_, _veto_. - - -176 - -The lines to an owl are filled in thus-- - - Oh, on old towers, thou gloomy owl, - Thou lovest to hoot, thou lovest to howl. - Or on old oaks your hollow tone - So lost, so solemn, sounds alone, - So mournful no one loves to go - Or of your hooting howls to know. - -The vowel “o” occurs forty-six times in the six lines. - - -177 - -In the Army anagram-- - - I’m free to-day, the _old sire_ said, - _O no cell_ now have I to dread; - For this one happy day to me - _Are glen_ and hill and forest free, - I, if I will, can ride, or fish, - _A pit can_ enter, if I wish, - In search of chalk or sand. - In peace alone I now can dine, - And sing to Anna’s _lute at nine_, - Nor fear a reprimand. - -the words in italics spell also _soldier_, _colonel_, _general_, -_captain_, and _lieutenant_. - - -178 - - My first transposed becomes a name - Which may quite mean be reckoned, - Two syllables combine the same, - With one or two for second. - - My whole when fields are fresh and green, - And softly blows the wind, - Where the first signs of spring are seen - Within the woods we find. - -is solved by _Anemone_, the _wind_ flower (name, mean, anem, one, o, -ne). - - -179 - -The anagram enigma-- - - Silent long is the wood-bird’s song, - Bare is the woodland bough; - For waving trees in wintry breeze - Have “no buds now.” - -is solved by _snowbound_, which contains exactly the same letters as “no -buds now.” - - -180 - -The question of time-- - - A farmer with children sixteen - Killed the fattest young lamb of his flock. - To divide it these children between, - What must be the time by the clock? - -is solved by _a quarter to four_. - - -181 - -The Donkey drive-- - - To the far end of any train - Hitch on a pair of neddies; - Then you will hear, like steps of Cain, - The threat that in their tread is. - -is solved by _Ass-ass-in_. - - -182 - -The “Eating by Alphabet” enigma-- - - Take all the alphabet, and cast - Its final letter out; - Then set the first where was the last, - And this you bring about: - Without a cook, without a fire, - A dainty dish which men desire. - -is solved by A past Y (a pasty). - - -183 - -The charade-- - - My second with my first we greet; - My whole in earlier days - Gave understanding to the feet - That moved in tragic plays. - -is solved by _Buskin_. - - -184 - -The sentence-- - - Behest on thy lips, Society; - -forms an Anagram of the proverb - - “Honesty is the best policy.” - - -185 - -This sentence, fashioned by eight schoolboys as anagrams on their -Christian names, arranged in order-- - - “I thy Tom am sober and lie or live in dew, but her brain sinned”-- - -reveals, when deciphered, the names Timothy, Ambrose, Daniel, Oliver, -Edwin, Hubert, Brian and Dennis. - - -186 - -The enigma-- - - In any coward’s company you find - That I have place. - Cut off my head, and from your mind - All wrong erase. - -is solved by _Fright_. - - -187 - -The double acrostic-- - - From “Punch,” 1875. - - My first, elect among the few, - Chooses my second to expose his view. - - 1. Of various colours, changed at will, - I sit or stand for good or ill. - - 2. I rule alone from noon till night, - And when I am not am is right. - -is solved - - M. P. - P. M. - - -188 - -A man in a rage should go to a “shooting gallery,” because by its -Anagram it is _largely soothing_. - - -189 - -The beatitude-- - - Let her be or beat her, - Give her little ease; - Then in safety seat her - All among the bees, - -is solved by _A Queen Bee_. The _Bee_ is made up of the _letter b_ (let -her be), in Greek called Beta (beat her), and two little _e_’s (ease). - - -190 - -The puzzle-lines-- - - “We,” cried my first and second, - “Are not quite satisfied.” - “The story may be reckoned - Imperfect,” fourth replied. - Said third, “The fact indeed I tell,” - And so at last all ended well. - -are cleared up by _Satisfactory_. - - -191 - -The English proverb which is concealed under its anagram-- - - “I dare not admit faint women,” - -is _Time and tide wait for no man_. - - -192 - -The charade-- - - My first and second are as best they should be, - My third in Latin mouth is what it would be, - My whole would soon be ashes if it could be. - -is solved by _Asbestos_ (_os_ is Latin for _mouth_). - - -193 - - Since Spooks, a _subtle_ man is he, - _Sublet_ this haunted house to me, - In _bluest_ funk I _bustle_ round, - And fear a ghost in every sound. - -The four words in italics have the same letters. - - -194 - -That which is found in the centre of Australia and of America, and in no -other place, is the letter “r” (no othe_r_ place). - - -195 - -Grandfather’s riddle, “Do you know why is the fourth of July?” is solved -by the fact that the fourth letter of that word is y! - - -196 - - My _first_ is never far away, - My _next_ in Latin found; - My _third_ may rage by night or day; - _All_ make melodious sound. - -is solved by _Nightingale_. - - -197 - - Through the _forest_ trees - Softly coo the doves; - Let a _softer_ breeze - _Foster_ youthful loves! - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -198 - -The enigma-- - - At starting half your income take, - Then for my second write; - And let your table help to make - The total cosy quite. - -is solved by _Comfortable_. - - -199 - -The charade-- - - My whole is a circle complete, - Beheaded I fall to your feet. - Behead me again and I fry, - Or am baked in a savoury pie. - -is solved by _Wheel_, _heel_, _eel_. - - -200 - -The anagram sentences are recast thus into single words-- - - See a pug dog. - _Pedagogues._ - - Stay, O morn. - _Astronomy._ - - Fat reward. - _Afterward._ - - Red paper. - _Prepared._ - - Set on a dish. - _Astonished._ - - -201 - -The enigma-- - - If my whole by my second and first you divide, - One more than ten thousand it gives. - In the land of my birth I have dwindled and died, - In museums my memory lives. - -is solved by _Do-do_. - - -202 - -The paradox-- - - Though never present, I appear, - Of perfect form a token; - And all that centres round my ear - Is heard, though never spoken. - -is solved by the word _heard_. - - -203 - -The enigma-- - - Behead me twice, and it shall be - That I my perfect self regain; - Restore both heads, and you shall see - That most imperfect I remain. - -is solved by _Incomplete_. - - -204 - - Grant lady, grant your _slave_ his whim, - And give the coming _valse_ to him, - For this will _salve_ his jealous heart, - Stricken so sore by Cupid’s dart. - If not, he _laves_ his hands of you, - To seek fresh _vales_ and pastures new. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -205 - - “Yes, yes, I know,” said Jack to Jill, - “That thirty-two is freezing point: - And I can tell you, if you will, - Exactly what is squeezing-point!” - -is solved by _Two in the shade!_ - - -206 - -The puzzle-- - - To fifty add a third of one, - A third to five attach; - You have the means, when this is done, - To kindle any match. - -is solved by _Love_. - - -207 - -The missing words are in italics-- - - The untrained _speculator_ in the City - Is robbed by _peculators_ without pity. - - -208 - -Read backwards it becomes-- - - Prosperity and peace; no barns empty; bills long paid; not high rents; - berries bright; no birds hungry; merry Christmas comes. - - -209 - -The anagram plants concealed in the sentence--O rise love it lad never -let this lamb chase trains, are: Osier, violet, lavender, thistle, balm, -china asters. - - -210 - -The enigma-- - - My first is quite a sin by name, - My third its simple cure; - My second puts an end to fame, - My whole of ease is sure. - -is solved by _Sinecure_. - - -211 - -The paradox-- - - Cut off my head, it is unshaken, - Cut off my tail, you turn it round, - But if both head and tail are taken, - Unconquered still I hold my ground. - -is solved by TIT. - - -212 - -The charade-- - - Why should we quarrel, first and third, - With nought between us but a word? - Let third leave second unessayed - To heal the breach these letters made. - If your solution be writ fair - You find my whole disjointed there. - -is solved by I.O.U. - - -213 - -When Funniboy wrote from Naples to his friend, “Next week I am going ‘to -plant onions, etc.,’” it was an intimation by anagram that he was bound -for Constantinople. - - -214 - - In haunted house to sleep I tried, - My dread _first_ was my chum. - “With _second_ of my _first_,” I cried, - “My _whole_ I should become.” - -is solved by _Fearless_. - - -215 - -The enigma-- - - My first is possessive and second: - My second possessive and first. - Such banks most attractive are reckoned - By those for rich treasure athirst. - -is solved by _Thymy_ (_thy_, _my_). - - -216 - -This is the completed palindrome-- - - REPEL EVIL AS A LIVE LEPER, - -which reads alike from either end. - - -217 - -When Tom Pickles’s father tried with a lusty puff to blow the small cork -into the bottle, the sudden compression of the air inside, followed by -its expansion, drove the cork in an unexpected direction, so that it -flew out and struck him sharply on the mouth. - - -218 - -Acorns are as strong as oaken posts when they _propagate_ (prop-a-gate). - - -219 - -The completed palindrome runs thus-- - - “Put it up but not on tub, put it up but not on tub, put it up,” which - reads alike from either end. - - -220 - - The _Kates_ of Shakespeare and of song - Have fair and dainty features; - But she I _stake_ my hopes upon - Excels those lovely creatures. - From _Keats_ she _takes_ her name so dear, - She lives on _steaks_ and honey: - She cannot _skate_, but she can steer, - And Madeline has money. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -221 - -The two long words used recently by a politician which can be recast by -anagram to form the sentence, “Axiomatic intelligence, or dust” are-- - - TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTITUDES. - - -222 - - My first your bosom friend, or man or maid, - Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid. - My second, sounded double, tells of fate, - Or sounded single puts an end to hate. - My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard, - That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d. - -is solved by _Palate_ (Até, goddess of fate). - - -223 - -The sentence “Woman without her man would be helpless” takes on a -distinct meaning if the words “without her” are read together, and a -comma is placed after “woman.” Thus--“Woman, _without her_ man would be -helpless.” - - -224 - -The short sentences are recast into single words thus-- - - A moment’s cure. - _Commensurate._ - Cod is nice. - _Coincides._ - The old rocks. - _Stockholder._ - It lures a cat. - _Articulates._ - - -225 - -The enigma-- - - Without my head I circulate - With speed and inclination. - Without my bait, at anyrate, - I still have inclination. - Transpose three letters, in unbroken state - I then receive the ashes of the great. - -is solved by _Hearth_, _earth_, _heart_ (transpose _eat_ to _ate_). - - -226 - -Here is a metrical account of the anagram which, with some exaggeration, -proclaims that Sims Reeves was often prevented from singing by his -delicate throat-- - - The audience in wrapt impatience sits; - Comes an excuse, and disappointment hisses, - Strange that _Sims Reeves_, whose singing ever _hits_, - By a mere shift of letters _ever misses_! - - -227 - - Consuming lust for _lucre_, now so rife, - Like _cruel_ _ulcer_ mars both love and life. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -228 - -This is the completed palindrome-- - - I maniac lived, a devil Cain am I. - - -229 - -The lines-- - - And as trim bees rise or go, - A long aim I’d say, a libel O! - -contain in anagram and in proper order the fruits _tamarinds_, -_gooseberries_, and the flowers _magnolia_, _daisy_, _lobelia_. - - -230 - -These are the anagrams-- - - Now one old fort - _Tower of London_. - Rabid owl - _Wild Boar_. - - -231 - - Alas, for that forgotten day - When chivalry was nourish’d, - When none but friars learn’d to pray, - And beef and beauty flourish’d; - And fraud in kings was held accursed, - And falsehood sin was reckon’d, - And mighty chargers bore my _first_, - And fat monks wore my _second_! - - Ah, then I carried sword and shield - And casque with flaunting feather, - And earn’d my spurs in battle-field, - In winter and rough weather; - And polish’d many a sonnet up - To ladies’ eyes and tresses; - And learn’d to drain my father’s cup, - And loose my falcon’s jesses! - - But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam, - The mongrel mob grows prouder; - And everything is done by steam, - And men are kill’d by powder; - And now I feel my swift decay, - And give unheeded orders; - And rot in paltry state away - With sheriffs and recorders. - -is solved by _Knighthood_. - - -232 - - My _first_ you oft savagely pierce through and through; - My _next_ harbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust; - But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue, - Should my _whole_, from my _second_, step into my _first_! - -is solved by _Earwig_. - - -233 - - My whole describes the action of a gale, - Decapitation makes an organ play. - Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale; - Again, it tells of what we do not pay. - Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail. - Again behead, and half a string denote; - Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail; - And last of all on music’s notes I float. - -is solved by _A’blowing_ (n-a-g). - - -234 - -The proverb buried in the sentence-- - - Society--how her enthusiasts worship at her Juggernaut car. Cases - exist here, proving how illogical are these eagle-sighted, - place-hunting beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet striving to - get her smile. - -is “Where the carcase is there will the eagles be gathered together.” - - -235 - -The answer by anagram to--What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch -it without a _steel-trap_? is _Saltpetre_. - - -236 - -The charade-- - - Across my _first_, with flash and roar, - The stately vessel glides alone. - And mournful on the crowded shore - There stands an aged crone, - Watching my _second’s_ parting smile, - As he bids farewell to his native isle. - My _whole_ comes back to other eyes, - With beauteous change of fruit and flowers, - But dim to her are those bright skies, - And sad those joyous hours; - For, alas! my _first_ is dark and deep, - And my _second_ cannot hear her weep. - -is solved by _Season_. - - -237 - -The sequel to the Arab and his ass runs thus-- - - When morning dawned, and the tide was out, - The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s _protection_, - And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt, - For he had the best donkey in all that _section_. - - You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over, - Though the donkey was bravest of all his _race_; - He luxuriates now in perpetual clover, - And his master has gone to the prophet’s _embrace_. - - -238 - - A _siren_, _risen_ on _Erin’s_ strands, - Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes; - He left the _reins_ in Cupid’s hands, - And watched her _rinse_ her tresses; - Tresses of _resin_ coloured gold, - Veiling, like any frock, - A tail which, as it did unfold, - Gave to poor Pat a shock. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -239 - -The answer by anagram to “Where can you be ‘in a stone-pine garden’?” is -_Pontresina, Engadine_. - - -240 - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters-- - - No _wider_ sympathy was ever shown - Than when _weird_ news, from Kingston _wired_, was known. - - -241 - -According to its anagram, the bodily discomfort which follows an -_ague-fit_ is _fatigue_. - - -242 - -This is the adjustment of the tangled square-- - - I S I S - S I D E - I D E A - S E A T - - -243 - -The European rivers concealed in the eight anagrams: Set in red robe -Henri Le Roi O sell me red pine nerves biter, are Dniester, Ebro, Rhine, -Loire, Moselle, Dnieper, Severn, Tiber. - - -244 - -The palindrome runs thus-- - - STOP ROSE, I PREFER PIES OR POTS. - - -245 - - “Your food will cost you more!” - -is the political parrot cry which can be evolved by anagram from-- - - _O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe!_ - - -246 - -Sir Robert Peel was the statesman from whose name a “terrible poser” is -formed by anagram. - - -247 - -The letters of the sentence, “Yea, a glad sun rose red” can be recast -into the well-known proverb _Delays are dangerous_. - - -248 - -The question, “Has there been a poet of unusual solemnity?” is answered -by “_Yes, Milton_.” - - -249 - -The anagram enigma-- - - No, no, I hardly ever touch - The thing which many love so much, - It has a place within these lines, - But is taboo where Delia dines. - -is solved by _Onion_ (no, no, I). - - -250 - -When young Biceps, who had been plucked in Euclid declared that he could -teach the examiners how to square a circle, this was his tricky -method:--A circle may be aptly described as a “copper” or “Brown.” -Having at hand your “copper” (P. C. Brown), when he has caught you on -his rounds, proceed to square him in the customary way. - - -251 - -As Biceps could not tell how to extract a circle from a square, his -friend gave him the following solution: “Let the given square be Sloane -Square; find the Inner Circle, and take its lines to any point, at any -distance from that square, paying the proper fare. That’s the ticket!” - - -252 - - Every _Cretan_ is said to lie, - And steeds that _canter_ pant. - The gods drank _nectar_, old and dry, - And all men may _recant_. - Finally this key extend - Take from _en(trance)d_ the _end_. - - -253 - -The charade-- - - My captive _second_, sulking in my _first_, - Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst; - Bemoan, or as alternative you find - My _whole_ the word that fits his state of mind. - For meet enclosure, you can take a score - Of captive _seconds_, first deducting four. - -is solved by _Denounce_ (16 ozs. = 1 _Pound_). - - -254 - -The cipher-- - - ~THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT; - MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.~ - -becomes by the addition of E and O alternately-- - - The “Globe” do we now sell, oldest of the lot; - Men often order one, or get one on the spot. - - -255 - -When his brother put “Tim in a pet,” the explanation by anagram is that -he was _impatient_. - - -256 - - Who knows the _East_ a land may know - Famed for its _teas_, and long age - A _seat_ of sage and seer. - The native there, so full of tricks, - To _sate_ his hunger _eats_ with sticks, - Nor knows his ways are queer. - -The missing words are in italics. - - -257 - -The charade-- - - If doubled you would see my first - Let third and second be reversed. - But if my last you would behold - Increase my first a hundredfold. - Combine them all, and you can trace - The four within an empty space. - -is solved by _Void_. - - -258 - -In the words spoken in the hay-field to a thirsty toiler, “Mower, I will -tap the cask!” are concealed by anagram the poet and his poem--_William -Cowper, The task._ - - -259 - -The charade-- - - My _first_ is small, and seldom reverential; - My next not large enough to heed or prize; - My _whole_ is altogether consequential; - My third though small is counted very wise-- - -is solved by _Important_. - - -260 - - To be - a a a a a a a a a a - t C r I i O f U l S e s - standing - is the mark of a mean - -is solved by _To be tenacious in the midst of trifles is the mark of a -mean understanding_. - - -261 - -The letters which spell RED NUTS AND GIN can be recast to form the one -word UNDERSTANDING. - - -262 - -The novel by Charles Dickens hidden in the pied letters-- - - ~CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY~ - -is _The Old Curiosity Shop_. - - -263 - - In swift _relays_ the beaters add - Fresh _layers_ to the heaps of slain; - And still, with lust of slaughter mad, - The _slayer_ plies his hand amain! - -The words in italics have the same six letters. - - -264 - -The charade-- - - My first is nothing but a name, - My second still more small, - My whole shows such a lack of fame - It has no name at all. - -is solved by _Nameless_. - - -265 - -When one of the children said, “If father gives us a new dog it will -wake the lazy ones”--the words pointed to Susan and Ethel, whose names -are buried in the sentence. - - -266 - -The cipher-- - - ~NGOTRDSREAOHR - ETNSVEENUDOEO~ - -is solved by starting with last letter of the second line, followed by -the first letter of the first line, and so on throughout, taking always -the last and first unused letters alternately, and forming thus the -proverb “_One good turn deserves another!_” - - -267 - -The enigma-- - - Well known by story, not by name, - I died a death unknown before, - Nor ever to corruption came; - My shroud the waves cast on the shore. - -is solved by _Lot’s wife_. - - -268 - -The question-- - - How might an oyster, if it could speak and knew that unda is Latin for - wave or water, complain in similar phonetic iteration when disturbed - by thunder under unda? - -is answered thus-- - - He could exclaim, “a noise annoys an oyster!” - - -269 - -The words in italics have the same five letters-- - - When _Cesar_, our puppy, sets out for a run, - Over _acres_ he _races_, all frolic and fun. - For no whistle _cares_ he, in his desperate hurry, - The slow sheep to _scare_, and the old cow to worry. - - -270 - -The girls’ names shown by anagram in the sentence--“Bad hero set by thy -door hurt me ma. Army may get ruder daily,” are Deborah, Betsy, Dorothy, -Ruth, Emma, Mary, Amy, Gertrude, Lydia. - - -271 - -The anagram is completed thus-- - - “Lord Beaconsfield’s statue.” - _True as old Ben’s stolid face!_ - - -272 - -The Shakespeare anagrams-- - - The tub sold has old rough shelves. - And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts. - A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow! - -are formed, letter for letter and line for line, from this passage in -“Romeo and Juliet”-- - - “Love’s heralds should be thoughts, - Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams, - Driving black shadows over low’ring hills.” - - -273 - - The mystical gnome never flinches from toil - Who _buries_ the _rubies_ in Orient soil; - Yet _busier_ mortals will ever abound, - Who _bruise_ all the soil till the treasure is found. - -The words in italics are spelt with the same six letters. - - -274 - -The Puzzle acrostic-- - - My feathered first has wings and sings, - Unfledged my second swings its wings; - My third on blackest pinions flies, - My fourth can float beneath the skies. - The letters to my first that fall - Are the initials of them all. - -is solved thus-- - - O O O O L A R K - O ● ● ● A R M Y - O ● ● ● R O O K - O ● ● ● K I T E - - -275 - - My first was of the _pirate_ breed, - Their _irate_ captain, hot and riled, - To _rate_ his men found vain indeed, - They only _ate_ and smoked, and smiled! - -One letter is dropped each time. - - -276 - -In the doublets puzzle HARE is made into SOUP by the following six -links, changing one letter each time, and preserving their order-- - - HARE, hark, hack, sack, sock, soak, soap, SOUP. - - -277 - -The enigma-- - - Putting two small beasts that you take - To the beginning of an end, - A pointed weapon you will make - To wound a foe or praise a friend. - -is solved by _Epigram_. - - -278 - -If a “newspaper” could speak, it might say by anagram of the general -work of its staff, _We pen pars_. - - -279 - -The positive quantity 1011 is turned into a negative thus:-- - - NO. - - -280 - -The one word formed by anagram from “O, I’m man’s trial” is -_Matrimonials_. - - -281 - -The rebus-- - - EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee. - -is solved by “Great ease and small crosses before you are twenty-one, -great crosses and little ease after that.” - - -282 - -The answer to the riddle “Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell -his timber?” is--Because no one is allowed to _cut_ when it is his own -_deal_. - - -283 - - He _aspired_ to be _praised_ as a wonderful shot, - But he potted the dog, and _despair_ was his lot! - -The words in italics are spelt with the same letters. - - -284 - -In the doublet, as solved by Lewis Carroll, ARMY is changed into NAVY -with seven links, and preserving the sequence while changing a letter -every time--thus: ARMY, arms, aims, dims, dams, dame, name, nave, NAVY. - - -285 - -The anagram puzzle-- - - ‘I excel not by a pun’ - Turn these six words into one! - -is solved by _Unexceptionably_, which contains exactly the same letters. - - -286 - -The answer to the strange riddle, “When is an onion like music?” is -“_When you find it smell odious!_” (it’s melodious). - - -287 - -The bitter cry of Christianity is, by its anagram: _I cry that I sin_. - - -288 - -That a Conservative is constant to his cause is shown by the anagram: -_Not vice versâ_. - - -289 - -As a rule Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall upon the same day of the -week, but they will not fall upon the same day of the week in 1910 (or -indeed in any year), because the New Year’s Day must be _after_ the -Christmas Day to fulfil the conditions! - - -290 - - “War is a game which, were their subjects wise, - Kings would not play at,” wrote the poet’s pen; - But in war’s issue will be staked the prize, - While kings and subjects are but erring men; - So Britain--native empress of the seas-- - On ocean cradled, by her storm-king nursed-- - Friend of the fallen, guardian of the free, - Rests on her well-tried _last_ and trusty _first_. - Her _first_ alone can well maintain her right, - Unscathed by any threat or mutinous blast; - And though, when needed, foremost in the fight, - Her _first_ (strange paradox!) is always _last_! - But should the tide of war approach the shore - And threaten to engulf her island seat, - My _whole_, replying with defiant roar, - Would crash the audacious foe beneath her feet! - -is solved by _Armstrong_. - - -291 - - My first is flogged to make it move the faster, - And turns at once to satisfy its master. - My next will ripen as a pleasant fruit, - For those whose simple taste its flavours suit. - My whole, when breezes blow and pennons fly, - Stands up aloft and points us to the sky. - -is solved by _Top-mast_. - - -292 - - A noun there is, of plural number, - In daily use from here to Humber. - Now almost any noun you take - By adding “S” you plural make; - But if you add an “S” to this, - Strange is the metamorphosis! - Plural is plural now no more; - Useless what useful was before. - -is solved by _Needles_, _needless_. - - -293 - - First, a semi-circle make, - Add to this another - Figure of two little lines - Meeting with each other; - Then a perfect circle form, - Truly, neat, compactly, - Add another form to these, - Like the first exactly; - Then, to make it all complete, - Form a kind of angle, - With a straight line, that should meet - In a kind of tangle; - When you this have rightly done - (’Tis the truth I’m telling), - You will get an article - Useful in a dwelling: - Should you this decapitate, - You may have another - Article, which, in its place, - Is useful as the other. - -is solved by _Clock_, _lock_. - - -294 - - Veiling the leas, my first may steep - Late autumn’s listless air; - And with my tainting second creep - On idle spade and share. - - When happy days link soul to soul, - And sunny faces shine, - May both combined, a subtle whole, - Be far from me and mine! - -is solved by _Mistrust_. - - -295 - -Mark Lemon’s charade-- - - Old Charlie Brown, who a big rogue was reckoned, - Was brought up at my first for making my second; - He was fined, and because he no money would pay - Had to work with my whole on the King’s highway. - -is solved by _Barrow_. - - -296 - - Complete, I grow within a field - And pleasant pasture often yield; - Behead me once, a suitor then - Is quickly brought before your ken; - Behead again, I am a word - That on the cricket-ground is heard. - Restore my heads, cut off my tail, - To name a spice you’ll not then fail; - Behead me now, and you will find - The master passion left behind. - Put on my head, my tail restore, - Complete me as I was before, - My second letter take away, - An envelope I am, you’ll say; - But now curtail me just once more, - I am an inlet on the shore. - -is solved by _Clover_, _lover_, _over_, _clove_, _love_, _cover_, -_cove_. - - -297 - - My _second_ is double my _first_, - My _first_ is but half of my _second_; - And I’m sure you’ll admit that my _whole_ - Is ten times the latter when reckon’d. - -is solved by _Ten score_. - - -298 - - My _first_ I went the other day, - And pretty surely reckon’d - A basket of fine fish to catch, - With hook and rod and _second_. - - But I was out in reckoning; - A very pretty she - Of her fair face show’d just my _whole_-- - And pretty soon hook’d _me_. - -is solved by _Outline_. - - -299 - - Of mirth the parent, though the child of art, - A stranger to myself in every part; - Each India has a native in my breast, - The West my sweetness, and my fire the East. - While milder climes my virtue to complete, - Quicken my softness, and correct my heat; - My dearest friends upon my vitals prey, - And as they see me sinking, grow more gay. - -is solved by _Punch_. - - -300 - - When my whole takes a flight in the air you will find - That my next is not left a great distance behind; - But join them together, and plain to your view - It all is as firm and as tight as a screw. - -is solved by _Dovetail_. - - -301 - - To three-fourths of a cross, add a circle complete; - Then, let two semi-circles a perpendicular meet; - Next, add a triangle that stands on two feet; - Then, two semi-circles, and a circle complete. - -is solved by _Tobacco_. - - -302 - - Leader of Vandals and of vice - My head is reckoned; - A Turkish captain will suffice - To be my second. - My third is firm if well selected; - My whole a wanderer neglected. - -is solved by _Vagabond_. - - -303 - - One thousand, two hundred, - Nothing, and one, - Transposed, give a word - Expressive of fun. - -is solved by COMIC. - - -304 - -Praed’s charade-- - - My _first_ was creeping on his way - Through the mists of a dull October day, - When a minstrel came to its muddy bed, - With a harp on his shoulder, a wreath on his head; - “And how shall I reach,” the poor boy cried, - “To the courts and the cloisters on t’other side?” - - Old Euclid came, and he frown’d a frown, - And he dash’d the harp and the garland down; - Then he led the bard, with a stately march, - O’er my _second’s_ long and cellar’d arch;-- - “And see,” said the sage, “how every ass - Over the sacred stream must pass!” - - The youth was mournful, the youth was mute, - He sigh’d for his laurel, he sobb’d for his lute;-- - The youth took comfort, the youth took snuff, - And follow’d the lead of that teacher gruff; - And he sits, ever since, in my _whole’s_ kind lap, - In a silken gown and a trencher cap. - -is solved by _Cambridge_. - - -305 - - Upright and honest is my _first_; - My _second_ you may see - Upon the frozen lake or stream; - My _whole_ is equity. - -is solved by _Justice_. - - -306 - - Never wearied, see us stand, - A glittering and a stately band-- - Of sturdy stuff, but graceful form, - In summer cold, in winter warm; - From hottest duty never swerving, - Night and day our place preserving; - Each serving to a different use, - Not to be changed without abuse. - And, pray, mark well another fact-- - In unison we never act, - Except, as on occasion dread, - We watch the ashes of the dead; - When we are ranged, as you may see - As awful sentries, one, two, three. - -is solved by _Fire-irons_. - - -307 - - My first, though naught, with others is a fruit, - My next is vital to both man and brute. - It should be dear to all who hate the devil, - For it is ever the reverse of evil. - My all, when whole, is eloquent of peace, - Divided it invokes to life that will not cease. - -is solved by _Olive_. - - -308 - - Guess at my first, ’tis easy to discover, - Covered with rings, and whiskered like a dandy. - Wrapped up in furs, ’tis often on the housetop, - Oft in the chimney! - - See where my second, scorning to be hidden, - Stands at the head of quite a band of others, - Like a virago, straddling with feet apart, - And arms akimbo. - - Surely my next is happy in its office, - Parting the lovelocks on Neæra’s forehead; - Setting the golden lines wherewith she angles - For the unwary. - - If by my whole at any time you pass, you - Tread on the dust of holy saints and martyrs, - Holy the place, may holy thoughts attend you, - Peacefully dreaming! - -is solved by _Catacomb_. - - -309 - - Offspring of nature and of art, I stand - Chief ’midst the monuments of every land; - I may not lengthen life, but I - For centuries forbid to die. - The greatest truth in me you meet - Is but deception most complete. - Unchanged I last the changing crowds among, - And as I older grow, I grow too young. - -is solved by _A portrait_. - - -310 - - Pronounced as one letter, and written with three, - Two letters there are, and two only in me; - I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and gray, - I’m read from both ends, and the same either way. - -is solved by _Eye_. - - -311 - - My _first_ is false as false can be; - My _next_ old ladies wear; - My _whole’s_ my _first_, as you will see, - As false, I do declare. - -is solved by _Falsehood_. - - -312 - - When whole I am indeed a thing - To puzzle you a bit; - Though parts of me are hard, at Bridge - The others make a hit; - Or you may make a car of some, - And fix a head to it. - -is solved by _Charade_. - - -313 - - A word of nine letters explains - How to mitigate bodily pains; - The five vowels are there, - And four consonants share - This function for medical brains. - -is solved by _Inoculate_. - - -314 - - My second guides my first and third - For pleasure, trade, and war; - My first and second by my third - Are oft transported far. - But when my first my third doth pull, - ’Tis then his lot is worst; - And should my second lack my whole, - He’s apt to leave my first. - -is solved by _Horsemanship_. - - -315 - -It is a fact that neither _melons_ nor _lemons_ grew _on elms_. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -316 - -The completed palindrome, which reads alike from either end, is-- - - DRAW NO DRAY A YARD ONWARD. - - -317 - - The schoolboy likes me well, - For healthful sport I bring, - Yet I can harm create, - Though such a little thing: - Connubial bliss is form’d by me; - My nature is equality. - -is solved by _Match_. - - -318 - - What person’s name is doubly evil? - _Sinbad_ reminds us of the devil. - - -319 - - I’m a district near London; - If made wrong, I come undone; - O’er sweet strings I swift run, - Or appear with the bright sun, - And though by me fights were won, - I can greet you every one. - -is solved by _Bow_. - - -320 - - I am my first when seen with you, - My next is always bad. - A rogue in grain much harm may do - And make the farmer mad. - -is solved by _Weevil_. - - -321 - - When winter comes with frost and cold, - My first is welcome, as of old; - And though its grip may make you thinner, - It helps to cook your Christmas dinner. - - Let me but hear my next rejoice - At early dawn with cheerful voice, - I haste to find, with eager pleasure, - Some specimen of hidden treasure. - - A traveller my whole may find - Far from his English kith and kind; - Though some at home, to England’s shame, - Are this in fact, if not in name. - -is solved by _Heathen_. - - -322 - - It was to-morrow, and - It will be yesterday; - Now it is near at hand - What is it? Who can say? - -is solved by _To-day_. - - -323 - - My first doth fill with light his father’s eyes, - The second shadows all the mother’s brow; - My whole all men, all women, girls and boys, - Have had, and long to lose, and lost for ever now; - But know not, nor can know, when it was lost, and how. - -is solved by _Childhood_. - - -324 - - Complete, though not of human race, - A soul in me may dwell; - Behead, I held a higher place, - Until, like man, I fell. - Again behead, and in the song - Of Burns I’m all your own; - Behead once more, it would be wrong - To find me out when known. - -is solved by _Train_, _rain_, _ain_, _in_. - - -325 - - With head good for naught, - And with tail always drunk, - You know well what to say - Of the worth of my trunk. - First cut off my tail, - I am Greek, and I’m not; - Then cut off my head, - And some Latin you’ve got. - Lopping both you know best - What remains, as I said, - For I really am you - If I lose tail and head! - -is solved by _Out_. - - -326 - - One guiding eye I need - In running through the gaps; - My tail, as on I speed, - Is caught in many traps. - -is solved by _A Needle_. - - -327 - -The Chess charade-- - - Of all the birds that ever sought a mate, - My first is to but one appropriate, - So speak the word! nor silence shyly woo. - To find my next, go! wander in the Zoo! - My whole is a magician of the squares, - But Art, with Chess, his best affections shares, - So this, indeed, to him may be a law - When _winning’s_ hopeless, grandly still to _draw_. - -is solved by _Boden_. - - -328 - - Though poor and humble was my birth - I sit enthroned on high; - My footsteps far above the earth, - My canopy the sky. - - O’er toiling subjects thus in state - I bear despotic sway; - Yet on them hand and foot I wait - At break and close of day. - -is solved by _A coachman_. - - -329 - - I am not of flesh and blood, - Yet have I many a bone; - No limbs, except one leg, - And can’t stand on that alone. - - My friends are many, and dwell - In all lands of the human race; - But they poke my poor nose into the mud, - And shamefully spatter my face. - - Thrust me into each other’s ribs, - Stick me in gutter and rut; - I have never a window, and never a door, - Yet I often open and shut. - -is solved by _An umbrella_. - - -330 - - Before the crown descended on - The head of England’s Queen, - Four Kings upon that royal throne - Of the same name had been. - Now if the signs which marked their name - Be joined unto a beast, - We have a food on which the same - (A quadruped) will feast. - -is solved by _Grass_. - - -331 - -Fox’s enigma-- - - I am pretty, and useful in various ways, - Though I tempt some poor mortals to shorten their days; - Behead me, and then in my place will appear - What youngsters admire every day in the year; - Behead me once more, and without any doubt, - You must be what is left if you don’t find it out. - -is solved by _Glass_, _lass_, _ass_. - - -332 - - My first, when skilfully performed - (Its doer by applauses warmed), - Bespeaks both skill and vigour. - When with my whole, so soft and light, - I saw my second gay bedight, - She made a splendid figure. - -is solved by _Feather_. - - -333 - - The man who _rates_ the common _tares_ - Above the _aster_ chaste. - _Stare_ as he may, the world declares - Is not a man of taste. - And, though my sympathy he shares, - No _tears_ on him I’ll waste. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -334 - - When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated, - Endangered the peace of his soul, - To atone for my second my first he repeated - Quite ten times a day on my whole. - -is solved by _Average_. - - -335 - - An insect small and fell - Makes a weird sound, - If, as its name you spell, - You turn it round. - - One letter cast, and still - Shift what remains, - Another insect will - Reward your pains. - -is solved by _Gnat_, _tang_, _ant_. - - -336 - - Where head and body duly meet - I am as slender as a bee; - Whether I stand on head or feet - My figure shows its symmetry. - - But when my head is cut away - The metamorphosis is strange; - Though both of them unaltered stay, - Body and head to nothing change. - -is solved by _The figure_ 8. - - -337 - - First is in coast, second in ghost, - Third must be reckoned part of second; - Fourth in boat, fifth in float, - Sixth you will find within your mind. - Seventh in blue, eighth in true, - These letters tell a fruit that they spell. - -is solved by _Cocoanut_. - - -338 - - The hunter and his steed are known - My first to see. - Though men may call my next a stone, - Wood it may be. - My whole, an exile from his home, - Is doomed from place to place to roam. - -is solved by _Runagate_. - - -339 - - My first expresses power to do, - My next that it is done. - To be my whole belongs to few, - And perfectly to none. - -is solved by _Candid_. - - -340 - - In my first, as in a shell, - All the sweetest sounds may dwell; - In my second, shells abound - That can catch no sort of sound; - In my whole securely rest - Those who neither jeer nor jest. - -is solved by _Earnest_. - - -341 - - My first, though of the feathered kind, - Is never known to fly; - My next all who improve their mind - Seize as it passes by. - My whole may much occasion find - To make the truthful lie. - -is solved by _Bed-time_. - - -342 - - Divide a piece of beef or pork - Without the aid of knife and fork; - It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill, - Where you may set this if you will. - Strike off instead the end, its place - Is plain as nose upon your face. - Cut this asunder in your mind, - And what is first put now behind; - Part of our foot you thus discover, - And in a measure all is over. - -is solved by _Chine_, _niche_, _chin_, _inch_. - - -343 - - Seen as a whole, my form is now - Akin to strife and malice; - Split, it may grace a princely brow, - Or crown the curls of Alice. - - Recast my letters, and I tell - That nourishment is lacking; - Stir them afresh until they spell - The needle’s help in tacking. - -is solved by _Hatred_, _hat red_, _dearth_, _thread_. - - -344 - - If I write with my first in my second - My whole you can never find out; - Add a letter, and all will be reckoned - A patron of water devout. - -is solved by _Within_, _Swithin_. - - -345 - -After officers’ mess, when cigars were well alight, the old conundrum -was propounded, “What is most like a cornet of horse?” A sharp sub. was -ready with the reply, “A hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by -this variant which occurred to a married captain, “a corset of horn”; -and yet another reading was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How much -did you say the ‘horse ate of corn’?” - - -346 - - Loss of love between us - Never can be nice; - Yet we live where Venus - Changes us to ice. - -is solved by _Venice_ (Ven_us_ changes to Ven_ice_). - - -347 - -The very prosaic reply to the dainty lines-- - - “Tell me, my sweet, - Why are your feet - Like fairy-tales?” - -is: Because they are leg ends (legends)! - - -348 - - Our parson _detains_ every man who has leisure - To study _stained_ windows, the glory of fanes; - And _instead_ of devoting his income to pleasure, - Our _sainted_ dean spends his money on panes. - -The words in italics have the same letters. - - -349 - - Though much attached to merriment, - Or crime for a variety, - To prison I am never sent, - But sparkle in society. - -is solved by _The letter E_. - - -350 - - Without my first and second’s aid - No pudding worth its sauce is made. - Take on my third, my fourth I am, - My fifth includes myself and Sam. - My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero, - And shows him as an unheroic hero. - -is solved by _Suetonius_. - - -351 - -The geographical names buried in the sentences-- - - He has my R.N. as a monogram on all his paper. - - I am her stupid sister. - - The calmest man is sometimes made irate-- - -are Smyrna; Amherst; and Madeira. - - -352 - - My first’s a fruit of foreign clime, - Sweet to the taste, in price not dear; - My second does my first produce, - And yet my whole my first doth bear. - -is solved by _Date-palm_. - - -353 - - A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath, - My firm embrace is harbinger of death; - Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art, - Complete and perfected in every part; - Crush me to-day with all-determined care, - Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there! - -is solved by _A spider’s web_. - - -354 - - Six letters in my name are found. - Though only three we see and sound; - The shepherd by the running river - May hear me where the rushes quiver; - And should a stroke my whole divide, - Leaving but half on either side, - These, backward read, will surely tell - What many a toper loves too well. - -is solved by _Murmur_. - - -355 - - Upon a battle-field of learned men - Hundred and fifty were by none divided. - “Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of ten - And so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.” - -is solved by _Colenso_. - - -356 - - Though the stations of mortals are many - And the _last_ is the head of his race; - Yet he, just as often as any, - Is won by my _first’s_ fell embrace; - Yet we most of us apt are to fall, - When our heads cease our hearts to control, - Let us hope that not one of us all - May be e’er in the state of my _whole_. - -is solved by _Sinking_. - - -357 - - My whole is no matter, - And light as the air, - Yet it is good on the platter, - And excellent fare. - - Curtail and transpose, - And a lady you see, - Who will flatter and pose, - And with many do me. - -is solved by _trifle_, _flirt_. - - -358 - - My first, for ages out of mind - All men have always worn behind, - And yet alike by sea and land - They carry it upon their hand. - My second, carefully matur’d, - Is never ill but often cured. - My whole, within unchanging lines, - Black men and white alike confines. - -is solved by _Backgammon_. - - -359 - -The Rebus--“We westand fall,”--is solved by _United we stand, divided we -fall_. - - -360 - - My second is pressed tightly round - To guard from any ill; - And when preparing to engage - Men find it useful still. - My first against attraction set - Will neutralise its power; - Aided by it, with bargains, some - May spend a happy hour. - You find my whole by careful search, - Which must not be forsaken; - It stands before what comes beyond, - Which may from it be taken. - -is solved by _Counterfoil_. - - -362 - - Scorned by the meek and humble mind, - And often by the vain possessed, - Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind, - I give the troubled spirit rest. - -is solved by _Nothing_. - - - - -ODDS AND ENDS - - -SOLUTIONS - - -1 - -Here is both the sum without figures, and its counterpart in numbers:-- - - UGI)GEVPPNDO(IDTPO - GVNI - ---- - DNTP - UGI - ---- - NETN - NEOT - ---- - DUDO - DUDO - ==== - - 956)58700312(61402 - 5736 - ---- - 1340 - 956 - ---- - 3843 - 3824 - ---- - 1912 - 1912 - ==== - -The key sentence is: DON’T GIVE UP, the letters of which correspond to -1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. - - -2 - -When I shot only birds and rabbits, and my bag at the end of the day -showed 36 heads and 100 feet, I had killed 22 birds and 14 rabbits. - - -3 - -There are no fewer than 40 distinct readings of the four words which -form the square-- - - D E L F - E V I L - L I V E - F L E D - -DELF and FLED have each four straight readings, while EVIL and LIVE can -each be traced in 16 different ways, and the four words run straight -from every side of the square. - -4 - - A S - A T - E A - D N R E G D N E V E N IN G - I D - T A - V R - S D - - -5 - -When a man gave a sovereign to his son to be spent on presents of -different values for him and his three sisters, each to cost an aliquot -part of the pound, and each to be as good as possible; and told him to -give the change to the Fresh Air Fund, the presents cost ¹⁄₃, ¹⁄₄, ¹⁄₅, -¹⁄₆ of a pound respectively, or 6s. 8d., 5s., 4s., and 3s. 4d., and -there was a shilling over for the Fresh Air Fund. - - -6 - -This is the complete word-square-- - - M E T A L - E R A S E - T A S T E - A S T E R - L E E R S - - -7 - -The key word to the addition sum is REPUBLICAN. It works out thus-- - - REPUBLICAN - - 1234567890 - - A I 9 7 - L C 6 8 - P R 3 1 - U N 4 0 - B E 5 2 - ----- ----- - E C C 2 8 8 - - -8 - -The word square is completed thus-- - - T O A S T - O T T E R - A T O N E - S E N S E - T R E E S - - -9 - -The product of the first twelve prime numbers, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, -17, 19, 23, 29, 31, can be written down by using no figures but 0, 1, 2, -and 3, and of these 2 and 3 once only, thus-- - - 10 × 1001 × 2001 × 10013:-- - - or 10 = 1 × 2 × 5 - 1001 = 7 × 11 × 13 - 2001 = 3 × 23 × 29 - 10013 = 17 × 19 × 31 - - -10 - -The question-- - - Six collars seven cuffs there be - When pence we charge you thirty-three; - Seven collars and six cuffs to do, - The charge is only thirty-two; - The work is good and up-to-date, - So figure out in pence the rate. - -is answered by--Collars, 2d. Cuffs, 3d. - - -11 - -The word square is completed thus-- - - W E E K S - E L L E N - E L U D E - K E D G E - S N E E R - - -12 - -To remove the table-napkin on a corner of which a wine-glass full of -water stands near the edge of a polished table, take hold with the left -hand of the part that hangs over the edge and raise it to a horizontal -position. Then strike hard downward with the right hand, at about six -inches from the table, and the cloth will come away, leaving the -wineglass altogether undisturbed--an illustration of what is known as -the _vis inertiæ_. - - -13 - - My third and fourth are a quarter of my first and second; my fourth is - half of them, and my third is half. What am I? - -is solved by _Twopence-half-penny_. - - -14 - -The London firm who had sent a telegram to Paris for 480 sets of -Diabolo, and received to their surprise a huge consignment of 6336 sets, -had worded their order thus: “Send us twenty two-dozen cases of -Diabolo,” knowing that they were put up two dozen in a case. The -wholesale firm read the order as twenty-two dozen cases--_i.e._, 264 -cases of 24 in a case! - - -16 - -When Mrs Evergreen said: “My husband’s age is represented by the figures -of mine reversed; he is older than I am, and the difference between our -ages is one-eleventh of their sum,” he was 54, and she was 45. - - -17 - -This is the completed multiplication sum-- - - 4 * * 4 5 7 - 3 * 3 8 - ------ ------ - 3 6 * * 3 6 5 6 - * * 7 * 1 3 7 1 - --------- --------- - * * 3 * * 1 7 3 6 6 - - -18 - - Add 3 to 10, and then divide - Till 8 the sum has satisfied-- - -is solved by writing 13 in Roman numerals, XIII.; and then drawing a -line across their middle, so that the upper half forms VIII. - - -19 - -I bought fifty-eight plants for my new rosery, when I found that if I -set them three in a row there would be one over; if four in a row two -over; if five in a row three over; and if six in a row four over. - - -20 - - Three nines arranged thus represent 20-- - - 9 + 9 - ----- - ·9 - - -21 - -If a house has nine windows on its front, as many as 511 signals can be -given by merely leaving one or more of them open, including the case in -which all are left open. - - -22 - -The birthday puzzle by Sir John Evans is solved thus-- - - “Reader, whether man or woman, - Write my age in figures Roman (LXV.). - My first, divided by my second, - Will make my third, if rightly reckoned, - Ten times the whole, and then you’ll see - My university degree (D.C.L.).” - - -52 - -This is the way to arrange a strip of paper 9 in. by 2 in. so that it -has only _one surface_ and _one edge_. - -Gum the ends together with _a half twist_ in the slip. If a continuous -line is now drawn along the middle of the band it will traverse the -whole length of the paper and finish at its starting point. Again, if a -mark is made on the edge, and the finger or a pencil starting from this -runs along the edge, it also will return to its starting point. - - -53 - -To divide nine into two parts which shall be together equal to ten, -write IX in bold Roman numerals on a sheet of paper, and fold this -across the middle of the figures, thus-- - - IV - IX -- ---- - IɅ - -This gives a six on one side of the fold and a four upon the other side. - - -54 - -The shepherd who had folded his flock with 100 hurdles, and whose master -bade him the next day use 16 of these to pen some pigs, and to enclose -nine times as many sheep with the remaining 84 as the 100 had contained, -had originally placed the hurdles in two rows of 49 each, with one -hurdle at each end. He made room for nine times as many sheep within 84 -hurdles by arranging them in a square, with 21 on every side, thus -increasing the area ninefold. - - -55 - -When you have lifted three hats that cover three biscuits in a row, -eaten the biscuits and replaced the hats, you can carry out your -undertaking that the three biscuits shall be under whichever hat is -selected by solemnly placing that hat upon your head! - - -56 - -The number of different ways in which 7s. 3d. can be paid away in -current coin of the realm, without ever using exactly the same set of -coins a second time, is 1,062,102! - - - PRINTED AT THE MERCAT PRESS, EDINBURGH. - - - - - Transcriber᾿s Notes - - - Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, etcetera have been - retained, unless listed under Changes below. - - Unless listed below, the riddles, puzzles and tricks and their - solutions are given here as printed in the source document, even - though some of them arguably contain ambiguities, errors and/or - misprints. Inconsistencies in lay-out between the puzzles and their - solutions have not been standardised. - - The source document has several pages that contain a Pictured Puzzle - at the top (Roman numerals) and one or more Word Play puzzles or jokes - (Latin numerals). This has been retained in this text; any - auto-generated Tables of Contents may therefore look jumbled up with - intermixed Roman and Latin numerals. - - Depending on the hard- and software used to read this text and on - their settings, not all elements may display as intended. The larger - diagrams may be illegible on small screens or in small windows. - - Where possible and relevant, illustrations have been “transcribed”, - occasionally discarding some of the ornamentation. In this e-text for - chess boards and the like, # indicates a dark square; dominoes are - represented either by the pattern of the pips or by the number of - pips. The transcribed illustrations usually give but a very simple - impression of the actual illustration. For reference and for the sake - of completeness, images of the transcribed illustrations have been - provided at the end of this e-book, with hyperlinks (“Image”) pointing - to them. Hyperlinks from these images point back to the riddle, - puzzle, etc. (“Return to description”) or to its solution (“Return to - solution”). In addition, hyperlinks are provided from the puzzles etc. - to their solutions (“Solution”) and from the solutions back to the - puzzle etc. (“Return to description”). - - Table of Contents, page 130: The Enigmas, Charades, Puzzles, &c., &c. - do not actually start on this page (they start on page 2), but there - are no more Pictured Puzzles and Word Play from this page on. - - Page 49, Se Pierot or Lun: possibly an error for See Pierot or L’un or - Le Pierot or L’un. - - Page 60, No. LX: the description is confusing, as the puzzle consists - of drawing the four dotted lines, and they are therefore not given. - - Page 89 and 263, Pictured puzzle LXXXIX and solution: either the - puzzle or the solution has been printed upside-down in the source - document. - - Page 114, ... as nearly as possible of the size and pattern ...: based - on the size of the physical book (around 7″ or 18 cm tall), the - boomerang’s width would be some 3″ or 7.5 cm. - - Page 149, ... six single words: the solution provided gives five - single words. - - Page 205, Solution IX: the table as printed lacks values for Opposite - pairs of short diagonals (of which there are four) and Such - combinations as 482, 484, 472, 470 (of which there ought to be two in - order to reach the given total). - - - Changes made - - In the source document, jokes, riddles and puzzles may be split over - multiple pages (for example, Word Play 5 may be found on page 7 (first - part) and page 9 (second part)). In this e-text, the second part has - been re-combined with the first, and references to the separate first - and second parts have been deleted. - - Some minor obvious typographical errors have been corrected silently. - Similarly, minor discrepancies (such as the number of blanks or - x - periods) have been rectified silently. Fractions (the forms x/y, --- - y - and x-y all occur in the source document) have (bar a single - exception) been standardised to x/y. - - Unless they fitted better within the text paragraphs, illustrations, - verses, diagrams, etc. have been moved out of the text paragraphs. The - footnote has been moved to directly underneath the Word Play in which - it is referenced. - - In some chessboard based riddles the symbol for knight has been - changed from Kt to N. - - In some of the diagrams bold, italics or small capital mark-up of - individual words and letters has been removed due to the limited width - available. Large diagrams have been split to fit the available width. - - Page 10: ... cut of my head; changed to ... cut off my head; - - Page 62: ... thought myself happy to win her ... changed to ... I - thought myself happy to win her ... (cf. solution). - - Page 84 and 260, Pictured Puzzle LXXXIV and solution: the examples - mentioned and the solution given have been transcribed as separate - elements, the 6 × 6 grid being too wide to be included. - - Page 89: ... indentations do not effect ... changed to ... - indentations do not affect .... - - Page 93: the logogriph has been laid out as in the solution on page - 305. - - Page 110-111: Word Play 92 in this text (Missing Words) was - erroneously numbered 93 (first part) and 39 (second part) in the - source document. - - Page 130: “Tis an absurdity to say ... changed to ’Tis an absurdity to - say .... - - Page 139: !” inserted after the dots cf. solution. - - Page 144, Nr. 176, last line: space inserted between F and R in R FR - H; H T G changed to H T N G. - - Page 152: ... his destination from these words.” changed to ... his - destination from these words? - - Page 196: ... sa Majéste impériale ... changed to ...sa Majesté - impériale ...; ... a jamais! changed to ... à jamais! - - Page 197-198: Odds and Ends 38 appears twice; the second one has been - renamed 38a. - - Page 201: ... a flock of sheep in a fold enclosed by 10 hurdles ... - changed to ... a flock of sheep in a fold enclosed by 100 hurdles .... - - Page 294: Number 34 inserted before first solution. - - Page 309: _The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey_ changed to - _The Houses of Parliament_ and _Westminster Abbey_. - - Page 310: The words italics are spelt ... changed to The words in - italics are spelt .... - - Page 379: vis inertiœ changed to vis inertiæ. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD -PLAY *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Pictured Puzzles and Word Play</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:1em;'>A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Cyril Pearson</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: April 20, 2022 [eBook #67886]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: MFR, Branden Aldridge, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY ***</div> - -<div class="tnbox"> - -<p class="center highline15">Please see the <a href="#TN">Transcriber’s Notes</a> at the end -of this text.</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Cover image" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -</div><!--no epub--> - -<h1>PICTURED PUZZLES AND<br /> -WORD PLAY</h1> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="advert"> - -<p class="center blankbefore75"><i><span class="underl"><b>BY THE SAME AUTHOR</b></span></i></p> - -<p class="center blankbefore15 fsize70"><b>UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME</b></p> - -<hr class="short" /> - -<p class="center highline2">THE TWENTIETH CENTURY<br /> -<span class="ws4 gesp1 fsize125">STANDARD PUZZLE BOOK</span></p> - -<p class="center highline2 blankbefore1">Crown 8vo. <span class="padl6 padr6">Cloth Extra.</span> Gilt.</p> - -</div><!--advert--> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="container w30em" id="Ref0"> - -<p class="center fsize125 highline2">FRONTISPIECE</p> - -<img src="images/illo004.jpg" alt="" /> - -<p>Can you discover by anagram what the ape is saying -to the elephant, from this descriptive sentence?</p> - -<p class="centerline">A sly tree-ape, he tries a rum telephone.</p> - -<p class="fsize90"><i>Exactly the same letters must be used.</i></p> - -</div><!--container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref549">Solution</a></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<p class="center highline15 fsize150"><span class="smcap">Pictured Puzzles</span><br /> -<span class="fsize50">AND</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Word Play</span></p> - -<p class="center highline15 blankbefore2"><span class="smcap">A Companion to</span><br /> -<span class="ws2">THE TWENTIETH CENTURY STANDARD<br /> -PUZZLE BOOK</span></p> - -<p class="center highline15 blankbefore2"><span class="fsize80">EDITED BY</span><br /> -<span class="fsize125">A. CYRIL PEARSON, M.A.</span></p> - -<p class="center fsize70 blankbefore2">AUTHOR OF<br /> -“<span class="smcap">100 Chess Problems</span>,” “<span class="smcap">Anagrams, Ancient and Modern</span>,” -<span class="smcap">Etc.</span></p> - -<p class="center highline4"><i>PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED</i></p> - -<div class="container w05em"> -<img src="images/illo005.jpg" alt="Routledge logo" /> -</div> - -<p class="center fsize110 blankbefore2">LONDON<br /> -<span class="fsize120">GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.</span><br /> -NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2 class="nobreak contents">CONTENTS.</h2> - -</div><!--chapter--> - -<table class="toc" summary="ToC"> - -<tr> -<td class="chapname"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Ref0">Frontispiece Puzzle</a></span></td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="chappage"><span style="margin-left: 3em;">PAGE</span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="chapname"><span class="smcap">Pictured Puzzles and Word Play</span></td> -<td class="chappage"><a href="#Page1">1</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="chapname"><span class="smcap">Enigmas, Charades, Puzzles, &c., &c.</span></td> -<td class="chappage"><a href="#Page130">130</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="chapname"><span class="smcap">Odds and Ends</span></td> -<td class="chappage"><a href="#Page188">188</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="chapname"><span class="smcap">Solutions to Pictured Puzzles</span></td> -<td class="chappage"><a href="#Page202">202</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="chapname"><span class="smcap">Solutions to Word Play</span></td> -<td class="chappage"><a href="#Page283">283</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="chapname"><span class="smcap">Solutions to Odds and Ends</span></td> -<td class="chappage"><a href="#Page375">375</a></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page1">[1]</span></p> - -<h2>PICTURED PUZZLES</h2> - -</div><!--chapter--> - -<h3 id="Ref1">No. I.—A GOOD SPECIMEN</h3> - -<p>Here is a nest of magic squares, seven of them -within the four corners of one <span class="nowrap">diagram:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd bld"><i>149</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>16</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>33</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>196</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>47</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>197</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>44</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>208</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>42</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>203</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>57</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>194</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>38</i></td> -<td class="cell btd bl"><i>54</i></td> -<td class="cell btd brd bl"><i>217</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>177</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl2"><i>62</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>183</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>52</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>213</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>59</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>160</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>15</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>161</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>85</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>156</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>190</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>105</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>28</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>49</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>56</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>147</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl2"><i>201</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>146</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>75</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>155</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>2</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>220</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>3</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>153</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>53</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>26</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>209</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>79</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>170</i></td> -</tr> - 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-<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>221</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>24</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>175</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>63</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>86</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl2"><i>116</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>93</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>135</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>94</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>127</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>140</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>163</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>51</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>202</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>5</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>10</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>215</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>69</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>159</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>134</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>95</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl2"><i>98</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>126</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>115</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>131</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>92</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>67</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>157</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>11</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>216</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>219</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>19</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>165</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>1</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>136</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>97</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>130</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>113</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>96</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>129</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>90</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>225</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>61</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>207</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>7</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>8</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>205</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>84</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>191</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>87</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>158</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>111</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>100</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>128</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>68</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>139</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>35</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>142</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>21</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>218</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>214</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>34</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>144</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>27</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>112</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>99</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>133</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>91</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>132</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>110</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>114</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>199</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>82</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>192</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>12</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>14</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>123</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>55</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>106</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>117</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>189</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>72</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>178</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>40</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>88</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>107</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>120</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>171</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>103</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>212</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>206</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>89</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>181</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>166</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>143</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>39</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>185</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>122</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>204</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>31</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>81</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>46</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>45</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>137</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>20</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>58</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>101</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>17</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>80</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>151</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>71</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>224</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>6</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>223</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>73</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>173</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>200</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>25</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>125</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>168</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bld"><i>118</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl2"><i>198</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>43</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>174</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>13</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>167</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>66</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>211</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>65</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>141</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>70</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>36</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bl"><i>121</i></td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>164</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bl2"><i>108</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bbd bld"><i>9</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>210</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>193</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>30</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>179</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>29</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>182</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>18</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>184</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>23</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>169</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>32</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>188</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 bbd bl"><i>172</i></td> -<td class="cell bt brd bbd bl"><i>77</i></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1025">Image</a></p> - -<p>As each border is removed a fresh magic square -remains, in which the numbers in the cells of each -row, column, and diagonal add up to the same -sum, while each of these sums is a multiple of -the central 113.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page2">[2]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref2">No. II.—A BORDERED DIAMOND<br /> -By G. Slater</h3> - -<table class="square fsize75" summary="Diamond"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="12"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>1</i></td> -<td colspan="12" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="11"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>91</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>117</i></td> -<td colspan="11" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="10"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>3</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bl"><i>20</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>160</i></td> -<td colspan="10" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>27</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>25</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>129</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>65</i></td> -<td colspan="9" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>156</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>154</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bl"><i>42</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>38</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>165</i></td> -<td colspan="8" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>161</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>15</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>138</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>36</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>103</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>26</i></td> -<td colspan="7" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>130</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>153</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>136</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bl"><i>124</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>81</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>54</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>159</i></td> -<td colspan="6" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>162</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>147</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>120</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>69</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>75</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>135</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>151</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>52</i></td> -<td colspan="5" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>39</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>22</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>55</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>112</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>111</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>110</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>33</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>64</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>78</i></td> -<td colspan="4" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>4</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>152</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>76</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>57</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>56</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>62</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>61</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>63</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>93</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>7</i></td> -<td colspan="3" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>168</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>146</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>139</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>100</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>99</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>98</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>97</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>96</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>102</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>142</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>158</i></td> -<td colspan="2" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="1"> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>6</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>21</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>29</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>45</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>44</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>43</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>49</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>48</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>47</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>133</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br"><i>51</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt"><i>104</i></td> -<td colspan="1" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bl"><i>157</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bb bl"><i>80</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bb bl"><i>30</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bb bl"><i>88</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>87</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>86</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>85</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>84</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>83</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bb br"><i>82</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bb br"><i>140</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt bb br"><i>90</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"><i>13</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>53</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>41</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>134</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>123</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>122</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>121</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>127</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>126</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>125</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>52</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>145</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>79</i></td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>10</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>132</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>89</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>74</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>73</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>72</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>71</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>70</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>34</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>16</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>167</i></td> -<td colspan="2" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>105</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>67</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>35</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>109</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>108</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>114</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>113</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>50</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>155</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>143</i></td> -<td colspan="3" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>5</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>116</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>137</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>60</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell"><i>59</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>58</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>115</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>17</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>14</i></td> -<td colspan="4" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>144</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>19</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>107</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>95</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>101</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>94</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>23</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>9</i></td> -<td colspan="5" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>11</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>106</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>68</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br bl"><i>46</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>31</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>148</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>40</i></td> -<td colspan="6" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>118</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>77</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>37</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>41</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>18</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>8</i></td> -<td colspan="7" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>92</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>38</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br bl"><i>128</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>24</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>131</i></td> -<td colspan="8" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>163</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>148</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br"><i>149</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>166</i></td> -<td colspan="9" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="10"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>12</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb br bl"><i>130</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>2</i></td> -<td colspan="10" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="11"> </td> -<td class="cell bb bl"><i>66</i></td> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bb"><i>164</i></td> -<td colspan="11" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="12"> </td> -<td class="cell bl bb"><i>169</i></td> -<td colspan="12" class="bl"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1026">Image</a></p> - -<p>It is a perfect magic diamond as it stands, and -equally perfect are the diamonds that remain when -each border of cells is removed, as is indicated -by the lines.</p> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2>WORD PLAY</h2> - -</div><!--chapter--> - -<h3 id="Ref3">1. A PARADOX</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Two words in our region of puzzledom pose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And claim, through the passage of years<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That neither the pages of Johnson disclose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">While either in Murray appears.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref638">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page3">[3]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref4">No. III.—A MULTIFOLD MAGIC SQUARE</h3> - -<p>Here is a magic square of 81 cells.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld"><i>53</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><i>8</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br2 bb"><i>71</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><i>28</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><i>73</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br2 bb"><i>10</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><i>51</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><i>6</i></td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><i>69</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><i>62</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>44</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>26</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>19</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>37</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>55</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>60</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>42</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><i>24</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb2 bld"><i>17</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>80</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>35</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>61</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>1</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>46</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>15</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>78</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb2"><i>33</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><i>66</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>21</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>30</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>14</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>59</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>50</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>34</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>79</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><i>16</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><i>3</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>39</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>75</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>77</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>41</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>5</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>25</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>43</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><i>61</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb2 bld"><i>48</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>57</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>12</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>32</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>23</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>68</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>70</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>7</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb2"><i>52</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><i>31</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>76</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>13</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>72</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>27</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>36</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>11</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>56</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><i>47</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><i>22</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>40</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>58</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>9</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>45</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>81</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>74</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>38</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><i>2</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld"><i>67</i></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><i>4</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bbd"><i>49</i></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><i>54</i></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><i>63</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bbd"><i>18</i></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><i>29</i></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><i>20</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><i>65</i></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p>If divided, as is shown, into 9 small squares, -each of these is also a magic square, and yet -another magic square is formed by the totals of -these 9 squares arranged <span class="nowrap">thus:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl">396</td> -<td class="cell bt br bb">333</td> -<td class="cell bt br bb">378</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl">351</td> -<td class="cell br bb">369</td> -<td class="cell br bb">387</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl">360</td> -<td class="cell br bb">405</td> -<td class="cell br bb">342</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1027">Images</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page4">[4]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref5">No. IV.—A MODEL MAGIC SQUARE</h3> - -<p>This magic square, which has in its cells the -first sixteen numbers, is so constructed that -these add up to 34 in very many ways.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld"><b>4</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>15</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>14</b></td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><b>1</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><b>9</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>6</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>7</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><b>12</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><b>5</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>10</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>11</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><b>8</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld"><b>16</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>3</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>2</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><b>13</b></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1028">Image</a></p> - -<p>How many of these, in addition to the usual -rows, columns, and diagonals, can you discover? -They must, of course, be in some sort symmetrical.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref550">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref6">2. A PREDOMINANT VOWEL</h3> - -<p>Can you fill in the missing letters which are -needed to turn the oft-repeated “u” below into -rhyming <span class="nowrap">verse:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="dotforblank"> -<span class="verse indent0">.u.. .u.u. .u..u.., ..u...u. .u.. u..u..,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">.u... .u.., .u. .u..u.. .u..u... ..u...u. ..u..;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">...u.. .u...., .u.. .u..u.. ..u... .u... .u... u..u..,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">U. .u...., .u.. ..u..-.u.u., .u..u.’. .u...u. .u..<br /></span> -</div><!--dotforblank--> - -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref639">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page5">[5]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref7">No. V.—TESSELATED DIAMOND<br /> -By G. Slater</h3> - -<table class="square fsize75" summary="Magic diamond"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="10"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb bl2"><i>106</i></td> -<td colspan="10"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb bl2"><i>13</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb"><i>109</i></td> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb bl2"><i>113</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>16</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb"><i>14</i></td> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb2 bl2"><i>12</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>110</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>107</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb2"><i>15</i></td> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"><i>42</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>9</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>11</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>100</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"><i>78</i></td> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"><i>74</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>81</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>112</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>10</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>56</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"><i>71</i></td> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"><i>67</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>53</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>87</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>111</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>83</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>43</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"><i>34</i></td> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb bl2"><i>27</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>49</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>50</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>35</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>59</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>63</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>84</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb"><i>6</i></td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb bl2"><i>96</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb"><i>26</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>46</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>72</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>68</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>39</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>37</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>115</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb"><i>7</i></td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb bl2"><i>30</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>95</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb"><i>97</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>76</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>75</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>33</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>85</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>3</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>116</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb"><i>114</i></td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb2 bl2"><i>91</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>31</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>28</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb2"><i>94</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>40</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>61</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>82</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>120</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>2</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>5</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb2"><i>117</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="1"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2 bl2"><i>92</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>90</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>25</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>64</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>89</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>47</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>41</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>119</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>121</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>8</i></td> -<td colspan="1"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2 bl2"><i>29</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>93</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>58</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>62</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>54</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>69</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>86</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>4</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>118</i></td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2 bl2"><i>32</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>66</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>60</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>57</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>73</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>52</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>80</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>1</i></td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl"><i>44</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>79</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>65</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>19</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>45</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>48</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>36</i></td> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl"><i>51</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>38</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>104</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>18</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>55</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>70</i></td> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl"><i>88</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>22</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>103</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>105</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>77</i></td> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2 bl2"><i>99</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>23</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>20</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>102</i></td> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2 bl2"><i>100</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>98</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>17</i></td> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2 bl2"><i>21</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>101</i></td> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="10"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2 bl2"><i>24</i></td> -<td colspan="10"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1029">Image</a></p> - -<p>In this ingenious diamond all rows and both -diagonals add up to 671; in the four corner -diamonds all add up to 244; and in the central -diamond, and the 16 rows of threes surrounding -it, to 183.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref8">3. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I see my first, I see my next,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And both I sigh and see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Joined to my third, which much perplexed<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And sorely puzzled me.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">’Twas fifty, and ’twas something more,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Reversed ’twas scarce an ell,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With first and next it forms a whole<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Clear as a crystal bell.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What is my whole? A splendid tear<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Upheld in cruel thrall;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Blow soft, ye gales, bright sun appear!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And bid me gently fall.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref640">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page6">[6]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref9">No. VI.—MAGIC SQUARE BY MULTIPLICATION</h3> - -<p>Here is a magic square, in which the rows, -columns, and diagonals yield the same product, -4096, by <span class="nowrap">multiplication:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic diamond"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd bld br bb"><b>128</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>1</b></td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><b>32</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><b>4</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>16</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><b>64</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bbd"><b>8</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>256</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><b>2</b></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1030">Image</a></p> - -<p>It will be seen that the numbers in this square, -1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, are in regular -progression, and 4096 is also the cube of the -central 16.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page7">[7]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref10">No. VII.—ANOTHER BORDERED MAGIC -SQUARE</h3> - -<p>Here is quite a good example of a bordered -magic square of sixty-four <span class="nowrap">cells:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic diamond"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb bl2"><i>1</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb2"><i>56</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb2"><i>55</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb2"><i>11</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb2"><i>53</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb2"><i>13</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb2"><i>14</i></td> -<td class="cell bt2 br2 bb"><i>57</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br2 bb bl2"><i>63</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>15</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>47</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>22</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>42</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>24</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>45</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>2</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br2 bb bl2"><i>62</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>49</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>25</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>40</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>34</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>31</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>16</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>3</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br2 bb bl2"><i>4</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>48</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>28</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>37</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>35</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>30</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>17</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>61</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br2 bb bl2"><i>5</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>44</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>39</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>26</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>32</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>33</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>21</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>60</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br2 bb bl2"><i>59</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>19</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>38</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>27</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>29</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>36</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>46</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>6</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br2 bb bl2"><i>58</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>20</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>18</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>43</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>23</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>41</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>50</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"><i>7</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb2 bl2"><i>8</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>9</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>10</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>54</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>12</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>52</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb2"><i>51</i></td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"><i>64</i></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1031">Image</a></p> - -<p>It is a perfect specimen itself, and as each -border is removed a fresh perfect magic square -is revealed.