PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
Reading edition
No. 1.
THREE EASY WORD SQUARES.
1.—1. Appertaining to kings. 2. To cut off. 3. Donated. 4. A skilled person. 5. Slow time in music.
2.—1. To stop. 2. An artist's picture rest. 3. Out of the true course. 4. An old-fashioned vehicle. 5. A girl's name.
H. D.
3.—1. Sour. 2. A collection of laws. 3. Unemployed. 4. Far below the surface.
F. A. H.
No. 2.
ACROSTIC—(To Cal I. Forney).
Place the names of four animals in such order that their initial and final letters read downward will spell the names of two others.
No. 3.
BEHEADINGS.
Behead to discourse, and have a movement of the arm; again, and have either of two.
Behead a fraud, and have warmth; again, and have to take food.
Count No Account.
No. 4.
ENIGMA.
My first is in forest, but not in field.
My second's in breastplate, not in shield.
My third is in English, not in Dutch.
My fourth is in little, not in much.
My fifth is in inn, not in hotel.
My sixth is in scream, and not in yell.
My seventh's in blacksmith, not in miller.
My whole is a massive pointed pillar.
Maurice E. W.
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 92.
No. 1.
Dandelion.
No. 2.
L
CAN
CANED
LANTERN
NEEDY
DRY
N
No. 3.
1. Bowl. 2. Tart.
No. 4.
1. Pot. 2. Spar. 3. Are. 4. Brag.
No. 5.
1. Birds of a feather flock together.
2. A watched pot never boils.
No. 6.
1. A soap-bubble. 2. A walnut.
No. 7.
A peach.
SOME DRAWINGS OF WIGGLE No. 20, OUR ARTIST'S IDEA, AND NEW WIGGLE, No. 21.