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref11">4. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Take for my first a quadruped,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Transpose one for my second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, a biped, quick or dead,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is dainty reckoned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref641">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref12">5. BYRON’S ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But in infancy ever am known;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m a stranger alike to the fool and the sage,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And though I’m distinguish’d in history’s page<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I always am greatest alone.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">You may search all the sky—I’m not there;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In the morning and evening—though not in the noon—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You may plainly perceive me—for, like a balloon,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I am midway suspended in air.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I am never in sorrow nor gloom;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though in wit and in wisdom I equally reign,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m the heart of all sin, and have long lived in vain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Yet I ne’er shall be found in the tomb!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref642">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page8">[8]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref13">No. VIII.—A HARDY ANNUAL</h3> - -<p>A magic square can be formed with the 81 -numbers from 172 to 252 inclusive, which in all -its rows, columns, and diagonals will total 1908. -It may interest our solvers to complete the -square.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic diamond"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld"><i>216</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><i>175</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><i>224</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><i>240</i></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><i>199</i></td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><i>248</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><i>247</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>215</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>174</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>190</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>239</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><i>207</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><i>206</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>246</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>214</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>230</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>198</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><i>238</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>213</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>172</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>221</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>244</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>212</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>180</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>203</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>252</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>211</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><i>186</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>226</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>194</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>210</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>178</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><i>218</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><i>217</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>185</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>234</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>250</i></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><i>209</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><i>177</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld"><i>176</i></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><i>225</i></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><i>184</i></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><i>200</i></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><i>249</i></td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><i>208</i></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1032">Image</a></p> - -<p>We have filled in, as a solid start, 45 of the -81 cells.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref551">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page9">[9]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref14">No. IX.—ANOTHER “ANNO DOMINI”</h3> - -<p>This magic square adds up in rows, columns, -and diagonals to <span class="nowrap">1908:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic diamond"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">469</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">484</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">472</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">483</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">481</td> -<td class="cell br bb">474</td> -<td class="cell br bb">478</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">475</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">482</td> -<td class="cell br bb">471</td> -<td class="cell br bb">485</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">470</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">476</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">479</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">473</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">480</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1032a">Image</a></p> - -<p>Can you decide in how many other symmetrical -ways the same total is to be made?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref552">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page10">[10]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref15">No. X.—A DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE</h3> - -<p>In this magic square the rows, columns, and -diagonals add up always to 33.</p> - -<table class="dominoes" summary="Dominoes"> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="19"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="19"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="19"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="19"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> ●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1033">Image</a></p> - -<p>Can you rearrange it so that the first stone -(three-ace) shall occupy the centre, now filled by -the double six, and it shall still add up in all -ways to 33?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref553">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref16">6. SHIFTING LETTERS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am bright as a whole<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Till you cut off my head;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then as black as a coal,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or a mortal instead.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Shaken up and recast<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">We with science are found,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Read us back from the last<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And we live underground.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref643">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page11">[11]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref17">No. XI.—CHESS AND NUMBERS</h3> - -<p>The arrangement of numbers in the 36 cells of -this square discloses a very close affinity between -chess and arithmetic.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">30</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">21</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">6</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">15</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">28</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">19</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">7</td> -<td class="cell br bb">16</td> -<td class="cell br bb">29</td> -<td class="cell br bb">20</td> -<td class="cell br bb">5</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">14</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">22</td> -<td class="cell br bb">31</td> -<td class="cell br bb">8</td> -<td class="cell br bb">35</td> -<td class="cell br bb">18</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">9</td> -<td class="cell br bb">36</td> -<td class="cell br bb">17</td> -<td class="cell br bb">26</td> -<td class="cell br bb">13</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">4</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">32</td> -<td class="cell br bb">23</td> -<td class="cell br bb">2</td> -<td class="cell br bb">11</td> -<td class="cell br bb">34</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">1</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">10</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">33</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">24</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">3</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">12</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1034">Image</a></p> - -<p>Can you follow this out?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref554">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref18">7. A GOOD CHARADE<br /> -<i>By Horace Smith, one of the authors of</i> -“<i>Rejected Addresses.</i>”</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In arts and sciences behold my first the watchword still,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All prejudice must bend the knee before its iron will;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet “Onward!” is the Briton’s cry—a cry that doth express<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A holy work but half begun, and speaks of hopefulness.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In palace or in lonely cot its name alike is heard,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And in the Senate’s lordly halls sit my second and my third.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Strange paradox, though for my first my total is designed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Sad marks of vice and ignorance we in that whole may find.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref644">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page12">[12]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref19">No. XII.—NUMBERS PATIENCE</h3> - -<p>Those who combine a fancy for “Patience” -with some skill in numbers will find amusement -in filling the empty cells of this diagram with -appropriate numbers, each of which must consist -of two <span class="nowrap">figures:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">17</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">24</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">32</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">46</td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">14</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">19</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">16</td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">22</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">20</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1035">Image</a></p> - -<p>It is required that each of the rows across from -side to side shall add up, when all the cells are -filled, to 143 exactly. No number must be used -more than once.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref555">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page13">[13]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref20">No. XIII.—THE WINDMILL</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo021.png" alt="Windmill" /> -</div> - -<p>Can you divide a square into 15 parts, which -can be built up into this windmill?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref556">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref21">8. THRICE BEHEADED</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Untouched I tell of budding growth and life;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Beheaded I lead upward more or less;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Again—with varied fragrance I am rife;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Again—but little value I express.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref645">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page14">[14]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref22">No. XIV.—A NEST OF RECTANGLES</h3> - -<p>In this nest of 49 squares it is possible to -count a great number of distinct and interlacing -figures, whose opposite sides are equal, and whose -angles are all right angles.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1036">Image</a></p> - -<p>Can you decide exactly the number of these -rectangles, and say how many of them are -square?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref557">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref23">9. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Search Holy Writ and you will see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A victory was won by me.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me, and I may be found<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In water or on hilly ground.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, and then transpose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A snare my letters now disclose.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If yet again my head you sever,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No matter how sharp-set or clever<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">’Tis all in vain you look about,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For no one yet has found me out.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref646">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page15">[15]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref24">No. XV.—ANOTHER DOMINO MAGIC -SQUARE</h3> - -<p>Can you, using all the dominoes except double -five, five-six, and double six, construct with the -twenty-five stones a magic square that adds up -in all rows, columns, and diagonals to 27, and in -which the stones in the cells marked by the same -figures in this diagram also add up to that -number?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld"><b>2</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>1</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><b>2</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>4</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>3</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>4</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><b>1</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>3</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>3</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><b>1</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>4</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>3</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>4</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld"><b>2</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>1</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><b>2</b></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1037">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref558">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page16">[16]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref25">No. XVI.—DOMINO PATIENCE</h3> - -<p>The problem is to construct, with all the -twenty-eight stones, a domino pyramid of seven -stages, starting with a single stone, and adding -one stone on each successive stage.</p> - -<p>The stones must be so arranged that the -number of pips in any row or column are in all -cases exactly three times the number of half-dominoes -of which that line or column is composed. -There are many solutions to exercise -the solver’s patience.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref559">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref26">10. LEGAL PLEASANTRIES</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Said a lawyer aside to his friend in the court,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">“Now I’d bet, were we not in this place,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That my first is my second a bottle of port,”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then bright with my whole shone his face.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref647">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref27">11. RIVALS ON THE ROAD</h3> - -<p>Six horse buses and four motor buses travel -each hour from Temple Bar to the Bank. The -horses take 15 minutes, and the motors 10 -minutes on the journey.</p> - -<p>If I come to Temple Bar, and wish to reach -the Bank as soon as possible, shall I take the -first horse bus that turns up, or wait for a motor? -It must be assumed that I can only see a bus as -it actually passes me.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref648">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page17">[17]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref28">No. XVII.—A FRIENDLY HINT</h3> - -<p>The father of this venturesome lad, who was -on the point of breaking out of bounds, came -on the scene just in time to warn him in a sentence -of nine words, five of which were “Never -throw a leg, lad.”</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo025.jpg" alt="Venturesome lad" /> -</div> - -<p>Can you supply the other four words, which -are spelt with <i>exactly the same letters?</i></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref560">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page18">[18]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref29">No. XVIII.—CATASTROPHE</h3> - -<p>In this picture we see that a cat has sprung -upon the table to interview the parrot.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo026.jpg" alt="The interview" /> -</div> - -<p>The title “Catastrophe” recast by anagram, -tells the parrot’s happy thought at this critical -moment, and the appropriate sentence,</p> - -<p class="center highline15">“New parrot-stand in a house,”</p> - -<p class="noindent">tells, also by anagram, how he put this into -instant operation.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref561">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref30">12. A HISTORICAL CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, if foolishly or rashly taken,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">May mar the future prospects of your life.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second, by her fickle lord forsaken<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">(Sad type of many a gentle, patient wife),<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">May toil and moil to feed his many babies,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">While he goes flirting off with other ladies.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The thrifty monarch of a former age<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole a place in Britain’s history fills.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Immortalised in Shakespeare’s magic pages<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">As one who’d fain reform his tailor’s bills!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref649">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page19">[19]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref31">No. XIX.—A PRECOCIOUS BOY</h3> - -<p>This is the picture of the first prize boy at a -baby show. The judge, noticing the position of -one chubby fist, said to the proud mother, “Your -lad Tommy likes such tit-bits.”</p> - -<div class="container w10em"> -<img src="images/illo027.jpg" alt="Baby" /> -</div> - -<p>To his amazement the baby, removing the -comforting hand, replied in eight words composed -of <i>exactly the same letters</i>, “So to-day, -sir, <span class="dotforblank">. ....</span> <span class="dotforblank">..</span> <span class="dotforblank">......</span> -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span>” Can you -complete the sentence?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref562">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page20">[20]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref32">No. XX.—AGAINST THE COLLAR</h3> - -<p>The lady who is sitting at the back of this -overloaded waggonette cries out, in her sympathy -with the struggling horse, “This big load quite -hinders his pull.”</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo028.jpg" alt="Wagonette" /> -</div> - -<p>Her husband, full of holiday spirits and energy, -answers her in a sentence of mingled reproof and -determination, which forms a perfect anagram -of the words of his wife, and describes his feelings -and action. Can you recast the letters?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref563">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page21">[21]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref33">No. XXI.—IN A BILLIARD-ROOM</h3> - -<p>At the moment when a burly and keen player -was in this strange and striking attitude,</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo029.jpg" alt="Burly player" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">a bystander whispered to the marker, “Eh! what -a stout player is striking!”</p> - -<p>Can you, using exactly the same letters, put -into the mouth of the marker a reply appropriate -to the position?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref564">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref34">13. A SAUCY MAIDEN</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>second</i>, worn with pompous pride,</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> had dangling at his side,</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent8">On chain securely hooked.</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> he came from o’er the sea,</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent0">A bundle of conceit looked he,</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent8">And he was all he looked.</span><br /> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">She led him to the village green,</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent0">Where in desponding mood was seen</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent8">My <i>whole</i>, with drooping head.</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent0">“Behold,” she said, “a perfect, true,</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent0">And striking likeness, sir, of you!”</span><br /> -<span class="verse indent8">And, laughing, gaily fled.</span><br /> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref650">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page22">[22]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref35">No. XXII.—EVOLVING A PAINTER</h3> - -<p>There are two English words which are appropriate -to this <span class="nowrap">picture—</span></p> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo030.jpg" alt="Transformation and evolutions" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">One of them has as its anagram the very apposite -sentence, “Or not a man first;” the other treated -in similar fashion becomes, “O I love nuts!” -What are the two words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref565">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref36">14. DOUBLETS</h3> - -<p>Who can turn WHEAT into BREAD with six -links, changing one letter each time, and preserving -the general order of the letters throughout?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref651">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page23">[23]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref37">No. XXIII.—THE PICK OF THE PACK</h3> - -<p>How can we decide by anagram whether this -is a fancy portrait of “William or dear Jack?”</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo031.jpg" alt="Ye Joker" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">Shake up and recast the words in inverted -commas.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref566">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref38">15. AN OLD ENIGMA</h3> - -<p>Can our readers solve this enigma, which was -published in 1811, and to which no answer seems -to be known?</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m one among a numerous host,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And very useful in my post;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">There’s not a house in all the land<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Without me properly can stand.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though men disputed long ago<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whether I did exist or no,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Once more some thousands have been slain<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Because they could not me attain.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref652">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page24">[24]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref39">No. XXIV.—A PICTURE PUZZLE</h3> - -<p>Take this picture in connection with the lines -below it, and find out what it represents.</p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo032.jpg" alt="Ponderous guest" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Begin with the end of my first,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">then you will find out the rest;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For it all will appeal to your thirst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or point to a ponderous guest.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref567">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page25">[25]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref40">No. XXV.—AN ANXIOUS POSE</h3> - -<p>His wife, who chanced to see Jiggers at the -trying moment here depicted, said that he seemed -to be in a “sad pet.”</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo033.jpg" alt="Jiggers" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">How was this literally true?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref568">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page26">[26]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref41">No. XXVI.—TOSS NEITHER HEAD NOR -TAIL</h3> - -<p>Never was a cow so troublesome at milking-time.</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo034.jpg" alt="Hayseed's cow" /> -</div> - -<p>Our picture was taken at the moment when -Farmer Hayseed was exclaiming, as he held on -behind, “See, we hold this cow’s horns and tail!”</p> - -<p>The same letters, recast by anagram, form this -sentence spoken by his <span class="nowrap">foreman—</span></p> - -<p>“She cannot toss, <span class="dotforblank">...</span> <span class="dotforblank">....</span> -<span class="dotforblank">....</span> <span class="dotforblank">..</span> <span class="dotforblank">..</span>”</p> - -<p>Can you fill in the five missing words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref569">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref42">16. ANAGRAM PROVERBS</h3> - -<p class="center highline2">These grave lips chatter no ill.<br /> -or<br /> -Elephants, all to richest giver!</p> - -<p>Can you recast the letters of these sentences so -that either of them forms the same homely proverb, -to which the first anagram is most akin?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref653">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page27">[27]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref43">No. XXVII.—ACTION AND PASSION</h3> - -<p>This very resolute horse and his anxious driver -take quite different views of the situation shown -in this picture.</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo035.jpg" alt="Carriage" /> -</div> - -<p>We can fancy that the fast trotter, if he could -be endowed with speech, would say, “I’m a -train’d stepper!”</p> - -<p>Can you take these same letters, and recast -them into a sentence which would seem to express -the driver’s point of view?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref570">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref44">17. A SHORT CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first of rudeness has a sound;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The rest is in a city found;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole to win its way is bound.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref654">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page28">[28]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref45">No. XXVIII.—A FEAT WITHOUT ARMS</h3> - -<p>In this picture a clever artist who has no arms -is seen calmly painting with his feet.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo036.jpg" alt="Armless painter" /> -</div> - -<p>One onlooker says to another, “Why, now I -see this fine artist has no hand!” The other -replies in a sentence which contains exactly the -same letters:</p> - -<p>“He draws in any fashion <span class="dotforblank">....</span> <span class="dotforblank">...</span> -<span class="dotforblank">...</span> <span class="dotforblank">... .</span>”</p> - -<p>Can you fill in the four missing words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref571">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page29">[29]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref46">No. XXIX.—NOT TAKING ANY</h3> - -<p>“This is a wine bottle, dear, on a lure,” said a -crafty fisher of men to his better half, who was -helping him, as he showed her this illustration of -their aims.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> - -<img src="images/illo037.jpg" alt="Fisher" /> - -<div class="illotext w05em"> -<p class="center">1834<br />PORT</p> -</div> - -</div><!--container--> - -<p>She knew, however, that the fish he sought to -catch was not to be tempted in this way, and -she replied in words spelt with exactly the same -letters, “And see, he will not <span class="dotforblank">....</span> <span class="dotforblank">..</span> -<span class="dotforblank">...</span> <span class="dotforblank">....</span>!”</p> - -<p>Can you fill in the four missing words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref572">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page30">[30]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref47">No. XXX.—MUSIC HATH CHARMS</h3> - -<p>This sturdy musical enthusiast, as he settled -himself upon his chair, said, “What shall I play?” -and some one replied, “Any strains of Beethoven, -he charms all!”</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo038.jpg" alt="Cello player" /> -</div> - -<p>This suggestion, however, was not acceptable, -and he, as he struck up a piece after his own -heart, exclaimed, in a sentence composed of -exactly the same <span class="nowrap">letters—</span></p> - -<p>“Nay, for this ’cello <span class="dotforblank">......</span> <span class="dotforblank">.... .</span> -<span class="dotforblank">......</span>!”</p> - -<p>Can you supply the missing words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref573">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page31">[31]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref48">No. XXXI</h3> - -<p>This picture represents a parsnip lying across -a sturdy swede.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo039.jpg" alt="Parsnip and swede" /> -</div> - -<p>Can you so readjust them that they seem to -suggest a successful dramatist of the day? We -give this broad hint by <span class="nowrap">anagram—</span></p> - -<p class="center highline15">“Here is our parsnip on swede.”<br /> -ANAGRAM<br /> -<i>Wise and superior person he!</i></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref574">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page32">[32]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref49">No. XXXII.—A GOOD LETTER PUZZLE</h3> - -<p>Can you fill the places of these 21 asterisks -with only three different letters, arranging them -so that they spell a common English word in -twelve different directions?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Letter square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1038">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref575">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref50">18. A BURIED POTENTATE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is in cake, but not in bun;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second in light, but not in sun;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third is in night, but not in day;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fourth is in game, but not in play;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fifth is in head, but not in tail,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My sixth is in wind, but not in sail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My seventh in wrong, but not in right,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My eighth is in battle, but not in fight;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My ninth is in sword, but not in knife,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My tenth is in lady, but not in wife;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is a monarch at war with strife.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref655">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page33">[33]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref51">No. XXXIII.—ANAGRAM ARITHMETIC</h3> - -<p>First form a short sentence with the ten -letters that are above the line in this -<span class="nowrap">diagram:—</span></p> - -<table class="sum33" summary="Letter sum"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">Y</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bbd">O</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">E</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1039">Image</a></p> - -<p>Next number the letters of the sentence consecutively -1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and then -work out a sum in addition with these numbers -substituted for the letters with which they correspond.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref576">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page34">[34]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref52">No. XXXIV.—A BUNCH OF FLOWERS</h3> - -<p>Find within these borders twelve specimens of -flowers and <span class="nowrap">foliage:—</span></p> - -<table class="flowersquare" summary="Flowers"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld"><sup>1</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>2</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>3</sup>B</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>4</sup>H</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>5</sup>P</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>6</sup>E</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><sup>7</sup>F</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><sup>8</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>9</sup>Y</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>10</sup>E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>11</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>12</sup>O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>13</sup>R</td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><sup>14</sup>N</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><sup>15</sup>I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>16</sup>V</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>17</sup>B</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>18</sup>R</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>19</sup>I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>20</sup>V</td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><sup>21</sup>K</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><sup>22</sup>A</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>23</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>24</sup>E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>25</sup>T</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>26</sup>O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>27</sup>N</td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><sup>28</sup>I</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld"><sup>29</sup>C</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>30</sup>N</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>31</sup>A</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>32</sup>S</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>33</sup>U</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>34</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><sup>35</sup>P</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1040">Image</a></p> - -<p>Move in any direction one square at a time, -and so spell out their names, using the same -square only once in each case.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref577">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref53">19. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first except when it is old<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is never seen or heard;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When it is heard the sound is tolled<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Out of a Jewish beard.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next was in Imperial Rome,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">It was her power and might;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then you had but to write <i>you wish</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And straightway ’twas in sight.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent4">My whole was Frank<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Of royal rank.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref656">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page35">[35]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref54">No. XXXV.—ON A BLACKBOARD</h3> - -<p>To test the powers of his young pupils, Dr -Puzzlewitz set the following little problem on his -<span class="nowrap">blackboard:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Sums"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="4" class="cell bt2 bb2 bl2"> </td> -<td colspan="5" class="cell bt2"> </td> -<td rowspan="4" class="cell bt2 br2 bb2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">-</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -<td class="cell">=</td> -<td class="cell">4</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">÷</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -<td class="cell">=</td> -<td class="cell">4</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="5" class="cell bb2"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1041">Image</a></p> - -<p>What are the values of A and of B, when 4 is -the result of dividing A by B, or of subtracting -B from A?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref578">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref55">20. RECAST</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">How great in olden days my power!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Oft have I saved a castle tower<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent12">From war’s invading tide.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Transpose me, and how great my fall!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I am then the smallest of the small,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent12">That nothing can divide.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref657">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref56">21. WORD-BUILDING</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">This compact Enigma take,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All apart its letters shake.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Let your 6, 3, 5 be high,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like 5, 1, 2 do or die.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Who 4, 6, 5, 1 enjoys<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">More than 5, 6, 2 by boys?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">While 5, 3, 2, 1 are mine,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">May 4, 6, 3, 2 be thine.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">4, 1, 5 is rich and rare,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">6, 5, 1, 2 ends my prayer.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The figures indicate the position of the letters, -which spell new words, in the original six-letter -word.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref658">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page36">[36]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref57">No. XXXVI.—SQUARING A DIAMOND</h3> - -<p>Can you fill in the empty cells with letters, -so that they form English words which read -alike from top to bottom and from left to -right?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Diamond"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">u</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1042">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref579">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref58">22. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent2"><span class="quote">“Charles</span> the First walked and talked,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Half an hour after his head was cut off.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<p class="poemcredit"><i>Old Couplet</i>.</p> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my head, I’m every inch a King,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A warrior formed to deal a heavy blow.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Halve what remains, my second is a thing<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Which nothing but my third can e’er make go.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third will vary as you take your line.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">This less than human, that way all divine!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref659">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page37">[37]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref59">No. XXXVII.</h3> - -<p>Taking the letters as arranged on this diagram -for a starting point, can you place in some of -the unoccupied cells five more of A, five of E, -five of I, and five of O, making eight in all of -each letter, so that in no case shall the same -vowel be in the same row, column, or diagonal?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1043">Image</a></p> - -<p>Each vowel is to be regarded without any -reference to the other vowels, and, of course, -only one may be placed in a cell.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref580">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page38">[38]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref60">No. XXXVIII.—AN ANAGRAM SQUARE</h3> - -<p>Mix together the letters which form the eight -words on this draught <span class="nowrap">board—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">W</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell brd bb dark"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">P</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">R</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">W</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">C</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell brd bb dark"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">W</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">N</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">W</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell brd bb dark"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">C</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">R</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">N</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">A</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">P</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd dark"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1044">Image</a></p> - -<p class="noindent">and recast them so that they form eight fresh -words, which when placed in proper order on the -white squares, are a word square in which each -word reads alike from left to right, or from top -to bottom. The first of the fresh words is -CROW.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref581">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page39">[39]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref61">No. XXXIX.—ARITHMETIC BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Form a short sentence with the letters above -the line in this <span class="nowrap">diagram:—</span></p> - -<table class="sum33" summary="Sum"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">P</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bbd">D</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">A</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1045">Image</a></p> - -<p>Number the letters consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, -6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and then work a sum in addition, -substituting these numbers for the letter with -which they correspond.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref582">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref62">23. A LOGOGRAPH</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Touch me not, I’m firm and sure;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead, I’m used by rich and poor;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In house and cottage, hut and hall,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I stand of service to them all.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, in time of need<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I tell that strength and skill succeed.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref660">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page40">[40]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref63">No. XL.—ANAGRAMS SQUARED</h3> - -<p>Shake up the sixteen letters of these four -words, and recast them into four other -<span class="nowrap">words:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">K</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">B</td> -<td class="cell brd bb dark"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">K</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bbd">M</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">O</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">A</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">N</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd dark"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1046">Image</a></p> - -<p>These fresh words, placed on the white squares, -must read alike from side to side, and zigzag -from top to bottom. The first word is MASK.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref583">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref64">24. A SINGLE ACROSTIC</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">What river is that, where it is found,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Which Pope says does with eels abound?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What Scottish lake, by high hills bounded,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is with bright birch and oak surrounded?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What stream is said in Devon to run<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Into the sea near Otterton?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What bay on Cuba’s distant coast<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is justly deemed its pride and boast?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The initials of these names will show<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A Scotch reformer, who, we know,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Flourished three hundred years ago.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref661">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page41">[41]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref65">No. XLI.—A WORD SQUARE BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Take the letters which form the words in these -sixteen <span class="nowrap">cells—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">A</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">F</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">K</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">L</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">A</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">L</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1047">Image</a></p> - -<p class="noindent">and recast them so that they form a perfect -word square.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref584">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref66">25. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole may be a mother, not a dad,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">So former may, or latter;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But twist my tail, and I become as mad<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent14">As any hatter!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me, and behold I am a man,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Who never was called mister;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my tail, and instantly I can<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent14">Become a sister!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref662">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page42">[42]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref67">No. XLII.—QUITE A NOVELTY</h3> - -<p>There are five English words in this <span class="nowrap">square:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd bld br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>c</b></span></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>h</b></span></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>s</b></span></td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>s</b></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>g</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>r</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>d</b></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>c</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>a</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>n</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>s</b></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>r</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>a</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>r</b></span></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>s</b></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>c</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>h</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>r</b></span></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1048">Image</a></p> - -<p>Can you shake up their letters, and recast them -into five other words which form a perfect word -square, and read alike from top to bottom and -from left to right? The first fresh word is -CRESS.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref585">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page43">[43]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref68">No. XLIII.—HIDDEN PROVERBS</h3> - -<p>Five familiar proverbs are hidden in this -square of 169 letters,</p> - -<table class="square fsize90" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">W</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">W</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">Y</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">K</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">F</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">K</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">P</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">F</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">M</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -<td class="cell">M</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">Y</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">P</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">M</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">W</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">Y</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">Z</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1049">Image</a></p> - -<p>The proverbs are arranged in a regular -sequence.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref586">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref69">26. RINGING SWEET CHANGES</h3> - -<p>We are familiar with the anagram that so -charmingly points to the ministrations on the -battle-field of Florence Nightingale—<i>Flit on, -cheering angel</i>—but it is not so well known that -her name can also be recast with an appropriate -wish for her continuance in our loving memory. -Can you frame this?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref663">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page44">[44]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref70">No. XLIV.—A CLEVER CRYPTOGRAM</h3> - -<p>A French sentence of 100 letters in twenty-two -words is concealed in these 100 cells.</p> - -<table class="square sstype" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">D</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">N</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">N</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">M</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">P</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">R</td> -<td class="cell br bb">D</td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">M</td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">H</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb">U</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">N</td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">J</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">C</td> -<td class="cell br bb">U</td> -<td class="cell br bb">R</td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">M</td> -<td class="cell br bb">N</td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb">U</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">P</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">U</td> -<td class="cell br bb">É</td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb">N</td> -<td class="cell br bb">P</td> -<td class="cell br bb">R</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">É</td> -<td class="cell br bb">D</td> -<td class="cell br bb">X</td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb">M</td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">N</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">U</td> -<td class="cell br bb">D</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">É</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">X</td> -<td class="cell br bb">N</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb">P</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">D</td> -<td class="cell br bb">N</td> -<td class="cell br bb">U</td> -<td class="cell br bb">Q</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">B</td> -<td class="cell br bb">U</td> -<td class="cell br bb">U</td> -<td class="cell br bb">U</td> -<td class="cell br bb">F</td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">J</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">N</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">Z</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">U</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">J</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">I</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">O</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">U</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">N</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">R</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1050">Image</a></p> - -<p>It can be deciphered by means of a cardboard -mask of similar size, with circular holes -cut out in some of its cells. This is placed -squarely over the diagram, turned round in four -successive positions. And thus the sequence of -letters is found, and falls into words.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref587">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page45">[45]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref71">No. XLV.—SAM LOYD’S PONY PUZZLE</h3> - -<p>The instant popularity of this clever puzzle -was amazing, and its sale is said to have run -into millions years ago in America.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo053.png" alt="Donkey puzlle" /> -</div> - -<p>Cut the pony into six pieces, as is indicated in -the picture, and rearrange these so that they -show a trotting horse.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref588">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref72">27. A REBUS</h3> - -<p class="center">I am<br /> -a man<br /> -I rate you<br /> -<span class="padl1">a beast</span><br /> -You know me.</p> - -<p>Can you put this into shape?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref664">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page46">[46]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref73">No. XLVI.—A CLEVER PUZZLE</h3> - -<p>Here is another of Sam Loyd’s famous trick -<span class="nowrap">pictures:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo054.jpg" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p>Can you rearrange the parts to show jockeys -and horses in racing trim?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref589">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref74">28. A CHARADE<br /> -(<i>With Latin parts.</i>)</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, thou knowest, was in ancient Rome,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Rome’s fate my next, and one that all may dread.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Long may it be before that fate shall come,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And sever with my whole thy life’s last thread!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref665">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page47">[47]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref75">No. XLVII.—A NICE BALANCE</h3> - -<p>This boy is sure that if he takes his time, and -watches his opportunity, he will be able to -reach and secure with his mouth the sugar on -the chair. Will he?</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo055.jpg" alt="Balancing chair" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref590">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref76">29. BURIED POETS</h3> - -<p>The names of eight famous British poets are -buried in these lines—that is to say, the letters -that spell the names form in their proper order -parts of different <span class="nowrap">words:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The sun is darting rays of gold<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Upon the moor, enchanting spot,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whose purpled heights, by Ronald loved,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Up open to his shepherd cot.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">And sundry denizens of air<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Are flying—aye, each to his nest;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And eager make at such an hour<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">All haste to reach the mansions blest.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Can you dig them up?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref666">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page48">[48]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref77">No. XLVIII.—LEAF-FROG</h3> - -<p>Here are six little hoptoads, as our cousins -across the water call them, three white and three -black, going in opposite directions. A frog may -jump, one, two, or three steps, but no two may -be together at any time.</p> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo056.jpg" alt="Frogs" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">In how few jumps can the black frogs be seated -to the left of their white brothers? It is obvious -that one of the white frogs must jump first to -the stool marked 1.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref591">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref78">30. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">This multiplies me, I declare,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Though it reduces one;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A sty is foul if it is there,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">By it a deed is done.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref667">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref79">31. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Lennie <span class="dotforblank wide">......</span> the words he read,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Studying <span class="dotforblank wide">......</span> fable;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Lennie’s mother <span class="dotforblank wide">......</span> the bread,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Sophy <span class="dotforblank wide">......</span> the table.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“Work while you are <span class="dotforblank wide">......</span>,” they said<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">“<span class="dotforblank wide">......</span> while you are able!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref668">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page49">[49]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref80">No. XLIX.—DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS</h3> - -<p>A very curious old print, of which this might -well be the title, was picked up on a bookstall. -This picture shows clever designs for two of the -digits:</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> - -<img src="images/illo057.jpg" alt="Print" /> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">1</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>Se Pierot or Lun,</i><br /> -<i>A Figure of One.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--leftsplit--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">2</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>Again he’s to view,</i><br /> -<i>A Figure of Two.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--rightsplit--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split--> - -</div><!--container--> - -<h3 id="Ref81">32. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When I write with my first in my second,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole is quite sure to be in.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Divided afresh, there is reckoned<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A wit, or a something that’s thin.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Prefix a letter, and, as dear as paint,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You see the name of an old English Saint.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref669">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page50">[50]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref82">No. L.—DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS</h3> - -<p>Here is the second pair of this queer <span class="nowrap">company:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w40em"> - -<img src="images/illo058.jpg" alt="Print" /> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">3</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>Now ’tis plain you may see,</i><br /> -<i>He’s a Figure of Three.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">4</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>Behold him once more,</i><br /> -<i>A Figure of Four.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split--> - -</div><!--container--> - -<h3 id="Ref83">33. ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES -ANOTHER</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, though half a noisy bird,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To a slight noise may turn;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second twist, a stately word,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And it will bend we learn.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref670">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref84">34. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To half of ten add one,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then half a score.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When this is duly done<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Almost ten more.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">This can be good for none,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But trial sore.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref671">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page51">[51]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref85">No. LI.—DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS</h3> - -<p>Here is the third pair of these quaint -<span class="nowrap">characters:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w40em"> - -<img src="images/illo059.jpg" alt="Print" /> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">5</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>Now here we contrive</i><br /> -<i>To make him a Five</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--leftsplit--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">6</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>He’s a Six here complete,</i><br /> -<i>With his hands to his feet</i>.</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--rightsplit--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split--> - -</div><!--container--> - -<h3 id="Ref86">35. A BURIED PROVERB</h3> - -<p>A proverb of eight words is buried <span class="nowrap">here:—</span></p> - -<p>I fancy this Tory outcry, this weary outrageous -attempt to show illegality, is as a cat chasing -snow-flakes. I must be forgiven if I shun his -example.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref672">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref87">36. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Quick <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> in action, now timid, now bold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> of ropes far too rotten to hold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dotforblank start">.......</span> a -<span class="dotforblank">.......</span> <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> and disasters<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For a State that <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> not incapable masters.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The six missing words are spelt with the same -seven letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref673">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page52">[52]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref88">No. LII.—DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS</h3> - -<p>Here is another pair of these quaint <span class="nowrap">figures:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w40em"> - -<img src="images/illo060.jpg" alt="Print" /> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">7</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>With some alteration,<br /> -A Seven’s his station.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">8</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>Here not being strait,<br /> -He forms a good eight.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--container--> - -<h3 id="Ref89">37. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent6">My first as an heir,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">My second a snare,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is the offspring of fancy,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Which I sent on its way<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Last Valentine’s Day,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">As a token of love to my Nancy.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref674">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref90">38. A LOVER’S VOW</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My love shall never know my first,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Shall never be my second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It shall my all, come best, come worst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Be surely reckoned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref675">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page53">[53]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref91">No. LIII.—DIGITS IN THE FIDGETS</h3> - -<p>Here is the final <span class="nowrap">pair:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w40em"> - -<img src="images/illo061.jpg" alt="Final print" /> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">9</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>While drinking his Wine,<br /> -He appears like a nine.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<div class="illotext w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">0</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>Nine Forms having past<br /> -He’s a Cypher at last.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -<p class="thinline allclear"> </p> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -</div><!--container--> - -<h3 id="Ref92">39. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent2">I am a letter, and a word,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">I am a tree, I am a name,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Cut me in pieces with a sword,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">You and your act would be the same.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Thrice you must leave the aspirate in doubt,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And use it twice if you would find me out.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref676">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref93">40. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>If you “resist disasters,” how may this affect -one of your home circle?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref677">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page54">[54]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref94">No. LIV.—A FREAK OF FIGURES</h3> - -<p class="center highline15">1 × 8 + 1 = 9<br /> -12 × 8 + 2 = 98<br /> -123 × 8 + 3 = 987<br /> -1234 × 8 + 4 = 9876<br /> -12345 × 8 + 5 = 98765<br /> -123456 × 8 + 6 = 987654<br /> -1234567 × 8 + 7 = 9876543<br /> -12345678 × 8 + 8 = 98765432<br /> -123456789 × 8 + 9 = 987654321</p> - -<h3 id="Ref95">41. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first the rainbow shows<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When in rich hues it glows.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next has vowels three;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third was once a tree.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fourth begins the year,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole the past makes clear.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref678">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref96">42. ASK A SCHOOLBOY</h3> - -<p>If you tell a schoolboy that the longest side -of a triangular field measures 100 rods, and that -each of the other sides measures 50 rods, and -ask him to estimate the value of its grass at £1 -per acre, how should he answer?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref679">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref97">43. A WHOLE LESS THAN ITS PART</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Less than my last, my whole has place<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Between my first and second:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Second has body, arms and face;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">First is by inches reckoned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref680">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page55">[55]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref98">No. LV.—SPINNING WHEELS</h3> - -<p>What is the smallest number of straight lines -which can be drawn within this square so as to -enclose each of the wheels within separate -boundaries?</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo063.png" alt="Circles" /> -</div> - -<p>While solving this, rotate the paper in your -hand, and see the wheels spin.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref592">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref99">44. A HISTORICAL CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first at early morn the camp alarms,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And at its sound the soldier springs to arms;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second nowadays fair ladies scorn,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though in less dainty days it oft was worn.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, a battle fought on Scottish ground,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With victory the rebel forces crowned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref681">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page56">[56]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref100">No. LVI.—FOUR QUARTERS AMONG FIVE</h3> - -<p>A market gardener who has a large square plot -of ground wishes to reserve a fourth of it in the -shape of a triangle for himself, as is shown in -the <span class="nowrap">diagram—</span></p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo064.png" alt="Plot" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">and to divide the remainder among his four sons, -so that each shares equally, with plots of similar -shape. How did he mark it out for them?</p> - -<p>This appears in a less perfect form in “The -Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book.”</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref593">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page57">[57]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref101">No. LVII.—USE YOUR PENCIL</h3> - -<p>Here is a simple little puzzle which may -amuse anyone who has paper and pencil at -<span class="nowrap">hand:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo065.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p>Can you combine three figures similar to -Fig. A with two similar to Fig. B, so that a -perfect Latin cross is formed?</p> - -<p>It is, of course, an easier matter to cut out -five such pieces in paper or cardboard, and -arrange them in the form required.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref594">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref102">45. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I love strolling <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> that wander around,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Each <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> a -<span class="dotforblank">.......</span> in versatile skill;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Each <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> so quaint, each idea so profound,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My barn’s at their service, whenever they will.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A company played there last night, but to-day<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Ducks <span class="dotforblank">.......</span>, and poultry have vanished away!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing words are spelt with the same -seven letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref682">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page58">[58]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref103">No. LVIII.—SUBTLE SELFISHNESS</h3> - -<p>Four poor men were living in the cottages -shown in this diagram, round a central lake well -stocked with fish. Four rich men built their -houses further afield, and selfishly determined -to exclude their neighbours from access to the -water.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo066.png" alt="Houses" /> -</div> - -<p>How could they do this effectually without -cutting themselves off from the lake?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref595">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref104">46. AN ARITHMOREM</h3> - -<p class="center highline15">150 hat robe or tent</p> - -<p>Can you form from this the name of a famous -British author, treating the 150 as Roman -numerals?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref683">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page59">[59]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref105">No. LIX.—FOR THE CHILDREN</h3> - -<p>Cut out in cardboard four pieces of the shape -and size of each of the large patterns, and two -pieces of the small <span class="nowrap">one:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo067.png" alt="Patterns" /> -</div> - -<p>Now arrange these ten pieces so that they -form a perfect square.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref596">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref106">47. SHEDDING LETTERS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m a worker most active, most useful, most known,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Of all that are busy in country and town.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take from me one letter, and yet my good name<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In spite of this loss will continue the same.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take from me two letters, and still you will see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That precisely the same in effect I shall be.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take from me three letters, or even take more,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet still I continue as sound as before.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref684">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page60">[60]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref107">No. LX.</h3> - -<p>The dotted lines in this diagram show how -the figure can be divided into nine parts by -four straight cuts</p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo068.png" alt="Pointy figure" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">which can be reunited to form a perfect cross.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref597">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref108">48. A SHARP BOY</h3> - -<p>Tom Larkins, proud of his prize for arithmetic, -challenged his sisters to show on a blackboard -that if 50 is subtracted from the sum of the -nine digits, the result is equal to the number -obtained by dividing their sum by 3. How did -he prove his point?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref685">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page61">[61]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref109">No. LXI.—AN EASY ONE</h3> - -<p>Take in paper or cardboard a figure made up -of a square and half of a similar square, <span class="nowrap">thus:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo069.png" alt="Figure" /> -</div> - -<p>How can you, in the simplest way, divide it -into four equal and similar parts by four straight -cuts?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref598">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref110">49. GEESE TO MARKET</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">B drove a goodly flock of geese,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And met with Farmer A;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Said Farmer A, “How much apiece<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For this lot did you pay?”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Said B, “I paid for all I drive<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Just six pounds and a crown,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And I am selling all but five<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">At the next market town.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If fifteen pence a head I charge<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Beyond the price I paid.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I shall secure a sum as large<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">As he who sold all made.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref686">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page62">[62]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref111">No. LXII</h3> - -<p>Can you draw twenty-two straight lines within -this circle so that they divide it into four -similar parts, each having three of the dots -within its borders?</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo070.png" alt="Circle" /> -</div> - -<p>Each line must be at right angles to another.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref599">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref112">50. A QUAINT CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent4">When second held first<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">For best or for worst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I thought myself happy to win her.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">But what could I say<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">When the very next day<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">She gave me the whole for my dinner?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref687">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page63">[63]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref113">No. LXIII</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> - -<img src="images/illo071a.png" alt="Triangle" /> - -<p class="caption"><i>Cut up this triangle into 5 parts</i>,</p> - -<img src="images/illo071b.png" alt="Triangle" /> - -<p class="caption"><i>which can be reassembled to form -this triangle</i>.</p> - -</div><!--container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref600">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page64">[64]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref114">No. LXIV.—ARITHMETICAL TRIANGLE</h3> - -<p>The peculiar series of numbers, as arranged in -this triangular form, is said to have been perfected -by Pascal.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Triangle"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl">1</td> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl">2</td> -<td class="cell bt br bb">1</td> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl">3</td> -<td class="cell br bb">3</td> -<td class="cell bt br bb">1</td> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl">4</td> -<td class="cell br bb">6</td> -<td class="cell br bb">4</td> -<td class="cell bt br bb">1</td> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl">5</td> -<td class="cell br bb">10</td> -<td class="cell br bb">10</td> -<td class="cell br bb">5</td> -<td class="cell bt br bb">1</td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl">6</td> -<td class="cell br bb">15</td> -<td class="cell br bb">20</td> -<td class="cell br bb">15</td> -<td class="cell br bb">6</td> -<td class="cell bt br bb">1</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl">7</td> -<td class="cell br bb">21</td> -<td class="cell br bb">35</td> -<td class="cell br bb">35</td> -<td class="cell br bb">21</td> -<td class="cell br bb">7</td> -<td class="cell bt br bb">1</td> -<td colspan="1"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl">8</td> -<td class="cell br bb">28</td> -<td class="cell br bb">56</td> -<td class="cell br bb">70</td> -<td class="cell br bb">56</td> -<td class="cell br bb">28</td> -<td class="cell br bb">8</td> -<td class="cell bt br bb">1</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1051">Image</a></p> - -<p>It has the property of showing, without calculation, -how many selections or combinations can -be made at a time out of a larger number. Thus -to find how many selections of 3 at a time can -be made out of 8 we look for the third number on -the horizontal row that commences with 8, and -find the answer 56.</p> - -<p>The series is formed thus: Set down the -numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., as far as you please, in a -vertical row. To the right of 2 place 1, add them -together, and set 3 under the 1. Then add 3 to 3, -and set the result below, and so on, always -placing the sum of two numbers that are side by -side below the one on the right.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page65">[65]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref115">No. LXV.—MULTIPLICATION NO -VEXATION</h3> - -<p>This diagram shows an ancient and curious -method of multiplication, which will be novel to -most of our readers.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo073.png" alt="Multiplication" /> -</div> - -<p>In this instance 534 is multiplied by 342. -Draw a square of nine cells with diagonals, fill -the three top cells, as is shown, by multiplying -the 5 by the 3, the 4 and the 2. Then multiply -in similar way the 3 and the 4 by these same -figures. Turn the square round so that the -diagonals are upright, and add. Of course, -placing the numbers thus is the same practically -as carrying them by our ordinary rule.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page66">[66]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref116">No. LXVI</h3> - -<p>In this diagram 27 counters are arranged in 9 -rows, with 6 in each row.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo074.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p>Can you rearrange them so that with similar -conditions they all fall within the borders of one -equilateral triangle?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref601">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref117">51. A BURIED ADAGE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The bees’ blithe vernal love-songs softly hum,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Blending so sweetly with the restful air;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The noiseless, deep-laced twilight shadows come,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And well I ken the lass who meets me there.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Can you discover a very familiar saying that -is buried in these lines?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref688">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page67">[67]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref118">No. LXVII.—AN EIGHT-CARD PUZZLE</h3> - -<p>Place eight cards of two different colours -alternately in one row, then with four moves bring -all of one colour together.</p> - -<table class="playingcards" summary="Cards"> - -<tr> -<td class="card">A<br />♠</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">2<br />♡</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">3<br />♣</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">4<br />♢</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">5<br />♣</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">6<br />♢</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">7<br />♣</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">8<br />♡</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1053">Image</a></p> - -<p>Two cards (without altering their relative -position) are to be moved at a time, and placed -somewhere in the same line, one of them at least -touching another card.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref602">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref119">52. MUTILATIONS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A little beast without its head<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Becomes a mighty beast instead;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But then the subject of my riddle<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is cut asunder in the middle;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And nothing this division gains,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though unknown quantity remains.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref689">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref120">53. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Mary sat with <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> in hand<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Writing <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> dramatic.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Did she <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> the plots she planned?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Negative emphatic!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dotforblank start">.....</span> to us the -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span> may be<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But at <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> they’re new to she!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing words are spelt with the same -five letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref690">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page68">[68]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref121">No. LXVIII.—THOUGHT READING</h3> - -<p>Cut out this diagram, and paste it on a card. -Hand it to anyone, and ask him to fix upon -whichever number he pleases, and merely to tell -you in which columns this appears.</p> - -<div class="thoughtreadbox"> - -<table class="thoughtread" summary="Card"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">I.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">II.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">III.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">IV.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">1</td> -<td class="number">33</td> -<td class="number">65</td> -<td class="number br">97</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">2</td> -<td class="number">34</td> -<td class="number">66</td> -<td class="number br">98</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">4</td> -<td class="number">36</td> -<td class="number">68</td> -<td class="number br">100</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">8</td> -<td class="number">40</td> -<td class="number">72</td> -<td class="number br">104</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">3</td> -<td class="number">35</td> -<td class="number">67</td> -<td class="number br">99</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">3</td> -<td class="number">35</td> -<td class="number">67</td> -<td class="number br">99</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">5</td> -<td class="number">37</td> -<td class="number">69</td> -<td class="number br">101</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">9</td> -<td class="number">41</td> -<td class="number">73</td> -<td class="number br">105</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">5</td> -<td class="number">37</td> -<td class="number">69</td> -<td class="number br">101</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">6</td> -<td class="number">38</td> -<td class="number">70</td> -<td class="number br">102</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">6</td> -<td class="number">38</td> -<td class="number">70</td> -<td class="number br">102</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">10</td> -<td class="number">42</td> -<td class="number">74</td> -<td class="number br">106</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">7</td> -<td class="number">39</td> -<td class="number">71</td> -<td class="number br">103</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">7</td> -<td class="number">39</td> -<td class="number">71</td> -<td class="number br">103</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">7</td> -<td class="number">39</td> -<td class="number">71</td> -<td class="number br">103</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">11</td> -<td class="number">43</td> -<td class="number">75</td> -<td class="number br">107</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">9</td> -<td class="number">41</td> -<td class="number">73</td> -<td class="number br">105</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">10</td> -<td class="number">42</td> -<td class="number">74</td> -<td class="number br">106</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">12</td> -<td class="number">44</td> -<td class="number">76</td> -<td class="number br">108</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">12</td> -<td class="number">44</td> -<td class="number">76</td> -<td class="number br">108</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">11</td> -<td class="number">43</td> -<td class="number">75</td> -<td class="number br">107</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">11</td> -<td class="number">43</td> -<td class="number">75</td> -<td class="number br">107</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">13</td> -<td class="number">45</td> -<td class="number">77</td> -<td class="number br">109</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">13</td> -<td class="number">45</td> -<td class="number">77</td> -<td class="number br">109</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">13</td> -<td class="number">45</td> -<td class="number">77</td> -<td class="number br">109</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">14</td> -<td class="number">46</td> -<td class="number">78</td> -<td class="number br">110</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">14</td> -<td class="number">46</td> -<td class="number">78</td> -<td class="number br">110</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">14</td> -<td class="number">46</td> -<td class="number">78</td> -<td class="number br">110</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">15</td> -<td class="number">47</td> -<td class="number">79</td> -<td class="number br">111</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">15</td> -<td class="number">47</td> -<td class="number">79</td> -<td class="number br">111</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">15</td> -<td class="number">47</td> -<td class="number">79</td> -<td class="number br">111</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">15</td> -<td class="number">47</td> -<td class="number">79</td> -<td class="number br">111</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">17</td> -<td class="number">49</td> -<td class="number">81</td> -<td class="number br">113</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">18</td> -<td class="number">50</td> -<td class="number">82</td> -<td class="number br">114</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">20</td> -<td class="number">52</td> -<td class="number">84</td> -<td class="number br">116</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">24</td> -<td class="number">56</td> -<td class="number">88</td> -<td class="number br">120</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">19</td> -<td class="number">51</td> -<td class="number">83</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">19</td> -<td class="number">51</td> -<td class="number">83</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">21</td> -<td class="number">53</td> -<td class="number">85</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">25</td> -<td class="number">57</td> -<td class="number">89</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">21</td> -<td class="number">53</td> -<td class="number">85</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">22</td> -<td class="number">54</td> -<td class="number">86</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">22</td> -<td class="number">54</td> -<td class="number">86</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">26</td> -<td class="number">58</td> -<td class="number">90</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">23</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">23</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">23</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">27</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">25</td> -<td class="number">57</td> -<td class="number">89</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">26</td> -<td class="number">58</td> -<td class="number">90</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">28</td> -<td class="number">60</td> -<td class="number">92</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">28</td> -<td class="number">60</td> -<td class="number">92</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">27</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">27</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">29</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">29</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">29</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">30</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">30</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">30</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<table class="thoughtread" summary="Card"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">V.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">VI.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">VII.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">16</td> -<td class="number">48</td> -<td class="number">80</td> -<td class="number br">112</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">32</td> -<td class="number">48</td> -<td class="number">96</td> -<td class="number br">112</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">64</td> -<td class="number">80</td> -<td class="number">96</td> -<td class="number br">112</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">17</td> -<td class="number">49</td> -<td class="number">81</td> -<td class="number br">113</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">33</td> -<td class="number">49</td> -<td class="number">97</td> -<td class="number br">113</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">65</td> -<td class="number">81</td> -<td class="number">97</td> -<td class="number br">113</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">18</td> -<td class="number">50</td> -<td class="number">82</td> -<td class="number br">114</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">34</td> -<td class="number">50</td> -<td class="number">98</td> -<td class="number br">114</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">66</td> -<td class="number">82</td> -<td class="number">98</td> -<td class="number br">114</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">19</td> -<td class="number">51</td> -<td class="number">83</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">35</td> -<td class="number">51</td> -<td class="number">99</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">67</td> -<td class="number">83</td> -<td class="number">99</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">20</td> -<td class="number">52</td> -<td class="number">84</td> -<td class="number br">116</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">36</td> -<td class="number">52</td> -<td class="number">100</td> -<td class="number br">116</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">68</td> -<td class="number">84</td> -<td class="number">100</td> -<td class="number br">116</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">21</td> -<td class="number">53</td> -<td class="number">85</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">37</td> -<td class="number">53</td> -<td class="number">101</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">69</td> -<td class="number">85</td> -<td class="number">101</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">22</td> -<td class="number">54</td> -<td class="number">86</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">38</td> -<td class="number">54</td> -<td class="number">102</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">70</td> -<td class="number">86</td> -<td class="number">102</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">23</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">39</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">103</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">71</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number">103</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">24</td> -<td class="number">56</td> -<td class="number">88</td> -<td class="number br">120</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">40</td> -<td class="number">56</td> -<td class="number">104</td> -<td class="number br">120</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">72</td> -<td class="number">88</td> -<td class="number">104</td> -<td class="number br">120</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">25</td> -<td class="number">57</td> -<td class="number">89</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">41</td> -<td class="number">57</td> -<td class="number">105</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">73</td> -<td class="number">89</td> -<td class="number">105</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">26</td> -<td class="number">58</td> -<td class="number">90</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">42</td> -<td class="number">58</td> -<td class="number">106</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">74</td> -<td class="number">90</td> -<td class="number">106</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">27</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">43</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">107</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">75</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number">107</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">28</td> -<td class="number">60</td> -<td class="number">92</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">44</td> -<td class="number">60</td> -<td class="number">108</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">76</td> -<td class="number">92</td> -<td class="number">108</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">29</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">45</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">109</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">77</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number">109</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">30</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">46</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">110</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">78</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number">110</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">47</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">111</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">79</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number bb">111</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--thoughtreadbox--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1054">Image</a></p> - -<p>You can then in a moment, and at a glance, -pick out the number that is chosen.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref603">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page69">[69]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref122">No. LXIX.—FROM PILLAR TO POST</h3> - -<p>Let us suppose that these black dots represent -a succession of pillar boxes. It will be seen that -a postman, starting from the circle, and going -along the dotted lines, turns round 18 corners.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo077.png" alt="Route" /> -</div> - -<p>Can he take a course which involves fewer -turnings?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref604">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page70">[70]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref123">No. LXX.—TRANSFORMATIONS</h3> - -<p>Here is an ingenious paper and scissors <span class="nowrap">puzzle:—</span></p> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo078.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p>Divide a square card into three pieces, so that -these can be reunited to form No. 2 or No. 3 of -this diagram.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref605">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref124">54. COUNTING THE GEESE</h3> - -<p class="centerline">(<i>From an old Sanscrit source, quoted by -Longfellow in his “Kavanagh.”</i>)</p> - -<p>Ten times the square root of a flock of geese, -seeing the clouds collect, flew to the Manus -lake. One-eighth of the whole flew from the -edge of the water among a tangle of water lilies, -and three couples were seen playing in the water. -Tell me, my young girl with beautiful locks, -what was the whole number of geese?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref691">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref125">55. A THIRD IS A HALF</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Six hundred and sixty so ordered may be<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That if you divide the whole number by three<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You find the result will exactly express<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The half of six hundred and sixty, no less.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref692">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page71">[71]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref126">No. LXXI.—A PUZZLE WITH CHESS -PIECES</h3> - -<table class="square bt2 br2 bb2 bl2" summary="Chess problem"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb">♚</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br">♖</td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br">♘</td> -<td class="cell">♖</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1055">Image</a></p> - -<p>Leaving the Black King in his position, place -the three white men so that he stands checkmated.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref606">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref127">56. PRESS PARODIES</h3> - -<p>An American paper published the <span class="nowrap">following:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">There was a young damsel, oh, bless her!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It cost very little to dress her;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">She was sweet as a rose<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">In her everyday clothes,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But had no young man to caress her.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Next day this parody appeared in a rival -<span class="nowrap">paper:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">There was a young <span class="dotforblank">......</span>, oh, bless her!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It cost very little to dress her;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Some <span class="dotforblank">...........</span> and -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">About Thanksgiving time,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And they <span class="dotforblank">...</span> the last bit from the -<span class="dotforblank">.......</span>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Can you fill in the missing words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref693">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page72">[72]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref128">No. LXXII.—HEXAGONAL ILLUSIONS</h3> - -<p>If we look with one eye only, or with eyes half-closed, -at these groups of circular dots, they -assume the appearance familiar to us in honeycomb. -This is an effect of the contrast and -opposition of the black and white in the sensation -of the retina.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo080.jpg" alt="Faux hexagons" /> -</div> - -<p>Although the black and the white circles are of -the same diameter the irradiation is in their case -so intense that the white circles appear to be -larger than the black.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page73">[73]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref129">No. LXXIII.—AN ILLUSION OF ARCHES</h3> - -<p>This excellent illusion appeared in a recent -number of the “Strand <span class="nowrap">Magazine”:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo081.jpg" alt="Illusion" /> -</div> - -<p>Most persons will at first see the passages -under these arches as running upwards from left -to right, but presently, as their line of vision shifts, -the arches will take a downward course from -right to left. This very curious effect will well -repay a little patience, if it is not realised at once.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref130">57. WHERE WAS THE WEDDING?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">She loses her head when she joins the brides,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">He joins them after tea;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But both are swept by ruthless tides<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Away on the western sea.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref694">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref131">58. ON A BANANA BARROW</h3> - -<p>I have 91 bananas on my barrow, of two -qualities; some I sell at four a penny, and the -better sort at three a penny. If I had sold them -in mixed lots at seven for twopence, I should -have made a penny more. How many were -there of each quality?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref695">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page74">[74]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref132">No. LXXIV.—IN THE TRAIN</h3> - -<p>The Puzzle <span class="nowrap">Problem—</span></p> - -<p class="fsize90 blankbefore75">A passenger in a first-class railway carriage -notices that the top of a factory window due -S.W. of him coincides with a mark on the carriage -window, and does not move from it while the -train is running five and a half miles.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo082.png" alt="Diagram" /> -</div> - -<p class="fsize90">At the end of that distance the compass bearing -of the chimney is due N.W. How far was the -passenger from the chimney when he first noticed -it?</p> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75">is solved by 3<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> miles.</p> - -<p>We give a diagram to make the points clear.</p> - -<p>As the chimney top does not move from its -place on the window, it is clear that the train -is running on a segment of a circle having the -chimney for its centre. It follows that the -observer’s distance throughout is equal to the -radius of that circle, and the radius of a circle -of which the quadrant measures 5<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> miles is 3<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> -miles within about 11 ft.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page75">[75]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref133">No. LXXV.—MENDING THE FLAG</h3> - -<p>The cross had been taken out from the centre -of this flag, and its owner, who had an ingenious -turn of mind, found that by cutting -what remained into two pieces, and rejoining -them, he could make it into a perfect flag -without any waste of material.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo083.png" alt="Flag" /> -</div> - -<p>How did he accomplish this?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref607">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page76">[76]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref134">No. LXXVI.—FOR THE CHILDREN</h3> - -<p>Add two more pieces similar in shape and size -to that marked A, and one similar to B, C, -and D respectively, and then readjust the eleven -parts so that they form a perfect square.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo084.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref608">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref135">59. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">How does the sluggard’s garden grow?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> are high results are low.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">His borders <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> and bindweed spoil,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No careful culture <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> the soil;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But weeds that <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> are all alive<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Where <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> pink or rose should thrive.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing words are spelt with the same -letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref696">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page77">[77]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref136">No. LXXVII.—AN EASY MATCH PUZZLE</h3> - -<p>This is a simple arrangement of eight matches, -by which two squares and four similar triangles -are formed.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo085.jpg" alt="Matches" /> -</div> - -<h3 id="Ref137">60. WHAT AM I?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Correctly drawn results I yield.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Varied, but welcome everywhere;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But met with in the open field<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I’m banned if frequent, blest if rare.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To this peculiar difference the clue<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is called with much significance the cue.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref697">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref138">61. BURIED TOWNS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Wait while I think the matter over,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">On holiday intent;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The best I’ve seen is surely Dover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That pretty port of Kent.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Three towns are buried in these lines.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref698">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page78">[78]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref139">No. LXXVIII.—WALKING THE ROUNDS</h3> - -<p>A hospital was built in six detached blocks, -and it was the duty of the night watchman to -go completely round every block at fixed hours -to see that all was safe.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo086.png" alt="Hospital grounds" /> -</div> - -<p>What was his shortest course?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref609">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref140">62. THE ARAB AND HIS ASS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">An Arab came to the river side<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With a donkey bearing an obelisk,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But he did not venture to ford the tide,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For he had too good an *.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">So he camped all night by that river side,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Secure till the tide had ceased to swell,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For he knew that whenever the donkey died<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">No other could be its ‖.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref699">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page79">[79]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref141">No. LXXIX</h3> - -<p>Can you rearrange the twelve counters on this -board of 36 squares so that there are two counters -on each row, column, and diagonal?</p> - -<table class="square btd brd bbd bld" summary="Counters"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell bb">◎</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell bb">◎</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1056">Image</a></p> - -<p>There must not be more than these two -counters in the same straight line.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref610">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref142">63. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">What ho, my jolly <i>second!</i> never say my <i>first</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">While my final you can find in Amsterdam.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Think how a sound <i>whole</i> stays your hunger and your thirst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Deftly readjusting bread and meat and jam.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref700">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page80">[80]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref143">No. LXXX.—THE QUEEN’S TOUR</h3> - -<p>This is a course by which the queen on a chessboard, -starting from K R sq., passes over every -square in fourteen moves.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo088.jpg" alt="Chessboard" /> -</div> - -<h3 id="Ref144">64. AFTER THE MATCH</h3> - -<p>“Did you score a score?” said Funniman to -his schoolboy nephew, after a local cricket match. -“No, uncle,” said the youngster, “but if I had -made as many more runs, half as many more, -and two runs and a half, I should have made -my twenty.” How many runs did he get?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref701">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page81">[81]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref145">No. LXXXI.—A NEST OF TRIANGLES</h3> - -<p>In the “Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle -Book” we gave a figure similar to this, in which -there were 653 interlacing triangles in four tiers -of this character.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo089.png" alt="Triangles" /> -</div> - -<p>We now add a fifth tier at the base, and ask -our solvers to determine how many triangles of -all shapes and sizes can be counted within its -enlarged borders.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref611">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref146">65. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Six letters spell the happy state<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of two in love made one.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The same six letters tell the fate<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of marriage ties undone.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref702">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page82">[82]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref147">No. LXXXII.—A SIMPLE MATCH PUZZLE</h3> - -<p>Place eight matches in a row, about an inch -apart, as indicated in the diagram.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo090.jpg" alt="Matches" /> -</div> - -<p>The puzzle is to form these into four pairs in -four moves, by moving one match clear over -two matches every time.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref612">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref148">66. A TOPICAL RIDDLE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My First’s a bond, my Seconds weigh;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">These own the Rest of all my lay;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Busy my Third; Fourth like the Pole,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whose opposite my Fifth makes goal.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref703">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref149">67. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">For two months at the <span class="dotforblank">....</span> we played,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Ere we were <span class="dotforblank">....</span> to Lord’s;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Alas! the score our champion made<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Was what a <span class="dotforblank">....</span> affords!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The crowd in <span class="dotforblank">....</span> of thousands came<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But took scant notice of the game.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref704">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page83">[83]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref150">No. LXXXIII.—A MATCH PUZZLE</h3> - -<p>Place twelve matches, as is shown in the -diagram, so that they form four squares.</p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo091.jpg" alt="Matches" /> -</div> - -<p>Now remove three of the matches, and readjust -the nine that remain so that they represent -three squares.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref613">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref151">68. MARCONIGRAMS</h3> - -<p>Edwin and Angelina were far apart, when this -message, with its touch of jealous resentment, -reached her on the wings of a <span class="nowrap">Marconigram—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind!”</p> - -<p>Quite equal to the occasion, she flashed back -the <span class="nowrap">reply—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“In love inconstant I no pleasure find!”</p> - -<p>How did these messages reveal the places from -which they were despatched?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref705">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page84">[84]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref152">No. LXXXIV.—MATHEMATICS WITH -MATCHES</h3> - -<p>In the four corner and four central cells of -this nest of squares four matches are so placed -as to represent <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub>, 1, 4, <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>50</sub>, 11, 12, 41, and 49.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo092.jpg" alt="Matches" /> -</div> - -<p>Can you, still using only four matches in each -case, fit different whole numbers or fractions in -similar fashion into the other 28 cells?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref614">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref153">69. EASY MENTAL ARITHMETIC</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Set down three figures in a line,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then multiply by four;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">This, if you use the proper sign,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Makes five and nothing more.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref706">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page85">[85]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref154">No. LXXXV.—MANY READINGS</h3> - -<p>Can you complete the top and bottom rows, -the two side columns, and the two diagonals of -this square by forming in each of them the same -sentence so that it can be read in twenty -different directions?</p> - -<table class="square btd brd bbd bld" summary="Sentences"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">R</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell bb">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell bb">I</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">V</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell bb">I</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br">R</td> -<td class="cell br">I</td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br">V</td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br">I</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1057">Image</a></p> - -<p>There are four words in the sentence of -thirteen letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref615">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page86">[86]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref155">No. LXXXVI.—TOLD AT A GLANCE</h3> - -<p>Ask anyone to fix upon a number between 1 -and 60 inclusive, and to point out to you the -square or squares in which it <span class="nowrap">appears:—</span></p> - -<table class="glance" summary="Cards"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">3</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">5</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">7</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">9</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">11</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">1</td> -<td rowspan="5" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">5</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">6</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">7</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">13</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">12</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">4</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">13</td> -<td class="cell br bb">15</td> -<td class="cell br bb">17</td> -<td class="cell br bb">19</td> -<td class="cell br bb">21</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">23</td> -<td class="cell br bb bld">14</td> -<td class="cell br bb">15</td> -<td class="cell br bb">20</td> -<td class="cell br bb">21</td> -<td class="cell br bb">22</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">23</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">25</td> -<td class="cell br bb">27</td> -<td class="cell br bb">29</td> -<td class="cell br bb">31</td> -<td class="cell br bb">33</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">35</td> -<td class="cell br bb bld">28</td> -<td class="cell br bb">29</td> -<td class="cell br bb">30</td> -<td class="cell br bb">31</td> -<td class="cell br bb">36</td> -<td class="cell brd bb brd">37</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">37</td> -<td class="cell br bb">39</td> -<td class="cell br bb">41</td> -<td class="cell br bb">43</td> -<td class="cell br bb">45</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">47</td> -<td class="cell br bb bld">52</td> -<td class="cell br bb">38</td> -<td class="cell br bb">39</td> -<td class="cell br bb">44</td> -<td class="cell br bb">45</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">49</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">51</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">53</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">55</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">57</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">59</td> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">47</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">53</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">54</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">55</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">60</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">13</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<table class="glance" summary="Cards"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">9</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">10</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">11</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">12</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">13</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">8</td> -<td rowspan="5" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">3</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">6</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">7</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">10</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">11</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">2</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">14</td> -<td class="cell br bb">15</td> -<td class="cell br bb">24</td> -<td class="cell br bb">25</td> -<td class="cell br bb">26</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">27</td> -<td class="cell br bb bld">14</td> -<td class="cell br bb">15</td> -<td class="cell br bb">18</td> -<td class="cell br bb">19</td> -<td class="cell br bb">22</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">23</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">28</td> -<td class="cell br bb">29</td> -<td class="cell br bb">30</td> -<td class="cell br bb">31</td> -<td class="cell br bb">40</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">41</td> -<td class="cell br bb bld">26</td> -<td class="cell br bb">27</td> -<td class="cell br bb">30</td> -<td class="cell br bb">31</td> -<td class="cell br bb">34</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">42</td> -<td class="cell br bb">43</td> -<td class="cell br bb">44</td> -<td class="cell br bb">45</td> -<td class="cell br bb">46</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">47</td> -<td class="cell br bb bld">38</td> -<td class="cell br bb">39</td> -<td class="cell br bb">42</td> -<td class="cell br bb">43</td> -<td class="cell br bb">46</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">47</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">56</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">57</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">58</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">59</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">60</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">13</td> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">50</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">51</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">54</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">55</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">58</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">59</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<table class="glance" summary="Cards"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">17</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">18</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">19</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">20</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">21</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">16</td> -<td rowspan="5" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">33</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">34</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">35</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">36</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">37</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">32</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">22</td> -<td class="cell br bb">23</td> -<td class="cell br bb">24</td> -<td class="cell br bb">25</td> -<td class="cell br bb">26</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">27</td> -<td class="cell br bb bld">38</td> -<td class="cell br bb">39</td> -<td class="cell br bb">40</td> -<td class="cell br bb">41</td> -<td class="cell br bb">42</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">28</td> -<td class="cell br bb">29</td> -<td class="cell br bb">30</td> -<td class="cell br bb">31</td> -<td class="cell br bb">48</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">49</td> -<td class="cell br bb bld">44</td> -<td class="cell br bb">45</td> -<td class="cell br bb">46</td> -<td class="cell br bb">47</td> -<td class="cell br bb">48</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">49</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">50</td> -<td class="cell br bb">51</td> -<td class="cell br bb">52</td> -<td class="cell br bb">53</td> -<td class="cell br bb">54</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">55</td> -<td class="cell br bb bld">50</td> -<td class="cell br bb">51</td> -<td class="cell br bb">52</td> -<td class="cell br bb">53</td> -<td class="cell br bb">54</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">56</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">57</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">58</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">59</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">30</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">60</td> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">56</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">57</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">58</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">59</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">60</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">41</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1058">Image</a></p> - -<p>You can find the number at a glance, by -simply adding together the numbers in <i>the right-hand -top corner cells</i> of the square indicated. -Thus, if 45 has been chosen, 32 + 8 + 4 + 1 = 45.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page87">[87]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref156">No. LXXXVII.</h3> - -<p>Here is a little subtraction sum, which is not -quite so simple as it appears to <span class="nowrap">be:—</span></p> - -<table class="lengthsum" summary="Subtraction"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="13" class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="3" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">miles</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">furlongs</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">rods</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">yards</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">feet</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">inches</td> -<td rowspan="3" class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number">1</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="bb"> </td> -<td class="number bb">7</td> -<td class="quote bb">„</td> -<td class="number bb">39</td> -<td class="quote bb">„</td> -<td class="number bb">5</td> -<td class="quote bb">„</td> -<td class="number bb">1</td> -<td class="quote bb">„</td> -<td class="number bb">5</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td colspan="11" class="highline bbd"> </td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="13"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1059">Image</a></p> - -<p>Try it as it stands, without reducing the -distance to inches.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref616">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref157">70. A DOUBLET BY MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<p>Can you, by supplying the missing words, -turn a grilse into a salmon? One letter is -changed each time, and, except in one case, the -order of the letters <span class="nowrap">varies:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To silver Tweed, or broader Spey,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The <i>grilse</i> of <span class="dotforblank">......</span>, -<span class="dotforblank">......</span> gay,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Glides on; the <span class="dotforblank">......</span> -<span class="dotforblank">......</span> draws<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When <i>salmon</i> follows Nature’s laws.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref707">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref158">71. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I never move, and yet I run<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">From place to place all day;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Some loving swain, hot foot for fun,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Sees Dora in my way.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref708">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page88">[88]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref159">No. LXXXVIII.—RANGING THE DIGITS</h3> - -<p>These are the arrangements of the nine digits, -by which they add up alike in rows, columns, and -diagonals in a square; on all sides in a triangle; -and from top to bottom and from side to side -in a <span class="nowrap">cross:—</span></p> - -<table class="shapes" summary="Arrangements"> - -<tr> - -<td class="padl2"> -<table class="square" summary="Arrangement"> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bt br bb bl">8</td> - <td class="cell bt br bb">1</td> - <td class="cell bt br bb">6</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="cell br bb bl">3</td> - <td class="cell br bb">5</td> - <td class="cell br bb">7</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="cell br bb bl">4</td> - <td class="cell br bb">9</td> - <td class="cell br bb">2</td> - </tr> - -</table> -</td> - -<td class="padl2 padr2"> -<table class="triangle" summary="Arrangement"> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bt bl"> </td> - <td class="cell bt"> </td> - <td class="cell bt"> </td> - <td class="cell bt">5</td> - <td class="cell bt"> </td> - <td class="cell bt"> </td> - <td class="cell bt br"> </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bl"> </td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell">3</td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell">7</td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell br"> </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bl"> </td> - <td class="cell">4</td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell">6</td> - <td class="cell br"> </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bb bl">8</td> - <td class="cell bb"> </td> - <td class="cell bb">1</td> - <td class="cell bb"> </td> - <td class="cell bb">9</td> - <td class="cell bb"> </td> - <td class="cell bb br">2</td> - </tr> - -</table> -</td> - -<td class="padr2"> -<table class="cross" summary="Arrangement"> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bt bl"> </td> - <td class="cell bt"> </td> - <td class="cell bt">5</td> - <td class="cell bt"> </td> - <td class="cell bt br"> </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bl"> </td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell">4</td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell br"> </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bl">3</td> - <td class="cell">6</td> - <td class="cell">9</td> - <td class="cell">7</td> - <td class="cell br">2</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bl"> </td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell">8</td> - <td class="cell"> </td> - <td class="cell br"> </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="cell bb bl"> </td> - <td class="cell bb"> </td> - <td class="cell bb">1</td> - <td class="cell bb"> </td> - <td class="cell br bb"> </td> - </tr> - -</table> -</td> - -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1060">Image</a></p> - -<p>The totals are 15, 20, and 27 respectively.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref160">72. WHAT IS THIS WORD?</h3> - -<p class="centerline">HAATTCEUMSSSS</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref709">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref161">73. MULTUM IN PARVO</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Seven words in one of letters five we fix,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Five English, and one Latin;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No need to twist them, or afresh to mix,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">If puzzles you are pat in.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref710">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref162">74. THE GENTLE CRAFT</h3> - -<p>The question was asked in a puzzle competition—“Why -is every angler ipso facto an -Ananias?” Although no such method was -asked for or expected, we find that the very -letters of the question can be recast into a most -apposite reply. Our answer by anagram runs -<span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p>A liar, <span class="dotforblank">..</span> <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> gay fancies to a -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span> <span class="dotforblank">....</span></p> - -<p>Can you complete the sentence by filling in -the missing words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref711">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page89">[89]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref163">No. LXXXIX.—NO TWO IN A ROW</h3> - -<p>On a board of sixty-seven squares, arranged -as is shown in the diagram, place nine counters, -so that no two are in the same row, column, or -diagonal.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Board"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br bb bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br2 bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb2 bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb2 bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb2 bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb2"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1061">Image</a></p> - -<p>The indentations do not affect the simple -conditions.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref617">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref164">75. A QUAINT RIDDLE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Peter White<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Will never go right;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Shall I tell you the reason why?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Wherever he goes,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He follows his nose;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And that stands all awry!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If this appendage had slanted more<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Why would it serve a hole to bore?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref712">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page90">[90]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref165">No. XC.—EXACT ALIGNMENT</h3> - -<p>Can you arrange these nine cards so that they -form ten rows with three cards in each row?</p> - -<table class="playingcards" summary="Cards"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="card">A<br />♣</td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="7" class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="card">A<br />♢</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="card">10<br />♡</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="card">A<br />♠</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="7" class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="card">Q<br />♠</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="card">K<br />♣</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="card">K<br />♢</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="card">J<br />♢</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="7" class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="card">K<br />♡</td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1062">Image</a></p> - -<p>This may, of course, be done with any nine -cards.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref618">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref166">76. A MISSING LETTER</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Thieaonunhinemileuchtormapa<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Aitutoaeucceorlo;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Pringweetnetillpoeemoygra,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Aummertreemaofthadeacro.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Separate these strings of letters into words -that scan and rhyme, adding the same missing -letter in 55 places.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref713">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page91">[91]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref167">No. XCI.—AT A FANCY BALL</h3> - -<p>Two ladies and their squires, here represented -by the White Knights and the Black, were dressed -to impersonate Light, Liberty, Love, and Learning, -and took their places on the corners of a -pavement chequered to represent a chessboard, -as is shown <span class="nowrap">below:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Chess board"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">♘</td> -<td class="cell dark btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark btd brd bb">♞</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bbd bld">♞</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">♘</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1063">Image</a></p> - -<p>They undertook to step a figure which should -exhibit at each pause a revolving square, and -in three paces bring them together in the centre, -by a course traced upon the lines of their combined -monograms. What were their successive -steps?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref619">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page92">[92]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref168">No. XCII.—PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY -IN CELLS</h3> - -<p>Can you disentangle all this good advice?</p> - -<table class="square large" summary="Mixed maxims"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">tell</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">you know</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">tells</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">knows</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">tells</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">he should not</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">do</td> -<td class="cell br bb">you think of</td> -<td class="cell br bb">does</td> -<td class="cell br bb">thinks of</td> -<td class="cell br bb">does</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">is not good</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">believe</td> -<td class="cell br bb">you hear</td> -<td class="cell br bb">believes</td> -<td class="cell br bb">hears</td> -<td class="cell br bb">believes</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">is false</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">spend</td> -<td class="cell br bb">you have</td> -<td class="cell br bb">spends</td> -<td class="cell br bb">has</td> -<td class="cell br bb">spends</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">he needs</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">judge</td> -<td class="cell br bb">you see</td> -<td class="cell br bb">judges</td> -<td class="cell br bb">sees</td> -<td class="cell br bb">judges</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">is not there</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">never</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">all</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">he who</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">all he</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">often</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">what</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1064">Image</a></p> - -<p>It forms 5 excellent maxims in its 36 cells.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref620">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref169">77. THRICE DOCKED</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Protected, open, plain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Without my tail I’m flat;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m round curtailed again;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Again, you have me pat.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref714">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page93">[93]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref170">No. XCIII.—A DISLOCATED CIRCLE</h3> - -<p>Study this quaint figure carefully, and try to -discover how it can be divided into two pieces, -so that these can be reunited to form a perfect -circle.</p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo101.png" alt="Quaint figure" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref621">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref171">78. A LOGOGRIPH</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When all are gay this holds the sway,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">But take a letter out,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That change of fare is ruling there,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">You see, without a doubt.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me twice; it is not nice<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">To have this in your skin;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Lop head and tail, and find a nail<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Or tack to drive it in.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behind his right, and in your sight<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">A little word you find;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But you will never make it out,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Though it is in your mind.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref715">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page94">[94]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref172">No. XCIV.</h3> - -<p>When Tommy was offered all the money by -his uncle if he could place 15 half-crowns and -15 pennies in such order in a circle that, counting -always by nines, and starting at a fixed -point, he came always upon a penny, and -removed it from the circle, he found the key -to success in this Latin line, given to him by a -school friend, who shared the spoil—“Populeam -virgam mater regina ferebat.” The vowels, from -a to u, are numbered from 1 to 5, and when -they are thus marked in the <span class="nowrap">sentence—</span></p> - -<table class="vertalign" summary="Vertically aligned"> - -<tr> -<td>“</td> -<td>P</td> -<td>o</td> -<td>p</td> -<td>u</td> -<td>l</td> -<td>e</td> -<td>a</td> -<td>m</td> -<td> </td> -<td>v</td> -<td>i</td> -<td>r</td> -<td>g</td> -<td>a</td> -<td>m</td> -<td> </td> -<td>m</td> -<td>a</td> -<td>t</td> -<td>e</td> -<td>r</td> -<td> </td> -<td>r</td> -<td>e</td> -<td>g</td> -<td>i</td> -<td>n</td> -<td>a</td> -<td> </td> -<td>f</td> -<td>e</td> -<td>r</td> -<td>e</td> -<td>b</td> -<td>a</td> -<td>t</td> -<td>,</td> -<td>”</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td>4</td> -<td> </td> -<td>5</td> -<td> </td> -<td>2</td> -<td>1</td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td>3</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td>1</td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td>1</td> -<td> </td> -<td>2</td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td>2</td> -<td> </td> -<td>3</td> -<td> </td> -<td>1</td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td>2</td> -<td> </td> -<td>2</td> -<td> </td> -<td>1</td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="noindent">they show the necessary sequence of half-crowns -and pennies.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo102.png" alt="Coins" /> -</div> - -<p>Start counting with the half-crown marked <i>a</i>, -and remove each penny as you come to it on -counting up to nine, and the conditions are -fulfilled.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page95">[95]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref173">No. XCV.—A BUSINESS ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>This smart advertisement of a polish known -as “Old Dutch Cleanser” appeared in an -American <span class="nowrap">paper:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w25em"> - -<img src="images/illo103.png" alt="Dutch mill" /> - -<div class="illotext w10em"> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>Cleans Scrubs<br /> -Scours Polishes</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="center blankbefore75">Old Dutch<br /> -Cleanser</p> - -</div><!--illotext--> - -</div><!--container--> - -<p>If the eyes of the proprietor should fall upon -this column, he will be surprised to find that -his catch words <i>Cleans</i>, <i>Scrubs</i>, <i>Scours</i>, <i>Polishes</i>, -can be recast into a perfect anagram, singularly -appropriate to the powder advertised.</p> - -<p>The opening words of the anagram are “O -rub on, sir.”—Can our solvers complete the -sentence?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref622">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page96">[96]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref174">No. XCVI.—A NEW CHESS PUZZLE<br /> -By Henry E. Dudeney.</h3> - -<p>Replace all these 51 pieces on the chessboard, -so that no Queen attacks another Queen, no -Rook another Rook, no Bishop another Bishop, -and no Knight another Knight.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Chess board"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd bld br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell dark btd br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell dark btd br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell dark btd br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell dark btd brd bb"><b>Q</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bld br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bld br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell dark brd bb"><b>R</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bld br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark brd bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bld br bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1065">Image</a></p> - -<p>No account is to be taken of the intervening -pieces, but each type of piece is to be considered -as if it stood alone upon the board.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref623">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page97">[97]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref175">No. XCVII.—A GOOD KNIGHT’S TOUR</h3> - -<p>Here is a beautifully symmetrical specimen of -the Knight’s <span class="nowrap">tour:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo105.png" alt="Chess board" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page98">[98]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref176">No. XCVIII.—A KNIGHT’S TOUR</h3> - -<p>Here is another beautifully symmetrical Knight’s -<span class="nowrap">tour:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo106.png" alt="Chess board" /> -</div> - -<p>It starts from the corner square, and the -second half of the course has dotted lines.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref177">79. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">He <span class="dotforblank">......</span> himself much on his skill,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In many a burglary tried;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But when he <span class="dotforblank">......</span> open the till<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">There was only a <span class="dotforblank">......</span> inside.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing words are spelt with the same -six letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref716">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page99">[99]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref178">No. XCIX.—A KNIGHT’S TOUR</h3> - -<p>Here is quite a curious pattern described by -another Knight’s <span class="nowrap">tour:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo107.png" alt="Chess board" /> -</div> - -<h3 id="Ref179">80. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Three-fourths of me an act display,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Three-fourths a bed for man;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Three-fourths have legs that cannot stray,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Three-fourths have legs that can.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I have a back without a spine;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">An arm without a bone is mine.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref717">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref180">81. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is the French for my second,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole a narcotic is reckoned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref718">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page100">[100]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref181">No. C.—A GOOD PATTERN</h3> - -<p>Here is a very symmetrical Knight’s tour, in -which half of the moves are indicated by dotted, -and half by unbroken <span class="nowrap">lines:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo108.png" alt="Chess board" /> -</div> - -<h3 id="Ref182">82. PALINDROME WORDS</h3> - -<p>The letters of this sentence “Arrive to vote -at it,” can be so recast as to form two -palindrome words, or words that read alike from -either end. What are they?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref719">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page101">[101]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref183">No. CI.—A KNIGHT’S TOUR</h3> - -<p>Here is another specimen of the Knight’s tour, -which is beautifully <span class="nowrap">symmetrical—</span></p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo109.png" alt="Chess board" /> -</div> - -<p>Half of the course is marked with dotted -lines.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref184">83. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Sweet till I lose my head,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Sweet-hearted then I show;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Decapitate again, I spread,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And cannot be below.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Served so once more, I am not dead,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But with fresh beauty glow.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref720">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page102">[102]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref185">No. CII.—A KNIGHT’S POETIC TOUR</h3> - -<p>On the board below a verse of eight lines -runs on the course of a Knight’s move from -square to <span class="nowrap">square:—</span></p> - -<table class="square largish" summary="Verse words"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">sor</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">to</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">king</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">good</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">say</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">luck</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">loy</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">eth</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">and</td> -<td class="cell br bb">moth</td> -<td class="cell br bb">a</td> -<td class="cell br bb">soon</td> -<td class="cell br bb">dis</td> -<td class="cell br bb">our</td> -<td class="cell br bb">to</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">bad</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">place</td> -<td class="cell br bb">ry</td> -<td class="cell br bb">church</td> -<td class="cell br bb">his</td> -<td class="cell br bb">force</td> -<td class="cell br bb">is</td> -<td class="cell br bb">hat</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">al</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">er</td> -<td class="cell br bb">queen</td> -<td class="cell br bb">him</td> -<td class="cell br bb">wight</td> -<td class="cell br bb">he</td> -<td class="cell br bb">to</td> -<td class="cell br bb">may</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">truth</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">man</td> -<td class="cell br bb">his</td> -<td class="cell br bb">and</td> -<td class="cell br bb">and</td> -<td class="cell br bb">chess</td> -<td class="cell br bb">es</td> -<td class="cell br bb">knight</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">op’s</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">a</td> -<td class="cell br bb">sneer</td> -<td class="cell br bb">the</td> -<td class="cell br bb">and</td> -<td class="cell br bb">un</td> -<td class="cell br bb">lawn</td> -<td class="cell br bb">of</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">tates</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">cas</td> -<td class="cell br bb">that</td> -<td class="cell br bb">at</td> -<td class="cell br bb">less</td> -<td class="cell br bb">pawn</td> -<td class="cell br bb">no</td> -<td class="cell br bb">bish</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">lant</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">eth</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">faith</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">tles</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">hath</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">the</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">gal</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">in</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">love</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1066">Image</a></p> - -<p>Can you disentangle the little poem?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref624">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref186">84. TOMMY’S MONEY BOX</h3> - -<p>“Dad,” said little Tommy, “give me as much -as I have in my purse, and I will put a -shilling in my money-box.” This was done, and -the process was repeated for three more days. -How much had Tommy originally in his purse, -which was now quite empty?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref721">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page103">[103]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref187">No. CIII.—THE MANX RABBITS</h3> - -<p>This is the way to draw three rabbits so -that they have but three ears among them -<span class="nowrap">all:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo111.jpg" alt="Rabbits" /> -</div> - -<h3 id="Ref188">85. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Two articles of English make,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And three from foreign source.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All these together you must take<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Where dramas run their course.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref722">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page104">[104]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref189">No. CIV.—SCORING A CENTURY</h3> - -<p>On this table is shown in ten different ways -how exactly 100 can be arrived at by the use -of the nine digits, each appearing only once.</p> - -<table class="centuries" summary="Calculations"> - -<tr> -<th colspan="2" class="center btd br bb bld">1</th> -<th colspan="2" class="center btd br bb">2</th> -<th colspan="2" class="center btd br bb">3</th> -<th colspan="2" class="center btd br bb">4</th> -<th colspan="2" class="center btd br bb">5</th> -<th colspan="2" class="center btd br bb">6</th> -<th colspan="2" class="center btd br bb">7</th> -<th colspan="2" class="center btd br bb">8</th> -<th colspan="2" class="center btd brd bb">9</th> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="intpart bld">1</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">1</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">4</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">95</td> -<td class="fracpart br"><sup>3</sup>⁄<sub>7</sub></td> -<td class="intpart">56</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">98</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">6</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">15</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">15</td> -<td class="fracpart brd"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="intpart bld">3</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">45</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">53</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">4</td> -<td class="fracpart br"><sup>16</sup>⁄<sub>28</sub></td> -<td class="intpart">34</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">1</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart bb">2</td> -<td class="fracpart br bb"> </td> -<td class="intpart">2</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">36</td> -<td class="fracpart brd"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="intpart bld">5</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">7</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">6</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">7</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="fracpart br"><sup>3</sup>⁄<sub>6</sub></td> -<td class="intpart">8</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">79</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart bb">47</td> -<td class="fracpart brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="intpart bld">8</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart bb">9</td> -<td class="fracpart br bb"> </td> -<td class="intpart bb">8</td> -<td class="fracpart br bb"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td class="intpart bb">1</td> -<td class="fracpart br bb"> </td> -<td class="intpart"> </td> -<td class="fracpart br"><sup>27</sup>⁄<sub>54</sub></td> -<td class="intpart">9</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td class="intpart"> </td> -<td class="fracpart br"><sup>8</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub></td> -<td class="intpart">98</td> -<td class="fracpart brd"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="intpart bb bld">9</td> -<td class="fracpart br bb"> </td> -<td class="intpart">62</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">71</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">98</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">1</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart"> </td> -<td class="fracpart br"><sup>6</sup>⁄<sub>3</sub></td> -<td class="intpart">2</td> -<td class="fracpart brd"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="intpart bld">26</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">38</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">29</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">2</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">3</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="brd"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="intpart bld">74</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td class="intpart">4</td> -<td class="fracpart br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="brd"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="br bb bld"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br bb"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br bb"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br bb"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br bb"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br bb"> </td> -<td class="intpart bb">75</td> -<td class="fracpart br bb"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="br bb"> </td> -<td colspan="2" class="brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="intpart bbd bld">100</td> -<td class="fracpart br bbd"> </td> -<td class="intpart bbd">100</td> -<td class="fracpart br bbd"> </td> -<td class="intpart bbd">100</td> -<td class="fracpart br bbd"> </td> -<td class="intpart bbd">100</td> -<td class="fracpart br bbd"> </td> -<td class="intpart bbd">100</td> -<td class="fracpart br bbd"> </td> -<td class="intpart bbd">100</td> -<td class="fracpart br bbd"> </td> -<td class="intpart bbd">100</td> -<td class="fracpart br bbd"> </td> -<td class="intpart bbd">100</td> -<td class="fracpart br bbd"> </td> -<td class="intpart bbd">100</td> -<td class="fracpart brd bbd"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="18" class="center ws2 brd bbd bld">9 × 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 100.</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1067">Image</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref190">86. IF WE COULD CHOOSE</h3> - -<p>“If it were possible, I should choose,” said -young Hopeful, “a life double as long.”</p> - -<p>“Yes,” said old Sobersides, “and you might -turn it to better account if it was also begun -old.”</p> - -<p>How did their actual words bear this out?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref723">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page105">[105]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref191">No. CV.—SEEING THROUGH A VEIL</h3> - -<p>On a piece of clear tracing paper draw with -pen and ink a close network of lines, such as is -shown in this diagram, near enough together to -conceal type of ordinary size.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo113.png" alt="Screen" /> -</div> - -<p>Place this on the page of a book, and challenge -any one to read a sentence, or even a word, -through it, saying that you can do so easily. -How can you succeed?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref625">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref192">87. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Lop head and tail, and you will find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I have both tail and head.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or if for spirits you’ve a mind<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Set my tail first instead.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Life, as “a vapour full of woes,”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With many a darker page,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole in picture will disclose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For “all the world’s a stage!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref724">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page106">[106]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref193">No. CVI.—THE PAPER RINGS</h3> - -<p>In the diagram a strip of paper is shown (1), -with its ends simply gummed together; (2), with -a single twist; and (3), with a double twist. -Can you decide, without actual experiment, what -will be the result in each case if these are cut -completely round, as is indicated by the dotted -lines?</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo114.png" alt="Möbius strip" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref626">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref194">88. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A glowing <span class="dotforblank wide">........</span> window, graced<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With <span class="dotforblank wide">........</span> that true art has traced.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref725">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref195">89. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>How do the actual letters of these words in -their union prove that anæsthetics are “blessed -in pain?”</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref726">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page107">[107]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref196">No. CVII.—THE MAGIC BUTTONS</h3> - -<p>Make two parallel cuts with a penknife along -the centre of a slip of leather or other material, -and below them a hole of the same width. -Pass a piece of string under the slit, and through -the hole, and tie two buttons, each much larger -than the hole, to the ends of the string.</p> - -<div class="container w08em"> -<img src="images/illo115.png" alt="Strip with buttons" /> -</div> - -<p>How can the string be released without -removing either of the buttons?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref627">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page108">[108]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref197">No. CVIII.—THE CAPTIVE SCISSORS</h3> - -<p>Fasten a pair of scissors securely with a piece -of string to some convenient article, as is shown -in this <span class="nowrap">diagram:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo116.jpg" alt="Scissors" /> -</div> - -<p>Can you release them without cutting or -unfastening the string?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref628">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref198">90. A BURIED QUOTATION</h3> - -<p>“What sin was it, sonny?” said an American -negress to her lover, when she sat on his best -hat, which was flattened. Wearily he heard -her musical laugh, and arose to go. His hobby -was botany, but not hers, for she was then a -merry girl. “Bother the flowers! I would -prefer this mellow pine-apple, Leonidas,” she -said; “I guess we Ethiopians just love fruit!”</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref727">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page109">[109]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref199">No. CIX.—A PRIMITIVE TRAP</h3> - -<p>This diagram represents in the simplest outline -a primitive wolf-trap.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo117.png" alt="Trap" /> -</div> - -<p>The dotted line is a gate opening into a circular -enclosure. How was the trap set and the wolf -caught?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref629">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref200">91. LADIES AT A SALE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">They <span class="dotforblank">....</span> the dress with grip so keen<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That half the <span class="dotforblank">....</span> gives way;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And home return with purses lean<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To <span class="dotforblank">....</span> of “bargain-day!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>What are the missing words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref728">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page110">[110]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref201">No. CX.—A SPINNING NEEDLE</h3> - -<p>To balance a needle on the head of a pin, -push the pin into the cork of a wine bottle, and -the needle into a separate cork.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo118.jpg" alt="Bottle and forks" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">With the aid of three forks, as is shown in the -picture, the needle may be balanced and spun -round on the head of the pin.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref202">92. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<p class="centerline">Air—“<i>Three fishers went sailing</i>.”</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Three <span class="dotforblank">......</span> went sailing out into the west,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Out into the west as the sun sank low;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Each thought as they <span class="dotforblank">......</span> -of the lad she loved best,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For they all had <span class="dotforblank">......</span>, and each had a beau.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But seas will rise, and spirits will sink,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And they all were too ill of <span class="dotforblank">......</span> to think,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So these <span class="dotforblank">......</span> -<span class="dotforblank">......</span> back moaning.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Each missing word has the same six letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref729">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page111">[111]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref203">No. CXI.—AFTER DINNER</h3> - -<p>This diagram shows how, as an after-dinner -trick, four similar wineglasses can be placed on -the table</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo119.jpg" alt="Glasses" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">so that the centres of the lowest parts of their -stems are equidistant from each other.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref204">93. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Lurking in riddles oft my first is found;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second should in ample stores abound,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or help to make the sweetest songster heard.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Peculiar, and quite proper, is my third.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole has found with England’s monarch grace,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The verdant home of many a goodly race.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref730">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page112">[112]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref205">No. CXII.—SECOND SIGHT</h3> - -<p>Ask any one, with this diagram to work upon, -to think of any number between 5 and 15, and, -while your back is turned, to count up to it, -beginning at the lowest step, and saying one, -two, three, four, and so on, as each step of cards -or single card is reached in the direction -indicated by the arrow. When the number -thought of has been thus arrived at, tell him to -stop, and beginning afresh on that card, to -count one, two, three, etc., <i>backwards</i>, this time -<i>skipping over the double six</i> and the 3 steps -until he again reaches the number thought of, -and notices which card he has touched last.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo120.png" alt="Dominoes" /> -</div> - -<p>How can you, without having seen any of his -movements, at once find that card?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref630">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page113">[113]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref206">No. CXIII.—AN AFTER DINNER TRICK</h3> - -<p>Cut a wedge out of an apple, as is indicated -in the diagram, and make six gashes as is shown.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo121.png" alt="Wedged apple" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">When this has been done, challenge anyone to -divide the apple into six pieces by only two -straight cuts, so that there shall be one of the -gashes in each piece.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref631">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref207">94. ALIKE TO THE EYE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Accent my head,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">An opening I appear<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In other fashions said<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I charm all far and near.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref731">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page114">[114]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref208">No. CXIV.—A TOY BOOMERANG</h3> - -<p>Cut out in cardboard a boomerang as nearly -as possible of the size and pattern given <span class="nowrap">here:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo122.png" alt="Boomerang" /> -</div> - -<p>Place it flat on the back of the first three -fingers of the left hand, sloping them upward; -then flick it smartly with the second finger of -the right hand. It will fly off and return to -your lap. Try it.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref209">95. LONDON BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Here are two simple <span class="nowrap">sentences:—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="blankbefore75">A lamp shines out for thee.<br /> -Win me best by tears.</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Can you recast the letters, so that they form -the names of two of the most important buildings -in London?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref732">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref210">96. HEARD ON THE BRIGHTON BEACH</h3> - -<p>It was low tide; two children were throwing -pebbles into the sea, and sending their excited -collie in pursuit of them. The Puzzle Editor, -who was on holiday, quickened perhaps by the -salt air, bethought him of this appropriate -riddle:—What is the difference between that dog -and a hungry man?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref733">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page115">[115]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref211">No. CXV.—IN THE GRIP OF A RADISH</h3> - -<p>Cut a radish in half, press the lower surface -firmly against a plate, as is shown in the -<span class="nowrap">diagram:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo123.jpg" alt="Radish on plate" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">and you can lift the plate, to which it clings -as closely as a boy’s wet leather disc to the -pavement.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref212">97. FIND THE ANIMAL</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A part of me in rain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in hail must be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part belongs to pain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in bones we see,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in gleaming gold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in common copper.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in peace behold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in any topper;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Two parts are heard in sound,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And in our finals found.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref734">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page116">[116]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref213">No. CXVI.—ELASTIC PAPER</h3> - -<p>The countryman who cut one hole in his door -for the cat and another for the kitten would -find it difficult to pass a penny through a hole -the size of a shilling cut in a stout piece of -paper.</p> - -<p>This diagram shows how easily it can be -<span class="nowrap">done:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo124.jpg" alt="Hole" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">Fold the paper across the centre of the hole, -place the penny in the fold, and bend the lower -corners of the paper upwards. This elongates -the opening, and the coin falls through.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref214">98. A SMART ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Men commonly say I am clever,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Book-learning I never could boast;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet I turn the leaves inside the cover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And when I am found I am lost.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref735">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref215">99. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dotforblank start">. ...</span> is like a -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span> or what is most<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Comparative, a <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> -is like a <span class="dotforblank">. ...</span>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For when their substances in liquor sink<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Both properly are said to be in drink.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>One of the letters of the two short words is -used twice in the longer word.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref736">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page117">[117]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref216">No. CXVII.—THE NIMBLE SIXPENCE</h3> - -<p>Place a sixpence on the tablecloth, and over -it set a tumbler, as is shown in the picture -below.</p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo125.jpg" alt="Glass" /> -</div> - -<p>How can you pocket the sixpence without -removing the glass, or having it removed?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref632">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref217">100. A PIED PROVERB</h3> - -<p class="centerline gesp4">abdeefiinnnoopprrrsssttuw</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref737">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref218">101. SELF-DEFINED</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A wordy warfare waged with wit,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In youth its joys none need descry;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But where our elders take to it<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Its name points loss of dignity.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref738">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page118">[118]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref219">No. CXVIII.—HOW TO DRAW A SPIRAL</h3> - -<p>How can you draw such a spiral as this with -very simple appliances?</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo126.png" alt="Spiral" /> -</div> - -<p>This spiral is drawn rapidly without removing -the pencil from the paper.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref633">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref220">102. FIND THE HERO</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first’s in garb, but not in dress;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next’s in praise, but not in bliss;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third’s in man, but not in miss;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent13">My fourth’s in we.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My fifth’s in boar, but not in hog;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My sixth’s in cat, but not in dog;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next’s in calm, but not in fog;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent13">My eighth’s in we.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My ninth’s in rope, but not in twine;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My tenth’s in light, but not in shine;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next’s in four, but not in nine;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent13">My twelfth’s in we.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref739">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page119">[119]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref221">No. CXIX.—FOR HANDY FINGERS</h3> - -<p>Take a piece of stout paper or thin cardboard, -about 10 in. by 8 in., and cut it as is shown -below, removing the parts that are shaded in the -diagram.</p> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo127.jpg" alt="Madonna" /> -</div> - -<p>If you hold this between a plain wall, or -other surface, and a strong light, you will, with -a little practice, be able to cast a shadow similar -to one or other of these Madonna heads, which -will vary in intensity and expression with the -positions of the paper and the light.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page120">[120]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref222">No. CXX.—THE FOUR KINGS</h3> - -<p>This excellent and easy little card trick will -commend itself for fireside use in the long -evenings.</p> - -<p>Take the four Kings from a pack, and two -other cards. Hold the Kings thus, in the form -of a <span class="nowrap">fan—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo128.jpg" alt="Cards" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">hiding the two other cards behind the King of -Diamonds.</p> - -<p>After showing them, place the six cards at -the bottom of the pack. Now move the lowest -card to the top, and the two next cards to any -part of the pack, apparently leaving but one -King at the bottom. Ask some one to cut the -pack, and all the Kings will be found together. -Some appropriate patter will help the effect.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref223">103. PROVERB BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Can you recast this <span class="nowrap">sentence—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">A defeat whose test is very <span class="nowrap">sure—</span></p> - -<p class="noindent">so that the same letters form an appropriate -proverb?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref740">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page121">[121]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref224">No. CXXI.—DOMINO SQUARE</h3> - -<p>Its cells add up in columns and rows to 22, and -those of the corner squares add up to 10 and 12 -respectively.</p> - -<table class="dominoes" summary="Dominoes"> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt brd">●</td> -<td class="bt">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td class="bt">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt brd"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td class="bt">●</td> -<td class="bt">●</td> -<td class="bt brd">●</td> -<td class="bt">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="">●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="">●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="brd bb">●</td> -<td class="bbd"> </td> -<td class="bbd"> </td> -<td class="br bbd">●</td> -<td class="bbd"> </td> -<td class="bbd"> </td> -<td class="brd bbd">●</td> -<td class="bb2"> </td> -<td class="bb2"> </td> -<td class="br bb2"> </td> -<td class="bbd">●</td> -<td class="bbd">●</td> -<td class="bbd brd">●</td> -<td class="bbd">●</td> -<td class="bbd"> </td> -<td class="bbd br">●</td> -<td class="bbd"> </td> -<td class="bbd"> </td> -<td class="bbd br"> </td> -</tr> - 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-<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd">●</td> -<td class="">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd"> </td> -<td class="">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd"> </td> -<td class="">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd">●</td> -<td class="">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="brd"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="">●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="">●</td> -<td class="brd"> </td> -<td class="">●</td> -<td class=""> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb brd">●</td> -<td class="bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb brd">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb brd"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb brd"> </td> -<td class="bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1068">Image</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref225">104. PHONETIC MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">’Tis <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> that no one takes a -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To <span class="dotforblank">....</span> a <span class="dotforblank">....</span> of -<span class="dotforblank">....</span>s;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A <span class="dotforblank">....</span> may often take a -<span class="dotforblank">....</span><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To <span class="dotforblank">....</span> away the -<span class="dotforblank">....s</span>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref741">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page122">[122]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref226">No. CXXII.—THE TALKING HEAD</h3> - -<p>This, though quite an old illusion, may be a -mystery to some of our readers, so we give it a -place among our many curiosities.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo130.jpg" alt="Head on dish" /> -</div> - -<p>The table is placed on the middle of a platform, -well away from the background, and the -head, which is very much alive, is prepared to -answer questions, or to whistle, or to sing, at the -will of the audience. “How it is done” will be -explained.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref634">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref227">105. A QUEER OBSTACLE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m in everyone’s way,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Yet no one I stop.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My four horns each day<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Horizontally play,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And my head is nailed on at the top.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref742">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page123">[123]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref228">No. CXXIII.—A GENERAL OF THE -LIGHT BRIGADE</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo131.jpg" alt="Matchstick man" /> -</div> - -<p>With a little ingenuity, and by slightly warming -the wax, and shredding the matches for -some effects, all sorts of comical figures can be -contrived, similar in character to this dignified -general on his high-stepping charger.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref229">106. AN OLD ENIGMA<br /> -(By a former Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.)</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Take five from five, and then<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Put fifty in the middle;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Twice ten times five times ten<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Will finish off my riddle,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And bring it to your ken<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">As fit as any fiddle!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref743">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page124">[124]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref230">No. CXXIV.—ANOTHER BOOMERANG</h3> - -<p>Cut out in cardboard a cross similar to that -shown in this <span class="nowrap">diagram:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo132.png" alt="Cross" /> -</div> - -<p>Place one of its limbs under the thumbnail of -the left hand, and give the next projecting limb -a sharp flick with the middle finger of the right -hand. The little boomerang will fly sharply -forward, and invariably return rapidly on its -tracks. Try it.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref231">107. PHONETIC GAPS</h3> - -<p>Can you fill these gaps with words of similar -sound?</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">No <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> will -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span> before the wind<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> will -<span class="dotforblank">...</span> before it;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">We cannot <span class="dotforblank">....</span> the -<span class="dotforblank">....</span>, or find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That earthly powers <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> o’er it.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The gaps in line 1 take words that sound alike; -so do those in line 2; and so do the other three -in lines 3 and 4.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref744">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page125">[125]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref232">No. CXXV.—A PICTURE CHARADE</h3> - -<p>Can you fill in the missing words so as to -complete this picture charade?</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo133.jpg" alt="Puffin" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first may <span class="dotforblank">....</span> candle -<span class="dotforblank">...</span>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second then <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> -<span class="dotforblank">..</span>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole in <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> moves -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2"><span class="dotforblank start">.......</span> an oar or -<span class="dotforblank">...</span><br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref635">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref233">108. SOUND SENSE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">We seem to sound a note of lavish bounty;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Reverse us, and we indicate a county.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref745">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref234">109. A CRYPTOGRAM</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="gesp4">FTHNMLKBRNGSLLCTTN</span><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="gesp4">LLSKMTMXTTLLTSTHN</span>!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Can you so deal with this as to form a -rhyming couplet?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref746">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page126">[126]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref235">No. CXXVI.—WALNUTS AND COBS</h3> - -<p class="centerline"><i>A good after dinner trick</i></p> - -<p>Place four walnuts and four cobnuts in a row, -as indicated on the diagram.</p> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo134.jpg" alt="Nuts" /> -</div> - -<p>Now, moving always two that stand together, -transfer them to some other positions along the -line, and in four such moves leave them so that -the large and small nuts range alternately. It -may, of course, be done with large and small -coins, or with other things that are at hand.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref636">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref236">110. A BURIED PROVERB</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet I see them all! on golden wings that fly<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Old memories steal anew;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With a tear, with a sigh, with an old, old cry<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">They return in ghostly hue!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref747">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref237">111. DOUBLETS</h3> - -<p>Here is another exercise in Doublets, from -Lewis Carroll’s book on the <span class="nowrap">subject:—</span></p> - -<p>Turn ELM into OAK by seven links, introducing -the name of another tree as one of -them.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref748">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page127">[127]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref238">No. CXXVII.—A PICTURE RIDDLE</h3> - -<p>Can you read in this picture the question of -our riddle?</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo135.jpg" alt="Riddle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref637">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref239">112. TWO POSERS</h3> - -<p class="centerline">1.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My dear Mr Bird,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">We are giving a ball;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">First second we third,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Pray give us your all.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="centerline">2.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Second, I did my first and last,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Till I became my whole;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And told the tale of my repast,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A sad and greedy soul.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref749">Solutions</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page128">[128]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref240">No. CXXVIII.—BUY A BROOM</h3> - -<p>Here is an excellent example of how a characteristic -figure may be contrived by shredding, -warming, and uniting a few wax <span class="nowrap">matches:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo136.jpg" alt="Matchstick man" /> -</div> - -<p>Many similar figures can be made by handy -fingers.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref241">113. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, industrious, wends his way<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">His daily task to meet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead, transpose, and lo! a sound<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of music soft and sweet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, I make my way<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With swiftness past belief;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Again, and where the fields are gay<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My bounty brings relief.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref750">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page129">[129]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref242">No. CXXIX.—JEU DE PARQUET<br /> -(<i>For the children</i>)</h3> - -<p>An old book, published more than 100 years -ago, gives the following samples of patterns which -may be formed with very simple <span class="nowrap">materials:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo137.jpg" alt="Tiles" /> -</div> - -<p>All that is needed for this pastime is a set of -128 coloured triangles, 64 of each colour, with -which an endless variety of patterns can be -arranged by the exercise of taste and ingenuity.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page130">[130]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref243">114. LINES BY AN OLD OXBRIDGE DON</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">’Tis an absurdity to say<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Women should try for a B.A.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To College honours forward looking;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">They’d best confine themselves to cooking!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>How could a Girton girl retort, using the same -words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref751">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref244">115. LESS AND MORE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Eight letters (start with b)<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Three syllables contain;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take one away, and see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Four syllables remain!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref752">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref245">116. BURIED BEASTS</h3> - -<p>Can you dig out nineteen beasts that are -buried in these <span class="nowrap">lines?—</span></p> - -<p>Ireland’s lot heals slowly. Troubles came long -ago—at times in battalions—to attack and harass -her. Ambitious democrats now countermine -famous enthusiasts nearly akin to heroes. -Anarchy enables cowards to sow hot terror and -all amazement.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref753">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref246">117. PALINDROMIC VERSE</h3> - -<p>Can you recast the following sentences so that -their words form a verse of four lines, which -makes good sense, with lines that rhyme alternately, -when read from either <span class="nowrap">end?:—</span></p> - -<p>Fading slowly day dies, mournful winds sigh, -Stars are waking brightly; owlet holding high -revel flies hooting, breaking nightly silence.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref754">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page131">[131]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref247">118. AN ANAGRAM IN THE MAKING</h3> - -<p>“The Observatory at Greenwich, in England,” -has been turned into an excellent anagram, which -starts—<i>On landing here begin</i>—Can you complete -it?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref755">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref248">119. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">No man at all am I<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And, if you turn me round,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To hear my warning cry<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Not any men are found.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref756">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref249">120. ASK A SAILOR</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">How can our sailors fare the best<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">When times are harder?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">How do they greet with merry jest<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">An empty larder?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref757">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref250">121. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I lose my head when I am here,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Transpose me I am three;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Look in a book, you find me there,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And with me her and he.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref758">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref251">122. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Jack did <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> that he could square<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The circle to a <span class="dotforblank">.......</span>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">His friends <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> that a brain so rare<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Required attention <span class="dotforblank">........</span><br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing words are spelt with the same -seven letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref759">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page132">[132]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref252">123. A HUMAN PRODIGY</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My father is my son,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And I’m my mother’s mother;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My daughter and sister are one,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I’m grandam to my brother!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>How was this?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref760">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref253">124. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Catch my first with nimble wit,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Add a simple word;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then my whole may help a bit<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Opportunely heard.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref761">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref254">125. A PARADOX</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My mate and I from home did start,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Some little space we were apart.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When we had run a mile or more<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">We kept our distance, as before;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Shade of Colenso! could this be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When twice as fast as I ran he?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref762">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref255">126. AN ENIGMA<br /> -(<i>From Lewis Carroll’s Papers</i>.)</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A monument all men agree<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Am I in all sincerity,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Half cat, half hindrance made.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If head and tail removed should be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then most of all you strengthen me.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Replace my head, the stand you see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">On which my tail is laid.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref763">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref256">127. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m known to the poorest and worst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And my worth by a child may be reckoned;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The least thing in nature is double my first,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And my whole is just half of my second.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref764">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page133">[133]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref257">128. WHAT IS IT?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first without its head and tail<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is one and undivided;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second shows its teeth, is frail,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And as a rule one-sided.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The two to hold my first avail,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My busy toil provided.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref765">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref258">129. BURIED TOWNS</h3> - -<p>In each of these sentences a town is <span class="nowrap">buried:—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="noindent">His sister played the piano while we sang.<br /> -I saw Nell out here last evening.<br /> -The general rode a large black mare.<br /> -I have ordered a cab at half-past one.<br /> -Meet me in the lane at half-past nine.</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p>Can you dig them out?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref766">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref259">130. A GOOD ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>“The leaning tower of Pisa, in Tuscany, Italy.” -The first seven words of its anagram are “A -funny spot in a sweet city.” Can you complete -the anagram by adding four more appropriate -words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref767">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref260">131. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent7">When they found that catacomb<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent7">Near the <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> at Rome<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">’Twas the <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> discussion of the season;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent7">But the <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> effect<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent7">Of the skeletons select<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Deprived the poor Professor of his reason!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref768">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page134">[134]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref261">132. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is pretence,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second a dandy;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When fogs are most dense<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole will be handy.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref769">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref262">133. A DECISIVE ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Can you prove by anagram that, whatever -may be true of other plays accredited to -Shakespeare, Bacon had certainly no hand in -“Much Ado About Nothinge,” if we adopt the -old spelling of the final word?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref770">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref263">134. RATHER OBSCURE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Use all your wits to guess my all,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Can any guess it right?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Transposed, and never seen at all,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">It still is felt in sight.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead, transpose, then let it be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And you at last a clue may see.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref771">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref264">135. SHUFFLE THE LETTERS</h3> - -<p>Can you recast “Insanitary” and “Sanitary -Reform” so as to form two very appropriate -anagrams?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref772">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref265">136. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Let my second cut my first<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">When I come to table;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though I cannot quench your thirst<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Eat me—you are able.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref773">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page135">[135]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref266">137. MISSING LETTERS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">whtmrslndsosdlyswr?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">whtdyssdrksdysthtwrslrm?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">lssknyskthndfr,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">llshllcllwrhrssndhrm.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">whycllsblldstlkthtghstlyrt<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">llgllntctsgrndndmntyprt?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Can you supply the missing letters?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref774">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref267">138. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To me when whole, for I am sweet,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The moon fresh brightness brings;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my tail, I’m blunt, but meet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To sharpen other things.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me twice, and I have led<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Soldiers to face the foe;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Headless and tailless, one remains<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Though all the rest may go.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref775">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref268">139. IS IT BANTING?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">We start when the ninth hour is past,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then there’s an end of you.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A vengeful goddess shows at last<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">What Antifat will do.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref776">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref269">140. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When on charades intent I take my pen,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To seek some hidden goal,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Over my first my second comes, and then<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Quite overcomes my whole.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref777">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page136">[136]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref270">141. A PRIZE CRYPTOGRAM</h3> - -<p>The following cryptic lines were sent as a -reliable tip before a race in which Petronel was -to <span class="nowrap">run:—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="blankbefore75">“Tell me, Ben, who tore it<br /> -Seek a plant for it, see Bob.”</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p>Can you discover their hidden meaning?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref778">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref271">142. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I have no form, I have no friend,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">From me all come, in me all end.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And it is strange but very true<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That I am here and nowhere too.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref779">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref272">143. FACING BOTH WAYS</h3> - -<p>Can you fill in this broken sentence, first to -describe a curse, and then to proclaim its -<span class="nowrap">cure:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">A <span class="padl3">sed</span> <span class="padl2">end</span> <span class="padl2">ought</span> -<span class="padl1 padr2">eat</span> <span class="padl3">ease</span> <span class="padl5">ain.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent">using 16, and then 17, extra letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref780">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref273">144. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is a cover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second a city;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The whole you discover<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With this if you’re witty.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref781">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref274">145. BURIED RIVERS</h3> - -<p>The deaf and dumb girl began gesticulating -with a message, and her delivery was ever neat, -with graceful pose in every attitude.</p> - -<p>Four rivers are buried here.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref782">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page137">[137]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref275">146. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>If the “shingle” on the beach at Brighton -could speak, what would be its boast?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref783">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref276">147. A SIMPLE RECIPE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">She is as deaf as any post,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Incurable I fear;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">She is my guest, I am her host,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">How can I make her hear?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref784">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref277">148. THE PLAINT OF THE REJECTED</h3> - -<p class="centerline"><i>A May-Day Dirge</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Refused, rejected as before!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yes,<a id="FNanchor1"></a><a href="#Footnote1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> -<span class="dotforblank">...</span> <span class="dotforblank">..</span> I know of yore.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dotforblank start">.....</span> of youth, and deadly foe<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To genius. Eastward then I go<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> undaunted, and my name<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Through <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> shall yet resound with fame;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And subjects shall be mine by scores<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">From far <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> to Ganges’ shores.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote1"></a><a href="#FNanchor1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> More than one word.</p> - -</div><!--footnote--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref785">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref278">149. “BETA IN GREEK MEANS LETTER -B.”</h3> - -<p>The clever play-writer who suggested these -words as a phonetic excuse for wife-beating -might in another fashion invite a man to beat -his wife by merely calling him. What would -he say?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref786">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref279">150. A REBUS</h3> - -<table class="thunderstorm" summary="Rebus"> - -<tr> -<td>storm?<br />a th</td> -<td>an umbrella<br />me who</td> -<td>with<br />alls</td> -<td>all<br />mud.</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref787">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page138">[138]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref280">151. BONES OF A PALINDROME</h3> - -<p class="centerline">NRNRMMHDLVLDHMMRNRN.</p> - -<p>Can you, keeping these consonants in their -order, fill in vowels so as to form a sentence -which is a perfect palindrome, and reads alike -from either end?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref788">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref281">152. A NICE POINT</h3> - -<p>“Can you tell me,” said an undergraduate to -his tutor, who was great at Ecclesiastical Law, -“whether the Pope would be allowed to bury -the Archbishop of Canterbury?” As some -slight stress was laid on the syllables <i>Canterbury</i>, -the tutor for a moment suspected some trick, -but being assured that it was quite a serious -question, promised to consider the point. -What should he reply?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref789">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref282">153. A BURIED PROVERB</h3> - -<p>While there are very many as kind as this, -they know no task unkind. Can you dig a -proverb out from this sentence?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref790">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref283">154. IN THE OPEN</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Kate gathers me where children three,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Tom, Jane, and Mary, chatter;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He leads the way, and then we see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The other two come at her!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref791">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref284">155. A BURIED QUOTATION<br /> -(<i>From Shakespeare</i>)</h3> - -<p>Strange weather! What could equal it? -Yesterday sunshine and soft breezes, to-day a -summer cyclone raging noisily; then other -changes, as floods of fiercest rain eddy beneath -the blast.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref792">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page139">[139]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref285">156. PALINDROME ON A BEETROOT</h3> - -<p>Fill in the necessary vowels, and form thus -with these consonants in their present order a -perfect <span class="nowrap">palindrome:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline gesp4">RDRTPTPTRDR</p> - -<p>It must read alike from either end.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref793">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref286">157. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> we all do when we fail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>next</i> is heard in rain or hail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>fourth</i> a sheep of gender male;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>third</i> is one without its tail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i> for foreign countries sail.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref794">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref287">158. AMBIGUOUS</h3> - -<p>On the outer wall of a Western college this -was written: “Young women should set a good -example, for young men <span class="dotforblank">....</span> <span class="dotforblank">......</span> -<span class="dotforblank">....</span>!” -What three words will give a most ambiguous -sense to the inscription?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref795">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref288">159. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m but a little letter, still<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I have my duties to fulfil;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">If off you take<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My tail, and make<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">An alteration in my lot,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though I seem shorter I am not.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref796">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref289">160. DIABOLUS!</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Says Tom to Bill, “Pray tell me, sir,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Why is it that the devil,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In spite of all his naughty ways,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Can never be uncivil?”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page140">[140]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">Says Bill to Tom, “The answer’s plain<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To any mind that’s bright;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Because the <span class="dotforblank">...</span> <span class="dotforblank">.</span>’ -<span class="dotforblank">........</span>, sir,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Cannot be <span class="dotforblank">...</span> <span class="dotforblank">.</span>’ -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span>!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Can you supply the missing words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref797">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref290">161. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Beneath the <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> which shade the lawn<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Her bicycle she mounted,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And with a <span class="dotforblank">.....</span>, ere she had gone<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">An hour, ten <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> she counted.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It rained, it snowed, but nought could stop her,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Till in the <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> she came a cropper!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref798">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref291">162. AN INSCRIPTION WITH A POINT</h3> - -<p>On the comparatively new organ at Ober -Ammergau, on a brass plate above the keyboard, -is the following Latin <span class="nowrap">inscription:—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="blankbefore75 blankafter75">QVI CHRISTI LAVDES CANTANT<br /> -SANCTÆ PASSIONIS SVÆ VIRTVTE<br /> -IN IPSO ET PATRE VNVM SINT</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="noindent">which may be freely rendered—“May those who -sing the praises of Christ be, by virtue of His -Sacred Passion, one in the Father and in Him.”</p> - -<p>These lines contain a hidden point, beyond -their obvious interpretation. Can you discover -it?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref79">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref292">163. BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent2">A woman’s name<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of foreign fame,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Hers was a noble mind.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Now, sir, transpose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And I suppose<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No smaller thing you’ll find.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref800">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page141">[141]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref293">164. A FRENCH CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Pour avoir mon <i>premier</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Femme qui cache mon <i>dernier</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Manque souvent mon <i>entier</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref801">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref294">165. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Let go! let go! you naughty first,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or you will make my second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A stream of words will then outburst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Swift as my whole is reckoned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref802">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref295">166. OUT OF DATE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is first when cruisers charge in line,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And oft in frosty skies is seen to shine.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Don’t spare my second if you would suggest<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To an impulsive child the way that’s best.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My sporting whole, though now neglected grown,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Travelled by tube before the tube was known.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref803">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref296">167. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">First of men we lead a measure,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Last we end the same.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Starting merrily, our pleasure<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is to finish lame.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref804">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref297">168. TESTED BY DICTATION</h3> - -<p>Tom, home for the holidays, and in teasing -mood, declared that he could give his sister -quite a simple sentence of seven common words -of one syllable, which she could not produce -with her new typewriter. What was his -sentence?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref805">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page142">[142]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref298">169. ASCRIBED TO VOLTAIRE</h3> - -<p>This French charade, ascribed by some to -Lady Waterford, and by others to Voltaire, -has neat <span class="nowrap">points:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Mon premier est un tyran, mon second un horreur,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Mon tout est le diable lui-même.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Mais si mon premier est bon, mon second ne fait rien,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Et mon tout est le bonheur suprême.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref806">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref299">170. AT THE GUILDHALL</h3> - -<p>Sydney Smith, when questioned as to the -value and satisfaction of a City feast, said: -“I cannot wholly value a dinner by the -<span class="dotforblank">....</span> <span class="dotforblank">...</span> <span class="dotforblank">..</span>” -Can you supply the finish -of his witty reply?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref807">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref300">171.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In youth exalted high in air,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or bathing in the streamlet fair,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Nature to form me took delight<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And clothed my body all in white;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My person tall and slender waist<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">On either side with fringes graced;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Till me that tyrant Man espied,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And dragg’d me from my mother’s side.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No wonder that I look so thin,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The monster stripp’d me to the skin;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My body flay’d, my hair he cropp’d,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And head and foot both off he lopp’d;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And then, with heart more hard than stone,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Pick’d all the marrow from my bone.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To vex me more, he took a freak<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To slit my tongue, and make me speak.<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page143">[143]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">But that which wonderful appears,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I speak to eyes and not to ears.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All languages I now command<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet not a word I understand.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref808">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref301">172. A YOUNG SHAVER</h3> - -<p>Happy in the possession of a <span class="smcap">Keen Kut</span>, the -newest form of safety razor, and meeting a friend -whose chin bore painful traces of a less trusty -blade, an undergraduate who had a turn for -puzzles propounded this riddle: “What is the -difference between my razor and yours?” Can -you answer it?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref809">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref302">173. DECAPITATIONS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The ship rode in an <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> bay,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Asleep <span class="dotforblank">......</span> the master lay.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> and rugged man was he<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And, like a <span class="dotforblank">....</span> at home at sea.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like swooping <span class="dotforblank">...</span> he caught his prey<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whene’er an <span class="dotforblank">..</span> came his way.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But while due <span class="dotforblank">.</span> the needle kept<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He in his cabin lay and slept.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing word in the first line has seven -letters; its first letter is cut off to form the -second missing word, and this process is repeated -throughout the seven lines.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref810">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref303">174. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When the tempest roars the loudest<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Oft my first a shelter proves.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Say what fair one, though the proudest,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Spurns my next from one she loves?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When the storms of life are past<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Earth provides my whole at last.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref811">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page144">[144]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref304">175. SHUFFLE THE LETTERS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">One syllable, I help to turn the scale<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of party strife or faction;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Recast me, and two syllables avail<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To stop all further action.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref812">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref305">176. FILL IN THE VOWELS</h3> - -<p>Lines to an <span class="nowrap">owl:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0 gesp4">HNLDTWRSTHGLMWL<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0 gesp4">THLVSTTHTTHLVSTTHWL<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0 gesp4">RNLDKSRHLLWTN<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0 gesp4">SLSTSSLMNSNDSLN<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0 gesp4">SMRNFLNNLVSTG<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0 gesp4">RFRHTNGHWLSTKNW<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>As a hint, the last line <span class="nowrap">is:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">Or of your hooting howls to know.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref813">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref306">177. ARMY ANAGRAMS</h3> - -<p>Here is an excellent little exercise for patient -or quick-witted <span class="nowrap">solvers:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m free to-day, the <i>old sire</i> said,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>O no cell</i> now have I to dread;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For this one happy day to me<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>Are glen</i> and hill and forest free.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I, if I will, can ride, or fish,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>A pit can</i> enter, if I wish,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In search of chalk or sand.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In peace alone I now can dine,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And sing to Anna’s <i>lute at nine</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent8">Nor fear a reprimand.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Each word or group of words in italics forms, -when the letters are shuffled and recast as an -anagram, a military title. Can you decipher -them?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref814">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page145">[145]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref307">178. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first transposed becomes a name<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Which may quite mean be reckoned,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Two syllables combine the same,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With one or two for second.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole when fields are fresh and green,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And softly blows the wind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Where the first signs of spring are seen<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Within the woods we find.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref815">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref308">179. AN ANAGRAM ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Silent long is the wood-bird’s song,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Bare is the woodland bough;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For waving trees in wintry breeze<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Have “no buds now.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Can you recast the three words at the end, -so that their letters form a word descriptive of -the scene?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref816">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref309">180. A QUESTION OF TIME</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A farmer with children sixteen<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Killed the fattest young lamb of his flock.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To divide it these children between,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">What must be the time by the clock?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref817">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref310">181. A DONKEY DRIVE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To the far end of any train<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Hitch on a pair of neddies;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then you will hear, like steps of Cain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The threat that in their tread is.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref818">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page146">[146]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref311">182. EATING BY ALPHABET</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Take all the alphabet and cast<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Its final letter out;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then set the first where was the last,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And this you bring about:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Without a cook, without a fire,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A dainty dish which men desire.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref819">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref312">183. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My second with my first we greet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole in earlier days<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Gave understanding to the feet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That moved in tragic plays.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref820">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref313">184. PROVERB ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Here is another proverb in <span class="nowrap">anagram:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">Behest on thy lips, Society!</p> - -<p>Can you recast it, and so recover the proverb, -with which it is quite in keeping?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref821">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref314">185. WHAT’S IN A NAME?</h3> - -<p>An epidemic of anagrams broke out in a -public school, and eight of the prefects, having -turned their Christian names into other words, -fashioned from them this sentence, which -contains them all in order.</p> - -<p>“I, thy Tom, am sober and lie or live in -dew, but her brain sinned.”</p> - -<p>Can you decipher them?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref822">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref315">186. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In any coward’s company you find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That I have place.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my head, and from your mind<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">All wrong erase.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref823">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page147">[147]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref316">187. A DOUBLE ACROSTIC<br /> -(From <i>Punch</i>, 1875)</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first elect among the few,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Chooses my second to expose his view.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">1. Of various colours, changed at will,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dontshow">1. </span>I sit or stand for good or ill.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">2. I rule alone from noon till night,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dontshow">2. </span>And when I am not am is right.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref824">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref317">188. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Why should a man in a rage go to a -“shooting gallery?” Each word has its -complete anagram.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref825">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref318">189. QUITE A BEATITUDE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Let her be or beat her,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Give her little ease;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then in safety seat her<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">All among the bees!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref826">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref319">190. CLEARING IT UP</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“We,” cried my first and second,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">“Are not quite satisfied.”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“The story may be reckoned<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Imperfect,” fourth replied.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Said third, “The fact indeed I tell,”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And so at last all ended well.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref827">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref320">191. PROVERB IN ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p class="centerline">“I dare not admit faint women.”</p> - -<p>Can you recast these words so that their -letters form a well-known proverb?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref828">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page148">[148]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref321">192. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first and second are as best they should be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third in Latin mouth is what it would be.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole would soon be ashes if it could be.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref829">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref322">193. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Since Spooks, a <span class="dotforblank">......</span> man is he,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dotforblank start">......</span> this haunted house to me,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In <span class="dotforblank">......</span> -funk I <span class="dotforblank">......</span> round,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And fear a ghost in every sound!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing words are spelt with the same -letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref830">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref323">194. WHAT IS IT?</h3> - -<p>What is that which is found in the centre of -Australia and of America, and in no other -place?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref831">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref324">195. GRANDFATHER’S TURN</h3> - -<p>“It’s grandfather’s turn,” cried the children -at a Christmas party where jokes and riddles -have been rife.</p> - -<p>With a quiet twinkle in his eye, the old man -said, “Do you know why is the fourth of -July?” Not one of them could understand -or answer his question, which seemed to lack -finish and grammar. Can you?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref832">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page149">[149]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref325">196. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> is never far away,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>next</i> in Latin found;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>third</i> may rage by night or day;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2"><i>All</i> make melodious sound.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref833">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref326">197. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Through the <span class="dotforblank">......</span> trees<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Softly coo the doves;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Let a <span class="dotforblank">......</span> breeze<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2"><span class="dotforblank start">......</span> youthful loves!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref834">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref327">198. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">At starting, half your income take,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then for my second write;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And let your table help to make<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The total cosy quite.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref835">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref328">199. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is a circle complete,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Beheaded I fall to your feet.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me again and I fry,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or am baked in a savoury pie.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref836">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref329">200. ANAGRAM WORDS</h3> - -<p>Can you recast these short sentences into six -single words?</p> - -<div class="container w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">See a pug dog.<span class="righttext">Red paper.</span></p> - -<p class="center">Fat reward.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Stay, O morn.<span class="righttext">Set on a dish.</span></p> - -</div><!--container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref837">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page150">[150]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref330">201. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If my whole by my second and first you divide,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">One more than ten thousand it gives.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In the land of my birth I have dwindled and died,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In museums my memory lives.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref838">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref331">202. A PARADOX</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though never present, I appear,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of perfect form a token;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And all that centres round my ear<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is heard, though never spoken.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref839">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref332">203. BEST WHEN BEHEADED</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me twice, and it shall be<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That I my perfect self regain;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Restore both heads and you shall see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That most perfect I remain.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref840">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref333">204. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Grant, lady, grant your <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> his whim,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And give the coming <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> to him,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For this will <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> his jealous heart,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Stricken so sore by Cupid’s dart.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If not he <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> his hands of you,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To seek fresh <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> and pastures new.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref841">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref334">205. A SEASONABLE PUZZLE<br /> -(<i>Quite an ice one</i>)</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“Yes, yes, I know,” said Jack to Jill,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“That thirty-two is freezing-point;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And I can tell you, if you will,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Exactly what is squeezing-point!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref842">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page151">[151]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref335">206. ILLUMINATING FIGURES</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To fifty add a third of one,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A third to five attach;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You have the means, when this is done,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To kindle any match.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref843">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref336">207. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The untrained <span class="dotforblank">..........</span> in the City<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is robbed by <span class="dotforblank">..........</span> without pity.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing words are spelt with the same -ten letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref844">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref337">208. A CHRISTMAS CRACKER</h3> - -<p>Comes Christmas merry? Hungry birds; no -bright berries; rents high, not paid; long bills; -empty barns; no peace and prosperity.</p> - -<p>How can we amend this gloomy forecast?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref845">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref338">209. ANAGRAM FLOWERS</h3> - -<p>Six common plants are concealed by anagram -in the following sentence. The letters which -spell each plant follow each other, but are in -disorder.</p> - -<p>O rise love it lad never let this lamb chase -trains.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref846">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref339">210. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is quite a sin by name,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My third its simple cure;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second puts an end to fame,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole of ease is sure.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref847">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page152">[152]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref340">211. A PARADOX</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my head, it is unshaken,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Cut off my tail, you turn it round;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But if both head and tail are taken,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Unconquered still I hold my ground.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref848">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref341">212. WHAT ARE THEY?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Why should we quarrel, First and Third,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With nought between us but a word?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Let Third leave Second unessayed<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To heal the breach these letters made.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If your solution be but fair<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You find my whole disjointed there.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref849">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref342">213. A CRYPTIC ADDRESS</h3> - -<p>“Next week,” wrote Funniboy from Naples to -his friend, “I am going to ‘plant onions, etc.’ -Let me hear from you.” How did his friend -gather his destination from these words?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref850">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref343">214. AMONG THE GHOSTS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In haunted house to sleep I tried<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My dread <i>first</i> was my chum.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“With <i>second</i> of my <i>first</i>,” I cried,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">“My <i>whole</i> I should become.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref851">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref344">215. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is possessive and second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second possessive and first.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Such banks most attractive are reckoned<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">By those for rich treasure athirst.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref852">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page153">[153]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref345">216. BONES OF A PALINDROME</h3> - -<p class="centerline gesp4">RPLVLSLVLPR</p> - -<p>Can you insert the missing letters, and complete -the palindrome so that it reads alike from -either end?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref853">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref346">217. A WORD AND A BLOW</h3> - -<p>“Now, dad,” said Tom Pickles to his father -in the Christmas holidays, “take this bottle in -your left hand, and when I say ‘three!’ try -how far you can blow the cork into it.”</p> - -<p>The cork, smaller than the neck of the bottle, -was placed just inside, and as Tom cried, “One, -two, three!” his father gave a lusty blow. -What was the result?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref854">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref347">218. A GOOD RIDDLE</h3> - -<p>When are acorns as strong as oaken posts?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref855">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref348">219. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME</h3> - -<p class="centerline">PTTPBTNTNTBPTTPBTNTNTBPTTP.</p> - -<p>Can you add the vowels, and make a -palindrome that reads alike from either end?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref856">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref349">220. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> of Shakespeare and of song<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Have fair and dainty features;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But she I <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> my hopes upon<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Excels those lovely creatures.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">From <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> she <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> -her name so dear,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">She lives on <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> and honey;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">She cannot <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> but she can steer,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And Madeline has money.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref857">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page154">[154]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref350">221. A NOVEL ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>A politician used a high-flown phrase, which -implied inaccurate wording, though some spoke -of it as dust thrown in people’s eyes. Can -you recover the <i>two long words</i> which he used, -by anagram, from this sentence?</p> - -<p class="centerline">Axiomatic intelligence, or dust.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref858">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref351">222. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first your bosom friend, or man or maid,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My second, sounded double, tells of fate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or sounded single puts an end to hate.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref859">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref352">223. IS THIS TRUE?</h3> - -<p>Woman without her man would be helpless.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref860">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref353">224. SOME ANAGRAMS</h3> - -<p>Can you recast these short sentences so that -each of them forms a single word?</p> - -<div class="container w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">A moment’s cure. -<span class="righttext">The old rocks.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent">Cod is nice. -<span class="righttext">It lures a cat.</span></p> - -</div><!--container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref861">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref354">225. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent4">Without my head I circulate<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">With speed and inclination;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Without my tail, at any rate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">I still have circulation.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Transpose three letters, in unbroken state,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I then receive the ashes of the great.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref862">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page155">[155]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref355">226. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Many will remember how often the great -tenor, Sims Reeves, was prevented from singing -by his delicate throat. An excellent anagram -can be evolved from his name which, with -some exaggeration, proclaims this. Can you -discover it?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref863">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref356">227. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Consuming lust for <span class="dotforblank">.....</span>, now so rife,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span> mars both love and life.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref864">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref357">228. FROM BEDLAM</h3> - -<p>Here are the bones of a palindrome sentence -that might be spoken by some unhappy -criminal lunatic. Can you clothe them with -their vowels, so that the sentence reads alike -from either end?</p> - -<p class="centerline"><span class="gesp4">MNCLVDDVLCNM</span>.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref865">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref358">229. FRUITS AND FLOWERS.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">And as trim bees rise or go,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A long aim I’d say, a libel O!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Fruit and flowers are hidden here in anagrams, -each in its order separately.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref866">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref359">230. ANSWERS BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p class="centerline">NOW ONE OLD FORT.</p> - -<p>What place is this?</p> - -<p class="centerline">RABID OWL.</p> - -<p>Change this bird into a beast.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref867">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page156">[156]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref360">231. CHARADE<br /> -By W. M. Praed</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Alas, for that forgotten day<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">When chivalry was nourish’d,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When none but friars learn’d to pray,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And beef and beauty flourish’d;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And fraud in kings was held accursed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And falsehood sin was reckon’d,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And mighty chargers bore my <i>first</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And fat monks wore my <i>second</i>!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Ah, then I carried sword and shield<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And casque with flaunting feather,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And earn’d my spurs in battle-field,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In winter and rough weather;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And polish’d many a sonnet up<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To ladies’ eyes and tresses;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And learn’d to drain my father’s cup,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And loose my falcon’s jesses!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The mongrel mob grows prouder;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And everything is done by steam,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And men are kill’d by powder;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And now I feel my swift decay,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And give unheeded orders;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And rot in paltry state away<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With sheriffs and recorders.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref868">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref361">232</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> you oft savagely pierce through and through;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>next</i> harbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Should my <i>whole</i>, from my <i>second</i>, step into my <i>first</i>!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref869">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page157">[157]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref362">233. DECAPITATION</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole describes the action of a gale,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Decapitation makes an organ play.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Again, it tells of what we do not pay.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Again behead, and half a string denote;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And last of all on music’s notes I float.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref870">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref363">234. A BURIED PROVERB</h3> - -<p>Society—how her enthusiasts worship at her -Juggernaut car. Cases exist here, proving how -illogical are these eagle-sighted, place-hunting -beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet -striving to get her smile.</p> - -<p>A well-known proverb is buried in this -sentence. Can you dig it out?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref871">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref364">235. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch -it without a <i>steel trap</i>?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref872">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref365">236. AN ENIGMA<br /> -By Praed</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Across my <i>first</i>, with flash and roar,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The stately vessel glides alone.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And mournful on the crowded shore<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">There stands an aged crone,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Watching my <i>second’s</i> parting smile,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">As he bids farewell to his native isle.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page158">[158]</span></p> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i> comes back to other eyes,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With beauteous change of fruit and flowers,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But dim to her are those bright skies,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And sad those joyous hours;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For, alas! my <i>first</i> is dark and deep,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And my <i>second</i> cannot hear her weep.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref873">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref366">237. THE ARAB AND HIS ASS<br /> -<span class="smcap">The Sequel</span></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When morning dawned, and the tide was out,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s <span class="dotforblank">..........</span>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For he had the best donkey in all that §.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Though the donkey was bravest of all his <span class="dotforblank">....</span>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He luxuriates now in perpetual clover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And his master has gone to the prophet’s em⏞.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref874">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref367">238. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> -on <span class="dotforblank">....’.</span> strands<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He left the <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> in Cupid’s hands,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And watched her <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> her tresses;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Tresses of <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> coloured gold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Veiling, like any frock,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A tail which, as it did unfold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Gave to poor Pat a shock.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref875">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref368">239. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Where can you be “in a stone-pine garden”?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref876">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page159">[159]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref369">240. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">No <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> sympathy was ever shown,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Than when <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> news from Kingston -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span> was known.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The three missing words are spelt with the -same five letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref877">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref370">241. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>What bodily discomfort follows an <i>ague-fit</i>?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref878">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref371">242. A TANGLED SQUARE</h3> - -<p>Can you readjust the 16 letters in this square -so that they form a perfect word square?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1069">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref879">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref372">243. RIVERS IN ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>What European rivers are concealed in these -eight anagrams:—Set in red robe Henri Le Roi -O sell me red pine nerves biter.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref880">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref373">244. A PIED PALINDROME</h3> - -<p>Rearrange these letters so that they form a -palindrome, or sentence that reads alike from -either <span class="nowrap">end:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">F PPPP RRRR SSSS TT<br /> -EEEEII OOOO</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref881">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page160">[160]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref374">245</h3> - -<p>What political parrot cry can be evolved by -anagram from this sentence, which condemns it?</p> - -<p class="centerline">O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe!</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref882">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref375">246. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>What statesman’s name was a “terrible -poser?”</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref883">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref376">247. A PROVERB IN ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Can you recast the letters of this sentence into -a well-known English proverb?</p> - -<p class="centerline">Yea, a glad sun rose red.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref884">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref377">248. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Has there been a poet of unusual <i>solemnity?</i></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref885">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref378">249. ANAGRAM ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">No, no, I hardly ever touch<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The thing which many love so much.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It has a place within these lines,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But is taboo where Delia dines.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref886">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref379">250. HE SQUARED THE CIRCLE</h3> - -<p>“Yes,” said young Biceps of St Boniface, -who had failed to satisfy the examiners, “they -have ploughed me in Euclid, and yet if I had -half a chance I could teach them how to -square a circle!”</p> - -<p>“Bravo, Biceps!” cried his chum, who was -helping him to drown dull care in fruity port, -“don’t keep the great secret to yourself!” -And so he told him—what?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref887">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page161">[161]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref380">251. TO EXTRACT A CIRCLE FROM A -GIVEN SQUARE</h3> - -<p>When his friend had recovered from the -shock of the atrocity described in our last, he -retaliated by assuring Biceps that he could -extract a circle from a given square. What -was his method?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref888">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref381">252. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">He said, “You <span class="dotforblank">......</span>” when one lied,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">He said, “Don’t <span class="dotforblank">......</span>” when one sped,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">His glass held <span class="dotforblank">......</span> at his side;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">He can <span class="dotforblank">......</span> what he denied.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">As all your wits “entranced” you bend<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">To find the key omit the end.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref889">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref382">253. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My captive <i>second</i>, sulking in my <i>first</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Bemoan, or as alternative you find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i> the word that fits his state of mind.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For meet enclosure, you can take a score<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Of captive <i>seconds</i>, first deducting four.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref890">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref383">254. A CIPHER ADVERTISEMENT</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="gesp4">THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT</span>,</span><br/> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="gesp4">MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT</span>.</span><br /> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>Add two vowels alternately to complete the -couplet.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref891">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref384">255. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Can you discover by anagram what his -brother was when he put “Tim in a pet?”</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref892">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page162">[162]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref385">256. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Who knows the <span class="dotforblank">....</span> a land may know<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Famed for its <span class="dotforblank">....</span>, and long ago<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A <span class="dotforblank">....</span> of sage and seer.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The native there, so full of tricks,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To <span class="dotforblank">....</span> his hunger -<span class="dotforblank">....</span> with sticks,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Nor knows his ways are queer!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref893">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref386">257. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If doubled you would see my first<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Let third and second be reversed.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But if my last you would behold<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Increase my first a hundredfold.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Combine them all, and you can trace<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The four within an empty space.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref894">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref387">258. IN THE HAY-FIELD</h3> - -<p>In the words welcome to a thirsty toiler, -“Mower, I will tap the cask!” are hidden by -anagram the names of an English poet and of -one of his poems. Can you discover them?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref895">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref388">259. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> is small, and seldom reverential;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My next not large enough to heed or prize;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i> is altogether consequential;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My third, though small, is counted very wise.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref896">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref389">260. A LETTER PUZZLE</h3> - -<p class="centerline">To be<br /> -<span class="gesp8">aaaaaaaaaa</span><br /> -<span class="gesp4">tCrIiOfUlSes</span><br /> -standing<br /> -is the mark of a mean</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref897">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page163">[163]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref390">261. WITH IVORY LETTERS</h3> - -<p>Can you recast the letters that spell <span class="smcapall">RED -NUTS AND GIN</span> so that they form one long -word?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref898">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref391">262. A HIDDEN NOVEL</h3> - -<p>Can you rearrange these letters so that they -form the title of a well-known novel by Charles -Dickens?</p> - -<p class="centerline gesp4">CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref899">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref392">263. “COME OUT, ’TIS NOW SEPTEMBER!”<br /> -—<i>Old Song.</i></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In swift <span class="dotforblank">......</span> the beaters add<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Fresh <span class="dotforblank">......</span> to the heaps of slain;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And still, with lust of slaughter mad,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The <span class="dotforblank">......</span> plies his hand amain!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing words are spelt with the same -six letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref900">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref393">264. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is nothing but a name,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second still more small,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole shows such a lack of fame<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">It has no name at all.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref901">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref394">265. A BREAKFAST TABLE PUZZLE</h3> - -<p>“If father gives us a new dog, it will wake -the lazy ones!” Can you discover from these -words which of his children were often late for -breakfast?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref902">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref395">266. A CIPHER</h3> - -<p class="centerline gesp4">NGOTRDSREAOHR<br /> -ETNSVEENUDOEO</p> - -<p>Can you decipher the common proverb here -concealed?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref903">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page164">[164]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref396">267. AN UNKNOWN NAME</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Well known by story, not by name,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I died a death unknown before,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Nor ever to corruption came;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My shroud the waves cast on the shore.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref904">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref397">268. UNDA WATER</h3> - -<p>How might an oyster, if it could speak, and -knew that unda is Latin for wave or water, complain -in similar phonetic iteration when disturbed -by thunder under unda?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref905">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref398">269. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When <span class="dotforblank">.....</span>, our puppy, sets out for a run,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Over <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> he <span class="dotforblank">.....</span>, -all frolic and fun;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For no whistle <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> he in his desperate hurry,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The slow sheep to <span class="dotforblank">.....</span>, and the old cow to worry.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The five missing words are spelt with the -same five letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref906">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref399">270. FIND THE GIRLS</h3> - -<p>Bad hero set by thy door hurt me ma. Army -may get ruder daily.</p> - -<p>Ten girls’ names are here in anagrams.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref907">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref400">271. A GOOD DESCRIPTION</h3> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>Lord Beaconsfield’s statue,<br /> -True as old <span class="gesp8">———</span></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p>Can you can complete this anagram?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref908">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref401">272. SHAKESPEARE ANAGRAMS</h3> - -<p>These three lines are perfect anagrams of -three consecutive lines in “Romeo and Juliet,” -Act II., Scene <span class="nowrap">V.:—</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page165">[165]</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>The tub sold has old rough shelves.<br /> -And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts.<br /> -A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow!</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p>Can you discover the original lines?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref909">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref402">273. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">That mystical gnome never flinches from toil<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Who <span class="dotforblank">......</span> the <span class="dotforblank">......</span> -in Orient soil;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet <span class="dotforblank">......</span> mortals will ever abound<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To <span class="dotforblank">......</span> all the soil till the treasure is found.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref910">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref403">274. A PUZZLE ACROSTIC</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My feathered first has wings and sings,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Unfledged my second swings its wings;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third on blackest pinions flies,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fourth can float beneath the skies.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The letters to my first that fall<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Are the initials of them all.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1070">Image</a></p> - -<p>Can you substitute words which fulfil the -conditions?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref911">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref404">275. DROP LETTER PUZZLE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first was of the <span class="dotforblank">......</span> breed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent1">Their <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> captain, hot and riled,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To <span class="dotforblank">....</span> his men found vain indeed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent1">They only <span class="dotforblank">...</span> and smoked, and smiled!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>One letter is dropped each time.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref911">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page166">[166]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref405">276. DOUBLETS</h3> - -<p>Can you convert HARE into SOUP, using -not more than six links, changing only one -letter with each link, and preserving the order -of the letters from link to link?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref913">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref406">277. A NEW ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Putting two small beasts that you take<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To the beginning of an end,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A pointed weapon you will make<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To wound a foe or praise a friend.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref914">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref407">278. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>If a “newspaper” could speak, what might -it say of the general work of its staff?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref915">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref408">279. BY RULE OF THUMB</h3> - -<p>How can you turn the positive quantity 1011 -into a negative?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref916">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref409">280. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>What one word can you form from the -<span class="nowrap">sentence—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“O, I’m man’s trial!”</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref917">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref410">281. A REBUS</h3> - -<p class="centerline">EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref918">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref411">282. A RIDDLE</h3> - -<p>Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell -his timber?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref919">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page167">[167]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref412">283. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">He <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> to be <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> -as a wonderful shot<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But he potted the dog, and <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> was his lot!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The missing words are spelt with the same -seven letters.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref920">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref413">284. DOUBLETS</h3> - -<p>Can you change ARMY into NAVY with -seven links, changing one letter every time, and -preserving their sequence?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref921">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref414">285. BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">‘I excel not by a pun’—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Turn these six words into one.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref922">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref415">286. CAN SUCH THINGS BE?</h3> - -<p>When is an onion like music?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref923">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref416">287. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>What is the bitter cry of “Christianity?”</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref924">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref417">288. NO TURNCOAT</h3> - -<p>Show by anagram that a Conservative is -constant to his cause.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref925">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref418">289. WHY NOT?</h3> - -<p>Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall as a -rule upon the same day of the week. Can -any ingenious reader discover why they will not -fall upon the same day of the week in the -year 1910.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref926">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page168">[168]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref419">290</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“War is a game which, were their subjects wise,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Kings would not play at,” wrote the poet’s pen;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But in war’s issue will be staked the prize,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">While kings and subjects are but erring men;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So Britain—native empress of the seas—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">On ocean cradled, by her storm-king nursed—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Friend of the fallen, guardian of the free,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Rests on her well-tried <i>last</i> and trusty <i>first</i>.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Her <i>first</i> alone can well maintain her right,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Unscathed by any threat or mutinous blast;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And though, when needed, foremost in the fight,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Her <i>first</i> (strange paradox!) is always <i>last</i>!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But should the tide of war approach the shore<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And threaten to engulf her island seat,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i>, replying with defiant roar,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Would crash the audacious foe beneath her feet!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref927">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref420">291. AN EASY CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is flogged to make it move the faster,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And turns at once to satisfy its master.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next will ripen as a pleasant fruit,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For those whose simple taste its flavours suit.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, when breezes blow and pennons fly,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Stands up aloft and points us to the sky.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref928">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref421">292. NOT BY CANNING</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A noun there is, of plural number,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In daily use from here to Humber.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Now almost any noun you take<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">By adding “S” you plural make;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But if you add an “S” to this,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Strange is the metamorphosis!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Plural is plural now no more;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Useless what useful was before.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref929">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page169">[169]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref422">293</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">First, a semi-circle make,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Add to this another<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Figure of two little lines<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Meeting with each other;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then a perfect circle form,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Truly, neat, compactly,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Add another form to these,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like the first exactly;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then, to make it all complete,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Form a kind of angle,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With a straight line, that should meet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In a kind of tangle;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When you this have rightly done<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">(’Tis the truth I’m telling),<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You will get an article<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Useful in a dwelling:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Should you this decapitate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You may have another<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Article, which, in its place,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is useful as the other.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref930">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref423">294. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Veiling the leas, my first may steep<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Late autumn’s listless air;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And with my tainting second creep<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">On idle spade and share.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When happy days link soul to soul,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And sunny faces shine,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">May both combined, a subtle whole,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Be far from me and mine!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref931">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page170">[170]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref424">295. A CHARADE<br /> -By Mark Lemon</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Old Charlie Brown, who a big rogue was reckoned,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Was brought up at my first for making my second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He was fined, and because he no money would pay<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Had to work with my whole on the King’s highway.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref932">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref425">296</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Complete, I grow within a field<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And pleasant pasture often yield;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me once, a suitor then<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is quickly brought before your ken;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, I am a word<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That on the cricket-ground is heard.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Restore my heads, cut off my tail,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To name a spice you’ll not then fail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me now, and you will find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The master passion left behind.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Put on my head, my tail restore,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Complete me as I was before,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second letter take away,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">An envelope I am, you’ll say;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But now curtail me just once more,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I am an inlet on the shore.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref933">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref426">297</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>second</i> is double my <i>first</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> is but half of my <i>second</i>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And I’m sure you’ll admit that my <i>whole</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is ten times the latter when reckon’d.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref934">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page171">[171]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref427">298</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> I went the other day,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And pretty surely reckon’d<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A basket of fine fish to catch,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With hook and rod and <i>second</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">But I was out in reckoning;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A very pretty she<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Of her fair face show’d just my <i>whole</i>—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And pretty soon hook’d <i>me</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref935">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref428">299</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Of mirth the parent, though the child of art,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A stranger to myself in every part;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Each India has a native in my breast,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The West my sweetness, and my fire the East.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">While milder climes my virtue to complete,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Quicken my softness, and correct my heat;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My dearest friends upon my vitals prey,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And as they see me sinking, grow more gay.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref936">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref429">300. A FLIGHT OF FANCY</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When my whole takes a flight in the air you will find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That my next is not left a great distance behind;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But join them together, and plain to your view<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It all is as firm and as tight as a screw.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref937">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref430">301</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To three-fourths of a cross, add a circle complete;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then, let two semi-circles a perpendicular meet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Next, add a triangle that stands on two feet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then, two semi-circles, and a circle complete.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref938">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page172">[172]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref431">302. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Leader of Vandals and of vice<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My head is reckoned;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A Turkish captain will suffice<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To be my second.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third is firm if well selected;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole a wanderer neglected.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref939">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref432">303</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">One thousand, two hundred,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Nothing, and one,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Transposed, give a word<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Expressive of fun.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref940">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref433">304. A CHARADE<br /> -By Praed</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> was creeping on his way<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Through the mists of a dull October day,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When a minstrel came to its muddy bed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With a harp on his shoulder, a wreath on his head;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“And how shall I reach,” the poor boy cried,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“To the courts and the cloisters on t’other side?”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Old Euclid came, and he frown’d a frown,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And he dash’d the harp and the garland down;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then he led the bard, with a stately march,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">O’er my <i>second’s</i> long and cellar’d arch;—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“And see,” said the sage, “how every ass<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Over the sacred stream must pass!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The youth was mournful, the youth was mute,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He sigh’d for his laurel, he sobb’d for his lute;—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The youth took comfort, the youth took snuff,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And follow’d the lead of that teacher gruff;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And he sits, ever since, in my <i>whole’s</i> kind lap,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In a silken gown and a trencher cap.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref941">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page173">[173]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref434">305</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Upright and honest is my <i>first</i>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>second</i> you may see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Upon the frozen lake or stream;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>whole</i> is equity.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref942">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref435">306</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Never wearied, see us stand,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A glittering and a stately band—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Of sturdy stuff, but graceful form,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In summer cold, in winter warm;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">From hottest duty never swerving,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Night and day our place preserving;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Each serving to a different use,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Not to be changed without abuse.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And, pray, mark well another fact—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In unison we never act,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Except, as on occasion dread,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">We watch the ashes of the dead;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When we are ranged, as you may see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">As awful sentries, one, two, three.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref943">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref436">307. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, though naught, with others is a fruit,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next is vital to both man and brute.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It should be dear to all who hate the devil,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For it is ever the reverse of evil.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My all, when whole, is eloquent of peace,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Divided it invokes to life that will not cease.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref944">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref437">308. A CHARADE<br /> -<i>In English Sapphics</i></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Guess at my first, ’tis easy to discover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Covered with rings, and whiskered like a dandy.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Wrapped up in furs, ’tis often on the housetop,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Oft in the chimney!<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page174">[174]</span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">See where my second, scorning to be hidden,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Stands at the head of quite a band of others,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like a virago, straddling with feet apart,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">And arms akimbo.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Surely my next is happy in its office,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Parting the lovelocks on Neæra’s forehead;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Setting the golden lines wherewith she angles<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">For the unwary.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If by my whole at any time you pass, you<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Tread on the dust of holy saints and martyrs,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Holy the place, may holy thoughts attend you,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Peacefully dreaming!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref945">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref438">309</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Offspring of nature and of art, I stand<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Chief ’midst the monuments of every land;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I may not lengthen life, but I<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For centuries forbid to die.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The greatest truth in me you meet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is but deception most complete.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Unchanged I last the changing crowds among,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And as I older grow, I grow too young.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref946">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref439">310</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Pronounced as one letter, and written with three,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Two letters there are, and two only in me;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and gray,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m read from both ends, and the same either way.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref947">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page175">[175]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref440">311</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> is false as false can be;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>next</i> old ladies wear;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole’s</i> my <i>first</i>, as you will see,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">As false, I do declare.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref948">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref441">312. SHUFFLED LETTERS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When whole I am indeed a thing<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To puzzle you a bit;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though parts of me are hard, at Bridge<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The others make a hit;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or you may make a car of some,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And fix a head to it.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref949">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref442">313. FIVE VOWELS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A word of nine letters explains<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">How to mitigate bodily pains;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">The five vowels are there,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">And four consonants share<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">This function for medical brains.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref950">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref443">314. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My second guides my first and third<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For pleasure, trade, and war;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first and second by my third<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Are oft transported far.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But when my first my third doth pull,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">’Tis then his lot is worst;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And should my second lack my whole,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">He’s apt to leave my first.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref951">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref444">315. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<p>It is a <span class="dotforblank">......</span> fact that neither <span class="dotforblank">......</span> -nor <span class="dotforblank">......</span> grow <span class="dotforblank">..</span> -<span class="dotforblank">....</span>.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref952">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page176">[176]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref445">316. THE BONES OF A PALINDROME</h3> - -<p class="centerline"><span class="gesp4">DRWNDRRDNWRD</span>.</p> - -<p>Insert the missing letters, and so form a -perfect palindrome, which reads alike from either -end.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref953">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref446">317</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The schoolboy likes me well,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For healthful sport I bring,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet I can harm create,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though such a little thing:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Connubial bliss is form’d by me;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My nature is equality.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref954">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref447">318. A RIDDLE</h3> - -<div class="centerblock"><p>What person’s name is doubly evil?<br /> -The answer may be given in a line that rhymes.</p> -</div> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref955">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref448">319</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent4">I’m a district near London;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">If made wrong, I come undone;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">O’er sweet strings I swift run,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Or appear with the bright sun,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And though by me fights were won,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">I can greet you every one.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref956">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref449">320. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am my first when seen with you,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My next is always bad.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A rogue in grain much harm may do<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And make the farmer mad.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref957">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page177">[177]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref450">321. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When winter comes with frost and cold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is welcome, as of old;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And though its grip may make you thinner,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It helps to cook your Christmas dinner.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Let me but hear my next rejoice<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">At early dawn with cheerful voice,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I haste to find, with eager pleasure,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Some specimen of hidden treasure.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A traveller my whole may find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Far from his English kith and kind;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though some at home, to England’s shame,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Are this in fact, if not in name.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref958">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref451">322.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">It was to-morrow, and<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">It will be yesterday;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Now it is near at hand<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">What is it? Who can say?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref959">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref452">323. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first doth fill with light his father’s eyes,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The second shadows all the mother’s brow;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole all men, all women, girls and boys,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Have had, and long to lose, and lost for ever now;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But know not, nor can know, when it was lost, and how.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref960">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref453">324. ON THE BLOCK</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Complete, though not of human race,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A soul in me may dwell;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead, I held a higher place,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Until, like man, I fell.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page178">[178]</span></p> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Again behead, and in the song<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of Burns I’m all your own;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead once more, it would be wrong<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To find me out when known.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref961">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref454">325. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">With head good for naught,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And with tail always drunk,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You know well what to say<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of the worth of my trunk.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">First cut off my tail,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I am Greek, and I’m not;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then cut off my head,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And some Latin you’ve got.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Lopping both you know best<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">What remains, as I said,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For I really am you<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">If I lose tail and head!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref962">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref455">326. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">One guiding eye I need<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In running through the gaps;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My tail, as on I speed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is caught in many traps.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref963">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref456">327. A CHESS CHARADE<br /> -By H. J. C. Andrews</h3> - -<p>In the ’seventies no one was more popular -at Simpson’s Chess Room in the Strand than -the gentle and brilliant subject of these lines, -a clever water-colourist. The charade is by -his friend, the well-known problem composer. -Both have passed away, but they are not -forgotten by those who had the happiness to -know <span class="nowrap">them:—</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page179">[179]</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Of all the birds that ever sought a mate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is to but one appropriate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So speak the word! nor silence shyly woo.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To find my next, go! wander in the Zoo!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is a magician of the squares,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But Art, with Chess, his best affections shares,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So this, indeed, to him may be a law<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When <i>winning</i>’s hopeless, grandly still to <i>draw</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref964">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref457">328. WHAT AM I?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though poor and humble was my birth<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I sit enthroned on high;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My footsteps far above the earth,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My canopy the sky.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">O’er toiling subjects thus in state<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I bear despotic sway;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet on them hand and foot I wait<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">At break and close of day.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref965">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref458">329.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am not of flesh and blood,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Yet have I many a bone;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No limbs, except one leg,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And can’t stand on that alone.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My friends are many, and dwell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In all lands of the human race;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But they poke my poor nose into the mud,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And shamefully spatter my face.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Thrust me into each other’s ribs,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Stick me in gutter and rut;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I have never a window, and never a door,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Yet I often open and shut.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref966">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page180">[180]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref459">330. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Before the crown descended on<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The head of England’s Queen,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Four Kings upon that royal throne<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of the same name had been.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Now if the signs which marked their name<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Be joined unto a beast,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">We have a food on which the same<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">(A quadruped) will feast.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref967">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref460">331. AN OLD ENIGMA<br /> -By <i>Charles James Fox</i></h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am pretty, and useful in various ways,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though I tempt some poor mortals to shorten their days;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me, and then in my place will appear<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What youngsters admire every day in the year;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me once more, and without any doubt,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You must be what is left if you don’t find it out.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref968">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref461">332. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, when skilfully performed<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">(Its doer by applauses warmed),<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Bespeaks both skill and vigour.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When with my whole, so soft and light,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I saw my second gay bedight,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">She made a splendid figure.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref969">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref462">333. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The man who <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> the common -<span class="dotforblank">.....</span><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Above the <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> chaste,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dotforblank start">.....</span> as he may, the world declares<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is not a man of taste.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And though my sympathy he shares,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">No <span class="dotforblank">.....</span> on him I waste!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref970">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page181">[181]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref463">334. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Endangered the peace of his soul,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To atone for my second my first he repeated<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Quite ten times a day on my whole.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref971">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref464">335. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">An insect small and fell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Makes a weird sound,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If, as its name you spell,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">You turn it round.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">One letter cast, and still<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Shift what remains,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Another insect will<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Reward your pains.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref972">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref465">336. A DECAPITATION</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Where head and body duly meet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I am as slender as a bee;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whether I stand on head or feet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My figure shows its symmetry.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">But when my head is cut away<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The metamorphosis is strange;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though both of them unaltered stay,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Body and head to nothing change.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref973">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref466">337. A NUT TO CRACK</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">First is in coast, second in ghost,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Third must be reckoned part of second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Fourth in boat, fifth in float,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Sixth you will find within your mind.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Seventh in blue, eighth in true,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">These letters tell a fruit that they spell.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref974">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page182">[182]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref467">338.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The hunter and his steed are known<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">My first to see.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though men may call my next a stone,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Wood it may be.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, an exile from his home,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is doomed from place to place to roam.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref975">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref468">339. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first expresses power to do,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My next that it is done.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To be my whole belongs to few,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And perfectly to none.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref976">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref469">340. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In my first, as in a shell,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All the sweetest sounds may dwell;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In my second, shells abound<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That can catch no sort of sound;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In my whole securely rest<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Those who neither jeer nor jest.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref977">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref470">341. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, though of the feathered kind<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is never known to fly;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next all who improve their mind<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Seize as it passes by.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole may much occasion find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To make the truthful lie.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref978">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref471">342. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Divide a piece of beef or pork<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Without the aid of knife and fork;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Where you may set this if you will.<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page183">[183]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">Strike off instead the end, its place<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is plain as nose upon your face.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut this asunder in your mind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And what is first put now behind;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Part of our foot you thus discover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And in a measure all is over.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref979">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref472">343. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Seen as a whole, my form is now<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Akin to strife and malice;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Split, it may grace a princely brow,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or crown the curls of Alice.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Recast my letters, and I tell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That nourishment is lacking;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Stir them afresh until they spell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The needle’s help in tacking.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref980">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref473">344. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If I write with my first in my second<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole you can never find out;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Add a letter, and all will be reckoned<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A patron of water devout.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref981">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref474">345. WHAT DID THE COLONEL SAY?</h3> - -<p>After officers’ mess, when cigars were well -alight, the old conundrum was propounded, -“What is most like a cornet of horse?” A -sharp sub. was ready with the reply, “A -hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by -this variant which occurred to a married captain, -“a corset of horn”; and yet another reading -was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How -much did you say the <span class="dotforblank">..............</span>” -Can you complete this?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref982">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page184">[184]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref475">346. WHERE WAS IT?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Loss of love between us<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Never can be nice;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet we live where Venus<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Changes us to ice.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref983">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref476">347. A LOVER TO HIS LASS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Tell me, my sweet,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Why are your feet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Like fairy tales?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref984">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref477">348. MISSING WORDS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Our parson <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> every man who has leisure<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To study <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> windows, the glory of fanes;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> of devoting his income to pleasure,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Our <span class="dotforblank">.......</span> old dean spends his money on panes.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref985">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref478">349. AN EASY ONE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though much attached to merriment,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or crime for a variety,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To prison I am never sent,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But sparkle in society.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref986">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref479">350. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Without my first and second’s aid<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No pudding worth its sauce is made.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take on my third, my fourth I am,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fifth includes myself and Sam.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And shows him as an unheroic hero.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref987">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref480">351. BURIED PLACES</h3> - -<p>What geographical names are buried in these -lines?</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>He has my R. N. as a monogram<br /> -I am her stupid sister.<br /> -The calmest man is sometimes made irate.</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref988">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page185">[185]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref481">352.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first’s a fruit of foreign clime,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Sweet to the taste, in price not dear;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second does my first produce,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And yet my whole my first doth bear.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref989">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref482">353. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My firm embrace is harbinger of death;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Complete and perfected in every part;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Crush me to-day with all-determined care,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref990">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref483">354. AN ENIGMA</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Six letters in my name are found,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though only three we see and sound;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The shepherd by the running river<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">May hear me where the rushes quiver;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And should a stroke my whole divide,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Leaving but half on either side,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">These, backward read, will surely tell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What many a toper loves too well.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref991">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref484">355. A RIDDLE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Upon a battle-field of learned men<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Hundred and fifty were by none divided.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of ten<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref992">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref485">356.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though the stations of mortals are many<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And the <i>last</i> is the head of his race;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet he, just as often as any,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is won by my <i>first’s</i> fell embrace;<br /></span> -<span class="pagenum" id="Page186">[186]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet we most of us apt are to fall,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">When our heads cease our hearts to control,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Let us hope that not one of us all<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">May be e’er in the state of my <i>whole</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref993">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref486">357. WHAT IS IT?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is no matter,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And light as the air,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet it is good on the platter,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And excellent fare.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Curtail and transpose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And a lady you see,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Who will flatter and pose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And with many do me.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref994">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref487">358. WHAT IS IT?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, for ages out of mind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All men have always worn behind;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And yet alike by sea and land<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">They carry it upon their hand.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second, carefully matured,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is never ill but often cured.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, within unchanging lines<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Black men and white alike confines.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref995">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref488">359. WHAT IS THIS?</h3> - -<p class="centerline">“We westand fall.”</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref996">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref489">360. A CHARADE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My second is pressed tightly round<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To guard from any ill;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And when preparing to engage,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Men find it useful still.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first against attraction set<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Will neutralise its power;<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page187">[187]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">Aided by it, with bargains, some<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">May spend a happy hour.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You find my whole by careful search<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Which must not be forsaken;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It stands before what comes beyond,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Which may from it be taken.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref997">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref490">361. A GOOD ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>George Thompson, the zealous anti-slavery -advocate, was asked to go into Parliament, the -better to press his point and cause. When he -hesitated a friend produced, as a conclusive -reason, this anagram, spelt with the letters of -his name—“O go, the negro’s M.P.!”</p> - -<h3 id="Ref491">362. WHAT AM I?</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Scorned by the meek and humble mind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And often by the vain possessed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I give the troubled spirit rest.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref998">Solution</a></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page188">[188]</span></p> - -<h2>ODDS AND ENDS</h2> - -</div><!--chapter--> - -<h3 id="Ref492">1. A SUM WITHOUT FIGURES</h3> - -<p>Here is a long-division sum without <span class="nowrap">figures:—</span></p> - -<table class="division" summary="Division"> - -<tr> -<td>U</td> -<td>G</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>)</td> -<td>G</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>V</td> -<td>P</td> -<td>P</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>(</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>P</td> -<td>O</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -<td class="bb">G</td> -<td class="bb">V</td> -<td class="bb">N</td> -<td class="bb">I</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -<td>D</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>P</td> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="bb">U</td> -<td class="bb">G</td> -<td class="bb">I</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td>N</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>N</td> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="bb">N</td> -<td class="bb">E</td> -<td class="bb">O</td> -<td class="bb">T</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td>D</td> -<td>U</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>O</td> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td class="bb2">D</td> -<td class="bb2">U</td> -<td class="bb2">D</td> -<td class="bb2">O</td> -<td class="bb2"> </td> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1071">Image</a></p> - -<p>These letters form a sentence of three -words <span class="dotforblank">....</span> <span class="dotforblank">....</span> -<span class="dotforblank">..</span>, and represent the -figures 1234 5678 90; the puzzle is to discover -this key sentence, by working out the sum in -the corresponding figures.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref999">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref493">2. A DAY’S SPORT</h3> - -<p>At the invitation of a farmer in the country -I went out with my gun for a day’s shooting -on his farm. “What sport had you?” said -a friend afterwards at the Club. “I shot only -birds and rabbits,” was my reply, “and the bag -showed 36 heads and 100 feet.” How many -birds were there, and how many bunnies?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1000">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page189">[189]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref494">3. THE SQUAREST WORD</h3> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">F</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">F</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1072">Image</a></p> - -<p>How many distinct readings of these four -words can you find, taking their letters in any -“go as you please” direction, without jumping -over any letter?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1001">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref495">4. A CROSS PURPOSE</h3> - -<p>Can our readers rearrange these letters in the -form of a similar cross, so that they form two -words familiar to us all?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Cross"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="3" colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td rowspan="3" colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="4" colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td rowspan="4" colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">V</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1073">Image</a></p> - -<p>One of the letters, to be placed where the -lower E now stands, is common to both words.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1002">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref496">5.</h3> - -<p>“Take this sovereign, my boy,” said a man -to his son who had a turn for arithmetic, “and -buy for yourself and for your three sisters the -best present possible for each, of different -values, expending in each case an aliquot part -of the pound, that is to say, a fraction of it -whose numerator is one. If there is any change -you can give it to the Fresh Air Fund.” How -was this commission carried out?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1003">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page190">[190]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref497">6. A WORD SQUARE</h3> - -<p>Can you complete this word-square?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1074">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1004">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref498">7. VERBAL ARITHMETIC</h3> - -<p>First find a word that is spelt with the ten -letters above the line, and number its letters -consecutively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Sum"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="5" class="bb"> </td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">P</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bb">B</td> -<td class="cell bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1075">Image</a></p> - -<p>Substitute the corresponding figures for the -letters, and then work out the addition sum -which they represent.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1005">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref499">8. A WORD SQUARE</h3> - -<p>Can you complete this word square?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1076">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1006">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page191">[191]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref500">9.</h3> - -<p>Take the twelve first prime numbers, 1, 2, -3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, which have -no factors but themselves and unity, and write -down the value of their product, using no -figures but 0, 1, 2, and 3, and of these using -2 and 3 only once.</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1007">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref501">10. AT THE WASH</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Six collars seven cuffs there be<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When pence we charge you thirty-three;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Seven collars and six cuffs to do<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The charge is only thirty-two;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The work is good and up-to-date,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So figure out in pence the rate.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1008">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref502">11. GAPS TO FILL</h3> - -<p>Can you complete this word square?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">W</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">.</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1077">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1009">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref503">12. IS IT POSSIBLE?</h3> - -<p>Fill a wineglass with water to the brim, and -set it on the corner of a table-napkin, which -should be in immediate contact with the -polished surface of a table, allowing the rest of -the napkin to fall over the edge. Can you -remove the napkin without touching the glass or -spilling any of the water?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1010">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page192">[192]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref504">13. A NICE CALCULATION</h3> - -<p>My third and fourth are a quarter of my first -and second; my fourth is half of them, and my -third is half. What am I?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1011">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref505">14. FOR THE CHILDREN</h3> - -<p>A London firm, having sent an order by -telegram to a manufacturer in Paris for 480 sets -of Diabolo, received to their amazement a huge -consignment of 6336 sets. How did this mistake -arise?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1012">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref506">15. A WINTER VALENTINE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Thy heart is like some icy lake<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">On whose cold brink I stand;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">On my sore plight sweet pity take,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And lead me by the hand.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then buckle on my spirit’s skate<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Where all the ice is thin,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That it may break beneath my weight,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And let a lover in!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<h3 id="Ref507">16. A QUESTION OF AGES</h3> - -<p>“My husband’s age,” said Mrs Evergreen, -“is represented by the figures of my age -reversed. He is older than I am, and the -difference between our ages is one-eleventh of -their sum.” What were their respective ages?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1013">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page193">[193]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref508">17. MISSING FIGURES</h3> - -<p>Can you complete this multiplication sum?</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Sum"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell">4</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3" class="bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">3</td> -<td class="cell bb">*</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell">3</td> -<td class="cell">6</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bb">*</td> -<td class="cell bb">*</td> -<td class="cell bb">7</td> -<td class="cell bb">*</td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">3</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1078">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1014">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref509">18. STRANGE ADDITION</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Add 3 to 10, and then divide<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Till 8 the sum has satisfied.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1015">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref510">19. BEDDING OUT</h3> - -<p>I bought less than 100 plants for my new -rosery, and found that if I set them 3 in a row -there would be one over; if 4 in a row there -would be two over; if 5 in a row, three over; -and if 6 in a row, four over. How many rose -trees did I buy?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1016">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref511">20.</h3> - -<p>Can you arrange three nines so that they -represent exactly 20?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1017">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref512">21.</h3> - -<p>A house has nine windows on its front. How -many signals can be given by merely leaving -one or more of them open?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1018">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page194">[194]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref513">22. ON MY BIRTHDAY<br /> -(By Sir John Evans)</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“Reader, whether man or woman,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Write my age in figures Roman.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first divided by my second<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Will make my third, if rightly reckoned;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Ten times the whole, and then you see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My university degree.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1019">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref514">23. MOSAIC VERSE</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The heath this night must be my bed, (Scott)<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Ye vales, ye streams, ye groves, adieu! (Pope)<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Farewell for aye; e’en love is dead; (Proctor)<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Would I could add remembrance too! (Byron)<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1020">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref515">24. SIGNS AND SEASONS</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The springs spring forth in spring, and shoots<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Shoot forward one and all;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though summer kills the flowers, it leaves<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The leaves to fall in fall!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<h3 id="Ref516">25. THE TEN DIGITS</h3> - -<p>This arrangement of the digits represents 20, -one being a whole number, the others a -<span class="nowrap">fraction:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">6<span class="horsplit sml"><span class="top">13258</span> -<span class="bot">947</span></span> = 20</p> - -<h3 id="Ref517">26. CHRONOGRAM</h3> - -<p>The battle of Montl’héry was fought in 1465. -Its date can be committed to memory in the -sentence which might have been a battle-cry—“A -cheval, à cheval, gendarmes, à cheval!” -For it is arrived at by the addition of the -Roman numerals which this contains, <span class="nowrap">thus:—</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page195">[195]</span></p> - -<table summary="Chronogram"> - -<tr> -<td class="center">C</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">100</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">V</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">5</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">L</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">C</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">100</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">V</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">5</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">L</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">M</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">1000</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">C</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">100</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">V</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">5</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">L</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right bb">50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center">Total</td> -<td class="padl3 padr3">=</td> -<td class="right">1465</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<h3 id="Ref518">27. A TOUR DE FORCE</h3> - -<p>In this most remarkable sentence of only -twenty-eight letters, every letter of the alphabet -is <span class="nowrap">used—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">IF JACK QUIZ BALD NYMPHS GROW VEXT.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref519">28. AN OLD TALE OF A TUB</h3> - -<p>Tom Hood, seeing over the door of a public-house -BEAR SOLD HERE, said that it was -rightly spelt if it was the landlord’s <i>own bruin</i>!</p> - -<h3 id="Ref520">29. ALL THE ALPHABET</h3> - -<p>Here is an ingenious rhyming couplet of only -33 letters, in which every letter of the alphabet -is <span class="nowrap">used—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Quick! go on, Jim! why<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Stop lazy fox? Drive by!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page196">[196]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref521">30. AN IMPERIAL ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>A sa Majesté impériale le Tsar Nicolas, -souverain et autocrate de toutes les Russies.</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">The same letters exactly <span class="nowrap">spell—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">O, ta vanité sera ta perte. O, elle isole la -Russie; tes successeurs te maudiront à jamais!</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">This most remarkable anagram was published -in the early days of the Crimean war.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref522">31. A FOURFOLD ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p class="centerline">“Notes and Queries.”</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p><i>A question sender.</i><br /> -<i>Enquires on dates.</i><br /> -<i>Reasoned inquest.</i><br /> -<i>I send on a request.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<h3 id="Ref523">32. A GOOD ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>The name of John Abernethy, a very brusque -doctor of bygone days, lends itself to this most -apposite anagram—<i>Johnny the bear!</i></p> - -<h3 id="Ref524">33. TWO EXCELLENT ANAGRAMS<br /> -(After the Irish famine.)</h3> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>Duchess of Marlborough.<br /> -<i>She labours much for God.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="centerline">Or,</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>The Duchess of Marlborough.<br /> -<i>Lo, she sought much for bread.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<h3 id="Ref525">34. “ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE”</h3> - -<p>French guest to his host after a big <span class="nowrap">shoot:—</span></p> - -<p>“How many braces have you to your bags?”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page197">[197]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref526">35. A PRIZE ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>It would be difficult to find a more ingenious -and appropriate anagram than this, which took -a prize in “Truth” in 1902, and connects the -King’s recovery with the Coronation.</p> - -<p>The sentence set <span class="nowrap">was—</span></p> - -<p>“God save our newly crowned King and -Queen! Long life to Edward and Alexandra!”</p> - -<p>The letters of this were recast <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p>Can we wonder an anxious devoted England -followed drear danger quakingly?</p> - -<h3 id="Ref527">36. A PRIZE ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>“Truth” offered a prize for the best anagram -on the sentence—“‘Truth’ Toy and Doll Fund, -Christmas, nineteen hundred and seven.” The -winning anagram, by the Editor of these pages, -was, “A sunny tender mind understands that the -children do love fun!”</p> - -<h3 id="Ref528">37. TAKE CARE OF THE PENCE</h3> - -<p>In a moment of economy I told my wife that -I would put by a farthing the first week of the -New Year, a halfpenny the second week, a penny -the third, and so on, doubling the sum each -week to the end of the year. She had a turn -for figures, and staggered me by showing that I -should have to provide £4,691,249,611,844, 5s. -3<sup>3</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub>d. to carry out my plan!</p> - -<h3 id="Ref529">38</h3> - -<p>Now that Ellen Terry has written “The -Story of My Life,” this anagram has a special -<span class="nowrap">interest:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">LYCEUM THEATRE, STRAND.<br /> -<i>Teach and melt us, Terry!</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page198">[198]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref530">38a. RING OUT, WILD BELLS!</h3> - -<p>More startling than the well-known calculation -of payment by continuously doubling the farthing -given for the first nail in a horse’s shoe, is -the fact that the possible changes on a peal of -24 bells would not be exhausted if every minute -of 4000 years were prolonged to a period of -10,000 years!</p> - -<h3 id="Ref531">39. A SCHOLAR AT PLAY</h3> - -<p>Erasmus himself was responsible in one of -his lighter moments for the following ingenious -play upon his <span class="nowrap">name:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">Quæritur unde mihi sit nomen Erasmus, <i>eras mus</i>;<br /> -Si <i>sum mus</i> ego, te judice, <i>summus</i> ero!</p> - -<h3 id="Ref532">40. QUITE AN EYESORE!</h3> - -<p>“Well!” cried an agitated carpenter to his -mate, “of all the saws that I ever saw saw, I -never saw a saw saw as this saw saws!”</p> - -<h3 id="Ref533">41. THE PUNSTER’S LAMENT</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If I be duly punished<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For every foolish pun I shed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I shall not find one puny shed<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In which to hide my punnish head!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<h3 id="Ref534">42. A GOOD ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p class="centerline">CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER.</p> - -<p>The same letters recast <span class="nowrap">spell—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline"><i>If so, man, refuse poison at once!</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page199">[199]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref535">43. A TOUR DE FORCE</h3> - -<p>The following curiosity, constructed some years -ago for prize purposes by the Editor, shows how, -in word or letter juggling, difficulties can be -<span class="nowrap">overcome:—</span></p> - -<p>A sentence in which each letter of the alphabet -is used exactly twice:</p> - -<p>“XLV gruff nymphs jerk XLV jaws,” quoth -wag B. Dick, Q.C., to Ben Dizzy, M.P.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref536">44. THE MISSING LINK</h3> - -<p>If anagrams count, our “ancestor” was not a -monkey but a <i>Norse cat</i>!</p> - -<h3 id="Ref537">45. A STRIKING ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>The name of Randle Holmes, author of a -notable book on heraldry, was so recast that it -formed the words: “Lo, men’s herald!”</p> - -<h3 id="Ref538">46. A CURIOUS PALINDROME</h3> - -<p class="centerline">Dog as a devil deified lived as a god.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref539">47. AFTER THE EVENT<br /> -<i>An Anagram.</i></h3> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>The Oxford and Cambridge annual Boat-race.<br /> -<i>Cantab blue had raced in an extra good form.</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<h3 id="Ref540">48. TO FIND THE GOLD</h3> - -<p>Tell a person who holds a sovereign in one -hand and a shilling in the other to reckon 4 for -the gold, and 3 for the silver. Then bid him -triple what is in the right hand, and double -what is in the left, and give you the added -product. If this is an <i>even</i> number the gold is -in the right hand, if <i>odd</i> it is in the left.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page200">[200]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref541">49. A MUSICAL ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p class="centerline"><span class="smcap">Adelina Patti.</span><br /> -<i>Adept Italian.</i></p> - -<h3 id="Ref542">50. A HAPPY THOUGHT</h3> - -<p>Sir Charles Napier’s witty despatch, “Peccavi!” -“I have Scinde!” is familiar to us. Not so well -known is the happy phrase attributed to Sir -Colin Campbell, “Nunc sum fortunatus!” “I -am in Lucknow!”</p> - -<h3 id="Ref543">51. A CLEVER TRIPLE ANAGRAM</h3> - -<p>Owen, the Welsh epigrammatist, composed -this very clever Latin <span class="nowrap">line:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">In <i>verbis, ubi res</i> postulat, esto <i>brevis</i>.</p> - -<p class="hind04">(“In words, where the matter requires it, be -brief.”)</p> - -<p class="hind04">The words in italics are spelt with the same six -letters.</p> - -<h3 id="Ref544">52. CAN SUCH THINGS BE?</h3> - -<p>Take a long strip of paper, say 9 in. by 2 in., -which will have, of course, an upper and an under -surface and two edges along its length. How can -you arrange this strip, by quite a simple method -so that it will have only <i>one</i> surface and <i>one</i> -edge?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1020">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref545">53.</h3> - -<p>Can you divide nine into two parts which are -together equal to ten?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1021">Solution</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page201">[201]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref546">54. FOLDING A FLOCK</h3> - -<p>A shepherd had a flock of sheep in a fold -enclosed by 100 hurdles. His master made a -large purchase at the annual fair, and required -him to pen some pigs with 16 of the hurdles, and -to arrange the remainder so that they could -accommodate nine times as many sheep as the -100 hurdles had contained. How was this -possible?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1022">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref547">55. A NEAT TRICK</h3> - -<p>Here is a neat final trick, if you have some -reputation for sleight of hand. Place three -biscuits on the table in a row, and cover each of -them with a borrowed hat. Raise each hat in -turn, gravely eat the biscuit, and replace the -hat. Then undertake that the three biscuits -shall be under whichever hat is selected. How -can you contrive this?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1023">Solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref548">56. VERY SMALL CHANGE</h3> - -<p>In how many different ways can 7s. 3d. be paid -away in current coin of the realm, without ever -using exactly the same set of coins a second -time?</p> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1024">Solution</a></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page202">[202]</span></p> - -<h2>SOLUTIONS</h2> - -</div><!--chapter--> - -<h3 id="Ref549">FRONTISPIECE</h3> - -<p>The words which describe this picture can be -recast, letter for letter, into the perfect <span class="nowrap">anagram—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> - -<img src="images/illo210.jpg" alt="Frontispiece" /> - -<p class="caption">“Please, Mister Elephant, are you there?”</p> - -</div><!--container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref0">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page203">[203]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref550">No. IV.</h3> - -<p>It is said that there are 86 ways in which the -numbers in this model magic square can be added -up so that they make 34.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld"><b>4</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>15</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>14</b></td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><b>1</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><b>9</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>6</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>7</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><b>12</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><b>5</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>10</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>11</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><b>8</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld"><b>16</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>3</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>2</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><b>13</b></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1078a">Image</a></p> - -<p>It is not difficult to discover more than half -this number that are symmetrical, including, of -course, the 4 rows, 4 columns and 2 diagonals. -Here are a dozen samples, from which others can -be <span class="nowrap">seen—</span></p> - -<table class="dontwrap" summary="Solutions"> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">4,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">1,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">16,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">13.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">15,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">14,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">3,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">2.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">14,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">12,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">5,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">3.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">6,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">7,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">10,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">11.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">15,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">8,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">9,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">2.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">1,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">6,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">11,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">16.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">14,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">8,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">9,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">3.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">9,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">15,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">2,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">8.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">4,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">5,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">12,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">13.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">4,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">5,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">11,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">14.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">4,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">9,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">8,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">13.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">9,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">14,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">3,</td> -<td class="right padl1 padr1">8.</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref5">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page204">[204]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref551">No. VIII</h3> - -<p>Here is the completed magic <span class="nowrap">square—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld btd">216</td> -<td class="cell br bb btd">175</td> -<td class="cell br bb btd">224</td> -<td class="cell br bb btd">183</td> -<td class="cell br bb btd">232</td> -<td class="cell br bb btd">191</td> -<td class="cell br bb btd">240</td> -<td class="cell br bb btd">199</td> -<td class="cell brd bb btd">248</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">247</td> -<td class="cell br bb">215</td> -<td class="cell br bb">174</td> -<td class="cell br bb">223</td> -<td class="cell br bb">182</td> -<td class="cell br bb">231</td> -<td class="cell br bb">190</td> -<td class="cell br bb">239</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">207</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">206</td> -<td class="cell br bb">246</td> -<td class="cell br bb">214</td> -<td class="cell br bb">173</td> -<td class="cell br bb">222</td> -<td class="cell br bb">181</td> -<td class="cell br bb">230</td> -<td class="cell br bb">198</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">238</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">237</td> -<td class="cell br bb">205</td> -<td class="cell br bb">245</td> -<td class="cell br bb">213</td> -<td class="cell br bb">172</td> -<td class="cell br bb">221</td> -<td class="cell br bb">189</td> -<td class="cell br bb">229</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">197</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">196</td> -<td class="cell br bb">236</td> -<td class="cell br bb">204</td> -<td class="cell br bb">244</td> -<td class="cell br bb">212</td> -<td class="cell br bb">180</td> -<td class="cell br bb">220</td> -<td class="cell br bb">188</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">228</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">227</td> -<td class="cell br bb">195</td> -<td class="cell br bb">235</td> -<td class="cell br bb">203</td> -<td class="cell br bb">252</td> -<td class="cell br bb">211</td> -<td class="cell br bb">179</td> -<td class="cell br bb">219</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">187</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">186</td> -<td class="cell br bb">226</td> -<td class="cell br bb">194</td> -<td class="cell br bb">243</td> -<td class="cell br bb">202</td> -<td class="cell br bb">251</td> -<td class="cell br bb">210</td> -<td class="cell br bb">178</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">218</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">217</td> -<td class="cell br bb">185</td> -<td class="cell br bb">234</td> -<td class="cell br bb">193</td> -<td class="cell br bb">242</td> -<td class="cell br bb">201</td> -<td class="cell br bb">250</td> -<td class="cell br bb">209</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">177</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">176</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">225</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">184</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">233</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">192</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">241</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">200</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">249</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">208</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1079">Image</a></p> - -<p>Every row, column and diagonal adds up to -exactly 1908.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref13">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page205">[205]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref552">No. IX</h3> - -<p>This up-to-date magic square adds up to 1908 -in quite 56 different symmetrical ways.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic diamond"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">469</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">484</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">472</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">483</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">481</td> -<td class="cell br bb">474</td> -<td class="cell br bb">478</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">475</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">482</td> -<td class="cell br bb">471</td> -<td class="cell br bb">485</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">470</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">476</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">479</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">473</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">480</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1079a">Image</a></p> - -<p>Here are 44 of <span class="nowrap">them—</span></p> - -<table class="standard" summary="Possibilties"> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">Rows</td> -<td class="number">4</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">Columns</td> -<td class="number">4</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">Diagonals</td> -<td class="number">2</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">The corners</td> -<td class="number">1</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">Corners of squares of 9 cells</td> -<td class="number">4</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">Squares of 4 cells</td> -<td class="number">9</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">Opposite pairs of outside cells</td> -<td class="number">6</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">Opposite pairs of short diagonals</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">Such combinations as 469, 481, 485, 473</td> -<td class="number">8</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4">Such combinations as 482, 484, 472, 470</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="text padr4"><span class="padl8">Total</span></td> -<td class="number">44</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p>There are a dozen other ways, more or less -symmetrical, such as 481, 474, 483, 470; or 474, -485, 470, 479.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref14">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page206">[206]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref553">No. X</h3> - -<p>This is the rearrangement of the domino magic -<span class="nowrap">square—</span></p> - -<table class="dominoes" summary="Dominoes"> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="19"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="19"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="19"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="19"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bb bl">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="br bb">●</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1080">Image</a></p> - -<p>The three-ace, which was a corner stone in -the former diagram now occupies the centre, and -the rearrangement was effected by first transferring -the two bottom rows to the top, and then -the fourth and fifth columns to the extreme left. -This method of shifting the stones does not affect -the magic quality of the square.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref15">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page207">[207]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref554">No. XI</h3> - -<p>The affinity between chess and numbers is -well illustrated by the Knight’s tour on this -<span class="nowrap">diagram—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo215.png" alt="Chess board" /> -</div> - -<p>The Knight starts from the square marked 1, -and returns at last to it. The constant difference -between any opposite and corresponding numbers -in cells that are equidistant from the centre -is 18.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref17">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page208">[208]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref555">No. XII</h3> - -<p>Here are the cells in the diagram of our Numbers -Patience, so filled in that each of the rows across -from side to side adds up exactly to 143.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">17</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">30</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">41</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">31</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">24</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">18</td> -<td class="cell br bb">32</td> -<td class="cell br bb">13</td> -<td class="cell br bb">46</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">34</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">11</td> -<td class="cell br bb">12</td> -<td class="cell br bb">14</td> -<td class="cell br bb">50</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">56</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">51</td> -<td class="cell br bb">19</td> -<td class="cell br bb">42</td> -<td class="cell br bb">16</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">22</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">21</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">35</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">45</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">20</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1080a">Image</a></p> - -<p>Each cell contains, in accordance with the -conditions, a different number.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref19">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page209">[209]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref556">No. XIII</h3> - -<p>This is the division of a square into fifteen parts, -which will form the <span class="nowrap">windmill:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo217.png" alt="Pieces" /> -</div> - -<p>This puzzle may, of course, be reversed, the -parts of the square being given, and the solver -asked to form with them a symmetrical windmill.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref20">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page210">[210]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref557">No. XIV</h3> - -<p>In this nest of 49 squares it is possible to -count 784 distinct interlacing figures, whose -opposite sides are equal, and whose angles are -all right angles.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1080b">Image</a></p> - -<p>Of these 784 rectangles 140 are squares.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref22">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page211">[211]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref558">No. XV</h3> - -<p>This is the domino magic square, in which all -the stones are used except double-six, double-five -and six-five.</p> - -<table class="dominoes" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="19"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl">●</td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bt bl"> </td> -<td class="bt"> </td> -<td class="bt br"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td>●</td> -<td class="br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="br"> </td> -</tr> - 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-<tr> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br"> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb"> </td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="bl bb">●</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td class="bb br">●</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1081">Image</a></p> - -<p>All rows, columns and diagonals add up to 27, -as do the stones in the four corner cells and the -four central border cells of the full square, and -of the square of nine cells in the middle.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref24">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page212">[212]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref559">No. XVI</h3> - -<p>Those to whom games of Patience appeal will -find an interesting and pretty form of it in the -construction of a pyramid with a complete set of -dominoes.</p> - 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-</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1082">Image</a></p> - -<p>Solvers may like to study the position given, -which is one of many that are possible, and to -discover for themselves the ruling conditions -which are its characteristics.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref25">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page213">[213]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref560">No. XVII</h3> - -<p>When the boy’s father came up just in time -to stop him from breaking out of bounds, and -said, “Never throw a leg, lad,”</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo221.jpg" alt="Boy" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">the rest of the sentence, spelt with <i>exactly the -same letters</i>, was “over the garden wall!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref28">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page214">[214]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref561">No. XVIII</h3> - -<p>“Catastrophe,” the title of the tragedy foreshadowed, -can be recast into “<i>A cat! stop her!</i>” -By similar process the words, “New parrot stand -in a house,” become “<i>He turns on a soda-water -tap!</i>”</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo222.jpg" alt="Pet fight" /> -</div> - -<p>The parrot’s ready resource and triumph is -depicted here with striking effect.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref29">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page215">[215]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref562">No. XIX</h3> - -<p>When the judge at a baby show said to the -mother of the small boy whose thumb was in his -mouth, “Your lad Tommy likes such tit-bits,” -the precocious child replied, as he removed his -comforting hand, in a sentence spelt with <i>exactly -the same letters</i>, “So to-day, sir, I suck my little -thumb.”</p> - -<div class="container w10em"> -<img src="images/illo223.jpg" alt="Baby" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref31">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page216">[216]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref563">No. XX</h3> - -<p>When the lady sitting at the back of this overloaded -wagonette said to her husband, “This big -load quite hinders his pull,” in her sympathy -with the struggling horse,</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo224.jpg" alt="Wagonette" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">he made this very practical reply, in a sentence -spelt with <i>exactly the same letters</i>: “Do sit quiet, -girl; I shall push behind!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref32">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page217">[217]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref564">No. XXI</h3> - -<p>When a bystander whispered to the marker, -“Eh! what a stout player is striking!”</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo225a.jpg" alt="Biljarts player" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">an appropriate reply, spelt with <i>exactly the same -letters</i>, would have been: “He plays without -taking a rest, sir.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref33">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref565">No. XXII</h3> - -<p>The two English words appropriate to this -<span class="nowrap">picture—</span></p> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo225b.jpg" alt="Transformation" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">which have as their anagrams “Or not a man -first,” and “O I love nuts!” are <i>Transformation -and Evolutions</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref35">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page218">[218]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref566">No. XXIII</h3> - -<p>This is a fancy portrait of <span class="nowrap">William—</span></p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo226.jpg" alt="Joker" /> -</div> - -<p>We decide by anagram whether this is <i>William -or dear Jack</i>, for these words, when recast, spell -“I am Will, a card joker!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref37">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page219">[219]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref567">No. XXIV</h3> - -<p>The word indicated by this picture in combination -with the lines below <span class="nowrap">it—</span></p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo227.jpg" alt="Stout lady" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Begin with the end of my first,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And then you will find out the rest;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For it all will appeal to your thirst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or point to a ponderous guest.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is <i>Stout</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref39">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page220">[220]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref568">No. XXV</h3> - -<p>The words of Jigger’s wife, when she said that -he seemed to be in a “sad pet,” were true by -anagram.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo228.jpg" alt="Biljarts player" /> -</div> - -<p>His ball hugs the cushion so closely as to be -completely <i>pasted</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref40">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page221">[221]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref569">No. XXVI</h3> - -<p>When, as they held on to the fractious cow, -the farmer exclaimed, “See, we hold this cow’s -horns and tail,”</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo229.jpg" alt="Milking time" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">his foreman, using exactly the same letters in -his sentence, <span class="nowrap">said—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“She cannot toss, her wild head is low.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref41">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page222">[222]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref570">No. XXVII</h3> - -<p>While the horse shown in this picture might -be saying, if it could speak, “I’m a train’d -<span class="nowrap">stepper!”—</span></p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo230.jpg" alt="Trained stepper" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">the driver, from his point of view, might say, as -he held him in check, “Spirit and a temper!” -making use in his words of <i>exactly the same letters</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref43">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page223">[223]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref571">No. XXVIII</h3> - -<p>When one onlooker, seeing the artist working -with his feet, <span class="nowrap">said—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“Why, now I see this fine artist has no hand!”</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo231.jpg" alt="Artist" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">the other replied, using exactly the same letters,</p> - -<p class="centerline">“He draws in any fashion with his ten toes!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref45">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page224">[224]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref572">No. XXIX</h3> - -<p>When her husband, showing this picture</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo232.jpg" alt="Fishing" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">said to his wife, “This is a wine bottle, dear, on -a lure,” she, knowing that temptation in this -form would fail, said, as she glanced at his illustration -of their aims, in words spelt with exactly -the same <span class="nowrap">letters:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“And see, he will not rise at our bait!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref46">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page225">[225]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref573">No. XXX</h3> - -<p>The sturdy musician, who had said, “What -shall I play?” to which some one replied, “Any -strains of Beethoven, he charms all!” as this -was not an acceptable suggestion, struck up a -piece after his own heart.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo233.jpg" alt="Cello player" /> -</div> - -<p>He said, as he struck the strings, in a sentence -composed of exactly the same letters—“Nay, for -this ’cello heaven sent a Brahms!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref47">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page226">[226]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref574">No. XXXI</h3> - -<p>Here is the picture of a parsnip lying across -a swede readjusted and reversed.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo234.jpg" alt="Adjusted vegetables" /> -</div> - -<p>We gave as a clue the <span class="nowrap">anagram—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“Here is our parsnip on swede.”</p> - -<p class="centerline">ANAGRAM</p> - -<p class="centerline"><i>Wise and superior person he!</i></p> - -<p class="noindent">but this is now hardly needed to show who is -thus represented in friendly caricature: (With -apologies to G. B. S.)</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref48">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page227">[227]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref575">No. XXXII</h3> - -<p>The letter puzzle is solved <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Magic square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1083">Image</a></p> - -<p>Within this square the word LEVEL runs in -twelve different directions, being itself a palindrome.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref49">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page228">[228]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref576">No. XXXIII</h3> - -<p>The sentence formed with the ten letters -above the line, which is the key to this sum, is -<i>Do your best</i>. If these letters are numbered consecutively -1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the -corresponding figures are substituted for the -letters, the sum works out as is shown in the -second <span class="nowrap">diagram—</span></p> - -<table class="sum33" summary="Coded sum"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="5"> </td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -<td rowspan="6"> </td> -<td rowspan="5"> </td> -<td class="cell">9</td> -<td class="cell">7</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">6</td> -<td class="cell">8</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">Y</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">3</td> -<td class="cell">1</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">4</td> -<td class="cell">0</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">5</td> -<td class="cell">2</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bbd">O</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">2</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">8</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">8</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1084">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref51">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page229">[229]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref577">No. XXXIV</h3> - -<p>The twelve names of flowers and foliage that -may be gathered within these borders, by moving -in any direction one square at a time,</p> - -<table class="flowersquare" summary="Flowers"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld"><sup>1</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>2</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>3</sup>B</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>4</sup>H</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>5</sup>P</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><sup>6</sup>E</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><sup>7</sup>F</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><sup>8</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>9</sup>Y</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>10</sup>E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>11</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>12</sup>O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>13</sup>R</td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><sup>14</sup>N</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><sup>15</sup>I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>16</sup>V</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>17</sup>B</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>18</sup>R</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>19</sup>I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>20</sup>V</td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><sup>21</sup>K</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"><sup>22</sup>A</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>23</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>24</sup>E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>25</sup>T</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>26</sup>O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"><sup>27</sup>N</td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><sup>28</sup>I</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld"><sup>29</sup>C</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>30</sup>N</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>31</sup>A</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>32</sup>S</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>33</sup>U</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><sup>34</sup>L</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><sup>35</sup>P</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1084a">Image</a></p> - -<p class="noindent">are 18, 26, 32, 24, <i>Rose</i>; 25, 33, 34, 28, 35, <i>Tulip</i>; -35, 28, 27, 21, <i>Pink</i>; 31, 32, 25, 24, 18, <i>Aster</i>; -and, in similar ways, <i>Verbena</i>; <i>Salvia</i>; <i>Ivy</i>; -<i>Lily</i>; <i>Lilac</i>; <i>Heliotrope</i>; <i>Fern</i>; and <i>Bell</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref52">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref578">No. XXXV</h3> - -<p>The solution of this little problem, set by Dr -Puzzlewitz on his blackboard to test the powers -of his young pupils—“What are the values of A -and B, when 4 is the result of dividing A by B, -or of subtracting B from <span class="nowrap">A?”—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Sums"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="4" class="cell bt2 bb2 bl2"> </td> -<td colspan="5" class="cell bt2"> </td> -<td rowspan="4" class="cell bt2 br2 bb2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">-</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -<td class="cell">=</td> -<td class="cell">4</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">÷</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -<td class="cell">=</td> -<td class="cell">4</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="5" class="cell bb2"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1084b">Image</a></p> - -<p>is that A = 5<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>3</sub> and B = 1<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>3</sub>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref54">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page230">[230]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref579">No. XXXVI</h3> - -<p>This is the diamond <span class="nowrap">squared:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Diamond"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"><span class="letter36">h</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">i</span></td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"><span class="letter36">h</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">i</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">n</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">t</span></td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt br bb bl"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">i</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">n</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">u</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">o</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">u</span></td> -<td class="cell bt br bb"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">t</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">o</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">r</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">m</span></td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">u</span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="letter36">m</span></td> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl"><span class="letter36">s</span></td> -<td colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1085">Image</a></p> - -<p class="noindent">in which the words read alike from top to bottom, -and from left to right.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref57">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page231">[231]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref580">No. XXXVII</h3> - -<p>This is the arrangement of the 32 letters in -the 64 <span class="nowrap">cells—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">I</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">O</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">A</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">O</td> -<td class="cell br bbd"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">I</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1086">Image</a></p> - -<p>No A is in the same column, row, or diagonal -with another A, no E with another E, no I with -another I, and no O with another O.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref59">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page232">[232]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref581">No. XXXVIII</h3> - -<p>This is the anagram square, with the letters, -which in the former diagram spelt the words -<i>vote</i>, <i>wove</i>, <i>prow</i>, <i>call</i>, <i>stew</i>, <i>news</i>, <i>core</i>, <i>nape</i>, recast -into fresh words which now read alike from top -to bottom and from left to right of the square.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">C</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">R</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">W</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">C</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">W</td> -<td class="cell brd bb dark"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">R</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">P</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell brd bb dark"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">P</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">N</td> -<td class="cell brd bb dark"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">W</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">N</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">W</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">S</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">T</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd dark"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1087">Image</a></p> - -<p class="noindent">The empty squares and diagonal setting are -necessary for this particular puzzle, as the words -would not form a word square if their letters -were placed below one another in the usual way.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref60">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page233">[233]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref582">No. XXXIX</h3> - -<p>The sentence formed with the ten letters above -the line, which is the key to this sum, is—<i>Add -these up</i>. If these letters are numbered consecutively -1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and the -corresponding figures are substituted for the -numbers, the sum works out as is shown below.</p> - -<table class="sum33" summary="Sum"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="5" class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td rowspan="6" class="cell"> </td> -<td rowspan="5" class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell"><b>2</b></td> -<td class="cell"><b>9</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell"><b>6</b></td> -<td class="cell"><b>5</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell"><b>8</b></td> -<td class="cell"><b>3</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">P</td> -<td class="cell"><b>1</b></td> -<td class="cell"><b>0</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell"><b>7</b></td> -<td class="cell"><b>4</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bt bbd">D</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd">A</td> -<td class="cell bt bbd"><b>2</b></td> -<td class="cell bt bbd"><b>6</b></td> -<td class="cell bt bbd"><b>1</b></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1088">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref61">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page234">[234]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref583">No. XL</h3> - -<p>The four words, seek, slab, leek, moan, which -were placed on the white squares when recast -form the following <span class="nowrap">combination:—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">M</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">K</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">B</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell brd bb dark"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">L</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb dark"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bbd">K</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">E</td> -<td class="cell br bbd dark"> </td> -<td class="cell br bbd">N</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd dark"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1089">Image</a></p> - -<p>These fresh words read alike from side to side, -and zigzag from top to bottom.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref63">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page235">[235]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref584">No. XLI</h3> - -<p>These are the four words, recast by anagram -from afar, task, seat, leal, and which now form -a perfect word square.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">F</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">A</td> -<td class="cell br bb">R</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">A</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">L</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">T</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">A</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">L</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">K</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1090">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref65">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page236">[236]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref585">No. XLII</h3> - -<p>The word square is recast <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd bld br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>c</b></span></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>r</b></span></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>s</b></span></td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>s</b></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>r</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>a</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>c</b></span></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>h</b></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>a</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>g</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>r</b></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>s</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>c</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>n</b></span></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>s</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>h</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>r</b></span></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>e</b></span></td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><span class="fsize150"><b>d</b></span></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1091">Image</a></p> - -<p>Its words are spelt with the same letters as -the words <i>chess</i>, <i>greed</i>, <i>canes</i>, <i>rears</i>, <i>cheer</i>, which -formed the original square, but did not read -alike from top to bottom, and from left to right, -as these do.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref67">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page237">[237]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref586">No. XLIII</h3> - -<p>The five familiar proverbs hidden in this square -of 169 letters are: A rolling stone gathers no -moss. Too many cooks spoil the broth. A live -dog is more to be feared than a dead lion. You -cannot eat your cake and have it. Peace hath -her victories no less renowned than war.</p> - -<table class="square fsize90" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">W</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">W</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">Y</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">K</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">F</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">K</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">P</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">F</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">M</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -<td class="cell">M</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">Y</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">B</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">P</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">M</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">W</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">Y</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">H</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">Z</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1049">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref68">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page238">[238]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref587">No. XLIV</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo246.png" alt="Coded French" /> -</div> - -<p>If the shaded circles are cut out and the -diagram is placed squarely over the jumbled -letters, with the I., II., III., IV. in turn at the -top left-hand corner, this sentence is <span class="nowrap">disclosed—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Le premier Supplément du Journal de la -Jeunesse a été publié dans le Numéro du Dix-neuf -Juin Mil huit cent soixante-quinze.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref70">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page239">[239]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref588">No. XLV</h3> - -<p>This is the way to reconstruct Sam Loyd’s -black pony—so that, while its legs and tail are -strangely misplaced, they form the spirited outline -of a white galloping horse.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo247a.png" alt="Pony" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref71">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref589">No. XLVI</h3> - -<p>Here is the key to Sam Loyd’s ingenious -<span class="nowrap">puzzle—</span></p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo247b.jpg" alt="Horses" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">which shows the jockeys and horses in full -racing trim.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref73">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page240">[240]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref590">No. XLVII</h3> - -<p>This is the inevitable result of the boy’s -attempt to annex with his mouth the sugar on -the <span class="nowrap">chair—</span></p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo248a.jpg" alt="Falling boy" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref75">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref591">No. XLVIII</h3> - -<p>The leap-frog puzzle is solved in nine hops -<span class="nowrap">thus:—</span></p> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo248b.jpg" alt="Leap-frog" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">First jump from stool 2, then from 5, 3, 6, 7, 1, 3, -and 6 in turn to the vacant stools.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref77">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page241">[241]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref592">No. LV</h3> - -<p>This diagram shows that the seven wheels, -which spin so merrily when the paper is rotated -in the hand, can be divided off into separate -enclosures by only three straight <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo249.png" alt="Circles" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref98">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page242">[242]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref593">No. LVI</h3> - -<p>The diagram below shows how the market-gardener, -keeping one-fourth of his square field -for himself in the shape of a triangle, was able to -divide the remainder so that each of his four -sons had an equal portion of similar <span class="nowrap">shape—</span></p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo250.png" alt="FDivided field" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref100">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page243">[243]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref594">No. LVII</h3> - -<p>Here is a drawing of the perfect Latin <span class="nowrap">cross—</span></p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo251.png" alt="Cross" /> -</div> - -<p>The position of the two long pieces does not -readily suggest itself to those who try to arrange -the five on paper with a pencil.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref101">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page244">[244]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref595">No. LVIII</h3> - -<p>This diagram shows the effectual means taken -by four rich men, whose houses were further -afield, to exclude four poor men from all access -to a central lake, that they might reserve the -fishing for themselves.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo252.png" alt="Fishing pond" /> -</div> - -<p>They built a high wall on the lines that are -indicated which, while it left a way for each of -them to the water, altogether shut it away from -their poor neighbours.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref103">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page245">[245]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref596">No. LIX</h3> - -<p>This is the square that can be formed with the -ten pattern pieces <span class="nowrap">given—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo253.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref105">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page246">[246]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref597">No. LX</h3> - -<p>The dotted lines in this diagram show how -the figure can be divided into nine parts by -four straight cuts</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo254a.png" alt="Divided star" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">which can be reunited to form a perfect cross.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref107">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref598">No. LXI</h3> - -<p>This is a simple way by which the figure given -can be divided by four straight cuts into four -equal and similar <span class="nowrap">parts—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo254b.png" alt="Divided figure" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref109">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page247">[247]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref599">No. LXII</h3> - -<p>This is the way to draw twenty-two straight -lines within the circle at right-angles to each -other, so that they divide it into four similar -<span class="nowrap">parts—</span></p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo255.png" alt="Divided circle" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">and each part has three dots within its borders.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref111">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page248">[248]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref600">No. LXIII</h3> - -<p>These diagrams show how the upper triangle -is divided into five parts, which can be rearranged -to form the equilateral triangle below.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo256.png" alt="Triangle" /> -</div> - -<p>The originator of this ingenious novelty says, -“The method of construction is not shown, but -its application is general, and the result is easily -verified by measurement.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref113">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page249">[249]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref601">No. LXVI</h3> - -<p>This is an arrangement of the twenty-seven -counters in nine rows, six in a row, within the -borders of an equilateral triangle.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo257a.png" alt="Triangle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref116">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref602">No. LXVII</h3> - -<p>All the cards of one colour, when placed -alternately, can be brought together in four -moves, two at a time, <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<table class="playingcards" summary="Cards"> - -<tr> -<td class="card">A<br />♠</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">2<br />♡</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">3<br />♣</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">4<br />♢</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">5<br />♣</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">6<br />♢</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">7<br />♣</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">8<br />♡</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1091b">Image</a></p> - -<p class="noindent">Place two and three beyond eight;<br /> -Place five and six between one and four;<br /> -Place eight and two between four and seven;<br /> -Place one and five between seven and three.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref118">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page250">[250]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref603">No. LXVIII</h3> - -<p>You can in a moment tell the number chosen -on these cards, when you are told on which of -them it appears,</p> - -<div class="thoughtreadbox"> - -<table class="thoughtread" summary="Card"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">I.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">II.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">III.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">IV.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">1</td> -<td class="number">33</td> -<td class="number">65</td> -<td class="number br">97</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">2</td> -<td class="number">34</td> -<td class="number">66</td> -<td class="number br">98</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">4</td> -<td class="number">36</td> -<td class="number">68</td> -<td class="number br">100</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">8</td> -<td class="number">40</td> -<td class="number">72</td> -<td class="number br">104</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">3</td> -<td class="number">35</td> -<td class="number">67</td> -<td class="number br">99</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">3</td> -<td class="number">35</td> -<td class="number">67</td> -<td class="number br">99</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">5</td> -<td class="number">37</td> -<td class="number">69</td> -<td class="number br">101</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">9</td> -<td class="number">41</td> -<td class="number">73</td> -<td class="number br">105</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">5</td> -<td class="number">37</td> -<td class="number">69</td> -<td class="number br">101</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">6</td> -<td class="number">38</td> -<td class="number">70</td> -<td class="number br">102</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">6</td> -<td class="number">38</td> -<td class="number">70</td> -<td class="number br">102</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">10</td> -<td class="number">42</td> -<td class="number">74</td> -<td class="number br">106</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">7</td> -<td class="number">39</td> -<td class="number">71</td> -<td class="number br">103</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">7</td> -<td class="number">39</td> -<td class="number">71</td> -<td class="number br">103</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">7</td> -<td class="number">39</td> -<td class="number">71</td> -<td class="number br">103</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">11</td> -<td class="number">43</td> -<td class="number">75</td> -<td class="number br">107</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">9</td> -<td class="number">41</td> -<td class="number">73</td> -<td class="number br">105</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">10</td> -<td class="number">42</td> -<td class="number">74</td> -<td class="number br">106</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">12</td> -<td class="number">44</td> -<td class="number">76</td> -<td class="number br">108</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">12</td> -<td class="number">44</td> -<td class="number">76</td> -<td class="number br">108</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">11</td> -<td class="number">43</td> -<td class="number">75</td> -<td class="number br">107</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">11</td> -<td class="number">43</td> -<td class="number">75</td> -<td class="number br">107</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">13</td> -<td class="number">45</td> -<td class="number">77</td> -<td class="number br">109</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">13</td> -<td class="number">45</td> -<td class="number">77</td> -<td class="number br">109</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">13</td> -<td class="number">45</td> -<td class="number">77</td> -<td class="number br">109</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">14</td> -<td class="number">46</td> -<td class="number">78</td> -<td class="number br">110</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">14</td> -<td class="number">46</td> -<td class="number">78</td> -<td class="number br">110</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">14</td> -<td class="number">46</td> -<td class="number">78</td> -<td class="number br">110</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">15</td> -<td class="number">47</td> -<td class="number">79</td> -<td class="number br">111</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">15</td> -<td class="number">47</td> -<td class="number">79</td> -<td class="number br">111</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">15</td> -<td class="number">47</td> -<td class="number">79</td> -<td class="number br">111</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">15</td> -<td class="number">47</td> -<td class="number">79</td> -<td class="number br">111</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">17</td> -<td class="number">49</td> -<td class="number">81</td> -<td class="number br">113</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">18</td> -<td class="number">50</td> -<td class="number">82</td> -<td class="number br">114</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">20</td> -<td class="number">52</td> -<td class="number">84</td> -<td class="number br">116</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">24</td> -<td class="number">56</td> -<td class="number">88</td> -<td class="number br">120</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">19</td> -<td class="number">51</td> -<td class="number">83</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">19</td> -<td class="number">51</td> -<td class="number">83</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">21</td> -<td class="number">53</td> -<td class="number">85</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">25</td> -<td class="number">57</td> -<td class="number">89</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">21</td> -<td class="number">53</td> -<td class="number">85</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">22</td> -<td class="number">54</td> -<td class="number">86</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">22</td> -<td class="number">54</td> -<td class="number">86</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">26</td> -<td class="number">58</td> -<td class="number">90</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">23</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">23</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">23</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">27</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">25</td> -<td class="number">57</td> -<td class="number">89</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">26</td> -<td class="number">58</td> -<td class="number">90</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">28</td> -<td class="number">60</td> -<td class="number">92</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">28</td> -<td class="number">60</td> -<td class="number">92</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">27</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">27</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">29</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">29</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">29</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">30</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">30</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">30</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<table class="thoughtread" summary="Card"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">V.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">VI.</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td colspan="4" class="cardno">VII.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">16</td> -<td class="number">48</td> -<td class="number">80</td> -<td class="number br">112</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">32</td> -<td class="number">48</td> -<td class="number">96</td> -<td class="number br">112</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">64</td> -<td class="number">80</td> -<td class="number">96</td> -<td class="number br">112</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">17</td> -<td class="number">49</td> -<td class="number">81</td> -<td class="number br">113</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">33</td> -<td class="number">49</td> -<td class="number">97</td> -<td class="number br">113</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">65</td> -<td class="number">81</td> -<td class="number">97</td> -<td class="number br">113</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">18</td> -<td class="number">50</td> -<td class="number">82</td> -<td class="number br">114</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">34</td> -<td class="number">50</td> -<td class="number">98</td> -<td class="number br">114</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">66</td> -<td class="number">82</td> -<td class="number">98</td> -<td class="number br">114</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">19</td> -<td class="number">51</td> -<td class="number">83</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">35</td> -<td class="number">51</td> -<td class="number">99</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">67</td> -<td class="number">83</td> -<td class="number">99</td> -<td class="number br">115</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">20</td> -<td class="number">52</td> -<td class="number">84</td> -<td class="number br">116</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">36</td> -<td class="number">52</td> -<td class="number">100</td> -<td class="number br">116</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">68</td> -<td class="number">84</td> -<td class="number">100</td> -<td class="number br">116</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">21</td> -<td class="number">53</td> -<td class="number">85</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">37</td> -<td class="number">53</td> -<td class="number">101</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">69</td> -<td class="number">85</td> -<td class="number">101</td> -<td class="number br">117</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">22</td> -<td class="number">54</td> -<td class="number">86</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">38</td> -<td class="number">54</td> -<td class="number">102</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">70</td> -<td class="number">86</td> -<td class="number">102</td> -<td class="number br">118</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">23</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">39</td> -<td class="number">55</td> -<td class="number">103</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">71</td> -<td class="number">87</td> -<td class="number">103</td> -<td class="number br">119</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">24</td> -<td class="number">56</td> -<td class="number">88</td> -<td class="number br">120</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">40</td> -<td class="number">56</td> -<td class="number">104</td> -<td class="number br">120</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">72</td> -<td class="number">88</td> -<td class="number">104</td> -<td class="number br">120</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">25</td> -<td class="number">57</td> -<td class="number">89</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">41</td> -<td class="number">57</td> -<td class="number">105</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">73</td> -<td class="number">89</td> -<td class="number">105</td> -<td class="number br">121</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">26</td> -<td class="number">58</td> -<td class="number">90</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">42</td> -<td class="number">58</td> -<td class="number">106</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">74</td> -<td class="number">90</td> -<td class="number">106</td> -<td class="number br">122</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">27</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">43</td> -<td class="number">59</td> -<td class="number">107</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">75</td> -<td class="number">91</td> -<td class="number">107</td> -<td class="number br">123</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">28</td> -<td class="number">60</td> -<td class="number">92</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">44</td> -<td class="number">60</td> -<td class="number">108</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">76</td> -<td class="number">92</td> -<td class="number">108</td> -<td class="number br">124</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">29</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">45</td> -<td class="number">61</td> -<td class="number">109</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">77</td> -<td class="number">93</td> -<td class="number">109</td> -<td class="number br">125</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl">30</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">46</td> -<td class="number">62</td> -<td class="number">110</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl">78</td> -<td class="number">94</td> -<td class="number">110</td> -<td class="number br">126</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number bl bb">31</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">47</td> -<td class="number bb">63</td> -<td class="number bb">111</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -<td class="blank bl br"> </td> -<td class="number bl bb">79</td> -<td class="number bb">95</td> -<td class="number bb">111</td> -<td class="number br bb">127</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--thoughtreadbox--> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1091c">Image</a></p> - -<p class="noindent">by adding together the numbers at the top left-hand -corner of these.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref121">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page251">[251]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref604">No. LXIX</h3> - -<p>This diagram shows that the postman can take -a course which involves fewer turnings than that -indicated, when he had to pass round eighteen -corners.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo259.png" alt="Mail round" /> -</div> - -<p>It will be seen that he has to turn only fifteen -times.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref122">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page252">[252]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref605">No. LXX</h3> - -<p>This shows how a square can be divided into -three parts, so that these can be reunited to form -No. 2 and No. 3 of the diagram.</p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo260a.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo260b.png" alt="Three shapes" /> -</div> - -<p>Try it with scissors and paper or cardboard.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref123">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page253">[253]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref606">No. LXXI</h3> - -<table class="square bt2 br2 bb2 bl2" summary="Chess problem"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb">♘</td> -<td class="cell br bb">♖</td> -<td class="cell dark br bb">♚</td> -<td class="cell br bb">♖</td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1092">Image</a></p> - -<p>This position fulfils the conditions of the -puzzle. Obviously it could not occur in actual -play.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref126">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page254">[254]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref607">No. LXXV</h3> - -<p>The dotted lines in this diagram show where -the flag with a cross taken out from its centre -must be cut, so that the two pieces can be -rejoined to form a perfect flag.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo262.png" alt="Flag" /> -</div> - -<p>The piece on the right is moved upward, and -to the left.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref133">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page255">[255]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref608">No. LXXVI</h3> - -<p>This is a way in which the eleven parts can be -readjusted to form a <span class="nowrap">square:—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo263a.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref134">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref609">No. LXXVIII</h3> - -<p>This shows the shortest <span class="nowrap">course—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo263b.png" alt="Hospital round" /> -</div> - -<p>This track takes him completely round every -block, passing only once round four of them.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref139">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page256">[256]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref610">No. LXXIX</h3> - -<p>Here is a very simple and symmetrical arrangement, -by which on a board of 36 squares twelve -counters are so placed that there are two, and -two only, on each line, column, and diagonal.</p> - -<table class="square btd brd bbd bld" summary="Counters"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">◎</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"></td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb"></td> -<td class="cell br bb"></td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell bb"></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"></td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb"></td> -<td class="cell br bb"></td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell bb"></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb">◎</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br">◎</td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell">◎</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1093">Image</a></p> - -<p>There are other arrangements which fulfil the -conditions.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref141">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page257">[257]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref611">No. LXXXI</h3> - -<p>In this nest of triangles of five tiers there are -1196 separate triangles, or nearly double the -number (653) of a similar nest of four tiers.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo265.png" alt="Triangles" /> -</div> - -<p>In such a figure with 10,000 tiers there would -be 6,992,965,420,332 different triangles!</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref145">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page258">[258]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref612">No. LXXXII</h3> - -<p>The match puzzle, in which eight matches set -in a row are to be rearranged in four pairs, by -passing one match over two four <span class="nowrap">times—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo266.jpg" alt="Matches" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">is solved, if the matches are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, -5, 6, 7, 8, by moving 4 to 7, 6 to 2, 1 to 3, and -5 to 8.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref147">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref613">No. LXXXIII</h3> - -<p>The lower diagram shows how, when three -matches are removed from the four squares, the<span class="pagenum" id="Page259">[259]</span> -remaining nine can be readjusted to represent -three <span class="nowrap">squares—</span></p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo267a.jpg" alt="Matches" /> -</div> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo267b.jpg" alt="Matches" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref150">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page260">[260]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref614">No. LXXXIV</h3> - -<p>This diagram shows how different arrangements -of four matches are possible in all the thirty-six -cells of the square.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo268.jpg" alt="Matches" /> -</div> - -<p>In every case a whole number or a fraction is -represented, with such signs or lines as are -necessary, and only four matches are used.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref152">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page261">[261]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref615">No. LXXXV</h3> - -<p>It will be seen from the diagram below that -the sentence, when filled in as required, is “Rise -to vote, sir.”</p> - -<table class="square btd brd bbd bld" summary="Sentences"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">R</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell bb">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell bb">I</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">O</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">V</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">V</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">O</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">O</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">T</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">E</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">S</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">I</td> -<td class="cell bb">I</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br">R</td> -<td class="cell br">I</td> -<td class="cell br">S</td> -<td class="cell br">E</td> -<td class="cell br">T</td> -<td class="cell br">O</td> -<td class="cell br">V</td> -<td class="cell br">O</td> -<td class="cell br">T</td> -<td class="cell br">E</td> -<td class="cell br">S</td> -<td class="cell br">I</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1094">Image</a></p> - -<p class="noindent">As this sentence is a perfect palindrome, and -reads alike from either end, it can be traced in -a great number of different directions.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref154">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page262">[262]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref616">No. LXXXVII</h3> - -<p>This subtraction sum may be very neatly -worked, without reducing the distances to inches, -<span class="nowrap">thus:—</span></p> - -<table class="lengthsum" summary="Subtraction"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="13" class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="3" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">miles</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">furlongs</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">rods</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">yards</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">feet</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="unit">inches</td> -<td rowspan="3" class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="number">1</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -<td class="quote">„</td> -<td class="number">0</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="bb"> </td> -<td class="number bb">7</td> -<td class="quote bb">„</td> -<td class="number bb">39</td> -<td class="quote bb">„</td> -<td class="number bb">5</td> -<td class="quote bb">„</td> -<td class="number bb">1</td> -<td class="quote bb">„</td> -<td class="number bb">5</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="highline bbd">0</td> -<td class="highline bbd">„</td> -<td class="highline bbd">0</td> -<td class="highline bbd">„</td> -<td class="highline bbd">0</td> -<td class="highline bbd">„</td> -<td class="highline bbd">0</td> -<td class="highline bbd">„</td> -<td class="highline bbd">0</td> -<td class="highline bbd">„</td> -<td class="highline bbd">1</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="13"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1095">Image</a></p> - -<p>Instead of borrowing one foot, we borrow half-a-foot—<i>i.e.</i>, -6 inches; taking 5 from the 6 we -have 1 as a remainder; now carrying the 6 -inches to the 1 foot, and borrowing half a yard, -and subtracting, we have 0 as remainder; carrying -the half-yard to the 5 yards, we borrow the -full 5<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> yards, which are one rod, and proceed in -the usual manner afterwards, with the result that -is shown.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref156">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page263">[263]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref617">No. LXXXIX</h3> - -<p>This is an arrangement of nine counters on the -irregular board of 67 squares.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Board"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br bb2 bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bt2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bt2 br2 bb2">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell dark bl2 br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb">●</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl2">●</td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb2 bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb">●</td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell"> </td> -<td class="cell bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb bl2">●</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb">●</td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb"> </td> -<td class="cell"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br2 bb">●</td> -<td class="cell bb2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bl2">●</td> -<td class="cell dark br bb bl"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb br2"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark br bb2 bl2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb2">●</td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb2"> </td> -<td class="cell dark br2 bb2"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1061">Image</a></p> - -<p>No two counters are in the same row, column, -or diagonal.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref163">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page264">[264]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref618">No. XC</h3> - -<p>This is the arrangement of nine cards in ten -rows, three in each <span class="nowrap">row—</span></p> - -<table class="playingcards" summary="Cards"> - -<tr> -<td class="card">K<br />♢</td> -<td colspan="3" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">Q<br />♠</td> -<td colspan="3" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">K<br />♡</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">A<br />♣</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">A<br />♢</td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">A<br />♠</td> -<td colspan="2" class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -<td class="blank"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="card">10<br />♡</td> -<td colspan="3" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">K<br />♣</td> -<td colspan="3" class="blank"> </td> -<td class="card">J<br />♢</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1097">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref165">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref619">No. XCI</h3> - -<p>The following diagram shows how the two ladies -and their squires represented by white Knights -and black, and dressed to impersonate Light,<span class="pagenum" id="Page265">[265]</span> -Liberty, Love, and Learning, started from the -four comer squares, and stepped a figure which -exhibited at each pause a revolving square, and -in three paces came together in the centre, by a -course traced upon the lines of their combined -monograms.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo273.jpg" alt="Chess moves" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref167">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page266">[266]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref620">No. XCII</h3> - -<p>The 5 maxims in these 36 <span class="nowrap">cells—</span></p> - -<table class="square large" summary="Mixed maxims"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">tell</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">you know</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">tells</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">knows</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">tells</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">he should not</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">do</td> -<td class="cell br bb">you think of</td> -<td class="cell br bb">does</td> -<td class="cell br bb">thinks of</td> -<td class="cell br bb">does</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">is not good</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">believe</td> -<td class="cell br bb">you hear</td> -<td class="cell br bb">believes</td> -<td class="cell br bb">hears</td> -<td class="cell br bb">believes</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">is false</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">spend</td> -<td class="cell br bb">you have</td> -<td class="cell br bb">spends</td> -<td class="cell br bb">has</td> -<td class="cell br bb">spends</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">he needs</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">judge</td> -<td class="cell br bb">you see</td> -<td class="cell br bb">judges</td> -<td class="cell br bb">sees</td> -<td class="cell br bb">judges</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">is not there</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">never</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">all</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">he who</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">all he</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">often</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">what</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1097a">Image</a></p> - -<p class="noindent">are disentangled by reading the lowest line with -each of the upper ones in turn. Thus the first -maxim runs:—“Never tell all you know, he who -tells all he knows often tells what he should not,” -and so on throughout.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref168">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page267">[267]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref621">No. XCIII</h3> - -<p>The dislocated circle is solved by making a -single cut through the dotted line shown in the -diagram below, and join up the pieces.</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo275.png" alt="Circles" /> -</div> - -<p>The second diagram shows how this figure is -arrived at, by drawing three similar and intersecting -circles, which have their centres at the -angles of an equilateral triangle. The piece cut -off by the dotted line corresponds to the section -that completes the circle below.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref170">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page268">[268]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref622">No. XCV</h3> - -<p>The catch-words Cleans, Scrubs, Scours, -Polishes, which proclaim the merits of an “Old -Dutch Cleanser” on the sails of this windmill,</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo276.png" alt="Windmill" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">can be recast so that the same letters form the -singularly appropriate <span class="nowrap">sentence—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“O rub on, sir, success spells cash!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref173">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page269">[269]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref623">No. XCVI</h3> - -<p>The following diagram shows the solution of -this new chess puzzle, and fulfils its conditions -that no Queen should attack a Queen, no Rook a -Rook, no Bishop a Bishop, and no Knight a -Knight.</p> - -<table class="square" summary="Chess board"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd bld br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark btd br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark btd br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"> Q</td> -<td class="cell dark btd br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell btd br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark btd brd bb">B </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bld br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><b>Q</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> Kt</td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"> Kt</td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark brd bb"><b>B</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bld br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><b>B</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell dark brd bb"><b>R</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bld br bb">B </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bld br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"> </td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bb"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell br bb"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark brd bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell dark bld br bbd"><b>R</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bbd"><b>Q</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bbd"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell br bbd"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell dark br bbd"><b>B</b></td> -<td class="cell brd bbd"><b>Kt</b></td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1098">Image</a></p> - -<p>Mr Dudeney explains that only 8 Queens or -8 Rooks can be thus placed upon the board, -while the greatest number of Bishops is fourteen, -and of Knights thirty-two. But as all Knights -must be placed on squares of the same colour, -while the Queens occupy four of each colour, and -the bishops seven of each colour, it follows that -only twenty-one Knights can be placed, and the -arrangement shown above contains the maximum -number of these pieces under the conditions.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref174">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page270">[270]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref624">No. CII</h3> - -<p>This diagram shows the order in which the -syllables or words of the eight-line verse are to -be read on the course of a Knight’s moves at -<span class="nowrap">chess—</span></p> - -<table class="square largish" summary="Verse words"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell btd br bb bld">14<br />sor</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">55<br />to</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">22<br />king</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">37<br />good</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">12<br />say</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">51<br />luck</td> -<td class="cell btd br bb">18<br />loy</td> -<td class="cell btd brd bb">35<br />eth</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">23<br />and</td> -<td class="cell br bb">38<br />moth</td> -<td class="cell br bb">13<br />a</td> -<td class="cell br bb">54<br />soon</td> -<td class="cell br bb">17<br />dis</td> -<td class="cell br bb">36<br />our</td> -<td class="cell br bb">11<br />to</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">50<br />bad</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">56<br />place</td> -<td class="cell br bb">15<br />ry</td> -<td class="cell br bb">40<br />church</td> -<td class="cell br bb">21<br />his</td> -<td class="cell br bb">52<br />force</td> -<td class="cell br bb">9<br />is</td> -<td class="cell br bb">34<br />hat</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">19<br />al</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">39<br />er</td> -<td class="cell br bb">24<br />queen</td> -<td class="cell br bb">53<br />him</td> -<td class="cell br bb">16<br />wight</td> -<td class="cell br bb">33<br />he</td> -<td class="cell br bb">20<br />to</td> -<td class="cell br bb">49<br />may</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">10<br />truth</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">2<br />man</td> -<td class="cell br bb">57<br />his</td> -<td class="cell br bb">28<br />and</td> -<td class="cell br bb">41<br />and</td> -<td class="cell br bb">8<br />chess</td> -<td class="cell br bb">61<br />es</td> -<td class="cell br bb">32<br />knight</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">47<br />op’s</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">25<br />a</td> -<td class="cell br bb">42<br />sneer</td> -<td class="cell br bb">1<br />the</td> -<td class="cell br bb">60<br />and</td> -<td class="cell br bb">29<br />un</td> -<td class="cell br bb">48<br />lawn</td> -<td class="cell br bb">7<br />of</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">62<br />tates</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bb bld">58<br />cas</td> -<td class="cell br bb">3<br />that</td> -<td class="cell br bb">44<br />at</td> -<td class="cell br bb">27<br />less</td> -<td class="cell br bb">64<br />pawn</td> -<td class="cell br bb">5<br />no</td> -<td class="cell br bb">46<br />bish</td> -<td class="cell brd bb">31<br />lant</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell br bbd bld">44<br />eth</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">26<br />faith</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">59<br />tles</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">4<br />hath</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">45<br />the</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">30<br />gal</td> -<td class="cell br bbd">63<br />in</td> -<td class="cell brd bbd">6<br />love</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1099">Image</a></p> - -<p>They run <span class="nowrap">thus:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The man that hath no love of chess,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is, truth to say, a sorry wight;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Disloyal to his King and Queen,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A faithless and ungallant Knight.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He hateth our good mother Church,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And sneereth at the bishop’s lawn;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">May bad luck force him soon to place<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">His castles and estates in pawn!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref185">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page271">[271]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref625">No. CV</h3> - -<p>If such a network as is shown in the diagram -below is drawn on clear tracing-paper and placed -on the page of a book, it will conceal the words -beneath it.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo279.png" alt="Grid" /> -</div> - -<p>But if, while lying close to the page, it is moved -quickly round and about, the letters and words -will be distinctly seen, just as objects on the -other side of close lattice-work become visible as -we pass them quickly in a train.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref191">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page272">[272]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref626">No. CVI</h3> - -<p>These are the results of cutting, in the direction -of the dotted lines, completely round a -simple paper ring, a ring with one twist, and a -ring with a double twist.</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo280.png" alt="Rings" /> -</div> - -<p>We have (1) two simple rings; (2) one large-twisted -ring; (3) two rings linked together. If a -third twist is given before cutting, a curious knot -is formed.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref193">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page273">[273]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref627">CVII</h3> - -<p>The string when it has been placed in the -position shown in the diagram, and two buttons -larger than the hole have been fixed upon its -ends -can be easily removed if the narrow slip of the -leather is drawn through the hole.</p> - -<div class="container w08em"> -<img src="images/illo281.png" alt="Buttons" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref196">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page274">[274]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref628">CVIII</h3> - -<p>The scissors, when securely fastened, as is -shown in the diagram,</p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo282.jpg" alt="Scissors" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">can be easily released by passing the loop upward -through the handle, and then completely over -them.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref197">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page275">[275]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref629">CIX</h3> - -<p>The primitive wolf-trap consisted of two -circular fences higher than a wolf could scale, -with a gate as was shown on the former -diagram. To set the trap a lamb was placed in -the safe centre, and the gate was opened as is -shown <span class="nowrap">below—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo283.png" alt="Wolf trap" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">Attracted by the bleating of the lamb, the wolf -entered the outer circle, made his way round, and -presently pushed aside the gate, which closed -with a spring, and shut off all escape.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref199">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page276">[276]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref630">No. CXII</h3> - -<p>When you have told someone to think of a -number between 5 and 15, and while you are -not looking, to count upwards from the lowest -card step, and round in the direction indicated by -the arrow, until that number is reached, and -then, starting afresh with “one” on that card to -count backwards round the semi-circle, this time -<i>not including the central upright or the steps below -it</i>, until the number thought of is again reached,<span class="pagenum" id="Page277">[277]</span> -you can tell at once which is the final card -arrived at, for it will be as many places <i>upwards -on the left</i> as there are <i>step cards and their -upright</i>.</p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo284.png" alt="Dominoes" /> -</div> - -<p>Thus if there are 3 steps, it must always be the -fourth card upwards on the left of the semi-circle. -To keep up the puzzle, the number of -steps should each time be changed, on the pretext -that their number does not signify.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref205">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref631">No. CXIII</h3> - -<p>This diagram shows how the apple may be -divided into six pieces by two straight cuts, so -that there shall be a gash in each piece.</p> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo285.png" alt="Apple" /> -</div> - -<p>First cut the apple through the dotted line, -then place the upper piece shown at the side of -the larger piece, and make the second cut straight -through, where the line is drawn.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref206">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page278">[278]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref632">No. CXVII</h3> - -<p>The sixpence under the middle of the tumbler -can be easily removed <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo286.jpg" alt="Glass" /> -</div> - -<p>Slip larger coins under opposite edges of the -tumbler to raise it slightly, and then scratch -firmly on the cloth, from just outside the rim, in -the direction you wish the sixpence to take. It -will at once respond, and makes its own way -gradually outside the circle that had surrounded -it.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref216">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page279">[279]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref633">No. CXVIII</h3> - -<p>This is the way to draw the <span class="nowrap">spiral—</span></p> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo287.png" alt="Spiral" /> -</div> - -<p>Tie a piece of strong thread with a loop at its -end round the upper part of the windings of a -screw. Drive the screw into a board, through -the middle of a card, wind the thread down the -screw so that its loop just reaches the card, place -a pencil in this loop, and draw the spiral freely, -unwinding the thread from the grooves of the -screw, and keeping it always taut. A perfect -spiral is the result.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref219">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page280">[280]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref634">No. CXXII.</h3> - -<p>The secret of the talking head is simple indeed -when you know it.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo288.jpg" alt="Talking head" /> -</div> - -<p>Between the front and two side legs of the table -mirrors are fixed, which reflect the similar surroundings, -so that the performer, kneeling behind -these, and putting his head through a hole in the -table top, completely conceals his body and -limbs from the audience.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref226">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page281">[281]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref635">No. CXXV</h3> - -<p>The picture charade is completed <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo289.jpg" alt="Puffin" /> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first may blow the candle out,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second then comes in;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole in water moves about<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Without an oar or fin—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">and is solved by <i>Puffin</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref232">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page282">[282]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref636">No. CXXVI</h3> - -<p>When the walnuts and cobnuts have been -arranged as is shown on the <span class="nowrap">diagram—</span></p> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo290a.jpg" alt="Nuts" /> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">they can be shifted so that they stand alternately, -by moving two that are close together at -a time, in four moves, as <span class="nowrap">follows:—</span></p> - -<p>(1) Move 2 and 3 beyond 8.</p> - -<p>(2) Move 5 and 6 between 1 and 4.</p> - -<p>(3) Move what are now 6th and 7th in the gap.</p> - -<p>(4) Move what are now 1st and 2nd in the gap, -and the alternate arrangement is complete.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref235">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref637">No. CXXVII</h3> - -<p>The question suggested by this picture riddle -is: Why is a waiter like a racehorse? And the -solution is: Because he runs for cups and -plates.</p> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo290b.jpg" alt="Riddle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref238">description</a></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page283">[283]</span></p> - -<h2>WORD PLAY SOLUTIONS</h2> - -</div><!--chapter--> - -<h3 id="Ref638">1</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">paradox—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Two words in our region of puzzledom pose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And claim, through the passage of years,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That neither the pages of Johnson disclose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">While either in Murray appears.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by the <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">This key unlocks our puzzle-box,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Johnson and Murray both give “neither,”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">While, to complete the paradox,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Murray and Johnson both give “either!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref3">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref639">2</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The verse is completed <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Rude Eurus murmurs, trustful buds uncurl,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Bulbs push, due culture nurtures fruitful flush;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Thrush builds, full sunhued plumes furze tufts unfurl,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Up bursts, pure flute-fugue, Bulbul’s tuneful gush.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref6">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref640">3</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I see my first, I see my next,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And both I sigh and see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Joined to my third, which much perplexed<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And sorely puzzled me.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">’Twas fifty, and ’twas something more,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Reversed ’twas scarce an ell,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With first and next it forms a whole<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Clear as a crystal bell.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What is my whole? A splendid tear<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Upheld in cruel thrall;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Blow soft, ye gales, bright sun, appear!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And bid it gently fall.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by ICICLE.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref8">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page284">[284]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref641">4</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Take for my first a quadruped,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Transpose one for my second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, a biped, quick or dead<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is dainty reckoned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Pigeon</i> (<i>one</i> becomes <i>eon</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref11">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref642">5</h3> - -<p class="noindent">Byron’s <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But in infancy ever am known;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m a stranger alike to the fool and the sage,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And though I’m distinguish’d in history’s page<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I always am greatest alone.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">You may search all the sky—I’m not there;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In the morning and evening—though not in the noon—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You may plainly perceive me—for, like a balloon,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I am midway suspended in air.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I am never in sorrow nor gloom;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though in wit and in wisdom I equally reign,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m the heart of all sin, and have long lived in vain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Yet I ne’er shall be found in the tomb!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by the letter I.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref12">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref643">6</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am bright as a whole<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Till you cut off my head;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then as black as a coal,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or a mortal instead.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Shaken up and recast<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">We with science are found,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Read us back from the last<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And we live underground.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Star</i>, <i>tar</i>, <i>arts</i>, <i>rats</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref16">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page285">[285]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref644">7</h3> - -<p class="noindent">Horace Smith’s <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In arts and sciences behold my first the watchword still,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All prejudice must bend the knee before its iron will;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet “Onward!” is the Briton’s cry—a cry that doth express<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A holy work but half begun, and speaks of hopefulness.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In palace or in lonely cot its name alike is heard,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And in the Senate’s lordly halls sit my second and my third.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Strange paradox, though for my first my total is designed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Sad marks of vice and ignorance we in that whole may find.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Reformatory</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref18">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref645">8</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Untouched I tell of budding growth and life;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Beheaded I lead upward more or less;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Again—with varied fragrance I am rife;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Again—but little value I express.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Nascent</i>, <i>ascent</i>, <i>scent</i>, <i>cent</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref21">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref646">9</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Search Holy Writ and you will see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A victory was won by me.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me, and I may be found<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In water or on hilly ground.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, and then transpose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A snare my letters now disclose.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If yet again my head you sever,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No matter how sharp-set or clever,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">’Tis all in vain you look about,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For no one yet has found me out.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Sling</i>, <i>ling</i>, <i>gin</i>, <i>in</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref23">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page286">[286]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref647">10</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Said a lawyer aside to his friend in the court,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">“Now I’d bet, were we not in this place,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That my first is my second a bottle of port,”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then bright with my whole shone his face.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Pleasure</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref26">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref648">11</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The answer to the <span class="nowrap">problem—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Six horse ’buses and four motor ’buses travel -each hour from Temple Bar to the Bank. The -horses take 15 minutes, and the motors 10 -minutes on the journey.</p> - -<p>If I come to Temple Bar, and wish to reach -the Bank as soon as possible, shall I take the -first horse ’bus that turns up, or wait for a -motor? It must be assumed that I can only see -a ’bus as it actually passes <span class="nowrap">me—</span></p> - -<p class="hind04 blankbefore75">is (1) Take a motor if it comes first.</p> - -<p class="hind04"><span class="dontshow">is </span>(2) Take a horse ’bus if it comes first, and -comes within 2<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> minutes of waiting.</p> - -<p class="hind04"><span class="dontshow">is </span>(3) Wait for a motor if a horse ’bus comes -first, but does not come till after 2<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> -minutes.</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">As I may have to wait 0 minutes or 15 -minutes, the average time of waiting will be 7<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> -minutes.</p> - -<p>If I wait <i>x</i> min., and a horse ’bus arrives, I -should reach the Bank in 15 mins, if I took it.</p> - -<p>If I waited longer for a motor, which, on the -average, will now turn up in 7<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> - <i>x</i> mins., I should -reach the Bank in 17<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> - <i>x</i> mins.</p> - -<p>If, therefore, <i>x</i> is greater than 2<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub>, the motor -is the quicker.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref27">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page287">[287]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref649">12</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The historical <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, if foolishly or rashly taken,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">May mar the future prospects of your life.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second, by her fickle lord forsaken<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">(Sad type of many a gentle, patient wife).<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">May toil and moil to feed his many babies,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">While he goes flirting off with other ladies.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The thrifty monarch of a former age<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole a place in Britain’s history fills.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Immortalised in Shakespeare’s magic pages<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">As one who’d fain reform his tailor’s bills!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Stephen</i> (Step-hen).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref30">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref650">13</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>second</i>, worn with pompous pride,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> had dangling at his side,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">On chain securely hooked.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> he came from o’er the sea,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A bundle of conceit looked he,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">And he was all he looked.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">She led him to the village green,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Where in desponding mood was seen<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">My <i>whole</i>, with drooping head.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“Behold,” she said, “a perfect, true<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And striking likeness, sir, of you!”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">And, laughing, gaily fled.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Donkey</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref34">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref651">14</h3> - -<p>Lewis Carroll turns WHEAT into BREAD, -changing one letter each time, and preserving -their general order throughout, <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">WHEAT; cheat; cheap; cheep; creep; creed; breed; BREAD.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref36">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page288">[288]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref652">15</h3> - -<p><i>Unity</i> is a probable solution of the old enigma, -part of which evidently refers to “a house -divided against <span class="nowrap">itself”—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m one among a numerous host,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And very useful in my post;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">There’s not a house in all the land<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Without me properly can stand.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though men disputed long ago<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whether I did exist or no,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Once more some thousands have been slain<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Because they could not me attain.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref38">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref653">16</h3> - -<p>The anagram proverbs, “These grave lips -chatter no ill,” and “Elephants, all to richest -giver,” are both founded on <i>Little pitchers have -long ears</i>, and spelt with exactly the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref42">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref654">17</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first of rudeness has a sound;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The rest is in a city found;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole to win its way is bound.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Pertinacity</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref44">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref655">18</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The buried potentate in the <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is in cake, but not in bun;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second in light, but not in sun;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third is in night, but not in day;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fourth is in game, but not in play;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fifth is in head, but not in tail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My sixth is in wind, but not in sail;<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page289">[289]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">My seventh in wrong, but not in right;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My eighth is in battle, but not in fight;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My ninth is in sword, but not in knife,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My tenth is in lady, but not in wife;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is a monarch at war with strife.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is <i>King Edward</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref50">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref656">19</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first except when it is old<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is never seen or heard;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When it is heard the sound is tolled<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Out of a Jewish beard.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next was in imperial Rome,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">It was her power and might;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then you had but to write <i>you wish</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And straightway ’twas in sight.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent4">My whole was Frank<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Of royal rank.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Clovis</i> (<i>vis</i> in Latin is both <i>power</i> -and <i>you wish</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref53">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref657">20</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">How great in olden days my power,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Oft have I saved a castle tower<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent8">From war’s invading tide.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Transpose me, and how great my fall!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I am then the smallest of the small,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent8">That nothing can divide.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Moat</i>—<i>atom</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref55">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref658">21</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">puzzle—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">This compact Enigma take,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All apart its letters shake.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Let your 6, 3, 5 be high,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like 5, 1, 2 do or die.<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page290">[290]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">Who 4, 6, 5, 1 enjoys<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">More than 5, 6, 2 by boys?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">While 5, 3, 2, 1 are mine,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">May 4, 6, 3, 2 be thine.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">4, 1, 5 is rich and rare,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">6, 5, 1, 2 ends my prayer.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by the word Enigma, from which are -formed, as is indicated, the words <i>aim</i>, <i>men</i>, -<i>game</i>, <i>man</i>, <i>mine</i>, <i>gain</i>, <i>gem</i>, and <i>amen</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref56">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref659">22</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent6">“Charles the First walked and talked,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Half an hour after his head was cut off.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<p class="poemcredit"><i>Old Couplet</i>.<br /></p> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my head, I’m every inch a King,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A warrior formed to deal a heavy blow.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Halve what remains, my second is a thing<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Which nothing but my third can e’er make go,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third will vary as you take your line,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">This less than human, that way all divine!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Dog</i> (Og, go, dog, God).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref58">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref660">23</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">logograph—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Touch me not, I’m firm and sure;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead, I’m used by rich and poor;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In house and cottage, hut and hall,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I stand of service to them all.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, in time of need<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I tell that strength and skill succeed.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Stable</i>, <i>table</i>, <i>able</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref62">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref661">24</h3> - -<p>The names that satisfy the conditions of this -Single <span class="nowrap">Acrostic—</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page291">[291]</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">What river is that, where it is found,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Which Pope says does with eels abound?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What Scottish lake, by high hills bounded,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is with bright birch and oak surrounded?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What stream is said in Devon to run<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Into the sea near Otterton?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What bay on Cuba’s distant coast<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is justly deemed its pride and boast?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The initials of these names will show<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A Scotch reformer, who, we know,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Flourished three hundred years ago.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">are <i>Kennet</i>, <i>Ness</i>, <i>Otter</i>, <i>Xagua</i>, which give <i>Knox</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref64">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref662">25</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole may be a mother, not a dad,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">So former may, or latter;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But twist my tail, and I become as mad<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent14">As any hatter!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me, and behold I am a man,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Who never was called mister;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my tail, and instantly I can<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent14">Become a sister!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Madam</i> (<i>ma</i>, <i>dam</i>, <i>mad</i>, <i>Adam</i>, <i>Ada</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref66">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref663">26</h3> - -<p>In addition to the singularly appropriate -anagram that has been so happily attached to -the name of Florence Nightingale, <i>Flit on, cheering -angel</i>, the same group of letters can be -recast as an aspiration for her continuance in -our loving memory, so that they form the -sentence, <i>Cling on, feeling heart</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref69">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page292">[292]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref664">27</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">rebus—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">I am<br /> -a man<br /> -I rate you<br /> -a beast<br /> -You know me</p> - -<p class="noindent">reads thus:—I rate you lower than a man, above -a beast. Know between you and me I am above -the rest.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref72">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref665">28</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, thou knowest, was in ancient Rome,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Rome’s fate my next, and one that all may dread.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Long may it be before that fate shall come<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And sever with my whole thy life’s last thread!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Scissors</i> (Lat. <i>scis</i>, thou knowest; -<i>sors</i>, a lot).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref74">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref666">29</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The poets’ names buried in the <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The sun is darting rays of gold<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Upon the moor, enchanting spot;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whose purpled heights, by Ronald loved,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Up open to his shepherd cot.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">And sundry denizens of air<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Are flying—aye, each to his nest;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And eager make at such an hour<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">All haste to reach the mansions blest.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">are Gray, Moore, Byron, Pope, Dryden, Gay, -Keats and Hemans.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page293">[293]</span></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref76">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref667">30</h3> - -<p>The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">This multiplies me, I declare,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Though it reduces one;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A sty is foul if it is there,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">By it a deed is done.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by the letter <i>n</i> (<i>me</i> becomes <i>men</i>; <i>one</i>, -<i>none</i>; <i>a sty</i>, <i>nasty</i>.)</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref78">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref668">31</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Lennie <i>parsed</i> the words he read,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Studying <i>Praed’s</i> fable;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Lennie’s mother <i>rasped</i> the bread,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Sophy <i>drapes</i> the table.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“Work while you are <i>spared</i>,” they said,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">“<i>Spread</i> while you are able!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref79">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref669">32</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When I write with my first, in my second,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole is quite sure to be in.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Divided afresh, there is reckoned<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A wit, or a something that’s thin.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Prefix a letter, and, as clear as paint,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You see the name of an old English Saint,<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Within</i> (Swithin).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref81">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref670">33</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The puzzle <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, though half a noisy bird,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To a slight noise may turn;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second-twist, a stately word,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And it will bend we learn.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">are solved by <i>Pardon</i> (rap-nod).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref83">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page294">[294]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref671">34</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To half of ten add one<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then half a score.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When this is duly done<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Almost ten more.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">This can be good for none,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But trial sore.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Vixen</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref84">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref672">35</h3> - -<p>The buried <span class="nowrap">proverb—</span></p> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75">I fancy this Tory outcry, this weary outrageous -attempt to show illegality, is as a cat chasing -snow-flakes. I must be forgiven if I shun his -<span class="nowrap">example—is—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline"><i>If you swear you will catch no fish</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref86">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref673">36</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Quick <i>veerers</i> in action, now timid, now bold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like <i>reevers</i> of ropes far too rotten to hold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>Reserve</i> a <i>severer reverse</i> and disasters<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For a State that <i>reveres</i> not incapable masters.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The six words in italics are spelt with the same -letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref87">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref674">37</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent4">My first is an heir,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">My second a snare,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is the offspring of fancy,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Which I sent on its way<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Last Valentine’s Day,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">As a token of love to my Nancy.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Sonnet</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref89">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page295">[295]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref675">38</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The lover’s <span class="nowrap">vow—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My love shall never know my first,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Shall never be my second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It shall my all, come best, come worst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Be surely reckoned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Endless</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref90">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref676">39</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am a letter, and a word,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I am a tree, I am a name,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut me in pieces with a sword,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">You and your act would be the same.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Thrice you must leave the aspirate in doubt,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And use it twice if you would find me out.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by U, You, Hugh, Yew, How.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref92">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref677">40</h3> - -<p>If you “resist disasters,” this may, by anagram, -<i>distress a sister</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref40">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref678">41</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first the rainbow shows<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When in rich hues it glows.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next has vowels three;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third was once a tree.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fourth begins the year,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole the past makes clear.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Archæology</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref95">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref679">42</h3> - -<p>If you ask a schoolboy to estimate the value of -the grass in a triangular field, of which the longest -side measures 100 rods, and each of the other -sides 50 rods, at £1 per acre, it may take him -some little time to see that he is being sold, since -the condition is not fulfilled that any two sides of -a triangle <i>must be greater than the third side</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref96">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page296">[296]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref680">43</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Less than my last, my whole has place<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Between my first and second:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Second has body, arms and face;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">First is by inches reckoned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>waistcoat</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref97">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref681">44</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The historical <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first at early morn the camp alarms,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And at its sound the soldier springs to arms;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second nowadays fair ladies scorn,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though in less dainty days it oft was worn.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, a battle fought on Scottish ground,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With victory the rebel forces crowned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by the battle of <i>Drumclog</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref99">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref682">45</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I love strolling <i>troupes</i> that go wandering round,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Each <i>spouter</i> a <i>Proteus</i> in versatile skill;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Each <i>posture</i> so quaint, each idea so profound,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My barn’s at their service, whenever they will.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A company played there last night, but to-day<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Ducks, <i>pouters</i>, and poultry have vanished away!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The five words in italics are spelt with the same -seven letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref102">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref683">46</h3> - -<p>The Arithmorem “150 hat robe or tent” forms -the name Charlotte Bronte.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref104">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref684">47</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The Shedding Letters <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m a worker most active, most useful, most known,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Of all that are busy in country and town.<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page297">[297]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take from me one letter, and yet my good name<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In spite of this loss will continue the same.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take from me two letters, and still you will see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That precisely the same in effect I shall be.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take from me three letters, or even take more,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet still I continue as sound as before.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>The Postman</i>!</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref106">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref685">48</h3> - -<p>When Tom Larkins challenged his sisters to -prove on a blackboard that if 50 is subtracted -from the sum of the nine digits the result equals -the number obtained by dividing their sum by 3, -he showed them that the sum of the digits may -be written thus: XLV, and that if the L, which -represents 50, is removed, XV, or 15, the third -of 45, remains.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref108">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref686">49</h3> - -<p class="noindent">In the “Geese to Market” <span class="nowrap">problem—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">B drove a goodly flock of geese,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And met with Farmer A;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Said Farmer A, “How much apiece<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For this lot did you pay?”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Said B, “I paid for all I drive<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Just six pounds and a crown,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And I am selling all but five<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">At the next market town.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If fifteen pence a head I charge<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Beyond the price I paid,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I shall secure a sum as large<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">As he who sold all made.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>B bought 25 geese at 5s. each, and proposed -to sell 20 of them at 6s. 3d.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref110">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page298">[298]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref687">50</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent8">When second held first<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent8">For best or for worst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I thought myself happy to win her.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent8">But what could I say<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent8">When the very next day<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">She gave me the whole for my dinner?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Herring</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref112">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref688">51</h3> - -<p class="noindent">In the <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The bees’ blithe vernal love-songs softly hum,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Blending so sweetly with the restful air;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The noiseless, deep-laced twilight shadows come,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And well I ken the lass who meets me there—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">the familiar adage, “Be it ever so humble, there’s -no place like home” is buried.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref117">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref689">52</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The mutilations <span class="nowrap">in—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A little beast without its head<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Becomes a mighty beast instead:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But then the subject of my riddle<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is cut asunder in the middle;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And nothing this division gains,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though unknown quantity remains.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">are <i>Fox</i>, <i>ox</i>, <i>o</i>, <i>x</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref119">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref690">53</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Mary sat with <i>slate</i> in hand,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Writing <i>tales</i> dramatic.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Did she <i>steal</i> the plots she planned?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Negative emphatic!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>Stale</i> to us the <i>tales</i> may be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But at <i>least</i> they’re new to she!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref120">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page299">[299]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref691">54</h3> - -<p>The old Sanscrit problem, quoted by Longfellow -in his “Kavanagh,”</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Ten times the square root of a flock of geese, -seeing the clouds collect, flew to the Manus lake. -One-eighth of the whole flew from the edge of the -water among a tangle of water lilies, and three -couple were seen playing in the water. Tell me, -my young girl with beautiful locks, what was the -whole number of geese?</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75 noindent">is solved by 144.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref124">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref692">55</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Six hundred and sixty so ordered may be<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That if you divide the whole number by three<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You find the result will exactly express<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The half of six hundred and sixty, no less—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by turning the sixes of 660 upside down, -when it becomes 990, and satisfies the conditions.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref125">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref693">56</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The press parody ran <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">There was a young turkey, oh, bless her!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It cost very little to dress her;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Some breadcrumbs and thyme<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">About Thanksgiving time,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And they ate every bit from the dresser!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref127">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref694">57</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">She loses her head when she joins the brides,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">He joins them after tea;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But both are swept by ruthless tides<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Away on the western sea.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Hebrides</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref130">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page300">[300]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref695">58</h3> - -<p>If I have 91 bananas on my barrow, and find, -when I have sold one quality at four a penny, -and the other at three a penny, that in mixed -lots at seven for twopence I should have made a -penny more, I had 64 of inferior and 27 of better -sort.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref131">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref696">59</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The words in italics have the same <span class="nowrap">letters—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">How does the sluggard’s garden grow?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When <i>rates</i> are high, results are low.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">His borders <i>tares</i> and bindweed spoil,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No careful culture <i>tears</i> the soil;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What weeds that <i>stare</i> are all alive<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Where <i>aster</i>, pink, or rose should thrive.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref135">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref697">60</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Correctly drawn results I yield,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Varied, but welcome everywhere;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But met with in the open field<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I’m banned if frequent, blest if rare.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To this peculiar difference the clue<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is called with much significance the cue.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Cheque</i>, <i>check</i> (the letter Q).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref137">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref698">61</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The three towns buried in the <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Wait while I think the matter over,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">On holiday intent;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The best I’ve seen is surely Dover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That pretty port of Kent.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">are <i>Leith</i>, <i>Thebes</i>, <i>St Ives</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref138">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page301">[301]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref699">62</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">An Arab came to the river side,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With a donkey bearing an obelisk;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But he did not venture to ford the tide,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For he had to good an ass to risk (<i>asterisk</i>).<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">So he camped all night by that river side,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Secure till the tide had ceased to swell,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For he knew that whenever the donkey died,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">No other could be its <i>parallel</i> (‖).<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref62">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref700">63</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">What ho, my jolly <i>second!</i> never say my <i>first</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">While my final you can find in Amsterdam.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Think how a sound <i>whole</i> stays your hunger and your thirst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Deftly readjusting bread and meat and jam.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Dietary</i> (Amsterdam is on the -River Y).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref142">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref701">64</h3> - -<p>The schoolboy who calculated that if he had -made as many more runs at a cricket match, and -half as many more, and two runs and a half, he -would have made a score, scored seven runs.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref144">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref702">65</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Six letters spell the happy state<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of two in love made one.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The same six letters tell the fate<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of marriage ties undone.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>United</i>, <i>untied</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref146">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page302">[302]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref703">66</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">riddle—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first’s a bond, my second’s weigh;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">These own the rest of all my lay;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Busy my third; fourth like the pole,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whose opposite my fifth makes goal.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Shackle</i>, <i>Tons</i>, <i>Ant</i>, <i>Arctic Expedition</i>.</p> - -<p>[Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackleton, R.N., leader -of his South Polar Expedition.]</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref148">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref704">67</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">For two months at the <i>nets</i> we played,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Ere we were <i>sent</i> to Lord’s;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Alas! the score our champion made<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Was what a <i>nest</i> affords.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The crowd in <i>tens</i> of thousands came,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But took scant notice of the game.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref149">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref705">68</h3> - -<p>When Edwin and Angelina received these -mutual <span class="nowrap">Marconigrams—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“No fickle girl is bonnie to my mind.”</p> - -<p class="centerline">“In love inconstant I no pleasure find,”</p> - -<p class="noindent">he was at Lisbon and she was at Constantinople, -as is indicated by the fact that the names of these -places are “buried” in the messages.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref151">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref706">69</h3> - -<p>The Mental <span class="nowrap">Arithmetic—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Set down three figures in a line,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then multiply by four;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">This, if you use the proper sign,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Makes five, and nothing more.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by 1.25. In 1<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub> the figures are not <i>in a -line</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref153">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page303">[303]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref707">70</h3> - -<p>The doublet by missing words, in which a -grilse is turned into a salmon, is solved <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To silver Tweed, or broader Spey,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The <i>grilse</i> of <i>silver</i>, <i>sailer</i> gay,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Guides on; the <i>sailor morals</i> draws<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When <i>salmon</i> follows Nature’s laws.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">One letter is changed in each link.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref157">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref708">71</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I never move, and yet I run<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">From place to place all day;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Some loving swain, hot foot for fun,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Sees Dora in my way—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Road</i>, which spells also <i>Dora</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref158">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref709">72</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">Letters—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline gesp4">HAATTCEUMSSSS</p> - -<p class="noindent">form the name of the State <i>Massachusetts</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref160">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref710">73</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Seven words in one of letters five we fix,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Six English, and one Latin;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No need to twist them, or afresh to mix,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">If puzzles you are pat in.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>There</i>: the words are—<i>there</i>, <i>here</i>, -<i>her</i>, <i>the</i>, <i>ere</i>, <i>he</i>, <i>re</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref161">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page304">[304]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref711">74</h3> - -<p>The full solution of the answer by anagram to -the question, “Why is every angler ipso facto -an Ananias?” <span class="nowrap">is—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">A liar, he spins gay fancies to a woven yarn.</p> - -<p>Question and answer are spelt with <i>the same -letters</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref162">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref712">75</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The quaint <span class="nowrap">riddle—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Peter White<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Will never go right;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Shall I tell you the reason why?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Wherever he goes,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He follows his nose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And that stands all awry!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If this appendage had slanted more.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Why would it serve a hole to bore?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved thus—It would be <i>Askewer</i> (a skewer!)</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref164">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref713">76</h3> - -<p>“S” is the missing letter which occurs 55 times, -and these are the four <span class="nowrap">lines:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">This season’s sunshine smiles, such storms as pass<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Assist us to assess success or loss.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Spring’s sweetness still possesses mossy grass,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">As summer’s tresses mass soft shades across.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref166">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref714">77</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Protected, open, plain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Without my tail I’m flat;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m round, curtailed again;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Again, you have me pat!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Patent</i>, <i>paten</i>, <i>pate</i>, <i>pat</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref169">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page305">[305]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref715">78</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">logogriph—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When all are gay this holds the sway,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">But take a letter out,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That change of fare is ruling there,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">You see, without a doubt.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me twice; it is not nice<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">To have this in your skin;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Lop head and tail, and find a nail<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Or tack to drive it in.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead this right, and in your sight<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">A little word you find;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But you will never make it out,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Though it is in your mind.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>feasting</i>, <i>fasting</i>, <i>sting</i>, <i>tin</i>, <i>in</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref171">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref716">79</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">He <i>prides</i> himself much on his skill,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In many a burglary tried;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But when he <i>prised</i> open the till<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">There was only a <i>spider</i> inside.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics are spelt with the same -letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref177">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref717">80</h3> - -<p>The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Three-fourths of me an act display,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Three-fourths a bed for man;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Three-fourths have legs that cannot stray,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Three-fourths have legs that can.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I have a back without a spine,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">An arm without a bone is mine.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Coat</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref179">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref718">81</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is the French for my second,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole a narcotic is reckoned<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Lethe</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref180">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page306">[306]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref719">82</h3> - -<p>The two palindrome words which can be formed -from the letters of the sentence “Arrive to vote -at it,” are <i>Rotator</i> and <i>Evitative</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref182">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref720">83</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Sweet till I lose my head,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Sweet-hearted then I show;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Decapitate again, I spread,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And cannot be below.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Served so once more, I am not dead,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But with fresh beauty glow.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Clover</i>, <i>lover</i>, <i>over</i>, <i>ver</i> (Latin for -Spring).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref184">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref721">84</h3> - -<p>When Tommy undertook to put a shilling in -his money-box if his father would give him as -much as he had in his purse, and after repeating -the process for three more days found himself -penniless, he had elevenpence farthing in his -purse at first.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref186">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref722">85</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Two articles of English make,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And three from foreign source.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All these together you must take<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Where dramas run their course.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Theatres</i> (<i>tres</i>, Latin for <i>three</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref188">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref723">86</h3> - -<p>When young Hopeful said, “If it were possible -I should choose a life double as long,” and old -Sobersides answered, “Yes, and you might turn -it to better account if it was also begun old,” -and the fact that their actual words “double -as long,” and “also begun old,” were spelt with -<i>exactly the same letters</i>, gave emphasis to the reply.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref190">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page307">[307]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref724">87</h3> - -<p>The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Lop head and tail, and you will find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I have both tail and head.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or if for spirits you’ve a mind<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Set my tail first instead.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Life, as “a vapour full of woes,”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With many a darker page,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole in picture will disclose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For “all the world’s a stage!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Drama</i>, <i>ram</i>, <i>a dram</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref192">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref725">88</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A glowing <i>transept</i> window, graced<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With <i>patterns</i> that true art has traced.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref194">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref726">89</h3> - -<p>The proof by anagram that the words of commendation -“blessed in pain,” are properly applied -to anæsthetics, is that exactly the same letters -spell <i>indispensable</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref195">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref727">90</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The quotation buried in the <span class="nowrap">sentence—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">“What sin was it, sonny?” said an American -negress to her lover, when she sat on his best -hat, which was flattened. Wearily he heard her -musical laugh, and arose to go. His hobby was -botany, but not hers, for she was then a merry -girl. “Bother the flowers! I would prefer -this mellow pineapple, Leonidas,” she said; “I -guess we Ethiopians just love fruit!”</p> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75">is “What’s in a name? That which we call a -rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref198">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page308">[308]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref728">91</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">They <i>grab</i> the dress with grip so keen<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That half the <i>garb</i> gives way:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And home return with purses lean<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To <i>brag</i> of “bargain-day”!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics are spelt with the same -four letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref200">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref729">92</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Three <i>ladies</i> went sailing out into the West,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Out into the West as the sun sank low;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Each thought as she <i>sailed</i> of the lad she loved best<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For they all had <i>ideals</i>, and each had a beau.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<p class="centerline gesp300">......</p> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent2">But seas will rise, and spirits will sink,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And they all were too ill of <i>ideals</i> to think,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So these <i>ladies sailed</i> back moaning!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics have the same six letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref202">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref730">93</h3> - -<p>The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Lurking in riddles oft my first is found;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second should in ample stores abound,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or help to make the sweetest songster heard.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Peculiar, and quite proper, is my third.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole has found with England’s monarch grace,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The verdant home of many a goodly race,<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Punchestown</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref204">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref731">94</h3> - -<p>The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Accent my head,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">An opening I appear;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In other fashion said<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I charm all far and near—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Entrance</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref207">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page309">[309]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref732">95</h3> - -<p>The two <span class="nowrap">sentences—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="blankbefore75">A lamp shines out for thee,<br /> -Win me best by tears,</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="blankbefore75 noindent">are anagrams of <i>The Houses of Parliament</i> -and <i>Westminster Abbey</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref209">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref733">96</h3> - -<p>When on the Brighton beach an excited -collie in pursuit of stones thrown into the sea, -suggested the riddle, “What is the difference -between that dog and a hungry man?” The -appropriate answer was, “The one stops and -shakes himself; the other chops and steaks -himself!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref210">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref734">97</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The hidden animal <span class="nowrap">in—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A part of me in rain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in hail must be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part belongs to pain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in bones we see,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in gleaming gold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in common copper.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in peace behold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A part in any topper,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Two parts are heard in sound,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And in our finals found.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is <i>Rhinoceros</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref212">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref735">98</h3> - -<p>The smart <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Men commonly say I am clever,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Book-learning I never could boast;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet I turn the leaves inside the cover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And when I am found I am lost.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>A Fox</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref214">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page310">[310]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref736">99</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>A sot</i> is like a <i>toast</i>, or what is most<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Comparative, a <i>toast</i> is like <i>a sot</i>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For when their substances in liquor sink<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Both properly are said to be in drink.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics are spelt with the same -letters, the <i>t</i> being repeated in <i>toast</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref215">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref737">100</h3> - -<p>The pied proverb is “Fine words butter no -parsnips.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref217">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref738">101</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The puzzle <span class="nowrap">verse—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A wordy warfare waged with wit,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In youth its joys none need descry;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But where our elders take to it<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Its name points loss of dignity,<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Badinage</i> (bad in age).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref218">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref739">102</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The hero’s name, hidden <span class="nowrap">in—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first’s in garb, but not in dress;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next’s in praise, but not in bliss;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third’s in man, but not in miss;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent13">My fourth’s in we.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My fifth’s in boar, but not in hog;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My sixth’s in cat, but not in dog;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next’s in calm, but not in fog;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent13">My eighth’s in we.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My ninth’s in rope, but not in twine;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My tenth’s in light, but not in shine;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next’s in four, but not in nine;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent13">My twelfth’s in we.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is <i>General Wolfe</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref220">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page311">[311]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref740">103</h3> - -<p class="noindent">Here is the sentence given with its appropriate -and perfect <span class="nowrap">anagram—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">A defeat whose test is very sure.<br /> -<i>Sweet are the uses of adversity.</i></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref223">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref741">104</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The phonetic missing words are given in -<span class="nowrap">italics:—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">’Tis <i>plain</i> that no one takes a <i>plane</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To <i>pare</i> a <i>pair</i> of <i>pears</i>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A <i>rake</i> may often take a <i>rake</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To <i>tear</i> away the <i>tares</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref225">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref742">105</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The queer <span class="nowrap">obstacle—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m in everyone’s way,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Yet no one I stop.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My four horns each day<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Horizontally play,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And my head is nailed on at the top.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is <i>A turnstile</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref227">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref743">106</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The old <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Take five from five, and then<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Put fifty in the middle;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Twice ten times five times ten<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Will finish off my riddle,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And bring it to your ken<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">As fit as any fiddle!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When Jacky Barrett, learned Don,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Composed his famous riddle,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">His thoughts, perhaps, were resting on<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The strings of his old FIDDLE.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref229">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page312">[312]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref744">107</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The phonetic gaps are filled <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">No <i>quail</i> will <i>quail</i> before the wind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A <i>bough</i> will <i>bow</i> before it;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">We cannot <i>rein</i> the <i>rain</i>, or find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That earthly powers <i>reign</i> o’er it.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref231">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref745">108</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">We seem to sound a note of lavish bounty;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Reverse us, and we indicate a county—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by X S—S X.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref233">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref746">109</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">cryptogram—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0 gesp4">FTHNMLKBRNGSLLCTTN<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0 gesp4">LLSKMTMXTTLLTSTHN!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by inserting the letter “I” throughout, -when this rhyming couplet is <span class="nowrap">formed—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If thin milk brings illicit tin,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’ll skim it, mix it, till it’s thin!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref234">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref747">110</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The buried proverb <span class="nowrap">in—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet I see them all! on golden wings that fly<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Old memories steal anew;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With a tear, with a sigh, with an old, old cry<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">They return in ghostly hue!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is <i>’Tis a long lane that has no turning</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref236">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref748">111</h3> - -<p>Lewis Carroll’s doublet, which changes ELM -into OAK by seven links, introducing the name -of another tree as one of them, is solved thus -by <span class="nowrap">him—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">ELM, ELL, ALL, AIL, AIR, FIR, FAR, OAR, OAK.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page313">[313]</span></p> - -<p>A shorter solution is by these six links—<i>Ely</i>, -<i>sly</i>, <i>say</i>, <i>bay</i>, <i>bat</i>, <i>oat</i>; and one of these (<i>bay</i>) is -also a tree, as was <i>fir</i>, so that the conditions given -are fulfilled.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref237">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref749">112</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My dear Mr Bird,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">We are giving a ball;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">First second we third,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Pray give us your all.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>attendance</i>.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Second, I did my first and last,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Till I became my whole,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And told the tale of my repast,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A sad and greedy soul.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>satiate</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref239">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref750">113</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, industrious, wends his way<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">His daily task to meet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead, transpose a, lo! a sound<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of music soft and sweet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, I make my way<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With swiftness past belief;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Again, and where the fields are gay<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My bounty brings relief.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Artisan</i>, <i>strain</i>, <i>train</i>, <i>rain</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref241">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref751">114</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The lines by an old Oxbridge <span class="nowrap">don—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“’Tis an absurdity to say<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Women should try for a B.A.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To College honours forward looking;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">They’d best confine themselves to cooking!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page314">[314]</span></p> - -<p class="noindent">can be happily met by this retort in the same -words, recast by a Girton <span class="nowrap">girl—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“Women should try for a B.A.,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To College honours forward looking;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">’Tis an absurdity to say<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">They’d best confine themselves to cooking!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref243">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref752">115</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Eight letters (start with b)<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Three syllables contain;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take one away, and see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Four syllables remain!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Beautify</i>, <i>Beatify</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref244">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref753">116</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The beasts buried in the <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Ireland’s lot heals slowly. Troubles came long -ago—at times in battalions—to attack and harass -her. Ambitious democrats now countermine -famous enthusiasts nearly akin to heroes. -Anarchy enables cowards to sow hot terror -and all amazement, <span class="nowrap">are—</span></p> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75">eland, sloth, camel, goat, bat, lion, stoat, ass, -ram, fat, ermine, mouse, yak, roe, hyena, cow, -sow, otter and llama.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref245">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref754">117</h3> - -<p class="noindent">This is the palindrome verse that reads and -rhymes from either <span class="nowrap">end—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Dies slowly fading day, winds mournful sigh,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Brightly stars are waking;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Flies owlet hooting, holding revel high,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Nightly silence breaking.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page315">[315]</span></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref246">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref755">118</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The anagram recast from “The Observatory -at Greenwich in England” is completed <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline"><i>On landing here begin to watch every star.</i></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref247">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref756">119</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">No man at all am I,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And, if you turn me round,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To hear my warning cry<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Not any men are found.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Nemo</i>, <i>omen</i>, <i>o men</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref248">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref757">120</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">question—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">How can our sailors fare the best<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">When times are harder?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">How do they greet with merry jest<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">An empty larder?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<p class="centerline">FOWL IS FARE.</p> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Wind that blows foul and chops about,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With lighter puffs,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And finds the thirsty sailor stout,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Brings food enough!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref249">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref758">121</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I lose my head when I am here,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Transpose me I am three;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Look in a book, you find me there,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And with me her and he—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>There</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref250">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page316">[316]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref759">122</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Jack did <i>declaim</i> that he could square<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The circle to a <i>decimal</i>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">His friends <i>claimed</i> that a brain so rare<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Required attention <i>medical</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics are spelt with the same -letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref251">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref760">123</h3> - -<p>A Mr Harwood had two daughters by his first -wife, the elder of these was married to John -Coshick. This Coshick had a daughter by his -first wife, whom old Harwood married. Thus -Harwood’s daughter could <span class="nowrap">say—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My father is my son,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And I’m my mother’s mother;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My daughter and sister are one,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I’m grandam to my brother!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref252">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref761">124</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Catch my first with nimble wit,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Add a simple word;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then my whole may help a bit<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Opportunely heard.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Catchword</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref253">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref762">125</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">paradox—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My mate and I from home did start,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Some little space we were apart.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When we had run a mile or more<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">We kept our distance, as before;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Shade of Colenso! could this be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When twice as fast as I ran he?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by the fact that the lines apply to the -large and small wheels of a bicycle.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref254">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page317">[317]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref763">126</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The enigma from Lewis Carroll’s <span class="nowrap">Papers—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A monument all men agree<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Am I in all sincerity,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Half cat, half hindrance made.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If head and tail removed should be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then most of all you strengthen me.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Replace my head, the stand you see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">On which my tail is laid.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Tablet</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref255">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref764">127</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m known to the poorest and worst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And my worth by a child may be reckoned;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The least thing in nature is double my first,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And my whole is just half of my second.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Halfpenny</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref256">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref765">128</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first without its head and tail<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is one and undivided;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second shows its teeth, is frail,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And as a rule one-sided.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The two to hold my first avail,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">By busy toil provided.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Honeycomb</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref257">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref766">129</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The towns buried in the <span class="nowrap">sentences—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">His sister played the piano while we sang.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I saw Nell out here last evening.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The general rode a large black mare.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I have ordered a cab at half-past one.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Meet me in the lane at half-past nine.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">are <i>Lewes</i>, <i>Louth</i>, <i>Deal</i>, <i>Bath</i> and <i>Neath</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref258">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page318">[318]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref767">130</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The anagram on “The leaning tower of Pisa, -in Tuscany, Italy,” is completed <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">A funny spot in a sweet city; <i>I o’erhang it all</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref259">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref768">131</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent6">When they found that catacomb<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Near the <i>Capitol</i> at Rome<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">’Twas the <i>topical</i> discussion of the season;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">But the <i>optical</i> effect<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Of the skeletons select<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Deprived the poor Professor of his reason!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics are spelt with the same -letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref260">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref769">132</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is pretence,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second a dandy;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When fogs are most dense<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole will be handy.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Flambeau</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref261">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref770">133</h3> - -<p>If we adopt the old spelling of the final word, -we can prove by anagram that Bacon had no -hand at anyrate in Shakespeare’s play “Much -Ado About Nothinge,” for the same letters exactly -spell “<i>Bacon? O, naught due to him!</i>”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref262">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref771">134</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Use all your wits to guess my all,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Can any guess it right?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Transposed, and never seen at all,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">It still is felt in sight.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead, transpose, then let it be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And you at last a clue may see.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Left</i>, <i>felt</i>, <i>let</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref263">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page319">[319]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref772">135</h3> - -<p>“Insanitary” and “sanitary reform” are very -happily recast by anagram thus—<i>In nasty air; -Former air nasty</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref264">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref773">136</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Let my second cut my first<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">When I come to table;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though I cannot quench your thirst<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Eat me—you are able.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Cutlet</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref265">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref774">137</h3> - -<p class="noindent">These are the completed <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">What mars a land so sadly as a war?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">What days as dark as days that wars alarm?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Alas! ask any, ask at hand, afar,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">All shall call war a harass and a harm.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Why call, as ballads talk, that ghastly art<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">All gallant acts—a grand and manly part?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>It will be seen that “a” was the only missing -letter.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref266">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref775">138</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To me when whole, for I am sweet,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The moon fresh brightness brings;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my tail, I’m blunt, but meet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To sharpen other things.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me twice, and I have led<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Soldiers to face the foe;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Headless and tailless, one remains<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Though all the rest may go.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by Honey (honey-moon; hone; Ney; -one).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref267">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page320">[320]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref776">139</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">We start when the ninth hour is past,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then there’s an end of you.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A vengeful goddess shows at last<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">What Antifat will do.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Attenuate</i>:—at ten, u, Ate, goddess -of Revenge.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref268">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref777">140</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When on charades intent I take my pen,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To seek some hidden goal,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Over my first my second comes, and then<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Quite overcomes my whole.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Overcomes</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref269">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref778">141</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The cryptogram which was sent as a reliable -tip before a race in which Petronel was to <span class="nowrap">run—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Tell me, Ben, who tore it.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Seek a plant for it, see Bob.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is deciphered <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Take every third letter, and you arrive at -Lenortepnoteb. Read this backwards, and you -have the tip, “Bet on Petronel!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref270">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref779">142</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I have no form, I have no friend,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">From me all come, in me all end.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And it is strange but very true<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That I am here and nowhere too—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Nothing</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page321">[321]</span></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref271">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref780">143</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The broken <span class="nowrap">sentence—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">A <span class="padl3">sed</span> <span class="padl2">end</span> <span class="padl2">ought</span> -<span class="padl1 padr2">eat</span> <span class="padl3">ease</span> <span class="padl5">ain.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent">is thus filled in to describe a curse and to proclaim -its <span class="nowrap">cure—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">A cursed fiend brought death, disease and pain;<br /> -A blessed friend brought breath and ease again.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref272">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref781">144</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is a cover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second a city;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The whole you discover<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With this if you’re witty.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Capacity</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref273">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref782">145</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The four rivers buried in the <span class="nowrap">sentence—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">The deaf and dumb girl began gesticulating -with a message, and her delivery was ever neat, -with graceful pose in every attitude.</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75 noindent">are <i>Ganges</i>, <i>Thames</i>, <i>Severn</i> and <i>Seine</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref274">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref783">146</h3> - -<p>If the “shingle” on the Brighton beach could -speak, it might boast by anagram, “I am -<i>English</i>!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref275">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref784">147</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">She is as deaf as any post,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Incurable I fear;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">She is my guest, I am her host,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">How can I make her hear?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by adding an a to <i>her</i>, which becomes -<i>hear</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref276">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page322">[322]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref785">148</h3> - -<p>The missing words in the “Plaint of the -Rejected” are—<i>The R.A.</i>, <i>hater</i>, <i>heart</i>, <i>earth</i>, -<i>Herat</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref277">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref786">149</h3> - -<p>The man who could attach a phonetic meaning -to the words “Beta in Greek means letter B,” -could in another fashion invite others to beat -his wife by merely calling them and saying, -“<i>Hither!</i>” (hit her).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref278">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref787">150</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">rebus—</span></p> - -<table class="thunderstorm" summary="Rebus"> - -<tr> -<td>storm?<br />a th</td> -<td>an umbrella<br />me who</td> -<td>with<br />alls</td> -<td>all<br />mud</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="noindent">is solved thus—Who follows me under an -umbrella, with overalls all over mud, after a -thunderstorm?</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref279">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref788">151</h3> - -<p class="noindent">This is the completed <span class="nowrap">palindrome:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">Nor I nor Emma had level’d a hammer on iron.<br /></p> - -<p>It reads alike from either end.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref280">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref789">152</h3> - -<p>The tutor came to the conclusion that there is -nothing in Ecclesiastical Law to prevent the Pope -from burying the Archbishop of Canterbury, but -the undergraduate who had proposed the question -demurred to this reply; pressed for his reason he -said, as his face broke into a smile, “He cannot -do so, because <i>the Archbishop is not dead</i>!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref281">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page323">[323]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref790">153</h3> - -<p>The proverb buried in the sentence, “While -there are very many as kind as this, they know -no task unkind,” is, “<i>Let every man skin his own -skunk</i>.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref282">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref791">154</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Kate gathers me where children three,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Tom, Jane, and Mary, chatter;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He leads the way and then we see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The other two come at her!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Heather</i> (he, at her).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref283">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref792">155</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The quotation from Shakespeare buried <span class="nowrap">in—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Strange weather! What could equal it? -Yesterday sunshine and soft breezes, to-day a -summer cyclone raging noisily; then other -changes, as floods of fiercest rain eddy beneath -the blast.</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75 noindent">is “The quality of mercy is not strained.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref284">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref793">156</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The beetroot palindrome, which reads alike -from either end <span class="nowrap">is—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">RED ROOT PUT UP TO ORDER</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref285">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref794">157</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> we all do when we fail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>next</i> is heard in rain or hail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>fourth</i> a sheep of gender male;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>third</i> is one without its tail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i> for foreign countries sail.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Missionaries</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref286">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page324">[324]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref795">158</h3> - -<p>The words written on the walls of a Western -college gained their ambiguous sense from the -three final words, printed in italics—“Young -women should set a good example, for young -men <i>will follow them</i>!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref287">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref796">159</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m but a little letter, still<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I have my duties to fulfil;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">If off you take<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My tail, and make<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">An alteration in my lot,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though I seem shorter I am not.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Note</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref288">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref797">160</h3> - -<p class="noindent">This is the full <span class="nowrap">text—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Says Tom to Bill, “Pray tell me, sir,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Why is it that the devil,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In spite of all his naughty ways<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Can never be uncivil?”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Says Bill to Tom, “The answer’s plain<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To any mind that’s bright;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Because the <i>imp o’ darkness</i>, sir,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Cannot be <i>imp o’ light</i>!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref289">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref798">161</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Beneath the <i>limes</i> which shade the lawn<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Her bicycle she mounted;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And with a <i>smile</i>, ere she had gone<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">An hour, ten <i>miles</i> she counted.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It rained, it snowed, but nought could stop her,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Till in the <i>slime</i>, she came a cropper!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref290">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page325">[325]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref799">162</h3> - -<p>The date of the new organ given by the -English is concealed in the lines of this inscription -above its keyboard at Ober <span class="nowrap">Ammergau—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="blankbefore75">QVI CHRISTI LAVDES CANTANT<br /> -SANCTÆ PASSIONIS SVÆ VIRTVTE<br /> -IN IPSO ET PATRE VNVM SINT.</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="blankbefore75">If the Roman numerals that occur in the -words are added together, they amount to 1894, -the date of its completion.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref291">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref800">163</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent2">A woman’s name<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of foreign fame,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Hers was a noble mind.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Now, sir, transpose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And I suppose<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No smaller thing you’ll find.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Stael</i>, <i>least</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref292">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref801">164</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The French <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Pour avoir mon <i>premier</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Femme qui cache mon <i>dernier</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Manque souvent mon <i>entier</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Mari-age</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref293">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref802">165</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Let go! let go! you naughty first,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or you will make my second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A stream of words will then outburst,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Swift as my whole is reckoned.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Current</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref294">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page326">[326]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref803">166</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is first when cruisers charge in line,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And oft in frosty skies is seen to shine.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Don’t spare my second if you would suggest<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To an impulsive child the way that’s best.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My sporting whole, though now neglected grown,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Travelled by tube before the tube was known.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Ramrod</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref295">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref804">167</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">First of men we lead a measure,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Last we end the same.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Starting merrily, our pleasure<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is to finish lame.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by the letters <i>me</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref296">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref805">168</h3> - -<p>When Tom declared that he could give his -sister quite a simple sentence of seven common -English words of one syllable, which she could -not produce on her typewriter, he had in his -mind, “We can spell (to, too, two) in three -ways,” which cannot, of course, be expressed in -seven written words.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref297">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref806">169</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The French <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Mon premier est un tyran, mon second un horreur,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Mon tout est le diable lui-même.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Mais si mon premier est bon, mon second ne fait rien,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Et mon tout est le bonheur suprême.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Mariage</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref298">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page327">[327]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref807">170</h3> - -<p>Sydney Smith’s conclusion as to the value and -satisfaction of a City dinner was completed thus:—“I -cannot wholly value a dinner by the <i>test -you do</i>!” (Turtle, in Latin, <i>testudo</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref299">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref808">171</h3> - -<p class="center">DEAN SWIFT’S ENIGMA—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In youth exalted high in air,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or bathing in the streamlet fair,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Nature to form me took delight<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And clothed my body all in white;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My person tall and slender waist<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">On either side with fringes graced;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Till me that tyrant Man espied,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And dragg’d me from my mother’s side.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No wonder that I look so thin,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The monster stripp’d me to the skin;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My body flay’d, my hair he cropp’d,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And head and foot both off he lopp’d;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Pick’d all the marrow from my bone.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And then, with heart more hard than stone,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To vex me more, he took a freak<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To slit my tongue, and make me speak.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But that which wonderful appears,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I speak to eyes and not to ears.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All languages I now command<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet not a word I understand.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>A Goose-quill</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref300">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref809">172</h3> - -<p>The answer to the riddle propounded by the -possessor of a new <span class="smcap">Keen Kut</span> razor to his friend -whose chin was disfigured by scars, “What is -the difference between my razor and yours?” is—“Mine -cuts thoroughly; yours also cuts, -tho’ roughly!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref301">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page328">[328]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref810">173</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The decapitated words are in <span class="nowrap">italics—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The ship rode in an <i>eastern</i> bay,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Asleep <i>astern</i> the master lay,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A <i>stern</i> and rugged man was he,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And, like a <i>tern</i>, at home at sea.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like swooping <i>ern</i> he caught his prey<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whene’er an <i>R.N</i>. came his way;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But while due <i>N</i>. the needle kept<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He in his cabin lay and slept.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">The ern, or erne, is the sea-eagle.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref302">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref811">174</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When the tempest roars the loudest<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Oft my first a shelter proves.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Say what fair one, though the proudest,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Spurns my next from one she loves?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When the storms of life are past<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Earth provides my whole at last.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Covering</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref303">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref812">175</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">One syllable, I help to turn the scale<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of party strife or faction;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Recast me, and two syllables avail<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To stop all further action.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>vote</i>, <i>veto</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref304">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref813">176</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The lines to an owl are filled in <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Oh, on old towers, thou gloomy owl,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Thou lovest to hoot, thou lovest to howl.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or on old oaks your hollow tone<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So lost, so solemn, sounds alone,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So mournful no one loves to go<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or of your hooting howls to know.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The vowel “o” occurs forty-six times in the six -lines.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref305">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page329">[329]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref814">177</h3> - -<p class="noindent">In the Army <span class="nowrap">anagram—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m free to-day, the <i>old sire</i> said,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>O no cell</i> now have I to dread;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For this one happy day to me<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>Are glen</i> and hill and forest free,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I, if I will, can ride, or fish,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>A pit can</i> enter, if I wish,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In search of chalk or sand.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In peace alone I now can dine,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And sing to Anna’s <i>lute at nine</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent8">Nor fear a reprimand.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">the words in italics spell also <i>soldier</i>, <i>colonel</i>, -<i>general</i>, <i>captain</i>, and <i>lieutenant</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref306">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref815">178</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first transposed becomes a name<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Which may quite mean be reckoned,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Two syllables combine the same,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With one or two for second.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole when fields are fresh and green,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And softly blows the wind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Where the first signs of spring are seen<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Within the woods we find.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Anemone</i>, the <i>wind</i> flower (name, -mean, anem, one, o, ne).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref307">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref816">179</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The anagram <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Silent long is the wood-bird’s song,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Bare is the woodland bough;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For waving trees in wintry breeze<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Have “no buds now.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>snowbound</i>, which contains exactly -the same letters as “no buds now.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref308">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page330">[330]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref817">180</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The question of <span class="nowrap">time—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A farmer with children sixteen<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Killed the fattest young lamb of his flock.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To divide it these children between,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">What must be the time by the clock?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>a quarter to four</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref309">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref818">181</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The Donkey <span class="nowrap">drive—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To the far end of any train<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Hitch on a pair of neddies;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then you will hear, like steps of Cain,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The threat that in their tread is.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Ass-ass-in</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref310">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref819">182</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The “Eating by Alphabet” <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Take all the alphabet, and cast<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Its final letter out;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then set the first where was the last,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And this you bring about:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Without a cook, without a fire,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A dainty dish which men desire.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by A past Y (a pasty).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref311">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref820">183</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My second with my first we greet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole in earlier days<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Gave understanding to the feet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That moved in tragic plays.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Buskin</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref312">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page331">[331]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref821">184</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">sentence—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">Behest on thy lips, Society;</p> - -<p class="noindent">forms an Anagram of the proverb</p> - -<p class="centerline">“Honesty is the best policy.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref313">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref822">185</h3> - -<p>This sentence, fashioned by eight schoolboys as -anagrams on their Christian names, arranged -in <span class="nowrap">order—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75 noindent">“I thy Tom am sober and lie or live in dew, but -her brain <span class="nowrap">sinned”—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75 noindent">reveals, when deciphered, the names Timothy, -Ambrose, Daniel, Oliver, Edwin, Hubert, Brian -and Dennis.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref314">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref823">186</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In any coward’s company you find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That I have place.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my head, and from your mind<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">All wrong erase.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Fright</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref315">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref824">187</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The double <span class="nowrap">acrostic—</span></p> - -<p class="center">From “Punch,” 1875.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent2">My first, elect among the few,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Chooses my second to expose his view.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">1. Of various colours, changed at will,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dontshow">1. </span>I sit or stand for good or ill.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">2. I rule alone from noon till night,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="dontshow">2. </span>And when I am not am is right.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>M. P.<br /> -P. M.</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref316">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page332">[332]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref825">188</h3> - -<p>A man in a rage should go to a “shooting -gallery,” because by its Anagram it is <i>largely -soothing</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref317">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref826">189</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">beatitude—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Let her be or beat her,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Give her little ease;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then in safety seat her<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">All among the bees,<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>A Queen Bee</i>. The <i>Bee</i> is made up of -the <i>letter b</i> (let her be), in Greek called Beta -(beat her), and two little <i>e</i>’s (ease).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref318">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref827">190</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">puzzle-lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“We,” cried my first and second,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">“Are not quite satisfied.”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“The story may be reckoned<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Imperfect,” fourth replied.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Said third, “The fact indeed I tell,”<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And so at last all ended well.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">are cleared up by <i>Satisfactory</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref319">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref828">191</h3> - -<p>The English proverb which is concealed under -its <span class="nowrap">anagram—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">“I dare not admit faint women,”</p> - -<p class="noindent">is <i>Time and tide wait for no man</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref320">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref829">192</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first and second are as best they should be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third in Latin mouth is what it would be,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole would soon be ashes if it could be.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Asbestos</i> (<i>os</i> is Latin for <i>mouth</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref321">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page333">[333]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref830">193</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Since Spooks, a <i>subtle</i> man is he,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2"><i>Sublet</i> this haunted house to me,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In <i>bluest</i> funk I <i>bustle</i> round,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And fear a ghost in every sound.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">The four words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref322">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref831">194</h3> - -<p>That which is found in the centre of Australia -and of America, and in no other place, is the -letter “r” (no othe<i>r</i> place).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref323">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref832">195</h3> - -<p>Grandfather’s riddle, “Do you know why is the -fourth of July?” is solved by the fact that the -fourth letter of that word is y!</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref324">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref833">196</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> is never far away,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>next</i> in Latin found;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>third</i> may rage by night or day;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2"><i>All</i> make melodious sound.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Nightingale</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref325">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref834">197</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Through the <i>forest</i> trees<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Softly coo the doves;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Let a <i>softer</i> breeze<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2"><i>Foster</i> youthful loves!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref326">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref835">198</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">At starting half your income take,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Then for my second write;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And let your table help to make<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The total cosy quite.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Comfortable</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref327">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page334">[334]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref836">199</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is a circle complete,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Beheaded I fall to your feet.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me again and I fry,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or am baked in a savoury pie.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Wheel</i>, <i>heel</i>, <i>eel</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref328">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref837">200</h3> - -<p>The anagram sentences are recast thus into -single <span class="nowrap">words—</span></p> - -<div class="container w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">See a pug dog.<span class="righttext">Red paper.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Pedagogues.</i><span class="righttext"><i>Prepared.</i></span></p> - -<p class="center">Fat reward.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Afterward.</i></p> - -<p class="noindent">Stay, O morn.<span class="righttext">Set on a dish.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Astronomy.</i><span class="righttext"><i>Astonished.</i></span></p> - -</div><!--container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref329">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref838">201</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If my whole by my second and first you divide,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">One more than ten thousand it gives.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In the land of my birth I have dwindled and died,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In museums my memory lives.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Do-do</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref330">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref839">202</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">paradox—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though never present, I appear,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of perfect form a token;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And all that centres round my ear<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is heard, though never spoken.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by the word <i>heard</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref331">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref840">203</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me twice, and it shall be<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That I my perfect self regain;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Restore both heads, and you shall see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That most imperfect I remain.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Incomplete</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref332">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page335">[335]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref841">204</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Grant lady, grant your <i>slave</i> his whim,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And give the coming <i>valse</i> to him,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For this will <i>salve</i> his jealous heart,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Stricken so sore by Cupid’s dart.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If not, he <i>laves</i> his hands of you,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To seek fresh <i>vales</i> and pastures new.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref333">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref842">205</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“Yes, yes, I know,” said Jack to Jill,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">“That thirty-two is freezing point:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And I can tell you, if you will,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Exactly what is squeezing-point!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Two in the shade!</i></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref334">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref843">206</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">puzzle—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To fifty add a third of one,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A third to five attach;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You have the means, when this is done,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To kindle any match.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Love</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref335">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref844">207</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The missing words are in <span class="nowrap">italics—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The untrained <i>speculator</i> in the City<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is robbed by <i>peculators</i> without pity.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref336">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref845">208</h3> - -<p class="noindent">Read backwards it <span class="nowrap">becomes—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Prosperity and peace; no barns empty; bills -long paid; not high rents; berries bright; no -birds hungry; merry Christmas comes.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref337">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page336">[336]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref846">209</h3> - -<p>The anagram plants concealed in the sentence—O -rise love it lad never let this lamb chase -trains, are: Osier, violet, lavender, thistle, balm, -china asters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref338">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref847">210</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is quite a sin by name,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third its simple cure;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second puts an end to fame,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole of ease is sure.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Sinecure</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref339">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref848">211</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">paradox—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut off my head, it is unshaken,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Cut off my tail, you turn it round,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But if both head and tail are taken,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Unconquered still I hold my ground.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by TIT.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref340">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref849">212</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Why should we quarrel, first and third,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With nought between us but a word?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Let third leave second unessayed<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To heal the breach these letters made.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If your solution be writ fair<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You find my whole disjointed there.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by I.O.U.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref341">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref850">213</h3> - -<p>When Funniboy wrote from Naples to his -friend, “Next week I am going ‘to plant onions, -etc.,’” it was an intimation by anagram that he -was bound for Constantinople.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref342">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page337">[337]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref851">214</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In haunted house to sleep I tried,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My dread <i>first</i> was my chum.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“With <i>second</i> of my <i>first</i>,” I cried,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">“My <i>whole</i> I should become.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Fearless</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref343">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref852">215</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is possessive and second:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second possessive and first.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Such banks most attractive are reckoned<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">By those for rich treasure athirst.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Thymy</i> (<i>thy</i>, <i>my</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref344">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref853">216</h3> - -<p class="noindent">This is the completed <span class="nowrap">palindrome—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">REPEL EVIL AS A LIVE LEPER,</p> - -<p class="noindent">which reads alike from either end.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref345">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref854">217</h3> - -<p>When Tom Pickles’s father tried with a lusty -puff to blow the small cork into the bottle, the -sudden compression of the air inside, followed by -its expansion, drove the cork in an unexpected -direction, so that it flew out and struck him -sharply on the mouth.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref346">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref855">218</h3> - -<p>Acorns are as strong as oaken posts when they -<i>propagate</i> (prop-a-gate).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref347">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref856">219</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The completed palindrome runs <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">“Put it up but not on tub, put it up but not -on tub, put it up,” which reads alike from either -end.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref348">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page338">[338]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref857">220</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The <i>Kates</i> of Shakespeare and of song<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Have fair and dainty features;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But she I <i>stake</i> my hopes upon<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Excels those lovely creatures.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">From <i>Keats</i> she <i>takes</i> her name so dear,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">She lives on <i>steaks</i> and honey:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">She cannot <i>skate</i>, but she can steer,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And Madeline has money.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref349">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref858">221</h3> - -<p>The two long words used recently by a -politician which can be recast by anagram to -form the sentence, “Axiomatic intelligence, or -dust” <span class="nowrap">are—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTITUDES.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref350">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref859">222</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first your bosom friend, or man or maid,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second, sounded double, tells of fate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or sounded single puts an end to hate.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Palate</i> (Até, goddess of fate).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref351">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref860">223</h3> - -<p>The sentence “Woman without her man would -be helpless” takes on a distinct meaning if the -words “without her” are read together, and a -comma is placed after “woman.” Thus—“Woman, -<i>without her</i> man would be helpless.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref352">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page339">[339]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref861">224</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The short sentences are recast into single words -<span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="container w15em"> - -<p class="noindent">A moment’s cure. -<span class="righttext">The old rocks.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Commensurate.</i> -<span class="righttext"><i>Stockholder.</i></span></p> - -<p class="noindent">Cod is nice. -<span class="righttext">It lures a cat.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent"><i>Coincides.</i> -<span class="righttext"><i>Articulates.</i></span></p> - -</div><!--container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref353">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref862">225</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Without my head I circulate<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With speed and inclination.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Without my bait, at anyrate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I still have inclination.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Transpose three letters, in unbroken state<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I then receive the ashes of the great.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Hearth</i>, <i>earth</i>, <i>heart</i> (transpose <i>eat</i> -to <i>ate</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref354">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref863">226</h3> - -<p>Here is a metrical account of the anagram -which, with some exaggeration, proclaims that -Sims Reeves was often prevented from singing -by his delicate <span class="nowrap">throat—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The audience in wrapt impatience sits;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Comes an excuse, and disappointment hisses,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Strange that <i>Sims Reeves</i>, whose singing ever <i>hits</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">By a mere shift of letters <i>ever misses</i>!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref355">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref864">227</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Consuming lust for <i>lucre</i>, now so rife,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like <i>cruel</i> <i>ulcer</i> mars both love and life.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref356">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref865">228</h3> - -<p class="noindent">This is the completed <span class="nowrap">palindrome—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">I maniac lived, a devil Cain am I.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref357">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page340">[340]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref866">229</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">And as trim bees rise or go,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A long aim I’d say, a libel O!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">contain in anagram and in proper order the -fruits <i>tamarinds</i>, <i>gooseberries</i>, and the flowers -<i>magnolia</i>, <i>daisy</i>, <i>lobelia</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref358">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref867">230</h3> - -<p class="noindent">These are the <span class="nowrap">anagrams—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>Now one old fort<br /> -<i>Tower of London</i>.</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>Rabid owl<br /> -<i>Wild Boar</i>.<br /></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref359">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref868">231</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Alas, for that forgotten day<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">When chivalry was nourish’d,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When none but friars learn’d to pray,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And beef and beauty flourish’d;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And fraud in kings was held accursed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And falsehood sin was reckon’d,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And mighty chargers bore my <i>first</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And fat monks wore my <i>second</i>!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Ah, then I carried sword and shield<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And casque with flaunting feather,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And earn’d my spurs in battle-field,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In winter and rough weather;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And polish’d many a sonnet up<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To ladies’ eyes and tresses;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And learn’d to drain my father’s cup,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And loose my falcon’s jesses!<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page341">[341]</span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The mongrel mob grows prouder;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And everything is done by steam,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And men are kill’d by powder;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And now I feel my swift decay,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And give unheeded orders;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And rot in paltry state away<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With sheriffs and recorders.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Knighthood</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref360">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref869">232</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> you oft savagely pierce through and through;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>next</i> harbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Should my <i>whole</i>, from my <i>second</i>, step into my <i>first</i>!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Earwig</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref361">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref870">233</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole describes the action of a gale,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Decapitation makes an organ play.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Again, it tells of what we do not pay.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Again behead, and half a string denote;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And last of all on music’s notes I float.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>A’blowing</i> (n-a-g).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref362">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page342">[342]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref871">234</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The proverb buried in the <span class="nowrap">sentence—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Society—how her enthusiasts worship at her -Juggernaut car. Cases exist here, proving how -illogical are these eagle-sighted, place-hunting -beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet striving -to get her smile.</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75 noindent">is “Where the carcase is there will the eagles be -gathered together.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref363">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref872">235</h3> - -<p>The answer by anagram to—What should we -put on a bird’s tail to catch it without a <i>steel-trap</i>? -is <i>Saltpetre</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref364">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref873">236</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Across my <i>first</i>, with flash and roar,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The stately vessel glides alone.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And mournful on the crowded shore<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">There stands an aged crone,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Watching my <i>second’s</i> parting smile,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">As he bids farewell to his native isle.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i> comes back to other eyes,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With beauteous change of fruit and flowers,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But dim to her are those bright skies,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And sad those joyous hours;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For, alas! my <i>first</i> is dark and deep,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And my <i>second</i> cannot hear her weep.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Season</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref365">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref874">237</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The sequel to the Arab and his ass runs <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When morning dawned, and the tide was out,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’s <i>protection</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For he had the best donkey in all that <i>section</i>.<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page343">[343]</span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Though the donkey was bravest of all his <i>race</i>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He luxuriates now in perpetual clover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And his master has gone to the prophet’s <i>embrace</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref366">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref875">238</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A <i>siren</i>, <i>risen</i> on <i>Erin’s</i> strands,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He left the <i>reins</i> in Cupid’s hands,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And watched her <i>rinse</i> her tresses;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Tresses of <i>resin</i> coloured gold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Veiling, like any frock,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A tail which, as it did unfold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Gave to poor Pat a shock.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics are spelt with the same -letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref367">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref876">239</h3> - -<p>The answer by anagram to “Where can you -be ‘in a stone-pine garden’?” is <i>Pontresina, -Engadine</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref368">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref877">240</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The words in italics are spelt with the same -<span class="nowrap">letters—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">No <i>wider</i> sympathy was ever shown<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Than when <i>weird</i> news, from Kingston <i>wired</i>, was known.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref369">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref878">241</h3> - -<p>According to its anagram, the bodily discomfort -which follows an <i>ague-fit</i> is <i>fatigue</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref370">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page344">[344]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref879">242</h3> - -<p class="noindent">This is the adjustment of the tangled -<span class="nowrap">square—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref371">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref880">243</h3> - -<p>The European rivers concealed in the eight -anagrams: Set in red robe Henri Le Roi O sell -me red pine nerves biter, are Dniester, Ebro, -Rhine, Loire, Moselle, Dnieper, Severn, Tiber.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref372">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref881">244</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The palindrome runs <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">STOP ROSE, I PREFER PIES OR POTS.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref373">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref882">245</h3> - -<p class="centerline">“Your food will cost you more!”</p> - -<p class="noindent">is the political parrot cry which can be evolved -by anagram <span class="nowrap">from—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline"><i>O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe!</i></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref374">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref883">246</h3> - -<p>Sir Robert Peel was the statesman from whose -name a “terrible poser” is formed by -anagram.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref375">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref884">247</h3> - -<p>The letters of the sentence, “Yea, a glad sun -rose red” can be recast into the well-known -proverb <i>Delays are dangerous</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref376">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref885">248</h3> - -<p>The question, “Has there been a poet of unusual -solemnity?” is answered by “<i>Yes, Milton</i>.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref377">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page345">[345]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref886">249</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The anagram <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">No, no, I hardly ever touch<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The thing which many love so much,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It has a place within these lines,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But is taboo where Delia dines.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Onion</i> (no, no, I).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref378">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref887">250</h3> - -<p>When young Biceps, who had been plucked in -Euclid declared that he could teach the examiners -how to square a circle, this was his tricky -method:—A circle may be aptly described as -a “copper” or “Brown.” Having at hand -your “copper” (P. C. Brown), when he has -caught you on his rounds, proceed to square -him in the customary way.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref379">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref888">251</h3> - -<p>As Biceps could not tell how to extract a -circle from a square, his friend gave him the -following solution: “Let the given square be -Sloane Square; find the Inner Circle, and take -its lines to any point, at any distance from that -square, paying the proper fare. That’s the -ticket!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref380">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref889">252</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Every <i>Cretan</i> is said to lie,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And steeds that <i>canter</i> pant.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The gods drank <i>nectar</i>, old and dry,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And all men may <i>recant</i>.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Finally this key extend<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Take from <i>en(trance)d</i> the <i>end</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref381">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page346">[346]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref890">253</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My captive <i>second</i>, sulking in my <i>first</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Bemoan, or as alternative you find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i> the word that fits his state of mind.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For meet enclosure, you can take a score<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Of captive <i>seconds</i>, first deducting four.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Denounce</i> (16 ozs. = 1 <i>Pound</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref382">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref891">254</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">cipher—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="gesp4">THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT</span>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><span class="gesp4">MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT</span>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">becomes by the addition of E and O -<span class="nowrap">alternately—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The “Globe” do we now sell, oldest of the lot;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Men often order one, or get one on the spot.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref383">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref892">255</h3> - -<p>When his brother put “Tim in a pet,” the -explanation by anagram is that he was -<i>impatient</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref384">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref893">256</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Who knows the <i>East</i> a land may know<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Famed for its <i>teas</i>, and long age<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A <i>seat</i> of sage and seer.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The native there, so full of tricks,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To <i>sate</i> his hunger <i>eats</i> with sticks,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Nor knows his ways are queer.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">The missing words are in italics.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref385">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page347">[347]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref894">257</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If doubled you would see my first<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Let third and second be reversed.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But if my last you would behold<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Increase my first a hundredfold.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Combine them all, and you can trace<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The four within an empty space.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Void</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref386">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref895">258</h3> - -<p>In the words spoken in the hay-field to a -thirsty toiler, “Mower, I will tap the cask!” are -concealed by anagram the poet and his poem—<i>William -Cowper, The task.</i></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref387">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref896">259</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> is small, and seldom reverential;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My next not large enough to heed or prize;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i> is altogether consequential;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My third though small is counted very wise—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Important</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref388">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref897">260</h3> - -<p class="centerline">To be<br /> -<span class="gesp8">aaaaaaaaaa</span><br /> -<span class="gesp4">tCrIiOfUlSes</span><br /> -standing<br /> -is the mark of a mean</p> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>To be tenacious in the midst of trifles -is the mark of a mean understanding</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref389">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref898">261</h3> - -<p>The letters which spell <span class="smcapall">RED NUTS AND GIN</span> can -be recast to form the one word <span class="smcapall">UNDERSTANDING</span>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref390">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page348">[348]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref899">262</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The novel by Charles Dickens hidden in the -pied <span class="nowrap">letters—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline gesp4">CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY</p> - -<p class="noindent">is <i>The Old Curiosity Shop</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref391">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref900">263</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In swift <i>relays</i> the beaters add<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Fresh <i>layers</i> to the heaps of slain;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And still, with lust of slaughter mad,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The <i>slayer</i> plies his hand amain!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics have the same six letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref392">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref901">264</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is nothing but a name,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My second still more small,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole shows such a lack of fame<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">It has no name at all.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Nameless</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref393">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref902">265</h3> - -<p>When one of the children said, “If father -gives us a new dog it will wake the lazy ones”—the -words pointed to Susan and Ethel, whose -names are buried in the sentence.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref394">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref903">266</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">cipher—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline gesp2">NGOTRDSREAOHR<br /> -ETNSVEENUDOEO</p> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by starting with last letter of the -second line, followed by the first letter of the -first line, and so on throughout, taking always -the last and first unused letters alternately, and -forming thus the proverb “<i>One good turn deserves -another!</i>”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref395">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page349">[349]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref904">267</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Well known by story, not by name,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I died a death unknown before,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Nor ever to corruption came;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My shroud the waves cast on the shore.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Lot’s wife</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref396">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref905">268</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">question—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">How might an oyster, if it could speak and -knew that unda is Latin for wave or water, -complain in similar phonetic iteration when -disturbed by thunder under unda?</p> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75">is answered <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">He could exclaim, “a noise annoys an oyster!”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref397">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref906">269</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The words in italics have the same five <span class="nowrap">letters—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When <i>Cesar</i>, our puppy, sets out for a run,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Over <i>acres</i> he <i>races</i>, all frolic and fun.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For no whistle <i>cares</i> he, in his desperate hurry,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The slow sheep to <i>scare</i>, and the old cow to worry.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref398">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref907">270</h3> - -<p>The girls’ names shown by anagram in the -sentence—“Bad hero set by thy door hurt me -ma. Army may get ruder daily,” are Deborah, -Betsy, Dorothy, Ruth, Emma, Mary, Amy, -Gertrude, Lydia.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref399">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref908">271</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The anagram is completed <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>“Lord Beaconsfield’s statue.”<br /> -<i>True as old Ben’s stolid face!</i></p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref400">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page350">[350]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref909">272</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The Shakespeare <span class="nowrap">anagrams—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="blankbefore75">The tub sold has old rough shelves.<br /> -And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts.<br /> -A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow!</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="noindent blankbefore75">are formed, letter for letter and line for line, -from this passage in “Romeo and <span class="nowrap">Juliet”—</span></p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p class="blankbefore75">“Love’s heralds should be thoughts,<br /> -Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams,<br /> -Driving black shadows over low’ring hills.”</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref401">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref910">273</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The mystical gnome never flinches from toil<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Who <i>buries</i> the <i>rubies</i> in Orient soil;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet <i>busier</i> mortals will ever abound,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Who <i>bruise</i> all the soil till the treasure is found.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics are spelt with the same -six letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref402">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref911">274</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The Puzzle <span class="nowrap">acrostic—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My feathered first has wings and sings,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Unfledged my second swings its wings;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third on blackest pinions flies,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fourth can float beneath the skies.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">The letters to my first that fall<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Are the initials of them all.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<table class="square" summary="square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">◯</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -<td class="cell">●</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<table class="square" summary="square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">K</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">M</td> -<td class="cell">Y</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">K</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">K</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="allclear reference">Return to <a href="#Ref403">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page351">[351]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref912">275</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first was of the <i>pirate</i> breed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Their <i>irate</i> captain, hot and riled,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To <i>rate</i> his men found vain indeed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">They only <i>ate</i> and smoked, and smiled!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">One letter is dropped each time.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref404">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref913">276</h3> - -<p>In the doublets puzzle HARE is made into -SOUP by the following six links, changing one -letter each time, and preserving their <span class="nowrap">order—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">HARE, hark, hack, sack, sock, soak, soap, SOUP.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref405">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref914">277</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Putting two small beasts that you take<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To the beginning of an end,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A pointed weapon you will make<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To wound a foe or praise a friend.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Epigram</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref406">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref915">278</h3> - -<p>If a “newspaper” could speak, it might say -by anagram of the general work of its staff, <i>We -pen pars</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref407">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref916">279</h3> - -<p>The positive quantity 1011 is turned into a -negative <span class="nowrap">thus:—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">NO.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref408">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref917">280</h3> - -<p>The one word formed by anagram from “O, -I’m man’s trial” is <i>Matrimonials</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref409">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page352">[352]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref918">281</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">rebus—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline"> -EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee.<br /> -</p> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by “Great ease and small crosses before -you are twenty-one, great crosses and little ease -after that.”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref410">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref919">282</h3> - -<p>The answer to the riddle “Why may not the -owner of a pine forest fell his timber?” is—Because -no one is allowed to <i>cut</i> when it is his -own <i>deal</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref411">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref920">283</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">He <i>aspired</i> to be <i>praised</i> as a wonderful shot,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But he potted the dog, and <i>despair</i> was his lot!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p>The words in italics are spelt with the same -letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref412">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref921">284</h3> - -<p>In the doublet, as solved by Lewis Carroll, -ARMY is changed into NAVY with seven links, -and preserving the sequence while changing a -letter every time—thus: ARMY, arms, aims, -dims, dams, dame, name, nave, NAVY.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref413">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref922">285</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The anagram <span class="nowrap">puzzle—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">‘I excel not by a pun’<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Turn these six words into one!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Unexceptionably</i>, which contains -exactly the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref414">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref923">286</h3> - -<p>The answer to the strange riddle, “When is an -onion like music?” is “<i>When you find it smell -odious!</i>” (it’s melodious).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref415">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page353">[353]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref924">287</h3> - -<p>The bitter cry of Christianity is, by its -anagram: <i>I cry that I sin</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref416">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref925">288</h3> - -<p>That a Conservative is constant to his cause is -shown by the anagram: <i>Not vice versâ</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref417">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref926">289</h3> - -<p>As a rule Christmas Day and New Year’s Day -fall upon the same day of the week, but they -will not fall upon the same day of the week in -1910 (or indeed in any year), because the New -Year’s Day must be <i>after</i> the Christmas Day to -fulfil the conditions!</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref418">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref927">290</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“War is a game which, were their subjects wise,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Kings would not play at,” wrote the poet’s pen;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But in war’s issue will be staked the prize,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">While kings and subjects are but erring men;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So Britain—native empress of the seas—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">On ocean cradled, by her storm-king nursed—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Friend of the fallen, guardian of the free,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Rests on her well-tried <i>last</i> and trusty <i>first</i>.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Her <i>first</i> alone can well maintain her right,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Unscathed by any threat or mutinous blast;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And though, when needed, foremost in the fight,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Her <i>first</i> (strange paradox!) is always <i>last</i>!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But should the tide of war approach the shore<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And threaten to engulf her island seat,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole</i>, replying with defiant roar,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Would crash the audacious foe beneath her feet!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Armstrong</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref419">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page354">[354]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref928">291</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is flogged to make it move the faster,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And turns at once to satisfy its master.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next will ripen as a pleasant fruit,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For those whose simple taste its flavours suit.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, when breezes blow and pennons fly,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Stands up aloft and points us to the sky.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Top-mast</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref420">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref929">292</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A noun there is, of plural number,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In daily use from here to Humber.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Now almost any noun you take<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">By adding “S” you plural make;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But if you add an “S” to this,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Strange is the metamorphosis!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Plural is plural now no more;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Useless what useful was before.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Needles</i>, <i>needless</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref421">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref930">293</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">First, a semi-circle make,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Add to this another<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Figure of two little lines<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Meeting with each other;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then a perfect circle form,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Truly, neat, compactly,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Add another form to these,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like the first exactly;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then, to make it all complete,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Form a kind of angle,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With a straight line, that should meet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In a kind of tangle;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When you this have rightly done<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">(’Tis the truth I’m telling),<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page355">[355]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">You will get an article<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Useful in a dwelling:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Should you this decapitate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You may have another<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Article, which, in its place,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is useful as the other.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Clock</i>, <i>lock</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref422">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref931">294</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Veiling the leas, my first may steep<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Late autumn’s listless air;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And with my tainting second creep<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">On idle spade and share.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When happy days link soul to soul,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And sunny faces shine,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">May both combined, a subtle whole,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Be far from me and mine!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Mistrust</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref423">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref932">295</h3> - -<p class="noindent">Mark Lemon’s <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Old Charlie Brown, who a big rogue was reckoned,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Was brought up at my first for making my second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He was fined, and because he no money would pay<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Had to work with my whole on the King’s highway.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Barrow</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref424">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref933">296</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Complete, I grow within a field<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And pleasant pasture often yield;<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page356">[356]</span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me once, a suitor then<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is quickly brought before your ken;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead again, I am a word<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That on the cricket-ground is heard.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Restore my heads, cut off my tail,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To name a spice you’ll not then fail;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me now, and you will find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The master passion left behind.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Put on my head, my tail restore,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Complete me as I was before,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second letter take away,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">An envelope I am, you’ll say;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But now curtail me just once more,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I am an inlet on the shore.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Clover</i>, <i>lover</i>, <i>over</i>, <i>clove</i>, <i>love</i>, <i>cover</i>, -<i>cove</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref425">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref934">297</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>second</i> is double my <i>first</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> is but half of my <i>second</i>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And I’m sure you’ll admit that my <i>whole</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is ten times the latter when reckon’d.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Ten score</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref426">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref935">298</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> I went the other day,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And pretty surely reckon’d<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A basket of fine fish to catch,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">With hook and rod and <i>second</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">But I was out in reckoning;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A very pretty she<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Of her fair face show’d just my <i>whole</i>—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And pretty soon hook’d <i>me</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Outline</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref427">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page357">[357]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref936">299</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Of mirth the parent, though the child of art,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A stranger to myself in every part;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Each India has a native in my breast,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The West my sweetness, and my fire the East.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">While milder climes my virtue to complete,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Quicken my softness, and correct my heat;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My dearest friends upon my vitals prey,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And as they see me sinking, grow more gay.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Punch</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref428">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref937">300</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When my whole takes a flight in the air you will find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That my next is not left a great distance behind;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But join them together, and plain to your view<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It all is as firm and as tight as a screw.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Dovetail</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref429">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref938">301</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">To three-fourths of a cross, add a circle complete;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then, let two semi-circles a perpendicular meet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Next, add a triangle that stands on two feet;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then, two semi-circles, and a circle complete.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Tobacco</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref430">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref939">302</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Leader of Vandals and of vice<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">My head is reckoned;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A Turkish captain will suffice<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">To be my second.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My third is firm if well selected;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole a wanderer neglected.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Vagabond</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref431">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page358">[358]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref940">303</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">One thousand, two hundred,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Nothing, and one,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Transposed, give a word<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Expressive of fun.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by COMIC.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref432">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref941">304</h3> - -<p class="noindent">Praed’s <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> was creeping on his way<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Through the mists of a dull October day,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When a minstrel came to its muddy bed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">With a harp on his shoulder, a wreath on his head;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“And how shall I reach,” the poor boy cried,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“To the courts and the cloisters on t’other side?”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Old Euclid came, and he frown’d a frown,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And he dash’d the harp and the garland down;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then he led the bard, with a stately march,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">O’er my <i>second’s</i> long and cellar’d arch;—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“And see,” said the sage, “how every ass<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Over the sacred stream must pass!”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The youth was mournful, the youth was mute,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">He sigh’d for his laurel, he sobb’d for his lute;—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The youth took comfort, the youth took snuff,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And follow’d the lead of that teacher gruff;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And he sits, ever since, in my <i>whole’s</i> kind lap,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In a silken gown and a trencher cap.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Cambridge</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref433">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref942">305</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Upright and honest is my <i>first</i>;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>second</i> you may see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Upon the frozen lake or stream;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>whole</i> is equity.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Justice</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref434">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page359">[359]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref943">306</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Never wearied, see us stand,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A glittering and a stately band—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Of sturdy stuff, but graceful form,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In summer cold, in winter warm;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">From hottest duty never swerving,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Night and day our place preserving;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Each serving to a different use,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Not to be changed without abuse.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And, pray, mark well another fact—<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In unison we never act,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Except, as on occasion dread,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">We watch the ashes of the dead;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When we are ranged, as you may see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">As awful sentries, one, two, three.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Fire-irons</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref435">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref944">307</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, though naught, with others is a fruit,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next is vital to both man and brute.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It should be dear to all who hate the devil,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For it is ever the reverse of evil.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My all, when whole, is eloquent of peace,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Divided it invokes to life that will not cease.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Olive</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref436">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref945">308</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Guess at my first, ’tis easy to discover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Covered with rings, and whiskered like a dandy.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Wrapped up in furs, ’tis often on the housetop,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Oft in the chimney!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">See where my second, scorning to be hidden,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Stands at the head of quite a band of others,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Like a virago, straddling with feet apart,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">And arms akimbo.<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page360">[360]</span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Surely my next is happy in its office,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Parting the lovelocks on Neæra’s forehead;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Setting the golden lines wherewith she angles<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">For the unwary.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If by my whole at any time you pass, you<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Tread on the dust of holy saints and martyrs,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Holy the place, may holy thoughts attend you,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent6">Peacefully dreaming!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Catacomb</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref437">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref946">309</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Offspring of nature and of art, I stand<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Chief ’midst the monuments of every land;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I may not lengthen life, but I<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For centuries forbid to die.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The greatest truth in me you meet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is but deception most complete.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Unchanged I last the changing crowds among,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And as I older grow, I grow too young.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>A portrait</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref438">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref947">310</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Pronounced as one letter, and written with three,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Two letters there are, and two only in me;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and gray,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I’m read from both ends, and the same either way.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Eye</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref439">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref948">311</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>first</i> is false as false can be;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My <i>next</i> old ladies wear;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My <i>whole’s</i> my <i>first</i>, as you will see,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">As false, I do declare.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Falsehood</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref440">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page361">[361]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref949">312</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When whole I am indeed a thing<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To puzzle you a bit;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though parts of me are hard, at Bridge<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The others make a hit;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Or you may make a car of some,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And fix a head to it.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Charade</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref441">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref950">313</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A word of nine letters explains<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">How to mitigate bodily pains;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">The five vowels are there,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">And four consonants share<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">This function for medical brains.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Inoculate</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref442">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref951">314</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My second guides my first and third<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">For pleasure, trade, and war;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first and second by my third<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Are oft transported far.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But when my first my third doth pull,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">’Tis then his lot is worst;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And should my second lack my whole,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">He’s apt to leave my first.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Horsemanship</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref443">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref952">315</h3> - -<p>It is a fact that neither <i>melons</i> nor <i>lemons</i> -grew <i>on elms</i>.</p> - -<p class="noindent">The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref444">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref953">316</h3> - -<p>The completed palindrome, which reads alike -from either end, <span class="nowrap">is—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">DRAW NO DRAY A YARD ONWARD.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref445">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page362">[362]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref954">317</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The schoolboy likes me well,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For healthful sport I bring,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet I can harm create,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though such a little thing:<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Connubial bliss is form’d by me;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My nature is equality.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Match</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref446">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref955">318</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">What person’s name is doubly evil?<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>Sinbad</i> reminds us of the devil.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref447">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref956">319</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent4">I’m a district near London;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">If made wrong, I come undone;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">O’er sweet strings I swift run,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Or appear with the bright sun,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And though by me fights were won,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">I can greet you every one.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Bow</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref448">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref957">320</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am my first when seen with you,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My next is always bad.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">A rogue in grain much harm may do<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And make the farmer mad.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Weevil</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref449">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref958">321</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When winter comes with frost and cold,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is welcome, as of old;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And though its grip may make you thinner,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It helps to cook your Christmas dinner.<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page363">[363]</span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Let me but hear my next rejoice<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">At early dawn with cheerful voice,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I haste to find, with eager pleasure,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Some specimen of hidden treasure.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A traveller my whole may find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Far from his English kith and kind;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though some at home, to England’s shame,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Are this in fact, if not in name.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Heathen</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref450">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref959">322</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">It was to-morrow, and<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">It will be yesterday;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Now it is near at hand<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">What is it? Who can say?<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>To-day</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref451">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref960">323</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first doth fill with light his father’s eyes,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The second shadows all the mother’s brow;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole all men, all women, girls and boys,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Have had, and long to lose, and lost for ever now;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But know not, nor can know, when it was lost, and how.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Childhood</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref452">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref961">324</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Complete, though not of human race,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A soul in me may dwell;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead, I held a higher place,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Until, like man, I fell.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Again behead, and in the song<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of Burns I’m all your own;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead once more, it would be wrong<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To find me out when known.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Train</i>, <i>rain</i>, <i>ain</i>, <i>in</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page364">[364]</span></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref453">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref962">325</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">With head good for naught,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And with tail always drunk,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You know well what to say<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of the worth of my trunk.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">First cut off my tail,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I am Greek, and I’m not;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then cut off my head,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And some Latin you’ve got.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Lopping both you know best<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">What remains, as I said,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">For I really am you<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">If I lose tail and head!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Out</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref454">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref963">326</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">One guiding eye I need<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In running through the gaps;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My tail, as on I speed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is caught in many traps.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>A Needle</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref455">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref964">327</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The Chess <span class="nowrap">charade—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Of all the birds that ever sought a mate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first is to but one appropriate,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So speak the word! nor silence shyly woo.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To find my next, go! wander in the Zoo!<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is a magician of the squares,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But Art, with Chess, his best affections shares,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So this, indeed, to him may be a law<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When <i>winning’s</i> hopeless, grandly still to <i>draw</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Boden</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref456">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page365">[365]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref965">328</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though poor and humble was my birth<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I sit enthroned on high;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My footsteps far above the earth,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My canopy the sky.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">O’er toiling subjects thus in state<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I bear despotic sway;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet on them hand and foot I wait<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">At break and close of day.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>A coachman</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref457">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref966">329</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am not of flesh and blood,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Yet have I many a bone;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No limbs, except one leg,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And can’t stand on that alone.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My friends are many, and dwell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">In all lands of the human race;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">But they poke my poor nose into the mud,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And shamefully spatter my face.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Thrust me into each other’s ribs,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Stick me in gutter and rut;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I have never a window, and never a door,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Yet I often open and shut.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>An umbrella</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref458">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref967">330</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Before the crown descended on<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The head of England’s Queen,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Four Kings upon that royal throne<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Of the same name had been.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Now if the signs which marked their name<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Be joined unto a beast,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">We have a food on which the same<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">(A quadruped) will feast.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Grass</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref459">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page366">[366]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref968">331</h3> - -<p class="noindent">Fox’s <span class="nowrap">enigma—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">I am pretty, and useful in various ways,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though I tempt some poor mortals to shorten their days;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me, and then in my place will appear<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What youngsters admire every day in the year;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Behead me once more, and without any doubt,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You must be what is left if you don’t find it out.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Glass</i>, <i>lass</i>, <i>ass</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref460">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref969">332</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, when skilfully performed<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">(Its doer by applauses warmed),<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Bespeaks both skill and vigour.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When with my whole, so soft and light,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">I saw my second gay bedight,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">She made a splendid figure.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Feather</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref461">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref970">333</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The man who <i>rates</i> the common <i>tares</i><br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Above the <i>aster</i> chaste.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0"><i>Stare</i> as he may, the world declares<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is not a man of taste.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And, though my sympathy he shares,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">No <i>tears</i> on him I’ll waste.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref462">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref971">334</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">When a monk in old times, unexpectedly heated,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Endangered the peace of his soul,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To atone for my second my first he repeated<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Quite ten times a day on my whole.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Average</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref463">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page367">[367]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref972">335</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">An insect small and fell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Makes a weird sound,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">If, as its name you spell,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">You turn it round.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">One letter cast, and still<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Shift what remains,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Another insect will<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Reward your pains.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Gnat</i>, <i>tang</i>, <i>ant</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref464">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref973">336</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Where head and body duly meet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I am as slender as a bee;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Whether I stand on head or feet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My figure shows its symmetry.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">But when my head is cut away<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The metamorphosis is strange;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though both of them unaltered stay,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Body and head to nothing change.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>The figure</i> 8.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref465">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref974">337</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">First is in coast, second in ghost,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Third must be reckoned part of second;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Fourth in boat, fifth in float,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Sixth you will find within your mind.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Seventh in blue, eighth in true,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">These letters tell a fruit that they spell.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Cocoanut</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref466">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page368">[368]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref975">338</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">The hunter and his steed are known<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">My first to see.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though men may call my next a stone,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent4">Wood it may be.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, an exile from his home,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is doomed from place to place to roam.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Runagate</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref467">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref976">339</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first expresses power to do,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My next that it is done.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To be my whole belongs to few,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And perfectly to none.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Candid</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref468">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref977">340</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">In my first, as in a shell,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All the sweetest sounds may dwell;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In my second, shells abound<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">That can catch no sort of sound;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">In my whole securely rest<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Those who neither jeer nor jest.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Earnest</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref469">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref978">341</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, though of the feathered kind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is never known to fly;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My next all who improve their mind<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Seize as it passes by.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole may much occasion find<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To make the truthful lie.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Bed-time</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref470">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page369">[369]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref979">342</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Divide a piece of beef or pork<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Without the aid of knife and fork;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It gives a shelf, rejoined with skill,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Where you may set this if you will.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Strike off instead the end, its place<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is plain as nose upon your face.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Cut this asunder in your mind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And what is first put now behind;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Part of our foot you thus discover,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And in a measure all is over.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Chine</i>, <i>niche</i>, <i>chin</i>, <i>inch</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref471">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref980">343</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Seen as a whole, my form is now<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Akin to strife and malice;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Split, it may grace a princely brow,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or crown the curls of Alice.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Recast my letters, and I tell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">That nourishment is lacking;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Stir them afresh until they spell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">The needle’s help in tacking.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Hatred</i>, <i>hat red</i>, <i>dearth</i>, <i>thread</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref472">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref981">344</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">If I write with my first in my second<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">My whole you can never find out;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Add a letter, and all will be reckoned<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">A patron of water devout.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Within</i>, <i>Swithin</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref473">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref982">345</h3> - -<p>After officers’ mess, when cigars were well -alight, the old conundrum was propounded,<span class="pagenum" id="Page370">[370]</span> -“What is most like a cornet of horse?” A -sharp sub. was ready with the reply, “A -hornet, of course”; it was presently capped by -this variant which occurred to a married captain, -“a corset of horn”; and yet another reading -was suggested by the deaf old colonel, “How -much did you say the ‘horse ate of corn’?”</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref474">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref983">346</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Loss of love between us<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Never can be nice;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet we live where Venus<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Changes us to ice.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Venice</i> (Ven<i>us</i> changes to Ven<i>ice</i>).</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref475">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref984">347</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The very prosaic reply to the dainty <span class="nowrap">lines—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“Tell me, my sweet,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Why are your feet<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Like fairy-tales?”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is: Because they are leg ends (legends)!</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref476">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref985">348</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Our parson <i>detains</i> every man who has leisure<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To study <i>stained</i> windows, the glory of fanes;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And <i>instead</i> of devoting his income to pleasure,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Our <i>sainted</i> dean spends his money on panes.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">The words in italics have the same letters.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref477">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref986">349</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though much attached to merriment,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Or crime for a variety,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">To prison I am never sent,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">But sparkle in society.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>The letter E</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref478">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page371">[371]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref987">350</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Without my first and second’s aid<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">No pudding worth its sauce is made.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Take on my third, my fourth I am,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My fifth includes myself and Sam.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole describes the royal fiddler Nero,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And shows him as an unheroic hero.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Suetonius</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref479">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref988">351</h3> - -<p>The geographical names buried in the -<span class="nowrap">sentences—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">He has my R.N. as a monogram on all his -paper.</p> - -<p>I am her stupid sister.</p> - -<p>The calmest man is sometimes made <span class="nowrap">irate—</span></p> - -<p class="blankbefore75 noindent">are Smyrna; Amherst; and Madeira.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref480">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref989">352</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first’s a fruit of foreign clime,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Sweet to the taste, in price not dear;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second does my first produce,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And yet my whole my first doth bear.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Date-palm</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref481">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref990">353</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">A thing of beauty, scattered by a breath,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My firm embrace is harbinger of death;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Not made by hands, a work of wondrous art,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Complete and perfected in every part;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Crush me to-day with all-determined care,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Then look to-morrow, and I shall be there!<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>A spider’s web</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref482">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page372">[372]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref991">354</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Six letters in my name are found.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Though only three we see and sound;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The shepherd by the running river<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">May hear me where the rushes quiver;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And should a stroke my whole divide,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Leaving but half on either side,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">These, backward read, will surely tell<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">What many a toper loves too well.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Murmur</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref483">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref992">355</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Upon a battle-field of learned men<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Hundred and fifty were by none divided.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">“Now,” said the bishop, “add two-thirds of ten<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And so you’ll guess the riddle just as I did.”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Colenso</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref484">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref993">356</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Though the stations of mortals are many<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And the <i>last</i> is the head of his race;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet he, just as often as any,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Is won by my <i>first’s</i> fell embrace;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet we most of us apt are to fall,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">When our heads cease our hearts to control,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Let us hope that not one of us all<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">May be e’er in the state of my <i>whole</i>.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Sinking</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref485">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref994">357</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole is no matter,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And light as the air,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Yet it is good on the platter,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And excellent fare.<br /></span><span class="pagenum" id="Page373">[373]</span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Curtail and transpose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And a lady you see,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Who will flatter and pose,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And with many do me.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>trifle</i>, <i>flirt</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref486">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref995">358</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, for ages out of mind<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">All men have always worn behind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And yet alike by sea and land<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">They carry it upon their hand.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My second, carefully matur’d,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Is never ill but often cured.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My whole, within unchanging lines,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Black men and white alike confines.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Backgammon</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref487">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref996">359</h3> - -<p>The Rebus—“We westand fall,”—is solved by -<i>United we stand, divided we fall</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref488">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref997">360</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">My second is pressed tightly round<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">To guard from any ill;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">And when preparing to engage<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Men find it useful still.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first against attraction set<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Will neutralise its power;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Aided by it, with bargains, some<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">May spend a happy hour.<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">You find my whole by careful search,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Which must not be forsaken;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">It stands before what comes beyond,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">Which may from it be taken.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Counterfoil</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref489">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page374">[374]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref998">362</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Scorned by the meek and humble mind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">And often by the vain possessed,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Heard by the deaf, seen by the blind,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent2">I give the troubled spirit rest.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Nothing</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref491">description</a></p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page375">[375]</span></p> - -<h2>ODDS AND ENDS<br /> -<span class="fsize90">SOLUTIONS</span></h2> - -</div><!--chapter--> - -<h3 id="Ref999">1</h3> - -<p>Here is both the sum without figures, and its -counterpart in <span class="nowrap">numbers:—</span></p> - -<table class="division" summary="Division"> - -<tr> -<td>U</td> -<td>G</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>)</td> -<td>G</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>V</td> -<td>P</td> -<td>P</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>O</td> -<td>(</td> -<td>I</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>P</td> -<td>O</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -<td class="bb">G</td> -<td class="bb">V</td> -<td class="bb">N</td> -<td class="bb">I</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -<td>D</td> -<td>N</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>P</td> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="bb">U</td> -<td class="bb">G</td> -<td class="bb">I</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td>N</td> -<td>E</td> -<td>T</td> -<td>N</td> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="bb">N</td> -<td class="bb">E</td> -<td class="bb">O</td> -<td class="bb">T</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td>D</td> -<td>U</td> -<td>D</td> -<td>O</td> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td class="bb2">D</td> -<td class="bb2">U</td> -<td class="bb2">D</td> -<td class="bb2">O</td> -<td class="bb2"> </td> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<table class="division" summary="Division"> - -<tr> -<td>9</td> -<td>5</td> -<td>6</td> -<td>)</td> -<td>5</td> -<td>8</td> -<td>7</td> -<td>0</td> -<td>0</td> -<td>3</td> -<td>1</td> -<td>2</td> -<td>(</td> -<td>6</td> -<td>1</td> -<td>4</td> -<td>0</td> -<td>2</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="4"> </td> -<td class="bb">5</td> -<td class="bb">7</td> -<td class="bb">3</td> -<td class="bb">6</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -<td>1</td> -<td>3</td> -<td>4</td> -<td>0</td> -<td colspan="9"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="bb">9</td> -<td class="bb">5</td> -<td class="bb">6</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td>3</td> -<td>8</td> -<td>4</td> -<td>3</td> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -<td class="bb">3</td> -<td class="bb">8</td> -<td class="bb">2</td> -<td class="bb">4</td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -<td colspan="7"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td>1</td> -<td>9</td> -<td>1</td> -<td>2</td> -<td colspan="6"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="8"> </td> -<td class="bb2">1</td> -<td class="bb2">9</td> -<td class="bb2">1</td> -<td class="bb2">2</td> -<td class="bb2"> </td> -<td colspan="5"> </td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1099a">Image</a></p> - -<p>The key sentence is: DON’T GIVE UP, the letters -of which correspond to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref492">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page376">[376]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1000">2</h3> - -<p>When I shot only birds and rabbits, and my -bag at the end of the day showed 36 heads and -100 feet, I had killed 22 birds and 14 rabbits.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref493">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1001">3</h3> - -<p>There are no fewer than 40 distinct readings -of the four words which form the <span class="nowrap">square—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">F</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">F</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1099b">Image</a></p> - -<p>DELF and FLED have each four straight -readings, while EVIL and LIVE can each be -traced in 16 different ways, and the four words -run straight from every side of the square.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref494">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1002">4</h3> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<table class="square" summary="Cross"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="3" colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td rowspan="3" colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="4" colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td rowspan="4" colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">V</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<table class="square" summary="Cross"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="3" colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td rowspan="3" colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">V</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="4" colspan="3"> </td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td rowspan="4" colspan="3"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">D</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="allclear reference"><a href="#Ref1100">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref495">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1003">5</h3> - -<p>When a man gave a sovereign to his son to be -spent on presents of different values for him and -his three sisters, each to cost an aliquot part of -the pound, and each to be as good as possible;<span class="pagenum" id="Page377">[377]</span> -and told him to give the change to the Fresh -Air Fund, the presents cost <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>3</sub>, <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub>, -<sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>5</sub>, <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>6</sub> of a pound -respectively, or 6s. 8d., 5s., 4s., and 3s. 4d., and -there was a shilling over for the Fresh Air Fund.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref496">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1004">6</h3> - -<p class="noindent">This is the complete <span class="nowrap">word-square—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">M</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1101">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref497">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1005">7</h3> - -<p>The key word to the addition sum is REPUBLICAN. -It works out <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<table class="square minimal" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">R<br />1</td> -<td class="cell">E<br />2</td> -<td class="cell">P<br />3</td> -<td class="cell">U<br />4</td> -<td class="cell">B<br />5</td> -<td class="cell">L<br />6</td> -<td class="cell">I<br />7</td> -<td class="cell">C<br />8</td> -<td class="cell">A<br />9</td> -<td class="cell">N<br />0</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<table class="square" summary="Sum"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="5" class="bb"> </td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">I</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">P</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bb">B</td> -<td class="cell bb">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -<td class="cell">C</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<table class="square" summary="Sum"> - -<tr> -<td rowspan="5" class="bb"> </td> -<td class="cell">9</td> -<td class="cell">7</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">6</td> -<td class="cell">8</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">3</td> -<td class="cell">1</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">4</td> -<td class="cell">0</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bb">5</td> -<td class="cell bb">2</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">2</td> -<td class="cell">8</td> -<td class="cell">8</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="allclear reference"><a href="#Ref1102">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref498">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1006">8</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The word square is completed <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">A</td> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">O</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">T</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1103">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref499">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page378">[378]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1007">9</h3> - -<p>The product of the first twelve prime numbers, -1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, can be -written down by using no figures but 0, 1, 2, and -3, and of these 2 and 3 once only, <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">10 × 1001 × 2001 × 10013:—</p> - -<p class="noindent">or</p> - -<div class="centerblock"> - -<p>   10 =  1 ×  2 ×  5<br /> - 1001 =  7 × 11 × 13<br /> - 2001 =  3 × 23 × 29<br /> -10013 = 17 × 19 × 31</p> - -</div><!--centerblock--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref500">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1008">10</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The <span class="nowrap">question—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Six collars seven cuffs there be<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">When pence we charge you thirty-three;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Seven collars and six cuffs to do,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The charge is only thirty-two;<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">The work is good and up-to-date,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">So figure out in pence the rate.<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is answered by—Collars, 2d. Cuffs, 3d.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref501">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1009">11</h3> - -<p class="noindent">The word square is completed <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<table class="square" summary="Square"> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">W</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">K</td> -<td class="cell">S</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">L</td> -<td class="cell">U</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">K</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">D</td> -<td class="cell">G</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">S</td> -<td class="cell">N</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">E</td> -<td class="cell">R</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<p class="reference"><a href="#Ref1104">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref502">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page379">[379]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1010">12</h3> - -<p>To remove the table-napkin on a corner of -which a wine-glass full of water stands near the -edge of a polished table, take hold with the left -hand of the part that hangs over the edge and -raise it to a horizontal position. Then strike -hard downward with the right hand, at about -six inches from the table, and the cloth will -come away, leaving the wineglass altogether -undisturbed—an illustration of what is known as -the <i>vis inertiæ</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref503">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1011">13</h3> - -<p>My third and fourth are a quarter of my first -and second; my fourth is half of them, and my -third is half. What am I?</p> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by <i>Twopence-half-penny</i>.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref504">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1012">14</h3> - -<p>The London firm who had sent a telegram to -Paris for 480 sets of Diabolo, and received to -their surprise a huge consignment of 6336 sets, -had worded their order thus: “Send us twenty -two-dozen cases of Diabolo,” knowing that they -were put up two dozen in a case. The wholesale -firm read the order as twenty-two dozen cases—<i>i.e.</i>, -264 cases of 24 in a case!</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref505">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1013">16</h3> - -<p>When Mrs Evergreen said: “My husband’s age -is represented by the figures of mine reversed; -he is older than I am, and the difference between -our ages is one-eleventh of their sum,” he was -54, and she was 45.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref507">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page380">[380]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1014">17</h3> - -<p class="noindent">This is the completed multiplication <span class="nowrap">sum—</span></p> - -<div class="split5050"> - -<div class="left5050"> - -<table class="square" summary="Sum"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell">4</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3" class="bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">3</td> -<td class="cell bb">*</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell">3</td> -<td class="cell">6</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bb">*</td> -<td class="cell bb">*</td> -<td class="cell bb">7</td> -<td class="cell bb">*</td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">3</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -<td class="cell">*</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--left5050--> - -<div class="right5050"> - -<table class="square" summary="Sum"> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2"> </td> -<td class="cell">4</td> -<td class="cell">5</td> -<td class="cell">7</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="3" class="bb"> </td> -<td class="cell bb">3</td> -<td class="cell bb">8</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="cell">3</td> -<td class="cell">6</td> -<td class="cell">5</td> -<td class="cell">6</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell bb">1</td> -<td class="cell bb">3</td> -<td class="cell bb">7</td> -<td class="cell bb">1</td> -<td class="cell bb"> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="cell">1</td> -<td class="cell">7</td> -<td class="cell">3</td> -<td class="cell">6</td> -<td class="cell">6</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -</div><!--right5050--> - -</div><!--split5050--> - -<p class="allclear reference"><a href="#Ref1105">Image</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref508">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1015">18</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">Add 3 to 10, and then divide<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Till 8 the sum has satisfied—<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="noindent">is solved by writing 13 in Roman numerals, -XIII.; and then drawing a line across their -middle, so that the upper half forms VIII.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref509">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1016">19</h3> - -<p>I bought fifty-eight plants for my new rosery, -when I found that if I set them three in a row -there would be one over; if four in a row two -over; if five in a row three over; and if six in a -row four over.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref510">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1017">20</h3> - -<p class="centerline">Three nines arranged thus represent 20—</p> - -<p class="centerline"><span class="horsplit"><span class="top">9 + 9</span><span class="bot">·9</span></span></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref511">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1018">21</h3> - -<p>If a house has nine windows on its front, as -many as 511 signals can be given by merely -leaving one or more of them open, including the -case in which all are left open.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref512">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page381">[381]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1019">22</h3> - -<p>The birthday puzzle by Sir John Evans is -solved <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> - -<div class="poetry"> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="verse indent0">“Reader, whether man or woman,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Write my age in figures Roman (LXV.).<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My first, divided by my second,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Will make my third, if rightly reckoned,<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">Ten times the whole, and then you’ll see<br /></span> -<span class="verse indent0">My university degree (D.C.L.).”<br /></span> -</div><!--stanza--> - -</div><!--poetry--> - -</div><!--poetry-container--> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref513">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1020">52</h3> - -<p>This is the way to arrange a strip of paper 9 in. -by 2 in. so that it has only <i>one surface</i> and <i>one edge</i>.</p> - -<p>Gum the ends together with <i>a half twist</i> in the -slip. If a continuous line is now drawn along the -middle of the band it will traverse the whole -length of the paper and finish at its starting -point. Again, if a mark is made on the edge, -and the finger or a pencil starting from this runs -along the edge, it also will return to its starting -point.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref544">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1021">53</h3> - -<p>To divide nine into two parts which shall be -together equal to ten, write IX in bold Roman -numerals on a sheet of paper, and fold this across -the middle of the figures, <span class="nowrap">thus—</span></p> - -<p class="centerline">IX — <span class="horsplit"><span class="top">IV</span><span class="bot">IɅ</span></span></p> - -<p class="noindent">This gives a six on one side of the fold and a -four upon the other side.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref545">description</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page382">[382]</span></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1022">54</h3> - -<p>The shepherd who had folded his flock with 100 -hurdles, and whose master bade him the next day -use 16 of these to pen some pigs, and to enclose -nine times as many sheep with the remaining 84 -as the 100 had contained, had originally placed -the hurdles in two rows of 49 each, with one -hurdle at each end. He made room for nine -times as many sheep within 84 hurdles by -arranging them in a square, with 21 on every side, -thus increasing the area ninefold.</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref546">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1023">55</h3> - -<p>When you have lifted three hats that cover three -biscuits in a row, eaten the biscuits and replaced -the hats, you can carry out your undertaking that -the three biscuits shall be under whichever hat -is selected by solemnly placing that hat upon your -head!</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref547">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1024">56</h3> - -<p>The number of different ways in which 7s. 3d. -can be paid away in current coin of the realm, -without ever using exactly the same set of coins -a second time, is 1,062,102!</p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref548">description</a></p> - -<hr class="printer" /> - -<p class="center fsize80">PRINTED AT THE MERCAT PRESS, EDINBURGH.</p> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<h2>Images</h2> - -</div><!--chapter--> - -<h3 id="Ref1025">No. I.—A GOOD SPECIMEN</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo009.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref1">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1026">No. II—A BORDERED DIAMOND</h3> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo010.png" alt="Magic diamond" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref2">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1027">No. III.—A MULTIFOLD MAGIC SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo011a.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo011b.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref4">descriptions</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1028">No. IV.—A MODEL MAGIC SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo012.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref5">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1029">No. V.—TESSELATED DIAMOND</h3> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo013.png" alt="Magic diamond" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref7">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1030">No. VI.—MAGIC SQUARE BY MULTIPLICATION</h3> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo014.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref9">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1031">No. VII.—ANOTHER BORDERED MAGIC SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo015.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref10">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1032">No. VIII.—A HARDY ANNUAL</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo016.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref13">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1032a">No. IX.—ANOTHER “ANNO DOMINI”</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo017.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref14">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1033">No. X.—A DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo018.png" alt="Dominoes magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref15">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1034">No. XI.—CHESS AND NUMBERS</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo019.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref17">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1035">No. XII.—NUMBERS PATIENCE</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo020.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref19">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1036">No. XIV.—A NEST OF RECTANGLES</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo022.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref22">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1037">No. XV.—ANOTHER DOMINO MAGIC SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo023.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref24">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1038">No. XXXII.—A GOOD LETTER PUZZLE</h3> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo040.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref49">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1039">No. XXXIII.—ANAGRAM ARITHMETIC</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo041.png" alt="Letter sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref51">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1040">No. XXXIV.—A BUNCH OF FLOWERS</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo042.jpg" alt="Flowers" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref52">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1041">No. XXXV.—ON A BLACKBOARD</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo043.png" alt="Sums" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref54">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1042">No. XXXVI.—SQUARING A DIAMOND</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo044.png" alt="Diamond" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref57">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1043">No. XXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo045.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref59">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1044">No. XXXVIII.—AN ANAGRAM SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo046.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref60">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1045">No. XXXIX.—ARITHMETIC BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo047.png" alt="Sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref61">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1046">No. XL.—ANAGRAMS SQUARED</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo048.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref63">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1047">No. XLI.—A WORD SQUARE BY ANAGRAM</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo049.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref65">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1048">No. XLII.—QUITE A NOVELTY</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo050.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref67">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1049">No. XLIII.—HIDDEN PROVERBS</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo051.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref68">description</a></p> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref586">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1050">No. XLIV.—A CLEVER CRYPTOGRAM</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo052.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref70">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1051">No. LXIV.—ARITHMETICAL TRIANGLE</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo072.png" alt="Triangle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref114">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1053">No. LXVII.—AN EIGHT-CARD PUZZLE</h3> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo075.jpg" alt="Cards" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref118">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1054">No. LXVIII.—THOUGHT READING</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo076.jpg" alt="Cards" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref121">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1055">No. LXXI.—A PUZZLE WITH CHESS PIECES</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo079.jpg" alt="Chess problem" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref126">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1056">No. LXXIX</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo087.png" alt="Counters" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref141">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1057">No. LXXXV.—MANY READINGS</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo093.png" alt="Sentences" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref154">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1058">No. LXXXVI.—TOLD AT A GLANCE</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo094.jpg" alt="Cards" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref155">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1059">No. LXXXVII.</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo095.png" alt="Sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref156">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1060">No. LXXXVIII.—RANGING THE DIGITS</h3> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo096.png" alt="Arrangements" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref159">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1061">No. LXXXIX.—NO TWO IN A ROW</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo097.png" alt="Board" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref163">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1062">No. XC.—EXACT ALIGNMENT</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo098.jpg" alt="Cards" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref165">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1063">No. XCI.—AT A FANCY BALL</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo099.png" alt="Chess board" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref167">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1064">No. XCII.—PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY IN CELLS</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo100.jpg" alt="Maxims" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref168">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1065">No. XCVI.—A NEW CHESS PUZZLE</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo104.jpg" alt="Chessboard" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref174">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1066">No. CII.—A KNIGHT’S POETIC TOUR</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo110.png" alt="Verse words" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref185">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1067">No. CIV.—SCORING A CENTURY</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo112.png" alt="Calculations" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref189">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1068">No. CXXI.—DOMINO SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo129.png" alt="Dominoes" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref224">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1069">242. A TANGLED SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo159.png" alt="Word square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref371">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1070">274. A PUZZLE ACROSTIC</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo165.png" alt="Word square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref403">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1071">1. A SUM WITHOUT FIGURES</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo196.png" alt="Long division" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref492">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1072">3. THE SQUAREST WORD</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo197a.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref494">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1073">4. A CROSS PURPOSE</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo197b.png" alt="Cross" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref495">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1074">6. A WORD SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo198a.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref497">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1075">7. VERBAL ARITHMETIC</h3> - -<div class="container w10em"> -<img src="images/illo198b.png" alt="Sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref498">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1076">8. A WORD SQUARE</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo198c.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref499">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1077">11. GAPS TO FILL</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo199.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref502">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1078">17. MISSING FIGURES</h3> - -<div class="container w10em"> -<img src="images/illo201.png" alt="Sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref508">description</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1078a">No. IV</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo211.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref550">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1079">No. VIII</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo212.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref551">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1079a">No. IX</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo213.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref552">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1080">No. X</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo214.png" alt="Dominoes" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref553">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1080a">No. XII</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo216.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref555">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1080b">No. XIV</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo218.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref557">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1081">No. XV</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo219.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref558">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1082">No. XVI</h3> - -<div class="container w40em"> -<img src="images/illo220.png" alt="Dominoes" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref559">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1083">No. XXXII</h3> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo235.png" alt="Level square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref575">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1084">No. XXXIII</h3> - -<div class="container w20em"> -<img src="images/illo236.png" alt="Coded sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref576">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1084a">No. XXXIV</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo237a.jpg" alt="Hidden flowers" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref577">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1084b">No. XXXV</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo237b.png" alt="Sums" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref578">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1085">No. XXXVI</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo238.png" alt="Diamond" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref579">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1086">No. XXXVII</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo239.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref580">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1087">No. XXXVIII</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo240.png" alt="Chess board" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref581">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1088">No. XXXIX</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo241.png" alt="Coded sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref582">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1089">No. XL</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo242.png" alt="Half chess board" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref583">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1090">No. XLI</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo243.png" alt="Puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref584">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1091">No. XLII</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo244.png" alt="Magic square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref585">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1091b">No. LXVII</h3> - -<div class="container"> -<img src="images/illo257b.png" alt="Card puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref602">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1091c">No. LXVIII</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo258.jpg" alt="Card puzzle" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref603">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1092">No. LXXI</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo261.jpg" alt="Chess problem" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref606">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1093">No. LXXIX</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo264.png" alt="Counters" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref610">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1094">No. LXXXV</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo269.jpg" alt="Sentences" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref615">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1095">No. LXXXVII</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo270.png" alt="Sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref616">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1096">No. LXXXIX</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo271.png" alt="Board" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref617">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1097">No. XC</h3> - -<div class="container w30em"> -<img src="images/illo272.jpg" alt="Cards" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref618">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1097a">No. XCII</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo274.png" alt="Proverbs" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref620">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1098">No. XCVI</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo277.jpg" alt="Chess board" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref623">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1099">No. CII</h3> - -<div class="container w35em"> -<img src="images/illo278.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref624">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1099a">1</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo383.png" alt="Sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref999">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1099b">3</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo384a.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref1001">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1100">4</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo384b.png" alt="Letter crosses" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref1002">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1101">6</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo385a.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref1004">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1102">7</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo385b.png" alt="Sum" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref1005">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1103">8</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo385c.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref1006">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1104">11</h3> - -<div class="container w15em"> -<img src="images/illo386.png" alt="Square" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref1009">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1105">17</h3> - -<div class="container w25em"> -<img src="images/illo388.png" alt="Sums" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref1014">solution</a></p> - -<h3 id="Ref1106">53</h3> - -<div class="container w10em"> -<img src="images/illo389.png" alt="Sums" /> -</div> - -<p class="reference">Return to <a href="#Ref1021">solution</a></p> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<div class="tnbot" id="TN"> - -<h2>Transcriber’s Notes</h2> - -</div><!--chapter--> - -<p>Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, etcetera have been retained, unless listed under Changes below. </p> - -<p>Unless listed below, the riddles, puzzles and tricks and their solutions are given here as printed in the source document, -even though some of them arguably contain ambiguities, errors and/or misprints. Inconsistencies in lay-out between the -puzzles and their solutions have not been standardised.</p> - -<p>The source document has several pages that contain a Pictured Puzzle at the top (Roman numerals) and one or more Word -Play puzzles or jokes (Latin numerals). This has been retained in this text; any auto-generated Tables of Contents -may therefore look jumbled up with intermixed Roman and Latin numerals.</p> - -<p>Depending on the hard- and software used to read this text and on their settings, -not all elements may display as intended. -The larger diagrams may be illegible on small screens or in small windows.</p> - -<p>Where possible and relevant, illustrations have been “transcribed”, occasionally discarding some of the ornamentation. -For reference and for the sake of completeness, images of the transcribed -illustrations have been provided at the end of this e-book, with hyperlinks (“Image”) pointing to them. Hyperlinks -from these images point back to the riddle, puzzle, etc. (“Return to description”) or to its solution (“Return to -solution”). In addition, hyperlinks are provided from the puzzles etc. to their solutions (“Solution”) and from the -solutions back to the puzzle etc. (“Return to description”).</p> - -<p>Table of Contents, page 130: The Enigmas, Charades, Puzzles, &c., &c. do not actually start on this page (they -start on page 2), but there are -no more Pictured Puzzles and Word Play from this page on.</p> - -<p>Page 49, Se Pierot or Lun: possibly an error for See Pierot or L’un or Le Pierot or L’un.</p> - -<p>Page 60, No. LX: the description is confusing, as the puzzle consists of drawing the four dotted lines, and -they are therefore not given.</p> - -<p>Page 89 and 263, Pictured puzzle LXXXIX and solution: either the puzzle or the solution has been printed upside-down in -the source document.</p> - -<p>Page 114, ... as nearly as possible of the size and pattern ...: based on the size of the physical book (around 7″ or 18 -cm tall), the boomerang’s width would be some 3″ or 7.5 cm.</p> - -<p>Page 149, ... six single words: the solution provided gives five single words.</p> - -<p>Page 205, Solution IX: the table as printed lacks values for Opposite pairs of short diagonals (of which there are four) -and Such combinations as 482, 484, 472, 470 (of which there ought to be two in order to reach the given total).</p> - -<p class="blankbefore75">Changes made</p> - -<p>In the source document, jokes, riddles and puzzles may be split over multiple pages (for example, Word Play 5 may be -found on page 7 (first part) and page 9 (second part)). In this e-text, the second part has been re-combined with the -first, and references to the separate first and second parts have been deleted.</p> - -<p>Some minor obvious typographical errors have been corrected silently. Similarly, minor discrepancies (such as the number -of blanks or periods) have been rectified silently. Fractions (the forms <sup>x</sup>⁄<sub>y</sub>, -<span class="horsplit"><span class="top">x</span><span class="bot">y</span></span> and x-y all occur in the source -document) have (bar a single exception) been standardised to <sup>x</sup>⁄<sub>y</sub>.</p> - -<p>Unless they fitted better within the text paragraphs, illustrations, verses, diagrams, etc. have been moved out of the -text paragraphs. The footnote has been moved to directly underneath the Word Play in which it is referenced.</p> - -<p>Texts in <span class="illotext">a dashed box</span> has been transcribed from the accompanying diagram or -illustration, and does not appear as text in the source document.</p> - -<p>Page 10: ... cut of my head; changed to ... cut off my head;</p> - -<p>Page 62: ... thought myself happy to win her ... changed to ... I thought myself happy to win her ... (cf. solution).</p> - -<p>Page 89: ... indentations do not effect ... changed to ... indentations do not affect ....</p> - -<p>Page 93: the logogriph has been laid out as in the solution on page 305.</p> - -<p>Page 110-111: Word Play 92 in this text (Missing Words) was erroneously numbered 93 (first part) and 39 (second part) in -the source document.</p> - -<p>Page 130: “Tis an absurdity to say ... changed to ’Tis an absurdity to say ....</p> - -<p>Page 139: !” inserted after the dots cf. solution.</p> - -<p>Page 144, Nr. 176, last line: space inserted between F and R in R FR H; H T G changed to H T N G.</p> - -<p>Page 152: ... his destination from these words.” changed to ... his destination from these words?</p> - -<p>Page 196: ... sa Majéste impériale ... changed to ...sa Majesté impériale ...; ... a jamais! changed to ... à jamais!</p> - -<p>Page 197-198: Odds and Ends 38 appears twice; the second one has been renamed 38a.</p> - -<p>Page 201: ... a flock of sheep in a fold enclosed by 10 hurdles ... changed to ... a flock of sheep in a fold enclosed -by 100 hurdles ....</p> - -<p>Page 294: Number 34 inserted before first solution.</p> - -<p>Page 309: <i>The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey</i> changed to <i>The Houses of Parliament</i> and -<i>Westminster Abbey</i>.</p> - -<p>Page 310: The words italics are spelt ... changed to The words in italics are spelt ....</p> - -<p>Page 379: vis inertiœ changed to vis inertiæ.</p> - -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICTURED PUZZLES AND WORD PLAY ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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